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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The It's a Golden Opportunity addition

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Speaker 1: as the Bengals look to reach five hundred after an

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Speaker 1: zero three start as they host the Philadelphia Eagles on

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Speaker 1: a white Bengal Day in the Jungle. Coming up, I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to CBS sideline reporter Evan Washburn about the matchup

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Speaker 1: and what it's like to be on the field for

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Speaker 1: a game had sold out pay Corpse Stadium. My one

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Speaker 1: on one player interview is with Charlie Jones, who explains

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Speaker 1: how the heck he managed to stay in bounds on

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Speaker 1: his kick return touchdown last week. And in our nother

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Speaker 1: faux segment, we get an in depth look at the

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Speaker 1: Eagles from their Hall of Fame radio voice Meryl Reese.

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Speaker 1: book written by longtime Cincinnati sportswriter Bill Cook about the

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Speaker 1: greatest what if story in Bengals history, quarterback Greg Cook.

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown says that Cook was the most talented quarterback

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Speaker 1: in franchise history and that the Bengals would have been

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Speaker 1: the dominant team of the seventies if not for the

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury that essentially ended Greg's career after one season.

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Speaker 1: It was an injury that would have been easily surgically

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Speaker 1: repaired if it happened now. The book is an unflinching

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Speaker 1: portrait of a transcendent talent who lived a difficult life.

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Speaker 1: If you're like me and have always wanted to learn

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Speaker 1: more about him, just search for Unfinished Painting Greg Cook

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Speaker 1: and you'll see how to buy the book. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: get to my first guest. The last time the Bengals

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Speaker 1: faced the Eagles was Joe Burrow's rookie year, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's ever been hit harder or is often.

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Speaker 1: Burrow was sacked eight times and hit eighteen times, but

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Speaker 1: he kept getting up like sliced alone and Rocky one,

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Speaker 1: which was appropriate since the game was in Philly. Burrow

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Speaker 1: threw for three hundred and twelve yards with a passer

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Speaker 1: rating of one oh five, and the game ended in

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Speaker 1: a twenty three all tie. Both teams were building at

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Speaker 1: the time, and each has been to a Super Bowl since.

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Speaker 1: For more on Sunday's matchup, I caught up with a

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Speaker 1: member of this week's TV crew. Our guest this week

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Speaker 1: is Evan Washburn will be on the sideline for CBS

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. Avenue visited training camp to check out the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Then your crew covered the season zero or against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised when the Bengals got off to a

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Speaker 1: slow start.

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Speaker 2: Surprise would be putting it lightly. Dan.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked, and not just because of what I

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Speaker 3: just what this team has been over the last few

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Speaker 3: only further cements the idea that well, the results matter

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Speaker 3: to do when the calendar turns to January. It's not

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Speaker 3: at all what a team is, and it is the

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Speaker 3: now seems to have found themselves, as you well know.

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Speaker 1: They have right of the ship. They've won three out

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Speaker 3: I think that they've found a way, as we like

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Speaker 1: Your CBS crew with Iron Eagle and Charles Davis has

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Speaker 1: been assigned to quite a few Bengals games in recent years.

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Speaker 1: What do you enjoy when you get assigned to a

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Speaker 2: And if you can have that time be.

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Speaker 3: And I always feel confident going to a Cincinnati game.

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Speaker 1: Well, I certainly think that's going to be the case.

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Speaker 3: It's one of the stadiums and look, I get why

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Speaker 1: Kevin Washburnie is our guest. I imagine when you came

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Speaker 1: to visit during training camp, the number one thing you

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Speaker 1: wanted to check out was the status of Joe Burrow's

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Speaker 3: It might be some of his best work, and that

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Speaker 3: due to injury. He's been like this, and I think

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Speaker 3: the best quarterbacks in our league, whether it's Mahomes, Burrow Jackson,

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Speaker 3: of found themselves in recent weeks and there's no margin

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Speaker 3: can't stumble anymore, and to get back to five hundred

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Speaker 1: Let's look a little more specifically at the matchup, beginning

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals defense against Philadelphia's offense. Saquon Barkley's averaging

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it starts up front, and it's why

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Speaker 3: Can get into the Minuti ship scheme. When I watch Philly,

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Speaker 3: it's not overly complex in terms of the run game.

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Speaker 3: those things we'll see early Dan, like who's winning that

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Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, Philly is seventh

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Speaker 1: What must Berwin company do to be successful this Sunday?

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Speaker 3: I think getting the ball out quick is going to

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Speaker 2: Those sack totals.

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Speaker 3: Similarly, the Giants were down there left tackle and Andrew

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Speaker 2: They still have some of the old heads.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's Darius Lay, Graham Blankenship, but they've really infused

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Speaker 2: A lot of those former Georgia Bulldogs are starting.

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Speaker 2: This many teams are going to the playoffs, YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: The game was originally scheduled to kick off at four

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Speaker 1: Charlie, the balance that you displayed to stay in bounds

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Speaker 1: You've been returning punts all year. Now you are returning

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Speaker 1: The Bengals have been playing a lot of two tight

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Speaker 1: It's white Bengal week, white helmets, all white unis. Are

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Speaker 8: But you know it's it's still exciting to wear the

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Speaker 8: white uniforms, white helmets and and see everyone in the

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Speaker 8: stands wearing white. So no, it's it's always. It was

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Speaker 8: cool last year when we did it, and I'm excited

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Speaker 8: for this year.

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Speaker 1: No Olympic gymnast showed better balance than you did at

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Speaker 1: the end of that touchdown run. Congratulations, thanks for.

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Speaker 7: The time, Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: The atmosphere there should be electric on Sunday, and Zach

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Speaker 1: Taylor is hoping for a big home field advantage.

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Speaker 9: I expect the joint to be jumping, and I do.

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Speaker 9: We rely so much on our fans. They really the

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Speaker 9: energy when our players get introduced and come out right

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Speaker 9: out the gate and never fails. It's always good when

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Speaker 9: we can get a team at home and make it

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Speaker 9: really hard with the cadence. And the thing I always

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Speaker 9: you want to stress to the fans is as difficult

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Speaker 9: as everything. It's when the play clock starts at forty

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Speaker 9: and the quarterbacks trying to hear the call from the

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Speaker 9: coordinator before he calls it in the huddle. That is,

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Speaker 9: it's not always just when you're breaking the huddle and

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Speaker 9: getting to the line of the cadence. It's as much

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Speaker 9: as soon as that forty second clock starts the crowd level,

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Speaker 9: because you can waste seven or eight seconds in the

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Speaker 9: huddle trying to hear the call, getting a repeated call,

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Speaker 9: having to call it again because the tight end on

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Speaker 9: the other side of the hell can't hear it. And

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Speaker 9: so I think you could almost make a highlight tape

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Speaker 9: of all the false starts or delay of games or

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Speaker 9: timeouts that are being used here by our and so

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Speaker 9: that's what I'm looking forward to, is seeing our crowd

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Speaker 9: do that in our pershe on the right way.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals are three and one on the road this year,

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Speaker 1: and would be four and oh if not for the

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Speaker 1: fourth and sixteen penalty in Kansas City. But they're inexplicably

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Speaker 1: zero to three at home. It's time to hear the

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Speaker 1: players do a hooday chant in the home locker room

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Speaker 1: after the game. It won't be easy against Philadelphia, a

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Speaker 1: team that's four and two despite being minus six in

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Speaker 1: the turnover ratio with two takeaways and eight giveaways. The

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Speaker 1: Eagles have not come out on top in that stat

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Speaker 1: in thirteen consecutive games. For more on the Eagles, we

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Speaker 1: turned to Merril Reese, now in his forty eighth year

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Speaker 1: in the Philly radio booth. Earlier this year, he received

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Speaker 1: the Pete Roselle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: which is the highest honor a football announcer can receive.

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Speaker 1: Merrill joined Lapping Me on the Bengals Game Plan show

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Speaker 1: this week and we started the conversation by asking him

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Speaker 1: about philadelphia Is abysmal turnover numbers.

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Speaker 10: Well, it happened early in the season where Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 10: was fumbling some footballs and then throwing some interceptions. But

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Speaker 10: keep in mind that they had not turned over the

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Speaker 10: football once in the last two games, not once. Unfortunately

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Speaker 10: from an Eagles standpoint, they also haven't taken it away

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Speaker 10: although they're Rookie defensive back Quinnyon Mitchell out of the

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Speaker 10: University of Toledo, by the way, is an outstanding ballhawk.

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Speaker 10: He's had his hands on them and sometime a teammate

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Speaker 10: has knocked him out of the way or he's been

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Speaker 10: out of bounds. But he is a he is a terrific,

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Speaker 10: terrific young player, and I think that he's due to

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Speaker 10: pick one off.

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Speaker 4: So What do you like most about this this edition

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Speaker 4: of the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 10: Well, there's a lot to like and there's a lot

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Speaker 10: to be concerned about.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 10: I think I think the offense has some real talent.

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Speaker 10: And if I didn't say Saquon Barkley, I'd be out

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Speaker 10: of my mind because he has just been sensational. He's

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Speaker 10: averaging over six yards of carry. He almost had a

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Speaker 10: career day against the Giants for one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 10: six yards rushing. He's just a great player and he's

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Speaker 10: a great teammate. He's just been outstanding. And then you

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Speaker 10: have to like the wide receivers. Now, you guys have

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Speaker 10: great wide receivers, There's no doubt about that. And I

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Speaker 10: think you probably you and the Eagles have as good

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Speaker 10: a pair of wide receivers as there are in the

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Speaker 10: National Football League. Because you guys talk you about Chase

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Speaker 10: and Higgins. The Eagles are talking about AJ Brown Devonte Smith.

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Speaker 10: So there's danger there. And even though his stats have

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Speaker 10: not been through the roof yet, I am still a

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Speaker 10: believer in Jalen Hurts. He's a bright guy, he's a

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Speaker 10: dedicated guy. He's he's been a lot more careful with

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Speaker 10: the football, only through it fourteen times last week against

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Speaker 10: the Giants, but he's had a quarterback rating of one

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Speaker 10: hundred and twenty six two weeks ago and last week

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Speaker 10: one nineteen. So I think he's acclimating himself to the

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Speaker 10: new Kellen Moore offense and they're coming along.

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Speaker 1: The Voice of the Eagles, Meryl Reeve is our guest.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Nick Sirianni. His father,

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Speaker 1: Fran was the football coach and track coach at my

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Speaker 1: high school. He was one of my high school science teachers,

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Speaker 1: so I know the Sirianni family well. Has the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote controversy died down from a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and Nick got a little bit heated in his response

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Speaker 1: to the fans after a Philly win.

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Speaker 10: All that has to happen to quell that is just

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Speaker 10: to win. So they won last week and Nick didn't

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Speaker 10: go anywhere near the crowd, and he gets a little

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Speaker 10: bit emotional from time to time, but I think he

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Speaker 10: learned a lesson. It wasn't as if he was hurling

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Speaker 10: for fanities at the crowd. He just interacted with him

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Speaker 10: a little bit. That became, in my opinion, much ado

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Speaker 10: about nothing, But I don't think you'll see him do

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Speaker 10: that anymore.

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Speaker 4: The Philadelphia Eagles are very aggressive on fourth down, Sirianni

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Speaker 4: will definitely definitely roll the dice and the trust push

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Speaker 4: is it?

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Speaker 6: Is it changed at all?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, one of the one of the

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Speaker 4: key members of the of the tush push, Kelsey is

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Speaker 4: no longer the center of the tension, no pun intended

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Speaker 4: on that. On that tush push. Are they still pretty

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Speaker 4: effective with it? And do you anticipate them continue continuing

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Speaker 4: to be aggressive on fourth down?

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Speaker 10: Absolutely? Because when you talk about that tusch pusher, talking

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Speaker 10: about a quarterback who is incredibly strong, and then Jason

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Speaker 10: Kelsey was replaced by Cam Jurgens, who's bigger than Kelsey,

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Speaker 10: and then from behind, now you have sa Kuon Barkley

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Speaker 10: pushing Jalen Hurtz. That's that's that's like a locomotive. So

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Speaker 10: it's it's still tough to stop Merril.

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Speaker 1: The last time these two teams played was Game three

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Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow's rookie year. I maintain that is the

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Speaker 1: hardest he has ever been hit. He got sacked eight times,

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Speaker 1: he got hit eighteen times. Several of those hits we

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Speaker 1: were worried about his ability to get up, but he

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Speaker 1: kept getting up. Do you think that that is going

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Speaker 1: to be one of the biggest keys to the game

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, The Bengals ability to protect Shoe against an

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Speaker 1: Eagles pass rush that had eight sacks last week.

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, I think that's a key to almost

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Speaker 10: any game. Get to the quarterback, and Burrow is one

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Speaker 10: of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League. It's

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Speaker 10: interesting that game ended up in a tie, I believe,

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Speaker 10: and at the time Doug Peterson was criticized for not

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Speaker 10: being more aggressive at the end of that game. And

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Speaker 10: in Cincinnati, the Eagles have the Eagles have never won

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Speaker 10: in Cincinnati, and they have one game that they tied

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Speaker 10: and in that game, but the reason they tied was

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Speaker 10: because lately overtime. Donald McNabb admitted that he was playing

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Speaker 10: for the second overtime, which of course you're never going

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Speaker 10: to gage and during the regular season, so that became

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Speaker 10: a funny thing that people still talk about. But the

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Speaker 10: Eagles have never ever beaten the Bengals in Cincinnati. Has

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Speaker 10: going to be tough. I will tell you that this

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Speaker 10: Eagles defense has some really interesting young players. A guy

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Speaker 10: they picked up as a free agent in the offseason

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Speaker 10: from the Saints. Zach Bourn has been outstanding. He wears

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Speaker 10: number fifty three. He is if there was an MVP

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Speaker 10: so far the defense, that would be Zach Vaughan. And

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Speaker 10: then the Kobe Dean had a couple of sacks last week,

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Speaker 10: and so did say they are really coming on that way.

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Speaker 10: Jalen Carter, a former number one draft choice from Georgia,

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Speaker 10: he had two sacks, so they were really roaring. But

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Speaker 10: of course I don't think Daniel Brown. Daniel Brown gets

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Speaker 10: it off as quickly as Daniel Jones gets an off

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Speaker 10: as quickly as Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 4: You know, the one thing that I think is going

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Speaker 4: to be interesting in this football game. Games are decided

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Speaker 4: by turnovers and are also decided by explosive plays. And

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Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles number one in the NFL ten plays

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Speaker 4: of forty yards or more. Barkley has four runs of

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Speaker 4: forty yards or more and in six runs of thirty

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Speaker 4: yards or more.

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Speaker 6: That's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this football team at any point in time

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Speaker 4: can just I mean have a one play drive.

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Speaker 6: It's crazy.

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Speaker 10: Well, they can, but that's what happens when you have

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Speaker 10: a back like Saquon Barkley. He reminds me in a

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Speaker 10: sense like it back like you remember Emmitt Smith when

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Speaker 10: the Cowboys sees to pick him in then and Emma

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Speaker 10: Smith would carry the football and you'd see nothing spectacular,

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Speaker 10: and he'd pick up two yards and maybe four yards

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Speaker 10: and maybe two yards and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 10: zing he's going for sixty yards. That's the kind of

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Speaker 10: thing that is with Saquon Barkley. If you keep pounding

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Speaker 10: him and you keep running him, eventually, eventually he's going

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Speaker 10: to burn you. From an Eagle standpoint, they just can't

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Speaker 10: lose patience. They have to get that game going. The

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Speaker 10: other interesting thing, I don't know if you guys are

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Speaker 10: aware of this. The Eagles are the only team in

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Speaker 10: the National Football that has yet to score a single

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Speaker 10: points in the first quarter of any game, right.

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Speaker 6: I mean, what do you attribute that to? Have they have?

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Speaker 4: They lost a coin toss every week? I mean are

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Speaker 4: they are they not getting possessions or are they just

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Speaker 4: just off to slow start?

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Speaker 6: Off the slow start?

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Speaker 10: Well, when they when they win the coin tost, they

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Speaker 10: always defer. A lot of teams do that now, so

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Speaker 10: they always defer and I'm always rooting for them to

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Speaker 10: take the football, go try to score. Then there have

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Speaker 10: been other instances like the Atlanta game where they moved

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Speaker 10: the ball very well and they had a fourth and

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Speaker 10: four from inside the ten and the three points. Nick

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Speaker 10: Sirianni went for it and failed. There were a couple

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Speaker 10: of opportunities to score at least come up with easy

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Speaker 10: field goals in first quarters and Nick put them aside

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Speaker 10: and went for everything and it didn't work out. So

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Speaker 10: it's it's it's a pretty good offense right now.

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Speaker 1: It's not.

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Speaker 10: You know, when you look at this team and you

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Speaker 10: look at all of the teams, how much are the

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Speaker 10: how much of the slow starts attributed to the fact

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Speaker 10: that they don't play regular in the preseason. They don't

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Speaker 10: tackle to the ground in the preseason. I really think

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Speaker 10: September September football is the way preseason football used to be,

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Speaker 10: where you would play the regulars for a half and

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Speaker 10: get them into the games. Now they're just acclimating themselves

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Speaker 10: in the month of September. I don't think you know

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Speaker 10: where anybody is until you get to about this part

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Speaker 10: of the season a couple of weeks into October. Now

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Speaker 10: the real personalities, the real tendencies, the real ability of

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Speaker 10: each of these teams becomes more and more apparent.

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Speaker 4: How big a deal is it that my Latta won't

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Speaker 4: be playing the left tackle position and Fred Johnson, who

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati's very aware of, he'd form a Bengal How is

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Speaker 4: Fred Johnson playing?

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Speaker 6: How big of a dropoff might that be?

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Speaker 10: If any Well, it certainly is a big drop off

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Speaker 10: because you're talking about Jordan Malata, who is an amazing guy.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he was an All Pro last year. He's

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Speaker 10: six eight and three hundred sixty pounds and he's just

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Speaker 10: just a great player and a great leader. So when

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Speaker 10: you lose an All Pro, certainly there is a drop off.

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Speaker 10: But Fred Johnson has not done badly. He's done pretty well,

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Speaker 10: and they've had to make it. They had to make

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Speaker 10: another move last week when Mackai Beckton went down and

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Speaker 10: they brought in Tyler Steen over on the right side,

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Speaker 10: so on the right guard spot, and they had they

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Speaker 10: had two of the five offensive linemen out for much

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Speaker 10: of that game. But you know the saying in the

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Speaker 10: National Football League, next man up, and that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 10: And they've been good enough to withstand any kind of pressure,

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Speaker 10: at least in last week's game.

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Speaker 1: Mere Ill want to wrap this up by asking you

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Speaker 1: about winning the Pete Roselle Award. Only three NFL radio

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Speaker 1: announcers have won it. My childhood hero Van Miller, longtime

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Speaker 1: voice of Buffalo Bills, Myron Cope, a legend in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: and now yourself. Can you articulate what winning the Pete

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Speaker 1: rosell Award means to you?

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Speaker 10: Well, I was on my way to a day of

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Speaker 10: golf and I got a call and I saw the

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Speaker 10: thought it's at Canton, Ohio, And I thought, gee, I

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Speaker 10: don't really know anyone in Canton, Ohio. And then I answered,

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Speaker 10: the president of the Hall of Fame said it's this

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Speaker 10: Merril Reece. I said, yes it is. He said, are

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Speaker 10: you driving? I said, yes, I am. He said you

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Speaker 10: might want to pull over to the side, which I did.

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Speaker 10: And when he told me, and I'm not somebody who

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Speaker 10: cries at basketball games like that for me or one

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Speaker 10: of those guys is always sobbing. But when he said

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Speaker 10: that to me, I just I just absolutely started to cry.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 10: I was so emotional because you have different goals when

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Speaker 10: you are in this business. And I think then after

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Speaker 10: I was doing the games for forty years now this

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Speaker 10: is forty eight. I had hoped that someday I would

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Speaker 10: be included in the Eagles Hall of Fame because for

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Speaker 10: no other reason on longevity, and that happened in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 10: That was the end of my bucket list because this

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Speaker 10: was something that never happens, or, as you said, rarely happens.

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Speaker 10: And it was way out of my mind, nothing I

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Speaker 10: even thought about. And when he told me that, it

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Speaker 10: really hit me. And what it meant to me was

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Speaker 10: the fact that I have been able to do what

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Speaker 10: I love for all these years. And we have a

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Speaker 10: great fan base who has been very very kind to

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Speaker 10: me for these years. So I'm very very fortunate. I

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Speaker 10: know you guys love what you do. But I'll tell

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Speaker 10: you something and this is true. And I said this

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Speaker 10: in my Hall of Fame address every week when we

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Speaker 10: all stand for the national anthem, I say two things,

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Speaker 10: and I mean them. There is no place in the

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Speaker 10: world I'd rather be and there's nothing in the world

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Speaker 10: I would rather be doing. And that's how I felt.

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Speaker 10: To be rewarded for doing what you'd rather do than

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Speaker 10: anything else in the world. Well, that's big, very well.

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Speaker 1: Put both honors richly deserved and you're still doing it

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Speaker 1: incredibly well. Meryl. Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

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Speaker 10: Thank you guys always to speak with you. And I'll

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Speaker 10: see it at the what is it. It's called Paymore Stadium.

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Speaker 4: Now pay Course Stadium, and I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 4: a living legend.

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Speaker 6: I mean that wholeheartedly. You are a legend.

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Speaker 10: As long as I'm living. That's the important half of it.

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