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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of Big Blue Kickoff Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Corps Light right here on Giants dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He's Lance Mento. I am John Schmilk. The phone number

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Speaker 1: for you is two five one three. We'll try to

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Speaker 1: squeeze a couple of calls throughout the show, but this

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Speaker 1: is our final team preview day. Since we had South

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Speaker 1: Pan Antonio on Monday and the office was surprisingly closed tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we have to squeeze into today. It's both NFC East rivals,

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Speaker 1: so Giant fans, hold your nose. I get it. But

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Speaker 1: these are important teams to know the information about, as

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Speaker 1: the Giants will play both of them twice over the

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Speaker 1: course of the regular season. Brian brought us from Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com will be with us, and Dave Spadarrow

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Speaker 1: from Eagles dot Com we'll be with us. So those

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Speaker 1: will be our guests today. We'll get through them and

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Speaker 1: again there's no show tomorrow, folks, and I remind you too.

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Speaker 1: get it that way. Um, it's a lot easier for

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Speaker 1: you and in some ways better for us to get

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Speaker 1: So let's start with it. His name is Brian broad Us.

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Speaker 1: He's a former NFL scout and now works on the

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Speaker 1: media side for everyone's favorite Giants rival and I put

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Speaker 1: favorites in the air quotes. That's the Dallas Cowboys. Brian.

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Speaker 1: We usually have Mickey on for this, so we went

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Speaker 1: from the cranky old man to the cranky old scout.

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing well, but John Lance, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on. Yeah, you get some cranky guys

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Speaker 1: as we start to load these boxes up and pack

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Speaker 1: bags and put them on trucks and stuff. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: our fishing season is over. We now get to play

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Speaker 1: the football guys. So excited to be with you guys

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Speaker 1: today us all. Now, you guys start out in California.

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Speaker 1: Right when are you heading out there? We leave next Thursday,

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Speaker 1: so week from today we fly out to Oxnard and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, you know, it's really a it's a nice

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Speaker 1: There's been a couple of teams have trained in that

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Speaker 1: the Raiders were the first team. You know Al Davis

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Speaker 1: back in the day when they were the Los Angeles Raiders.

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Speaker 1: He was the one that founded that place where they

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Speaker 1: practice there where we're at, and then you know, we

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Speaker 1: for a year and then so we've kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: we shared it at various times. But yeah, it's been

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Speaker 1: really really good for us just because the weather. You

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Speaker 1: guys understand this. You've been to Texas those early season

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Speaker 1: games and stuff. You know, you guys get off the

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Speaker 1: plane with your code on and you're like, Okay, why

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, but for us to get away and

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Speaker 1: be able to practice and you know, seventy two degree

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Speaker 1: have to worry about surviving the practice. That's the problems

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Speaker 1: we had to practice outside. Well, bron let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: to go training Oxnar too, because seventy two for every practice,

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Speaker 1: os and and and stuff like that. Brian the contract stuff,

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, I'm Mark Coop were Zeke Elliott. I know

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Speaker 1: obviously you're not in the room with those negotiations. What's

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Speaker 1: What's your feel for the contract part of what's going

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Speaker 1: the contracts. I always gotta walked by him, and it's

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Speaker 1: they we kind of all thought that that really, that

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Speaker 1: You know, there hasn't been a whole hell of a

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones tend to have these things

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Speaker 1: But I'm just not getting that feeling right now. Now.

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Speaker 1: The thing with Ezekiel Elliott, I think the Ezekiel Elliott

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Speaker 1: kind of Zeke, I think really just wants to be mentioned.

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Speaker 1: He wants to seat at the table. He understand Dak

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Speaker 1: it's been very very quiet. There's a lot of other

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of guess to hope for the guys

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Speaker 1: doing with the cap. Yeah, I think that's a great point, Brian.

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Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper clearly that was the Cowboys first round

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Speaker 1: How critical is he to the offense this year in

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Speaker 1: on Big Blue Kig Golf Live presented by Corps Light. Brian,

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Speaker 1: you guys mentioned John Kitten and Kellen Moore in the

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Speaker 1: pace of that last answer. It's only the spring, and

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Speaker 1: obviously what you guys see as limited. I get all that,

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Speaker 1: John Gruden's the Andy Reids, these guys I grew up

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Speaker 1: he's capable of winning games late if it's close. He's

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Speaker 1: capable of making plays. He's tough, he's tough minded. He's

428
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Speaker 1: just not accurate all the time. You know, he's there's

429
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Speaker 1: been some times in games where he's had guys open

430
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Speaker 1: and he's mis throws, you know, and he wants more

431
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Speaker 1: and more and more on his play. And this is

432
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Speaker 1: where I think that to need you know, with the

433
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Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, and then also with with what's going

434
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Speaker 1: on with you know, with John Kittna. You know, they're

435
00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,160
Speaker 1: working on his mechanics, are trying to get in better.

436
00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,200
Speaker 1: They're trying to point the elbow, they're trying to point

437
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,160
Speaker 1: the toe, They're trying to make sure the hips are open.

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Speaker 1: You know, take that natural athletic ability has and then

439
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Speaker 1: kind of make it work to fit how mechanics need

440
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Speaker 1: to be for a quarterback to play as a better

441
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Speaker 1: pocket pass and stuff. I'm all board with za Dak

442
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 1: Prescott as far as the winning side of it though,

443
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Speaker 1: you know, and I argue the point that people are saying, oddly,

444
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,120
Speaker 1: you can move on from Ezekiel Eli. You don't need him.

445
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,480
Speaker 1: You can trade him and do that. You know, Dak

446
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,160
Speaker 1: Prescott needs players around him. He needs a Marii Cooper,

447
00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,600
Speaker 1: he needs Randall cop he needs Jason Witt and he

448
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,960
Speaker 1: needs Ezekiel let. He needs all these guys. Any quarterback

449
00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,160
Speaker 1: worth the Salton National Football League needs people around him

450
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Speaker 1: to have success, and Dak Prescott is no difference. So

451
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what this year brings fro him,

452
00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,440
Speaker 1: because again, I look at a guy that physically looks

453
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Speaker 1: to I think he's he looks like he's really he's

454
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Speaker 1: not that he's not been committed before, but he's super

455
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Speaker 1: committed to making this work. He understands to get to

456
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Speaker 1: that elite level, you know, to get into the names,

457
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Speaker 1: the top five of the names, top six names, you know,

458
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 1: you've got to play at the league level. You can't

459
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Speaker 1: be really good one week and then bad the next week,

460
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Speaker 1: you know. And so I think that's really what he's

461
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Speaker 1: working on. That's what I see. I like the way

462
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Speaker 1: the guys working the work. We'll see if that translates

463
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Speaker 1: into a better, a better, uh, you know season for

464
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Speaker 1: him overall. I mean, again, he's won a lot of

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Speaker 1: games in his career and and brought him back in

466
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Speaker 1: a lot of games. So he's trying his best to

467
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Speaker 1: uh to squash any detractors that he does have. Well, Brian,

468
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 1: you brought up into Port for the quarterback to have

469
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Speaker 1: talent around him. I think you could argue the same

470
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Speaker 1: thing on defense. If you have an elite pass rusher,

471
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Speaker 1: well you want to be able to balance that out.

472
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: We know Dallas has DeMarcus Lawrence. They locked him up,

473
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Speaker 1: and now the big question is well, who's going to

474
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Speaker 1: emerge outside of DeMarcus Lawrence to maybe compliment him this season?

475
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 1: And they acquire Robert Quinn, the former Ram, the former Dolphin.

476
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Speaker 1: What is his outlook in this defense in terms of

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Speaker 1: what you think he could still provide at this stage

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Speaker 1: in his career. That's you know, with when I went

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Speaker 1: back and I watched a lot of Robert Quinn, and

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Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, you know, unfortunately has been in a scheme

481
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Speaker 1: where you know, when he was in that four three

482
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Speaker 1: scheme with Jeff Fisher, you know, we saw some outstanding

483
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Speaker 1: play for him, the why do you play him? The

484
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Speaker 1: better he is? And then all of a sudden, ways

485
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Speaker 1: Phillips comes in and unfortunately they've got talent around it,

486
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Speaker 1: but they play him basically as an outside linebacker, so

487
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Speaker 1: he doesn't get to do as much of the things

488
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Speaker 1: that you know that you know it was wasn't the

489
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Speaker 1: best scheme fit. He goes to Dolphins, they changed the

490
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Speaker 1: scheme on him again, so you know, he I think

491
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Speaker 1: that to me, I really applaud the Cowboys and this

492
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Speaker 1: winkin I'm using not a homer applauding this and plotting

493
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Speaker 1: after the team, even though I worked with the team.

494
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Speaker 1: But I you know, I I applaud them for going out.

495
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Speaker 1: You know, they didn't know they were when they went

496
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Speaker 1: made the trade for Robert Quinn. They didn't really know

497
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Speaker 1: what was going to happen with Lawrence. You know, they

498
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Speaker 1: know they needed to they needed to protect themselves. They

499
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Speaker 1: know they needed to get a legitimate rusher if something

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Speaker 1: were to happen where they didn't get Lawrence done long term.

501
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Speaker 1: And so you know, now that they've got Lauren's done,

502
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Speaker 1: he can man that left in they've got Quinn, they

503
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Speaker 1: can play the right in. I don't think Quinn is

504
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Speaker 1: going to be the starter right in. You know, Tyron

505
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Speaker 1: Crawford has been the starter right in rod nur know,

506
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Speaker 1: he likes the way he plays on early downs, uh

507
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Speaker 1: and then they kick him inside in the nickel and

508
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Speaker 1: let him rush with uh with MALIEK. Collins. So you

509
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Speaker 1: know they're gonna probably with Robert Quinn, it's gonna be. Yeah,

510
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: they play a lot of nickel, but they also, like

511
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Speaker 1: I said, it's gonna be a rotational system with him.

512
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Speaker 1: And we've got to figure out what's gonna happen with

513
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Speaker 1: Randy Gregory as well. Randy Gregory is in a situation

514
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Speaker 1: where you know, we're waiting on the league to decide.

515
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Speaker 1: Monday was the day where they step forward and kind

516
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Speaker 1: of presented all their papers, and we're waiting to see,

517
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Speaker 1: you know, what happens if Randy Gregory will in fact

518
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Speaker 1: be in training camp and and be a part of this.

519
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Speaker 1: But you know, they've had a lot of young guys

520
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Speaker 1: that are going to try and again rotate through there

521
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Speaker 1: um with you know, and and see I mean it's

522
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Speaker 1: Dorn's Armstrong was a guy last year that it started

523
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Speaker 1: very early. Uh you know, was a rookie that played

524
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Speaker 1: quite a big so you met, played quite a bit

525
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, he hit

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Speaker 1: that rookie wall that I was talking about in about

527
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Speaker 1: week twelve, and he wasn't as good as players. So

528
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Speaker 1: now you know he understands that. So you know, Quinn Armstrong,

529
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Speaker 1: you know, those kind of guys at Crawford, you know

530
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Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where this thing is gonna be.

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Speaker 1: And you know, they again drafted at Joe Jackson as

532
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Speaker 1: well from Miami, so they've got a lot of names.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if one of those guys can step up

534
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Speaker 1: with the the guy the most likely that will step

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Speaker 1: up will be Quinn because he has done it before. Linebackers, Brian,

536
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Speaker 1: are we gonna see Sean Lee start with Jalen Smith

537
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Speaker 1: and Layton van Dersh? We know you're not in that

538
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Speaker 1: base defense much anyway. And if that's the case, part

539
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Speaker 1: two of the question on the linebackers would be, you

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Speaker 1: know as good as Yan lestmth and Vanderesh world last

541
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Speaker 1: Lee or do you still think there's room for those

542
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: guys to continue to proved together? Oh? No, there'll be

543
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: absolute improvement. You know, vander Esh really didn't start until

544
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Speaker 1: like week five, you know he got That's when he

545
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: really got involved and then the learning curve for him

546
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: was really small. And health wise for Jalen Smith, he's

547
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Speaker 1: been excellent and you know, physically looks good, moving around

548
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: well all the O t s and then the camps

549
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: he was out there. Find Sean Lee physically looks like

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Speaker 1: a different guy when you see him. He's a bigger guy,

551
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Speaker 1: he's more he's got put on more weight. Uh, this

552
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: is the first time guys that Sean Lee and again

553
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Speaker 1: he'll start at the sam linebacker and this is the

554
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Speaker 1: first time. Usually they kept Shawn Lee and bubble wrapped

555
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Speaker 1: because they were always worried about and getting hurt and

556
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Speaker 1: O T s and any camps. And finally Sean Lee

557
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: went up to the coaches and said, listen, this is

558
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Speaker 1: my last year. Likely play plumb me play. Just let

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Speaker 1: me go out there and play. So Sean Lee and

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Speaker 1: the O T s and any camps, whether it was

561
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Speaker 1: the first team the second team, Shawn Lee was taking

562
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Speaker 1: reps all the time, and you know he was excited.

563
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: He looked good. Now again, you guys know the history

564
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Speaker 1: of Shawn Lee plays eight games mssary, you know, and

565
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: then you know that kind of thing. But you know

566
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Speaker 1: this is he really believed that, hey, this is the

567
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 1: switch to the Sam linebacker will be good for him.

568
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: He's excited about the opportunity. He was happy for Layton

569
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Speaker 1: and and you know for coming on the way he

570
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: did and Jalen the way he's coming on. That's just

571
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Speaker 1: the type of guys Sean Lee is. So yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Roden or the defensive quarter about

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Speaker 1: this though. He was saying, you know, he might be

574
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Speaker 1: forced to play more bass than just play nickel all

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Speaker 1: the time, because he says, listen, Shahn Lee on the

576
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Speaker 1: field is not a bad thing for him. I could

577
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Speaker 1: play him in coverage, I can rush him, I could

578
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Speaker 1: do some things with him. So this might be just

579
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: a philosophy switch that we see, you know, the Cowboys

580
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: going from a lot of their nickel stuff just saying Okay,

581
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Speaker 1: we're gonna play more bass and just keep guys on

582
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Speaker 1: the field. You know, those all three of those linebackers

583
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: can tackle, And I think that's the thing that that

584
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli and Christopher Shard really want to do. They

585
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that guy as many tacklers on

586
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Speaker 1: this field as they can. Well, you jokingly said, Brian

587
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: that they had to keep Shawn Lee and bubble wrap.

588
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: And I think prior to last season, to me, the

589
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: narrative with the Cowboys has always been when Shawn Lee's

590
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: on the field, They're one of the most dangerous defenses

591
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL. When Shawn leaves off the field, Briant,

592
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: it's a completely different, sometimes unrecognizable defense. With what Late

593
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: and vander esh brought to the table last season, how

594
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: much have they gone in past that reliance on Shawn Lee,

595
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Speaker 1: where you know what, Hey, they could survive without him

596
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: because of what the rest of the defense brings to

597
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Speaker 1: the table. Oh no, that's you're exactly right, That's that's

598
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: that's always been the case here was when Sean Lee

599
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: didn't play, the defense was going to get dashed. And

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Speaker 1: you know that wasn't the problem last year. I mean,

601
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Speaker 1: you know that they had the rough patch late in

602
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: the year Indianapolis. You know, we talked about offensive lines

603
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: that have gotten better. The Colt's offensive line has gotten

604
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: a lot better. You mean, these guys have seen that yourself.

605
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: You know, they played late in the year in the

606
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Speaker 1: playoffs against the Rams. The Rams were clearly the best

607
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: offensive line that they faced that point. You know. So

608
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: there were some times, some problems and stuff that they had,

609
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: but yeah, Layton, vander esh Smith, those guys all in

610
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: the field, they played run defense really really really well.

611
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: And then you know that's something going forward that you

612
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: know that they're really excited about, is that that they

613
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: know that you know, guy like Antoine Woods in the

614
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: middle there that got him going to Lee Collins had

615
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: some good times, good snaps and stuff in the O

616
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: t A. So they're thinking that they're gonna be better

617
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: up the middle with their defenses again with those two linebackers.

618
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: And then a Shawn Lee on the field. Those three guys,

619
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Speaker 1: all those guys can make plays. So they're they're very,

620
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: very excited about that, and they're happy that the fact

621
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Speaker 1: that they kind of got over the hump of of

622
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: not having to rely on Shawn Lee so much. I'm

623
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Speaker 1: gonna skip asking about the secondary Brians. I have two

624
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: quickies I want to make sure I get in the

625
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: first one, what the hell happened to the run defense

626
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: in that playoff game against the Rams, because that did

627
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: not look like the same defense that I saw a

628
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: play the sixteen weeks prior. Right, Yeah, that's a you

629
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: know that that was very very evident, you know. And

630
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: this is where I think that the fact that the Rams,

631
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys in that in that wild card

632
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: game the week before we're going to play it was

633
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: either this Rams were gonna play either Dallas or Seattle.

634
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: And I think what happened to the Cowboy was was

635
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: they got caught in a situation where the Rams got

636
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: two weeks to prepare for him. Because the Rams play

637
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: Seattle twice a year every year, they know that opponent.

638
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: They don't have to do anything differently than what they

639
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: already do when they play him during the season, whether

640
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Speaker 1: it's week two and week or week fourteen, whatever. So

641
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: what happened there is I think Sean mczay and his

642
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: crew just said, okay, let's break down Dallas for the

643
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: next two weeks, you know, and if we and if

644
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: we play them, great, if we don't, well then we'll

645
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: just we'll have a game plan for Seattle. I think

646
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: that's what happened. You know there was the Rams came

647
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,959
Speaker 1: out their lineman. We're talking about tips, stances and stuff

648
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: like that, but in the game, okay, you know when

649
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: the lineman was down, you know, weight on his hand,

650
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: leaning forward. You know, the Cowboys are so aggressive when

651
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: it comes to play and run defense. The idea is

652
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: to get up the field, attacked the gaps, and the

653
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: Rams took great advantage of that. You know. They they

654
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: they're front, their front did a great job a block

655
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: in the down lineman. And once they blocked the down lineman,

656
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: they got second level blocks that were really nice that

657
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: open up some some quality holes for their backs to hit.

658
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: So I feel like that that that the Cowboys wasn't

659
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: their best ever, absolutely not, you know, but I think

660
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: they got bullied a little bit by a really good

661
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: offensive line. But I think also the two week preparation

662
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: really hurt them scheme wise of what the Rams said, Okay,

663
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: when they get this front, we know what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna run this, We're gonna run this, and we're

665
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: gonna run this, and they and they started hanging their

666
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: hats on some plays, and their receivers did a heck

667
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: of a job playing in tight formation and banging the

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00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: ends and blocking down and doing some stuff. So give

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Speaker 1: them a lot of credit for that game plan, Brian.

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Speaker 1: Final question, they were gonna have Davis, but are from

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Speaker 1: the Eagles to join us previews the Eagles? Uh? The

672
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: head coach for the Cabols always seems to be a

673
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: question after every year, is he coming back? What's going on?

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00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: I think I believe this is the last year of

675
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: his contract, if I'm not mistaken it is. I know

676
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: you really love commenting on the head coach and his future,

677
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: So I figured I closed the interview with asking you

678
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: kind of where he is and and how do you

679
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: think this whole thing is gonna go down? Yeah, you

680
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: know it's kind of funny and you bring that up, John,

681
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: You asked the question like Perry Mason, Perry Mason, the

682
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: old kitty lawyer. He asked the question. He always knew

683
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: the answer, So you know the answer to this question.

684
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Speaker 1: But you just want to get me on record saying

685
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: again for the time, but no, I do appreciate that.

686
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 1: You know, every time I've tried to fire Jason Garrett here,

687
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: which is really funny, he showed me an NFC championship hat,

688
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: and you know he's like every year I say, okay,

689
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: coach needs to be changed. Well, there's the NFC Championship

690
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: at Brian enjoy that, you know, NFC East hats so enjoyed.

691
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that to me, it's yeah, it's

692
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: clearly you know, he's ten years. I mean, that's a

693
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: long time. That's like back in the day. Uh, you know,

694
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Speaker 1: it's Bill Parcels. That's guys staying for a long time

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Speaker 1: at one place. And and and you know, I mean,

696
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: and you know, looking at Arizona, they fired their coach

697
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: after one year. So yeah, you know, Jerry and Stephen

698
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: Jones they realized that, you know, they've got to do better.

699
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: It's not just about winning the NFC East. It's about

700
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, and not and winning the wild card game.

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00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: It's about winning the divisional game and abou getting in

702
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: the championship game and all that, and so you know,

703
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: it's a very very important year for It's no questions

704
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: important here. Jason Garrett realized that he comes from a

705
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: football family. His dad was a coach, so he understands

706
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: the whole idea of of what this is. But yeah,

707
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: it probably doesn't help that he's got guys like me

708
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: wing in the building basically saying, hey, well they need

709
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: to do something different here, and and God bless the

710
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: Jones family for allowing me to have the platform because

711
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: I don't think I could work anywhere else you do

712
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now and have those kinds of comments.

713
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is. You know, they've they've kind of

714
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: pin this this. This is a team that feels like

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00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: that they've got the roster to compete for a championship

716
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: and now it's going to be up to the coach

717
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: and staff to make sure that they deliver that that

718
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: type of those type of goods. Brian, always a pleasure

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: to talk to you. We'll have our yearly uh season

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00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: opener in Dallas Giants and Cowboys. It's always a lot

721
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: of fun, enjoy the grind in the next six weeks.

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00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: I know we will and we'll see at the beginning

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00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: of September. Of my friend it sounds great. Yeah, thank

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Speaker 1: you guys, appreciate all the great question saying, uh, Lookport

725
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: always worked with you guys. You guys, take care and

726
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: have a have a good season. You too, Brian, and

727
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: we appreciate all the extra time today. Thanks so much.

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00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,479
Speaker 1: That's Brian brought us former NFL Scouts Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Now let's switch gears to the

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00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: giants other most hated NFC East rival, and that's the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, and were joined by Dave Spidaro covers the

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Speaker 1: Eagles for the team side. Dave, you got John Schmunk

733
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: and Lance Medal up pure and he's rather for what's

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00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: going on, man, I got so the Eagles and the Cowboys,

735
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: the Redskins. You don't hate the Redskins. The Redskins were yesterday.

736
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: But I do feel like But but Dave, I think

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00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: my feeling is and and I want I'll start here.

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00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: I'll get your take. I feel like the Giants one

739
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: and two rivals are probably right now. The Eagles and

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00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Redskins have have have kind of

741
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: split away. What is it for the Eagles? Yeah, yeah,

742
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: I would I think for well, for the for the fans,

743
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it's for the team. Everybody's arrival. Of course,

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00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: we all respect each other in the division, and but

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00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: for the fans, I think it is the Giants. Well,

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00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: I think it's the Cowboys person and the Giant. I've

747
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: talked to the players throughout the years, and a lot

748
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: of them put the Giants first because of the geographical

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00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: proximity and they run into a lot more Giants players

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00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: and there's a lot more rivalry there and a lot

751
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: more interpersonal communications. So the players kind of put the

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00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: Giants right up there at the top. And of course

753
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: we've had so many remarkable games against the Giants, and

754
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: the Giants have been so successful that I think it's

755
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: certainly Redskins are not too distant, but certainly a bit away.

756
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: It's the number three rival in the SCS. Well, Dave,

757
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: with respect to the Eagles big offseason storyline, they got

758
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: a contract extension done with Carson Wentz, and now I

759
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: think the big question is Dave, will he be able

760
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: to get through sixteen games? We've seen flashes. We've seen

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00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: what he could do, but the health factor is still

762
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: a big looming question. How confident are you that, now

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00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: that Nick Foles is no longer in the equation, that

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00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: Wentz can finally prove that he could hold up for

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00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: an entire year. I mean, I am hopeful. I I

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00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: don't know if you can be confident about health. I mean,

767
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: Carson has a history of injury, and he's got He's

768
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: done everything he can here. He's in great shape, he's leaner, meaner.

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00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: The Eagles have built around him a very good offensive line,

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00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: a running game that's got some depth, explosiveness in the

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00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: passing game. I mean, sometimes it just comes down to

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00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: luck of the draw. And in Carson's first two years

773
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: or the last few years here, two of us three

774
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: years in the NFL, he's not been able to close

775
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: out the season, and that's been disappointing. So I think

776
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: the word is hopeful. Um. But I mean, when it

777
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: comes to injuries, it's it's out of my hands or

778
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: anybody's hands. It's a lot of God's will and luck

779
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: of the draw. And that's just the way the game

780
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: of football is. Eli Manning has been remarkably healthy, and

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00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: there's a lesson to be learned there. Get get rid

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00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: of the football, don't take hits of Carson is a

783
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: very aggressive player. I love the way he plays, but

784
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 1: when with that, you take a lot of hits, and certainly,

785
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: um we have seen a total of those hits these

786
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: last two seasons. To that same point, Dave, what's the

787
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: confidence that slash comfort level in the backup quarterback position? Obviously,

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00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: you guys will live in a life of luxury with

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00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: Nick Foles sitting there. Besides, when's not the case anymore.

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00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: What's the organizational feel for Sudfeld, Thorsen and Cody Kesler. Yeah,

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00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they feel good about Sudfeld, but

792
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: he hasn't really had experience in the league. He played

793
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: in one regular season game against the Cowboys end of

794
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: the season, two thousand seventeen Eagles coasting, you know, first

795
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC playoffs. So there's a lot to

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00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: be seen there. With Nate Tucker, I would expect him

797
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: to get a lot of reps in this preseason as

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00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: he did last year and try to build on that.

799
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's hard to be totally confident somebody

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00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: when he hasn't played it's certainly a lot different than

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00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: when Nick Foles was here. Well, whoever is the quarterback,

802
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: and assuming it is Carson wins for sixteen games, the

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00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: running game is gonna be key for the Eagles and Davi.

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00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: As you well know, from a fantasy perspective, the Eagles

805
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: running game has been an absolute headache, I'm sure for

806
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: fantasy owners. From a reality perspective, that's what the Eagles

807
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson are more concerned about. So they've had

808
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: le Garrett Blunt, they've had j G I e. Now

809
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they move in the direction of

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00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, and I think the big m O with him.

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Speaker 1: When he was with the Bears, Dave was well, he'd

812
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: be a first and second down back, but you know,

813
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: didn't really show much versatility or usage as a receiver.

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00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: How do you envision the Eagles utilizing Jordan Howard as

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00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: he starts his first year with this organization? Kind of

816
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: exactly as you say, But you know, third and short,

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00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: he's a power running back and there's a there's a

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00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: role there for him. Um, he's worked hard on catching

819
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: the football. You know, he's had three really really good

820
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: seasons in the NFL very productive seasons Matt Soley, by

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, and Todd Gurley, so Jordan Howard comes with

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00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: a track record of excellence. Um. They also drafted Miles

823
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: Sanders from Penn State in round number two. We did

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00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: not see Sanders at all in the spring. He had

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00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. He should be good to go for

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Speaker 1: training camp. And then the Eagles have Corey Klement back

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00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: who's an excellent path protector, very good receiver, versatile player.

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Speaker 1: When Dale Smallwood was here, Josh Adams last year showed up.

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00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: So they've got some numbers. They've got some interesting players there,

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00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: but I think you'll see a lot of different players

831
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: taking a lot of touches. I think they want to

832
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: do as much by committee as they can. This offense

833
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: is so interesting with this personnel. You know, they've got

834
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: so much depth and they've got a lot of different

835
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: personnel groupings that they can attack you in a lot

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00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: of ways. And the run game is gonna be critical.

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00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: They missed out last year in short yard and situations.

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00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: They weren't as good in gold to ghost situations. Inside

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00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: the twenty, Jordan Howard really really helps that. He's got

840
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: a great nose for the end zone. He's pounds and

841
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna run behind a very good offensive line. I

842
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: think Jordan Howard should have some success this year for

843
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: the Eagle. You know, Davis Funny, you took the Wars

844
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: out of my mouth. I was just gonna gonna speak

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00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: to the versatility that the Eagles are gonna have from

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00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: a personnel grouping standpoint, because you guys have been heavy

847
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: tight end team for aationally, and why not with the

848
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: type of tight ends you've had, whether it's Brent Selk

849
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: back in the Dayny of zach Ertz and Dallas God

850
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: are two very good players. But at the same time,

851
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your wide receivers and you got a'll

852
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: Sean Jeffrey into Sewan Jackson, Nelson Agre. I love j

853
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: j R. Segal Whiteside. I think he's gonna be a

854
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: heck of an NFL player. How are they gonna mix

855
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: these personnel packages to take advantage of all these skill positions,

856
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: especially outside with your skilled tight ends and skilled wide

857
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: receiver group. Yeah, I mean it's a great question. Take.

858
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: Let's be honest here. I mean, these guys, your NFL players,

859
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: they want the football. Yeah, absolutely, it's gonna and there's

860
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: only one football in a game last time I check,

861
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: So I mean they have there's got to be a

862
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: level of unselfishness in this locker room. I mean, otherwise

863
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna run into a lot of problems. I

864
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: just think one week to the next, you know you're

865
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: not gonna know what to expect from the Philadelphi Eagles offense.

866
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: If the Giants don't have linebackers who can't cover, then

867
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of two tight end packages.

868
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: If the Giants can't run at the quarterback position and

869
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: their safeties are gonna bite and peek into the back field,

870
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna see de Sean Jackson over the top. They

871
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: do have a ton of weapons, but it's gonna take

872
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: a complete buy in from Eagles. And we all know

873
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: that NFL players have Eagles, and they just can't uh

874
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: come in and say, look Zacher's last years, that ain't

875
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: gonna happen this year. Dallas Goddard is too good to

876
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: not play and too good to not gets its target. So, uh,

877
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: the weapons are great, you have to figure out how

878
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: to use it all, how to utilize everything, how to

879
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: how to attack defenses. So I think on a week

880
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: to week basis, this team is gonna be really really

881
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: interesting to watch offensively well, and it's certainly a good

882
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: problem to have when you have so many weapons on

883
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. I'm sure Doug Peters

884
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: it's not complaining. And in all those names that John

885
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: mentioned to you, Dave, the familiar faces back not necessarily

886
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: happiness for Giants fans into Seawan Jackson, especially what he

887
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: can still do. I'm sure from a special team's perspective,

888
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 1: but at this point in his career, you know, what

889
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: do they envision that de Sean Jackson is going to

890
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: do now for this offense? Dave, it's crazy with tough

891
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 1: He's had a great relationship with Sean when he came

892
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: here after he was drafted. Cocky kid, smallest guy you've

893
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: ever seen, runs like the Blazes, just makes plays and

894
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: just tough kid. Um. He comes back after time in Washington,

895
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: time in Tampa Bay, a different person, engaged three kids,

896
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: knows he's towards the end of his career. Watched with

897
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: envias Eagles paraded after Super Bowl fifty two. So I

898
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: think DeShawn wants to win, and I just think what

899
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: they envisioned for him is what de Sean Jackson does.

900
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 1: Run faster than everybody on the field, which he showed

901
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: in the spring that he can still do track the

902
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: football on deep throws better than any receiver I've ever seen,

903
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: and and just be somebody that defenses had to account for.

904
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eagles did not have that speed receiver

905
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: last year. They were a dank and dunk offense. They

906
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: didn't stretch the field in the past. Get Jackson immediately

907
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: elevates that part of the game that's gonna open up

908
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: everything underneath the tight ends for Agil or for Jeffrey

909
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: for the short passing game. I mean, it's getting somebody

910
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: like there's just there are a lot of different fits

911
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: in free agency. I can't think of a more perfect

912
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: one than to Sean Jackson coming back to the Eagles,

913
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: a team that needed that vertical speed and there's nobody

914
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: in the league really that's faster. I mean, certainly Hill

915
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: in Kansas City is a blazer um, but but with

916
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: what the Shawan does as a receiver tracking the football,

917
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: great weapon to have, and and he'll be that kind

918
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: of receiver occasionally, I think a punt returner, but I

919
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: don't expect him to be the full time punt returner.

920
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,959
Speaker 1: You really want to pick your spots with Sean Jackson, David.

921
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: I'll let Lance ask you specific question about the old line,

922
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: but I want to speak generally. I sat there and

923
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: I watched the Eagles select Andre Dillard in the second

924
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: half of the first round, and I'm like, wow, you

925
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: know the Eagles. No, Look, I thought it was a

926
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: great pick, and the Eagles are just in a situation

927
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: with their roster and giant fans and then get mad

928
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: at me for saying this, but I think it's true

929
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: where the Eagles can feel fine using their first round

930
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: pick on a guy that, if everything goes right this year,

931
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: he ain't never gonna play, and I think it's kind

932
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: I think I think it kind of just speaks to

933
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: the way they've constructed this roster. I know, you guys

934
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: are up against it with the cap a little bit

935
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 1: the next couple of years, and howe rosmen always fink

936
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: has a way to to to navigate that. But the

937
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: way the Eagles have kind of built their roster to

938
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: create this level of depth, well, what is it about

939
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: how they operate that allows them to to achieve that

940
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: type of level of depth on their team. Yeah, I mean,

941
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: I think they do a couple of things well, they've

942
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: done since the ship Kelly days. Um. You know, they've

943
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: drafted pretty well, they've developed, They've made some really shrewd

944
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: moves off waivers. I mean, last year, Craven le Blanc

945
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: cornerback gets cut by Detroit. The Eagles are desperate at

946
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: the cornerback position. They bring LeBlanc in. He comes in

947
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: and plays a very well as the nickel cornerback. Great acquisition.

948
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: So if you hit on a couple of those kinds

949
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: of players, then you have the opportunity, as the Eagles

950
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: did in his draft, to take a player for the future,

951
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: as they did with Andrey Dillard Um. So, so they've

952
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: they've they've constructed the roster very nicely. They've drafted well,

953
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: they've acquired players, and then they've developed players and for

954
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: the most part kept the cord together and and so

955
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: they've they've been riding this, you know, three and four

956
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 1: years here of solid roster build around the quarterback works.

957
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: The salary cap really shrewdly an owner who I mean,

958
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: there's as NFL fans know, there are differences between the

959
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: salary cap and hitting that number the limit and then

960
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: and then number and then dollars spent each year, and

961
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Laurie spends the dollars. And so the Eagles have

962
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: been able to put together a really good mix of

963
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: a roster here of veteran players, younger players. Players, they've

964
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: drafted players, they've acquired theatrich When you can get it

965
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard Okay for a six round draft pick in

966
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty, I mean, that's a great deal. When

967
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to go get Malik Jackson before

968
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: free agency opens, and that's a fantastic deal for the

969
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. The here's this is so defensive tackle, nobody

970
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: ever talks about it. Right last year, they're struggling. Kim

971
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: Jourdy gets hurt before the season, doesn't play much. YadA, YadA, YadA.

972
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: Eagles going from first in the league and run defense

973
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: to the middle of the pack. They can't find somebody

974
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: to play alongside Fletcher Cox. So what do they do?

975
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: They signed Malik Jackson in free agency. They have the

976
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring back Tim Journey again just before the

977
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: draft at a team friendly contract. They've got some young

978
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 1: players that they picked up Trayvon Hester number one from

979
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: you know Oakland Raiders, didn't fit that scheme. They developed

980
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: him last year. They like him. They trade for Hassan

981
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: Ridgeway from the Indiana Indianapolis Colts for a seventh round

982
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: draft pick. Key pieces. They the fact that they've had

983
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: continuity on the coaching staff, they've had continuity in the

984
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: personnel department. Everybody's picking the players knows the system, they

985
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: know what kind of players the coaches are looking for,

986
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: and that enables you to have this kind of long

987
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: run of players who can come in here and give

988
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 1: you a chance to win. Yeah, that's a great answer. Yeah,

989
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: I think you know what you just laid out. I'm

990
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: not even gonna ask you about the depth on the

991
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: defensive front, Dave, because she gave us a whole rundown.

992
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: But what what you just laid out to me is

993
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: there are so many parallel is between how the Eagles

994
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: have built their offensive line and their defensive lines. To

995
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: your point, because it's not just four guys that they

996
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: rely on. The fifth, the sixth, the seventh options are

997
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: so key. Even bringing back a guy like Vinnie Curry

998
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: too is another valuable asset of veteran who's familiar with

999
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: the organization, and Jim Schwartz, as you know, likes to

1000
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: rotate players. But I want to pinpoint Derek Barnett because

1001
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: he was banged up. He's a young, still up and

1002
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: coming player. What do you see out of Barnett now

1003
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: that he continues to get more and more comfortable in

1004
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: this defensive scheme. So now we start to get into

1005
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: the question marks on the Philadelphia Eagles roster. Of course,

1006
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 1: no team has a perfect roster, and where the Eagles

1007
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: certainly changed a lot in the off season. They traded

1008
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett to New England. They saw Chris Long retire,

1009
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: so they lose some depth. They were able to keep

1010
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham from going into free agency. They like Derek

1011
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: Barnett very much, but he was injured last year. I mean,

1012
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: the first round draft pick back into thousands seventeen. It's

1013
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: time for him to step up and be a six

1014
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: team game, regular season, week the week standout player. Um.

1015
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: And there's some questions about the depth there. You mentioned

1016
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: Rady Curry, but who's the next one in line? You

1017
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: need four and five defensive ends to really impact throughout

1018
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: the course of this marathon season, the Eagles searching for

1019
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: that fourth and fifth defensive end. But Barnett is a

1020
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: key guy. He's got to be healthy, he's gotta be great,

1021
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: he's gotta play like a first Trump pick. I don't

1022
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 1: think he's ever gonna be a Star of Stars kind

1023
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: of defensive end. I think he's the kind of player

1024
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: that you looked at and you go, he's gonna give

1025
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: me effort. He's gonna be in the right place at

1026
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: the right time. He's gonna be productive. The question with

1027
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: him again is just like Carson, got to stay on

1028
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: the field, gotta stay healthy. If he does that, the

1029
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 1: way this defense is schemed up and the way they

1030
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: play downhill, he should have a good season and the

1031
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: pass rush should be productive. But there's a little bit

1032
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: of depth question there, and that's that area. And then linebacker.

1033
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: As you look at this team, you go, well, who

1034
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: exactly is playing middle linebacker? Who's who's who's your fourth

1035
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: and fifth defensive ends? These are these are questions the

1036
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: Eagles need to answer when training camp begins next week. Well,

1037
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about linebacker. Then. I thought Zack Brown

1038
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: was a very nice, kind of under the radar signing.

1039
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: I thought he was out there a lot longer than

1040
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: I expect him to be on the free agent market.

1041
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: How do you kind of break down that competition between

1042
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: him and everybody else for that middle linebacker spot. Yeah,

1043
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: I mean, and Zach Brown is another example of a

1044
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: player that if it works out, you go, wow, How

1045
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: does this team keep building with players like that? You know,

1046
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: because he was on the market for a long time.

1047
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: He had a terrific season in Washington. As we know,

1048
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: free agency is one team's trash and another team's treasure.

1049
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: So what in the world made the Washington Redskins say

1050
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: goodbye to Zack Brown who was so productive? Just the

1051
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: price tag? Is there something more? So Brown comes in

1052
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: here and he's to learn of the defense. I would

1053
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: think that he'd be a leading contender to be the

1054
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker, and potentially they moved Nigel Browden from

1055
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: strong side to the middle. The Eagles play with only

1056
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: two linebackers on the field set a thirty percent of

1057
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: the time they're nickels. Seventy percent of the time that

1058
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: the NFL linebackers are devalued, at least with the Philadelphia

1059
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: Eagles in this in this Today's modern game, spread offenses

1060
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: three wide receivers on the field. But Brown has a

1061
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: chance to win a significant playing time, a starting job.

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00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: If he can do that, that answers a big, huge

1063
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 1: question for the Eagles on defense, extremely physical, productive in Washington,

1064
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, in Tennessee. We'll see what he does here

1065
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: with the Eagles. When I look at the NFC East

1066
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: last year, I look at the Redskins offensive line plagued

1067
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: by injuries, and then I also look at the Eagles secondary. Dave,

1068
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: I think those two spots on both of those teams.

1069
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you can never imagine how many players both

1070
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: of those teams had to go through at those spots.

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00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: So you obviously could focus on the Eagle secondary. I

1072
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: don't need to rehash for you. They were dropping like flies.

1073
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: You brought up Cravon LeBlanc comes in off the street

1074
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: to help rescue them. How how confident do they feel

1075
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: in the volume of options, whether they're healthy question marks

1076
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: that they can bring to the plate this season so

1077
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: that they can have some continuity at that position. They

1078
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: have a boatlow of options. Now are they good options? Okay? Uh,

1079
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: you know, is Jalen Mills going to get Jalen Mills

1080
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: was always one of those Kenny run fast enough to

1081
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: run well enough to play the cornerback position in the

1082
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: NFL at a high level before he suffered a foot

1083
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: injury that caused him him miss half the season. And

1084
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: so can he come back and be a high level player?

1085
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: Um Ken? Ronald Darby come back from an injury. I

1086
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: mean he looks great. He's a confident. He's gonna be

1087
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: ready to go when camp opens. They signed him to

1088
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: a one year deal in free agency. You know he's

1089
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: got a lot riding on this season. Sidney Jones, The

1090
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: Eagles drafted him after he tours achilles tendon prior to

1091
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: the two thousand seventeen draft, first round pick. Man he

1092
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,959
Speaker 1: thought top fifteen pick goes in the second round. Red

1093
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: shirt freshman year, rookie year last year? Is half the

1094
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: season lost because of hamstring injuries? Is he ready to

1095
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: compete and to start? Avante Maddox, fourth round draft pick

1096
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: last year. They really really like this kid. He's played inside,

1097
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: he's played slide, he's played the slide, he's played outside.

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00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: He's lad safety. I look at him as a starting

1099
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: outside cornerback for this team, potentially Resell Douglas a second

1100
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: round draft pick. Uh comes in plays a lot his

1101
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: first few years, big strong kid, maybe not as mobile,

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00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: but physical, feels like they understand that there's that that

1103
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: quarterback is so important and that you've got a lot

1104
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: of needs there. You've got a lot of numbers. You're

1105
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: gonna go through a lot of players. They got ravage

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00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: last year and they made it through the season. At safety,

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00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: Rodney McCloud goes down, so they bring him back. In

1108
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: free agency, they signed Andrews and Dajo, who had been

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00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: a starter with the Vikings. They bring in Blake Countess

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Speaker 1: off of waivers from the Los Angeles Rams. These are

1111
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: the kinds of moves that are under the radar that

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00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: really build depths in competition. And so the Eagles go

1113
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: into this camp thinking, hey, we're gonna we're gonna have

1114
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: a tough time GETT three. This is a roster that's

1115
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: gonna really compete and push each other, and we'll see

1116
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: what it transpires here as we go from ninety three.

1117
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: But certainly, look, the offense on paper right now looks

1118
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: a lot more complete than the defense because of the

1119
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: secondary question marks. The defensive end question marks as far

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Speaker 1: as depth go, and Uh the linebacker position. Who steps

1121
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: up and replaces Jordan Hicks as the starting middle linebacker,

1122
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: but certainly a plenty of options. I mean, the Eagles

1123
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Speaker 1: really got busy. You mentioned Carson Wentz and signing him

1124
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: in free agency. I'm sorry to the contract extension. Well,

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Speaker 1: what they did in free agency, frankly was stunning to me.

1126
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Speaker 1: The level of activity that they were able to create.

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00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: Some of the deals they got done with some players

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Speaker 1: like Zendejo, like Brown, you know, like the Jackson's, like

1129
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Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. I mean, this really really adds to your roster. Dave.

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Speaker 1: You brought up the offense last one for me before

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00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: we let you go. Interestingly, the Giants this offseason brought

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Speaker 1: in Golden Tate, and I know you were around him

1133
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: briefly because he was acquired at the tread debt trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious your perspective, from what you saw Golden Tate

1135
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: do in a limited amount of time in the Eagles offense,

1136
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Speaker 1: what you think he brings to the table for the Giants,

1137
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: considering they no longer have Odell Beckham. Yeah, I don't

1138
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: think the Eagles saw the best of Golden Tape, simply

1139
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: because when you acquire somebody, particularly a wide receiver. I

1140
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: mean it worked for Amari Cooper in in Dallas, and

1141
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: maybe what their scheme is a bit different speed receiver

1142
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: Tate coming from a different system, it took him some

1143
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: time to to learn this offense, to find his role

1144
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: in his offense, and really it was really hit and miss.

1145
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 1: And then he catches the touchdown pass against the Chicago

1146
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: Bears and beats the Bears in the playoff game and

1147
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: everybody says, hey, the trade was worth it, and that

1148
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: was great. It was just really it was really tough

1149
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: for Golden to kind of find his role in a

1150
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: truncated portion of the season. I think he's gonna be

1151
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: extremely productive for the Giants, and he's got a lot

1152
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: of juice left. He's a leader, got a lot of energy.

1153
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: He's a tough guy. He's not Odell Beckham. He's not

1154
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: going to be that kind of receiver that you are right.

1155
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: We gotta have a safety over the top. We have

1156
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: to have a linebacker in time. You gotta bracket and

1157
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: we can't let him kill us down the field. But

1158
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: what Golden Tapes gonna do is gonna catch pass. He's

1159
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna have eleven touchdowns and you're gonna go,

1160
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: how a oot the world did that happen? And that's

1161
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: the kind of receiver is He's just he's just a crafty,

1162
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: you know, really intelligent, outstanding catches everything, tough guy receiver.

1163
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Speaker 1: Um who I grew to like very much in a

1164
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: short time he was here, Dave, great stuff. We're not

1165
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna see you guys until December. I mean, it's amazing.

1166
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: It's funny. We we actually just broke down the two

1167
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: teams and these two rosters. You know how it goes

1168
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: when you looking at the roster in July and you

1169
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: compare it to December, the two teams is gonna be

1170
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: completely different by the time we get there. So you know,

1171
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Speaker 1: my question for you, who's gonna be in the quarterback

1172
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Speaker 1: for the Giants in the December games against Eagles? You

1173
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: know what? That's the big question that that is a

1174
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: really good question, Davin. I'll give you the answer to

1175
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: everybody else. This canna depend on three things. How will

1176
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: you lie Manning place? How many games the Giants win?

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Speaker 1: Because if Eli Manning plays well but the team's out

1178
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: of the playoff phrase, technically we might see Daniel Jones anyway, right,

1179
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: and then the third one is whether or not Daniel

1180
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: Jones shows the team that he's ready in practice. I

1181
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: feel good about number three, and we'll see about one

1182
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: and two. It's been a long time since we had

1183
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: a chance to cover meaningful games in December here, so

1184
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm hoping when the Giants had to Philly on Monday

1185
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: night on December nine, it's a really important game for

1186
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: both teams trying to wrestle for a playoffs slot, that

1187
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: I'll be a lot of fun, because it's always fun

1188
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: when the Eagles and Giants and the NFC East have

1189
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: these meaningful games late the season. I mean, I don't

1190
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: know what it's like around the rest of the league,

1191
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: but NFC's football is so fun and unpredictable. Oh my gosh,

1192
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: we haven't had a repeat winner since two thousand three,

1193
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: two thousand four, so who the heck knows what's gonna

1194
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: happen this year in the division. Dave, you just throughout

1195
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: my favorite statistic. I'm glad you're well aware of that.

1196
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: That's what I tell everybody. It's amazing how nobody's duplicated

1197
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: as NFC East champs, which just goes to show you

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Speaker 1: how tough. This division is yeah, ye, incredible, and I

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Speaker 1: think all I think all four teams are gonna be

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00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, I know that there are questions

1201
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: with all four and at this point the Cowboys and

1202
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: the Eagles look to be the in the class. But

1203
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: that means nothing. In in July, it means a lot.

1204
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: When it comes down to September, October, November, December, it

1205
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Speaker 1: means absolutely zilch. So fun times ahead for NCS. Good stuff, Dave,

1206
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,760
Speaker 1: enjoy your last few days of freedom before the players

1207
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: show up and all all lives collectively end. Then one

1208
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: fell slope. Thanks there, Thank you, buddy. Dave Spidar does

1209
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Speaker 1: a great job covering the Philadelphia Eagles. So, folks, that's it.

1210
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Speaker 1: Have you've been listening to the last couple of weeks

1211
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: or last month or so, with that week off we

1212
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: had in between, you've gotten a deep dive look at

1213
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: every single Giants opponent this season. Now, again, a lot

1214
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: of things are gonna change between now when the Giants

1215
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: play these teams, but I think you have a pretty

1216
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: good feel for what's on the Giant schedule. Yeah, and

1217
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you based on what we

1218
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: heard from Brian and what we heard from Dave. Despite

1219
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,240
Speaker 1: the fact that I would argue both of those teams

1220
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: I think are the strongest contenders right now, at least

1221
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: entering the early stages of the season. I think that

1222
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: we based on their record the last couple of years,

1223
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,399
Speaker 1: but also the fact that the nucleus, for the most part,

1224
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: the key players are back. I think that's import note.

1225
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: Yet there are still question marks across the board. He

1226
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: just went over the defense and he said, you know,

1227
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: the depth and the secondary linebacker. You know, they gotta

1228
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: see Carson Wentz his health. I mean, course that's the

1229
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: huge one. And then you go to the Dallas Cowboys.

1230
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the offensive line. It's not

1231
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: the same offensive line for the Cowboys that it used

1232
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: to be. How well is Dak Prescott gonna play? You

1233
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: know that you sold the defense that against the Rams.

1234
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: Is that going to be a case study for what's

1235
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: gonna happen in the future or will that defense get

1236
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: back to what they were during the regular season? So

1237
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, just like for the Giants, will the offensive

1238
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: line play well? How old does eli play? Do the

1239
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: young guys on defense play well? All these teams have

1240
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: question marks and all these teams have strengths, and the

1241
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: funny thing, it's gonna be the thing that nobody can control.

1242
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: That's probably gonna term what team wins the division, what

1243
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: team's healthiest most of them is the injury bug? What

1244
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, That's what it always comes down to. Though,

1245
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: I will say this, the year the Eagles won the

1246
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they actually did a really nice job overcoming

1247
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: the injury bug because if you go back and look

1248
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: at how many guys they lost, I mean they lost

1249
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: their kicker and then Jake Elliott hits the big field

1250
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: goal against the Giants in Philadelphia, So you know, that

1251
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: just goes to show you how many options they had,

1252
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 1: and I think Dave laid it out beautifully. They do

1253
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: a good job grooming and clearly trades to man their

1254
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: front office, you know, finding a crafty move that can

1255
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: be made to either acquire Jordan Howard for a sixth

1256
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: round pick, get an extension done before all of a

1257
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: sudden the market explodes. Those are the type of moves

1258
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: you need to be able to do as the front

1259
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,919
Speaker 1: office as well. Final one here on the schedule lands

1260
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: before we uh kind of say goodbye here and we're

1261
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna get next week players start showing up, so not

1262
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: a whole lot of preview. Will start getting to the

1263
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: nitty gritty of training camp next week. And by the way, Monday,

1264
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Warren Sharp from Sharp Football as his

1265
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: NFL preview book out. We'll kind of preview the Giants

1266
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: with him. He does a lot of inside number of

1267
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: statistical stuff on Big Blue Kickoff Live. You take a

1268
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: look at the schedule, lands think about the opponents, thinking

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Speaker 1: about where the Giants are. Just give me your overall thoughts,

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Speaker 1: anything that pops to mind when you take a look

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Speaker 1: at these opponents with the Giants are this year as

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Speaker 1: some key things heading into well, I really think the

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Speaker 1: big question marks are probably going to come alive October

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Speaker 1: sixth on because I think that, you know, you play

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Speaker 1: two Division opponents in the first four and then you

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Speaker 1: have Buffalo and Tampa Bay. Not to say that those

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Speaker 1: games are easy, especially the Tampa Bay game. I think

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Speaker 1: Bruce arians is gonna do a night's job turning that

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Speaker 1: team around. But it's in Tampa. But then after your

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Speaker 1: home against Minnesota, which I think is going to still

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Speaker 1: have a very strong defense, and I would expect their

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Speaker 1: offense to improve based on the fact that now Kevin

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Speaker 1: Stefanski is gonna be the o C for the whole season.

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Speaker 1: Visit New England on a quick turnaround Arizona. While you

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Speaker 1: can argue by that time you can have a lot

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Speaker 1: of film on Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that that offense is still not gonna be easy

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Speaker 1: to contain. The Lions I think are under the radar

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Speaker 1: team and then you get Dallas again. So you know,

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Speaker 1: depending on how they do in those first four games

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Speaker 1: is gonna determine how much wiggle room do you have

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Speaker 1: in those next four or five games that I just

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Speaker 1: went over. I'm really curious about the Lions. I could

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Speaker 1: see them swinging. I could see them winning nine games.

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Speaker 1: I could see them winning five games. I really don't

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Speaker 1: have a good feel for how they're gonna play this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't that's been there doctor Jeco, Mr Hidish script

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Speaker 1: that they followed over the its been around seven or

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Speaker 1: eight you know, for the last three years of Caldoll

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Speaker 1: I think they won between seven or nine games, like

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Speaker 1: two or three straight years. So it's funny, I'll say this.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very, very important for the Giants that

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Speaker 1: get off to a fast start this year. For the

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Speaker 1: point that you made, it gets really tough starting on

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Speaker 1: October six. You have a couple of soft landing spots

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Speaker 1: along the way, at least what we think are going

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Speaker 1: to be soft landing spots. That Miami game on December

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Speaker 1: fifteenth is one that you circle away like, all right,

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Speaker 1: well that's a that's that's a nice little break in

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Speaker 1: between at Chicago, Green Bay, at Philly, then home versus Miami,

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Speaker 1: then at Washington home versus Philadelphia. I've heard people and

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Speaker 1: I have not done it. I was not on the

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Speaker 1: show and you guys did the Dolphins preview, but I

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Speaker 1: had somebody tell me that they think the Dolphins offensive

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Speaker 1: line this year might be worse than what the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: offensive line was last year. After are all the injuries,

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Speaker 1: and that's before the Dolphins season starts. Well that's actually

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Speaker 1: a good thing because at least Josh Rosen went through

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Speaker 1: life like that. So what he's gonna go through? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let's say he starts the years

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Speaker 1: of start, all right, He's gonna have his you know,

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Speaker 1: one five touchdown game. He's gonna have one like eight

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Speaker 1: interception game, they don't get hurt, and then Josh rose

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Speaker 1: is gonna have to be like a pincushion back there

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Speaker 1: again that kid can't catch a break. And then the

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Speaker 1: unfortunate party is you're gonna have two seasons of Josh

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Speaker 1: Rosen where he hasn't had good offensive line and everyone's

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Speaker 1: gonna want to bow on him. Correct and is it

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Speaker 1: really fair? It reminds me sort of of David Carr

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Speaker 1: and what he went through with the Houston Texans. Did

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Speaker 1: you truly see what David Carr could do? Or is

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Speaker 1: he just an unfortunate product of the circumstances around him.

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Speaker 1: It's probably a middle of both. So anyway, get to

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Speaker 1: my original point, I think it's important to look those

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Speaker 1: four's four games. You better go at least two and two,

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Speaker 1: and I would like to see three and one. If

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Speaker 1: you start the season one and three, the sirens are on.

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Speaker 1: The sirens are on, of course. Well, and here's the

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Speaker 1: other thing to note out of those games, those are

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Speaker 1: a few good defenses that the Giants are going to

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Speaker 1: see that Buffalo. We talked about Buffalo a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago. They're excellent. Dallas has a good defense and

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Speaker 1: the Redskins for as many questions they have at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And you talked to Larry Michael yesterday with Jeff they

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Speaker 1: got a pretty good defense well with that front seven,

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Speaker 1: and how you know they're getting near that Philadelphia territory

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Speaker 1: in terms of rotation. Clearly they feel good about Landed

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Speaker 1: Collins helping to stabilize the safety pression. Montes sweat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of options with that defense. So

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Speaker 1: I would not dismiss that defense. And you know, here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing. Tampa Bay with now a new defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: I believe what I see it, of course, and they

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Speaker 1: also have had volume in the past. It just hasn't

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Speaker 1: come together, and obviously with Jpps injury, but who knows,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's coaching. I brought this up on this show

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Speaker 1: and when we spoke to Scott Reynolds about the Bucks

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Speaker 1: their philosophy and Tampa Bay is the reason why they

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Speaker 1: kept the personnel together is because they don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a personnel problem. They think it was a coaching problem them.

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Speaker 1: So if you were a believer in that and now

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Speaker 1: you think about what they did, does the coach now

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Speaker 1: take that defense to the next level? Something to at

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Speaker 1: least consider So it's no picnic with those first four

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Speaker 1: defenses that the Giants are going to see. And if

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Speaker 1: we're talking about this team, John in the early stage

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Speaker 1: is gonna have to lean on the offense more so

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Speaker 1: than the defense. Well, the offense has some trouble, then

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Speaker 1: that means it's more pressure on James Betcher and his

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Speaker 1: unity year number two. Now what the way you can

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Speaker 1: look at it is that maybe it will give this

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Speaker 1: young Giants defense a chance to get going a little bit. Yeah, Dallas,

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Speaker 1: I'm not calling that a soft landing spot because they

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Speaker 1: have a good team, but it's still not Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: or Drew Brees or Tom Brady, Aron Rodgers. As good

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Speaker 1: as Prescott is it from time to time, he's not

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Speaker 1: one of those guys. And then you have Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: in week two was the second year guy. So look,

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Speaker 1: you get to the Bucks a week three and all

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Speaker 1: bets are off. They can move the ball with anybody,

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Speaker 1: but those first two games it will be a little

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Speaker 1: bit a little bit of a ramp up opportunity, I

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Speaker 1: think for the Giants defense not playing the most explosive

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Speaker 1: offenses though who knows what kelln More and the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're gonna throw the ball a lot more. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, because there's no film. There's no film, right that,

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Speaker 1: So maybe Kellen Moore gets really creative in the first game.

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Speaker 1: And remember, you know Dac now has as we spoke

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Speaker 1: with Brian and Marie Cooper, Randall Cobb and Michael Gallup

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01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: and the tight ends. It's a lot different than what

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are throwing out last season. And here's another thing.

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Speaker 1: You've got Ezekiel Elliott and then Lashawn McCoy slash Frank Gore.

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Speaker 1: You've got, you know, some pretty good running attacks in

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Speaker 1: the first two weeks. So forget the quarterbacks, John, they

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01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: can't stop the run. That changes everything. I think the

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Speaker 1: big challenges up front. Yeah, the first two weeks, I'm

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Speaker 1: huge tests for Dexter Lawrence and company. Lance good stuff. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: all right, enjoy your week, and everybody again, remind your

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Speaker 1: no show tomorrow, but we will be back on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Paul to Tin and I will talk to Warren Sharp

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Speaker 1: from Sharp Football and do some statistical analysis analysis well

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01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: I can't talk at all. We're gonna do some statistical

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01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: analysis of the New York Football Giants from last year

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01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: and how they need to change heading in the next

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01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 1: year to have more success offensively for Lance medal. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Schmilk. I'll take some hooked on phonics over the

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Speaker 1: weekend and we'll see you next week. I'm a good one.