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You had texted me earlier, like I saw one. I legitimately think there was only maybe like 2000. It was in. And I might be high Eagles fans everywhere walking. It was seas of green, like Eagles chants everywhere we went. Our show on Saturday, the most Eagles chants in the history of WIP. I feel super confident about that. Just magic, man. Magic trip. Obviously a closer game than some wanted, but a thrilling win at the end of the day and ultimately just I had, thank you to fans, I had the best time in Nashville. And my voice is still not recovered, as you can tell. Sounds good. Does it? Sounds normal. Yeah, it sounds horrible. But well, there's some things about both of those people. Some people always think my voice sounds horrible. So yeah, it's good. It's like me saying, you know, I feel like my takes are good. Yeah, I can just feel that I don't have the power. Yeah. You know, well, we'll get worked up about something. Oh, yeah. We'll get you going. It's good. I'm just going to keep ruining it. Talking about every sale tickets or something. It's really. No, I mean, it was it was unbelievable. And it, you know, we always talk about it, but like it's just so cool seeing everybody like make friends on the trips. And I go on a lot of them, obviously, through work, like seeing people that meet on the first one and still hang out. And it's just like we should never take it for granted how cool it is. There's something special about obviously being a Philadelphia fan period compared to other fan bases. We talk about all the time how important sports are here, how much we love our teams, how much they impact our daily happiness and all that, and in extreme ways compared to other fan bases. But I think there's something extra special about being with your fan base in another city and enemy territory. There's just something that bonds you together. And I think Eagles fans particularly, that's true. So it like you really felt it there. Here's the one thing I'll say, like taking over the Titan Stadium doesn't seem that hard. We probably could have sent 5,000 of our finest. They've been fine. I don't know if it took 80% of the stadium. But no, I mean, Nick was on with you guys and talked about it. It seems like he really enjoyed it. I love the clip of him running off the field celebrating. They'll just they'll never be an Eagles coach, more like an Eagles fan. Dude, he had an IV after the game. You're so jacked up. He had to get an IV after the game. I know. Yeah. He was in the cold bath, he was telling me. I mean, like the guy was like so jacked up, not even playing. I love him. I'm such a good fan. He definitely checks the, he cares as much as, you know, Eagles fans. I know no one truly ever cares as much as someone that grew up loving the team, but outside of just professionally, I do think again, getting to know Nick since he's been hired here in 2021, like he is a sports guy. And I think he loves the fact that he works in a city that loves sports too. I totally agree. Imagine being the Titans fan. Well, that's what I was about to say. And he said it. He had actually in that answer, I thought a really good point. He's like, I was with the Chargers, man. Like I know what it's like to have to do to prepare for a really good home chargers. I will say. You took a little shot there. Here's the good news. No one's going to care. No, no, I mean, yeah, exactly. It's the perfect one. The best thing about taking shots at the Chargers. It's the perfect franchise, he could say, because they don't. We all know we see it every time that there's a Chargers game on television. It's like, oh, wow, dude, it just happened. Did you see highlights from that Chargers Raiders game? The place was full of Raiders fans. Of course. Chargers top five embarrassing franchises. Chargers, Cardinals, Jets, Titans, I mean, Jets. Are you kidding me? Yeah, you would accept that. I know you like the Jets, but you got there an embarrassment. I wouldn't say I like the Jets. No, I know that you're you're sympathetic. They're in New York, too. They had Joan Namath. They are a joke. The Jaguars. The Jaguars are a better franchise than the Jets. Full stop. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, they are. The Jets are absolute. OK, who do you think has more passionate fans? The Jets or the Jets? Oh, well, that's what I'm talking about. You're just talking about the fan bases. I see all the results on the field. I'm talking about as a joke of a franchise. The fans are part of it. The whole thing is a joke. I think it would be way easier to take over a Jags game than a Jets game. That's kind of what you were talking about. I'm talking about as an organization. Yeah, the Jets are not well-rounded. The point is I think Jets fans hate their team while also being passionate more than Jaguars fans hate their team. That's for damn sure. I got a take off of last night's game, Monday night. This is about it. I slept through it. I couldn't wait to go to bed yesterday. Interesting. Jordan, you, I was so tired. I was completely crushed from this weekend. Trust me. Dude, I will feel it all weekend, this upcoming weekend, from just going out Friday night. I'm cooked. I have three hours of sleep. I want to go to bed right now. Tune in. I have three hours. Can I take a nap? I have three hours left. I have three hours of sleep that on my O-Ring. And it's just so hard to make it up. Like I slept seven and a half hours last night. And you just can't do it. But anyway, here's my takeoff Monday night. And it has to do with the Chargers. I'm not intimidated by the Rams. Good. Like they're just there. They don't. The Rams don't have what the Eagles have, which I don't. The Rams don't have an it factor. Like I think they might have a better roster for sure. I think they have a better quarterback right now. Like we could argue the head coach thing. But you watch that home environment they play in and it's just it's stale. So like I think going into the Rams or in the Rams coming out of the dome to play the Eagles, like. I'm not intimidated by it. I'm not intimidated by anybody. So it doesn't mean well, I mean, I think like, you know, like I think it's intimidating to go into Dallas. Like, you know, is anyone intimidated to go into Los Angeles? No, that's my point. And like you watched last night against the Giants who have Winston. And I know they ended up winning by quite a bit. But like the Giants had a chance to like make that a one possession game right before half at the six yard line. They just messed it up. So I think the Giants actually have like a bit of like chutzpah to them. Like, I mean, James Winston stinks. No, for sure. They're they're cooked. Yeah. Jackson Dart is out for a six or so. That's what it seems like. Yeah. Well, that's a little bit of lip reading. Yeah, he definitely said four to six. The question is, is it true? Yeah. Or what or what he was talking about? Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah. I it's probably the good news is he's not like didn't tear every muscle in his knee. You know, now we'll find out. Obviously, I'm sure the more good news for the Giants fans. I'm just kidding. I don't want to get hurt. You know, it's just making a joke. Yes, yes, yes. I just like watching Caleb Williams. Who? Oh, wait, he's fine. Every. Oh, my God. I'm dying on the field. That was and I Caleb Williams guy. I've talked glowingly. I thought that was one of the more embarrassing like displays. I've seen it a long time. Like for a grade one hamstring tear, it looked like he was like he his leg had fallen on his body. Oh, my God. The guy like his leg fell off. Now not have a leg anymore is what happened. Oh, oh, wait. He might be back this week. Definitely next week. Oh, good. And I'm cool. Go, go. Now the flip side of that is I woke up with a sore neck and I've been in a terrible mood. You know, I'm not a professional athlete. There are certain athletes or humans agree. But also they are professional football players and there is a look like you would be less likely to show your pain on the air, maybe than off the air. 100 percent. Same thing. The thumbs up was so good, too. The whole thing is so good. It's like the towel. I couldn't be more in on Caleb. I love it. I saw really there. Obviously, this is there are funny things that will happen where it will just lead to like amazing tweets with the video as like the punch line. And the best one I saw was me at the hospital after sleeping on an uncomfortable couch while my wife just gave birth. Yeah, I saw that one. Yep, I feel that. That was her. The Ben Johnson audio, though, it doesn't sound like he's going to play this week. No, no, he said week to week, but he didn't rule him out. I'm kind of disappointed he's not playing, honestly. I've been I've been wanting to see like Eagles, Bears, Soldier Field, Primetime. We almost got it in the playoffs last year. So I'm disappointed. I'll take the back up. But I get a little worried about the back agent. You know, it just feels like a Nick Foles situation. But I like him there. Yeah, they seem to really like. They really like Tyson Bader. Yeah. And but he looked awful. And I was coming in in the fourth quarter. But he looked awesome in the preseason, apparently. He's fine. I think he's one of the probably one of the better backups. Yeah. I think there's like a unknown there. You know, so I think it's still a I think it's still a tough game. Oh, yeah. Going in, but I would have rather seen Caleb. Sure. Would you rather see Caleb with the injured hamstring? Yes. Then Bajan back up. Yeah. Part of Caleb's game is running. If he can't run, he's a different player and he's good at running. So either way, I I'm with you as a football fan. I don't want to see any of these guys go. We don't have enough good quarterbacks in the league as it is. I mean, the Bears go from 59 points to three. Can we just talk about Ben Johnson here? I mean, we are playing him this week. Like, you know, I think he's a great offensive mind and I thought he was going to be a good coach, but he is a smack ass man. Like, this is what I've always said. I've come around on your side. Yeah, he is the fourth and one thing about the touch. So like, like, first of all, to say, like, we want to set the points record to start the year is like, all right, dude, like, yeah, how about we want to be the best offensive league or whatever? Even then, it's like, like, all right, guy, like, Sirianni would never know. Oh, my God. But then also, like you play in Chicago. Are you crazy? Like, you are not setting the points record, dude. You know, it's going to be like 10 degrees for all your freaking December games. What are you talking about? You freaking moron. Like, what a stupid thing to say. Honestly, I was like, that's dumb. You sound dumb, Ben. Yeah, I'd also thought the thing he said, well, after the first week when they scored 59 points, whatever, and he was like, this should be our worst game of the year. It's like, we know it's not going to be your worst. We know that you're not going to score more than 59 points in a game. So yeah, I agree. I mean, look, to get back to the Nick thing, and you know I've been on this channel off season, the obsession with the scheme guys, I just, I don't get it, you know? So I thought he was a leader of men all the time. I think he's got a little bit of a leader of men. He's got a little bit, but I'm sure we'd like him more if he were our coach, like this stuff, but he is. Well, not if he's only scored three points against the Vikings. More the point is that it feels like Brian Johnson does a lot of the things, is more aggressive in the way that Nick is, but people get so mad at Nick and call him a clown, but Ben Johnson is like, oh yeah, look at this competitor. Okay, dude, really? Nick's a better head coach than Ben Johnson. Without a doubt. I don't think it's a question. It's not even a question, I agree. Man, there was some other thing I had. I guess we should get there. Oh, I was, yeah. I see I've gotten all my random thoughts out. Yeah, I feel fine. No more random thoughts? I feel terrible, so it's okay. I feel, I felt a little bit better when I woke up this morning than I expected to, and then with like every passing minute, worse and worse. Yeah, life. Like right now, worst part of my day so far, other than the you part. I mean, fielding-wise, favorite thing I've done today, I'm saying like, I feel the worst I've felt all day, and that next minute will be the worst. We'll check in and tell you. Yeah, I can't wait to go to bed. You should make that the title of the podcast. That is a good one. This is the worst part of my day. Yeah. You know what I mean? No, I know. I mean, I feel horrible. Yes. My voice is barely there. And the next minute will be even worse. But me, much like tough NFL football players, we powered. Yes. Yes. All right. So let's talk, Zach Ertz. The legend is back. This is what do you think? Look, we were into it before it happened. I wanted them to sign him before Dallas Goddard got hurt. Like I was like in on the Earth thing from the jump. I think he's an absolute no brainer. Once Goddard went down, it was like an all time no brainer. I don't I don't I think there's no pushback to this. Again, if Goddard were healthy, you could I wanted him. You could make the pushback and you could say, Oh, you know what? They've got Goddard. You can't block just like and the receivers have played well. But when Goddard goes out, like, I don't I don't know how that you could possibly push back against this. You ready? Oh, come on. So now the kid, hold on, hold on, hold on. So the I did an emergency pod last night. So if you want to hear me be like super excited about it, I agree with it's very exciting. Sports are supposed to be fun. It'll be cool to see. I also think it's smart. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think I didn't even mention the fact that it's fun to have Zach Ertz back. I'm talking strictly football. I think football wise, I like it, right? I like it. Here would be the devil's advocate. Like, let's talk about some potential negatives. So I think it made more sense to do in a way once Goddard was healthy. Be of a choice. I think they would have done it either way. I think Zach Ertz was getting signed now no matter what. I just think the Goddard thing made it like a no-brainer. Yeah. Or honestly, it could just be it could be not related. You know what I mean? Like it could have been this. That's my point. I think I think that but but but the the negative, I would say to the timing of it is they need somebody now like that. Like Dallas Goddard is not playing on Monday night and he's probably not playing until after London. Right. So I think at this point, the only two titans on the roster are Johnny Munt and EJ. Jenkins. Well, don't they have another roster? Can't they add another? They could. But that I'm saying Zach Ertz can't be the Goddard replacement for Monday night. Right. And so they need somebody else for that. And so if you remove the emotional part of it, and it's hard to because it's Zach Ertz, right? He's going to set the franchise record for receptions in an Eagles uniform. Like, you know, he's going to he is an all time great player. Like whatever, like all the accolades you want to throw at Ertz. He deserves all of them. Right. But if you remove that part of it, when you're when you're starting, tight end goes down and you sign a 35 year old coming off an ACL that hasn't been in camp, that hasn't played since last year, there are real parts of like how ready is he to play? How quickly can he contribute? Right. So from an immediate standpoint, I think the move. I think Johnny Munt and EJ. Jenkins will be the replacement on the field. Of course. Yeah. But that's but I think that would happen with anyone they sign. I don't think there's anyone out there traded for somebody. Sure. Like someone that has been playing football. But I don't think they wanted to give up an asset. If they think Goddard's probably back at three, four weeks, whatever it doesn't. Well, if I have they put them on IR, my guess is they don't. I would guess not to. They already have a roster. So like, do you really want to trade for a tight end and give up an asset, especially because right now, I mean, who knows what is available at the moment? So maybe I can sign someone who might not be ready like that, but who I don't want to give up anything but some cash for. Yeah. They probably don't want to give up an asset for a time. Now, what I like about the Ertz signing is his game is not based on athleticism. So I don't know how long it's going to take him to learn, like, hey, go run a hitch route. So I think he'll be able to play. I just mean, it feels like sometimes when Howie has to fill roster holes, he just goes back to the guys that have been here. And there's benefits to that. You know them. They've been here. All that. It just does lack a little bit of imagination of like, he's not trading for this tight end. That's like a backup on a bad team. We're like, hey, this guy's a ton of upside. And he like has been playing. Now, he could still do that before Monday night. Right. We're recording this on a Tuesday morning. I just think the only downside to the Ertz thing is they need immediate help at tight end. And I don't think he's providing immediate. I get your point. I just don't think that's a downside to the Ertz thing. I just other than trading for someone, there's no one who could do that. Well, you could trade for someone. Right. I don't I don't need them to trade for someone. Goddard's coming right back, though. Do you know what I mean? Like Goddard, if he's going to miss three games, right. And it's a muscle injury in the knee. So like, who knows? Or whatever them sales. Yeah, it's in the knee. I was thinking hamstring for some reason. But like, we'll see. I look, I think using Goddard is never I never thought they were going to trade for someone. I thought it was either Ertz or pick your scrappy tight end and bring them in. It's pretty rare that teams make a trade in this situation. If a guy's out for three weeks and they have it, it's really rare that teams, oh, let's go trade for it. I don't think that doesn't happen often. They needed somebody anyway. Like even if Goddard didn't get hurt, I think if we would have done this pod, let's say Goddard is not hurt. So like I would rather they sign Zach Ertz than go trade for someone personally, like then give up an asset to go get something. I don't think you're giving up anything of like value. But let's say it's like. But there might not be someone available. You're just saying like go trade for someone like the tight end. Like there might not be a player that might have that they think could play. Yeah. I mean, and honestly, whoever they got, if he's a backup and not playing or whatever this week, fine for next week, Zach Ertz ready. I'd rather have Zach Ertz on the field than whoever you're going to trade for. If they're a backup, hopeful guy, I'd rather have the guy who's made up a ton of catches in the NFL. So like I just kind of fully disagree with you. I get it. But it's one game. You just get through the game with my we think it's one game. You know, it could be to, you know, we don't know. My point is, I'm good getting through it with Mont and EJ Jenkins instead of trading an asset. Yeah. I just think this points to like the poor job Howie did at tight end on the offseason. I know. I think they clearly did a good job at the tight end. If you would have said to Howie, day one of the offseason, your top two tight ends in like week 10 or whatever, and look, it's not week 10. He could make moves, are going to be Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz. Like, I think he would be like, what are you talking about? Yeah, but I just think, I agree to do it, but things play out like you can only do so much in an offseason. I mean, I get your point. I think Howie wanted to do something more with the tight end room and didn't. And that's a failure. But in this situation where we're at, like, I think this is the right move. Well, and so the last thing I'll say from like a devil's advocate, like you now have another tight end on the roster that can only do one thing. Right. Yeah. Well, you obviously would have liked someone who can block. Yeah. So. But again, I do think that if we're talking again, trading for someone is different. But if you're talking about signing someone off the scrap heap, I don't think there are tight ends out there who can catch a block. Yeah. Well, that's how it's Howie's job to like find one, right? To like go to a roster. I get what you're saying, but we're past that. We are in the here and now. He did a bad job in the offseason in the here and now. There are two options. Sign Zach Ertz or whoever else on the scrap heap or trade for someone. I'm saying I'm good with them going to get Zach Ertz rather than trading for someone. I guess if you want to talk about the offseason in the failures, agree. I'm just saying we're past that now. We're analyzing the Ertz decision. I just think they might have needed to do both. Like Goddard is hurt. Johnny Munt is a fine backup. Ertz is 35 coming off in ACL. Like they might need even more at the tight end. Like Ertz, it doesn't matter. He's on the practice squad. Like he's on the roster, right? Like he will play. But the point I'm making is like they still need more at tight end. I don't think the solution at tight end can be Ertz. And I still think Ertz is pretty good. Like I think he can be a good receiver, receiving tight end for him. I love the, you know, like the romantic side of his ending his career here. I think he'll be good in the locker room. Like I'm with all those things. It just feels like they need more than just Ertz. If Goddard is like, you know, we hope Goddard will come back and be a hundred percent, but if he's not able to, like that's a major blow. Of course. And look, they have more information on the knee injury than we do. They might know that it's a week or two. They might know that it's three. They might know it's not that bad or it is that bad. So I think that the moves they make are more informed than what we know. So, like again, I get your point. I just, I think there's a lot of like, first of all, there might not be a single tight end who fits your description, who is available for trade today. You know what I mean? Like there might not be one in the whole league. Yeah, probably might not be. You know what I mean? We're early and like, it's not like teams have tons of tight end depth where they're just trading guys off. So like I get your point. I just think we may be making statements based on, it's not on reality. You know what I mean? I think the reality was they needed to sign a tight end or they needed a tight end. And Zach Ertz, in my opinion, was the best of the free agent tight ends. And they went and got him. Like, you know, I gave you a point. I would have signed him. Like it's not a perfect scenario. Obviously you want someone to come in and replace Dallas Goddard and do everything. But like, I just, I don't think that was super feasible. Yeah. And I think again, to like wrap it up, like it just is like, he did a bad job this off season. And now they're paying for it. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. But again, I also think that, you know, I think he wanted to do it differently. It didn't work out and he made other moves in other spots. And you know, that's the way the roster game goes. You know what I mean? But I think that, sure. Yes. Bad off season. But I think in the moment, I think he made the right moves. So I will say too, like very happy for Zach, you know, gets to end his career with the Eagles. You saw the I'm guessing you saw the video of him at the airport Tuesday morning. Like it'll be really cool for him to be back. Bad news, Xavier Gibson, you're losing number 86. Oh, yeah. I didn't know if anyone had it, but yeah, it's going to be playing in 86. And it will be cool to see him set the franchise record. You know, hopefully this year. Yeah. He will. Yeah. I 11 catches seems likely doable. Yeah, it'll be interesting if like he has, you know, seven going into week 18. It's a meaningless game. Let's hope not. That's a tricky thing, too. Like Harold Carmichael works for the team. Yeah. You know, I don't know if you want to like pepper him with targets. It's an interesting one. Yeah. Look, if he doesn't get 11 catches by week 18, then this was a massive failure of moves. I would agree with that. Yeah. All right. I too, though, it's exciting. If nothing else, sports, to your point, is supposed to be fun. Everyone's going to be excited to see Zach Ertz and he goes to your room. And again, I think it's a smart move. Yeah, I am. I wanted the same before the injury. So to be clear, in on the move would have done it. I was presenting the other side. I get it. I get it. I get it. All right. I want to get some more from the game. Some more takeaways, obviously, that we can talk about in the post game. But we mentioned it before. 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And it was before I got to Nashville and I was just like, yeah, Nashville is going to be awesome. And I was thinking, man, imagine if imagine if something are what happened and then like all types of plane issues. I know we're here. We made it. Hopefully everyone's all right. All right. So I have a thought from Friday. We have a Sunday we haven't discussed. So the Landon Dickerson, Drew Kendall, Cam Jergens. Yes. So rewatch the game. Don't think Jergens was the best. People made it out to be. He was not. Real quick, I thought you made a great point on Twitter that like the guy found out during the week that you're moving right. You never played the position before. He played the other side. You know, like I thought the fact he was willing to do it, I thought it was a great teammate move like he could have. There's a lot of athletes in the city that I'm a fan. I'm a center. I play center. I've been a pro ball center. Like I'm not moving. So here's where I go with this. And this is a criticism of Nick and also Chris Cooper and Sean Manion to that extent. Like if I would have said to you, you know, a few days before the Washington game, right? Who's the player you think is most likely to get hurt first? Which would be a sick question to ask. Landon Deggerson. It would have been Landon Deggerson, right? So I was at- Dark question. I was at every single training camp practice. I saw every single team rep- They never did this one. They never did it. Yeah, that's interesting. The fact that the top contingency plan you had, you did not practice at all during training camp. It almost is like he got hurt and they're like, well, what do we do? Exactly. Or, and I asked Nick this on Monday. I said, how many times do you take reps at left guard? Cause I didn't see it in training camp. And Nick basically was like, well, you can do things in walkthrough. And I think there might have been one day of walkthrough. They did it. That's not enough to prepare him in week two to put like, what would have happened if in week one, would they have moved? Like probably not, right? In week one, if mid game landed, would have left. But this is not week 10 or 11. Like you, you went into the season knowing landing could miss time. Cause by the way, we know now they knew he was more hurt. That, right? That, Eliot, that is the extra thing where it's like they knew he got rolled up on it. And you still never tried it. That's crazy. That is, Eliot, you're right. That is a crazy thing. It's unfair to Cam. It's unfair. And like, honestly, you set your team up to be less successful. And so the only thing I could think of is a couple. Oh, I guess, I guess not the only couple of things. One, they didn't want to show it in training camp, which that's what I thought about, which if that's the case, is insane. Like you've gone too far with it. If you're not going to prepare for the top contingency plan in training camp, because you don't want people to know. Also, just do it when reporters aren't there. So for training camp, we're there for all of it, other than walkthroughs. Oh, okay, so that's why they did it. So then they definitely did it in walkthroughs. But that's insane. It's insane to hide your top contingency plan. So I just, I refuse to believe that is it, right? Because I, but two, I think that's it. Here's something we might need to think about, right? I bet I would bet that's it. So I think that's a poor job by them, poor job by them. They should have planned better for this. If this was the contingency plan, you need it to practice it more in camp. And it's a failure to then go and tell Cam, like Monday, hey, guess what? You're playing left guard this week. And the fact he embraced that and did it after not practicing, I think deserves a ton of credit. Again, it is possible they did it and walked through this and told those guys, we're not showing anyone. But if something happens that, like, Cam might have known already. That's all I'm saying. And let's say that was the case. You still didn't practice it in a real way. No, I agree. I mean, you were just saying that they informed. Cam might have known he was always going to be guard if this happened. That's all I'm saying. I'm not. You know, I'm trying to give a player like, I don't know. It would be like if Jalen went down in week one and it was like, you know, like you like you, you should have been more prepared for this. Is the point I'm making. Landon, you knew Landon could miss time and it felt he did a poor job planning. So this brings to my second point. And I think since he's been hired, I've been very complimentary of him. Like I think he had an awesome training camp. I think the backup offensive lines look pretty good, blah, blah, blah. One thing we might need to consider with the offensive line not being great through two games and this like whole fumble weird thing. Like Chris Cooper was not a good offensive line coach in Minnesota. So it is possible two games in the issue. Now look, offensive line wasn't great last year, which is something you have to consider, right? Like he does not have the talent that Jeff Stoutland had. Right? So he is not coaching with the same deck of cards. But the offensive line in Minnesota was bad for Chris Cooper and the not preparing the team better for this switch. Look, it falls on Nick Top, right? And then you could argue Mania. But like it's also on the offensive line coach to say, Hey, guess what? Like, let's say in meetings, they were like, this is going to be our plan, but we don't want to show people you're Chris Cooper. You'd be like, nobody. Like we're going to put Cam at center, or I'm sorry, Cam at left guard. Like he needs to practice that. Right? So I think it's a bad look for Chris Cooper. And I also think as the season goes on, if the offensive line keeps struggling, I think Chris Cooper's resume has to be brought up. I think Chris Cooper is the most in danger of becoming the irer of this fan base if things don't get better. I'm fully with you. He's a little far down, but you're right. But I think because of the style, that's exactly what I was going to say. He is following an all-time legend in this city. The greatest offensive line coach ever, all that stuff. With you on bringing it up, I think the early returns on Chris Cooper are bad. I think it's too early, and it's too early. Yes, you're right. And the backups are good enough. It's too early, especially with a new scheme for these guys, where it is more even though they've all said, like it's different for what they're doing and how they're playing and stuff. So like, I get it. Way too early to make any full declarations. But I think you have to say, like the Chris Cooper thing has to at least raise your eye. For sure. Like he is now Manon's the new piece too. And like, again, watching the tape back, like I didn't think the offensive line was like as bad because what always happens is, you know, people go, the offensive line was bad and then it just like snowballs into, you know, is the worst offensive line. Like that's how it goes. So like it's always somewhere in the middle. But look, Jalen got pressured. I think it's closer to bad than the middle, though, for sure. You know, one side is good and one side is bad. It's close. Like I think they've been bad. Like I don't think they've been below average. I think like I would. That's the point I'm trying to make. Like I wouldn't I wouldn't say they've been below average. I'd say they've been bad. Like I think that they've actually gone that level down where they're like not just below average, like they're bad. Yeah, they've not 100 percent. I keep saying they've not played well, but that means they're bad. Like so to actually things off that one. Last night, I'm doing the Jalex Hunt show and we we asked him about the heat. And I forget the exact question because, yeah, I mean, it's the opposite of cold. That is true. That is true. The expression, so I've been saying this expression, you've probably heard me say it. Kristen and her sister said they've never heard it. So Tucker, you chime in on this one. Have you guys heard this expression? Or when I say it, are you like, what is he talking about? You ready? Like I'll go, there's a bet, I think there's a better than 0% chance of that happening. You ever heard that? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Yes, pretty common. Thank you. Very common. Thank you. They were like, they've never heard it. I think you could say it a couple of different ways, but that non-zero chance, I think that is an incredibly common phrase. And Kristen and... Who is it? Kristen and her sister? Danny. Okay, they're wrong. Danny Lee. Yeah. They're wrong. Yeah, agreed. I agree with you on that. All right. Just wanted to make sure. Yeah, no doubt. Because they were like, I've never heard it. No, that's crazy. Kristen was like, he says it all the time, but I don't know what he's talking about. What? Yeah. It's also pretty easy to figure out, right? I mean, what you mean? So her sister took it as, I was saying like, there's a 100% chance. What? Yeah. No, no, no, that's dumb. Sorry. Sorry. And Kristen's sister, I'm sure you're not dumb. That was dumb. Yeah. What are you talking about? All right. Well, I'm glad we're on the same page. All you said was better than zero. Yeah. How do you do 100 there? I forget. Crazy town. You know, it's better than zero. One and two and three and four. It's like, you know, five is yeah, it would be good. Six, too. Like if I were to say to you, we're still really far from 100. Like there's a non-zero. Yeah. I think seven would work too. Imagine if you got to eight. It's like the office scene where he's like, do you guys watch Office? Of course. How do you forget this? Don't make me turn my neck. The Jim and Dwight scene. Don't make me stay awake. Ah, damn it. Yeah. The Jim and Dwight scene where it's like talking about the chances that the world's going to end or whatever. Whatever. I'm butchering this. That's a realistic timeline. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. So what about this? I could see that. Yeah. But anyway, I think Chris Cooper probably holds some blame here. I think we got to circle back and say, you know, this might not be going well with Chris Cooper. I know. Like I say, it's not good way too early, but I agree. I think you have to like through two games. If you're looking at like, what are the potential concerns with this team? Yeah, I think you don't just say the lie, you say Chris Cooper as well. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Now, to the point, like, who knows? Like to your initial point, the talent is diminished. Like Lane, I was lending his name on the field. I mean, Drew Kendall is a six round pick from a couple of years ago. He's playing right. Yeah. You know, Tyler's scene is fine, but he's I don't think Tyler's team. He's been their best lineman. He might be the one you keep. But that doesn't even mean that Tyler's I don't think Tyler's special. Yeah, I think he's like the 12th best guard in the NFL. But the thing is, Lane Johnson and my lot have not been great. Like Lane, like Lane might like, yeah, who knows? He might not have it anymore. Like we'll see. I'm not saying he has it. Here's a question. Well, we'll do this conversation now, and then we'll really have it for weeks. Like, is this a permanent move? Like, so you're going to ask. Are you going to ask Cam to go back to center when landing gets here? Like that seems mismanaging, too. Does it say something about how they feel about landing? No, that's my point. Yeah, physically, I mean, let's say, let's say. Depends on how they look. I think if this works, they're not going to change it. It's a not a nothing decision, right? I agree. But what do you think? You come to the team around them way off. I think benching Landon is like, look, if it's a big lock. I don't think I agree. I don't think they do it unless they're awesome. Like what I'm saying is like, let's say that three more games outlanding. Let's say this clicks. Yeah. And the interior line looks awesome. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think anything short of really good, they go back to Landon and give him another shot. But like, if it's awesome, I don't know. Well, the tough thing to twofold is one, I think it's a little unfair to Cam to ask him to like yo yo back and forth. Right. So like, let's say you, let's say it is paid him. But not great for sure. But like, let's say it is awesome. And you go, you know what? It's Landon Dickerson. Like my lot is best friend. He plays next to my lot. Like, let's put him back in there. So Cam goes back to center and then Landon's not playing well. So then Cam goes back to left guard. Again, the office is like snip, snap, snip, snap. Right. It's like, you're just like yo-yo on him back and forth. Like, I don't think that's fair to him. So that is what it is though. I know. But well, even the fairness thing, I don't know if it's like a good way. I don't care about the fairness thing at all. Well, but I just care about what's best for the team. It might not be good for them. I'm just saying. That's the issue for me. But the fairness thing, I don't care about. He's paid to play as the Eagles. Well, but we think of fairness when it comes to Jalen and stuff. But he's the quarterback. My point is that you're alignment. You're the center. It's not like you're some like... Well, he's not the best center in the history of the NFL. He played guard his first year in the league. I don't think it's that crazy. Yeah. I just think it doesn't set him up to succeed. No, I agree. I agree. That's a different discussion. But fairness, I pay him to play. We'll compromise on this. I don't think it's a fair way to ask him. I think the way fans treat Jalen is unfair, but the team, I don't. I just think the way if you move Cam around all season, then we can use whatever we want. It's not helping him succeed. I don't disagree. But again, if they have to move guys around, they have to move guys around. If Landon can't play, Landon can play. I just wonder what they'll do. If Landon is benched, he's done after this year. Landon won't be back. He might be gone anyway. I mean, we'll see. I don't know. Again, I know I am impacted by being next to Landon when he talked, but I'm just telling you, he did not sound like somebody. I agree. I heard it. That was concerned about this injury. My guess is they're not going to be awesome, and Landon will get his job back and we'll see what happens. Yeah. I think that's the most likely thing. But that's the other issue of moving Cam to guard is like, so now you're putting him back and forth. So anyway, this whole thing, to be honest, it just feels like it's being mismanaged. I agree with that. I think it's been mismanaged. I don't think that moving him back and forth is as big a deal as you do. I think he has been in the league for a little while now. He has played both positions in the NFL. I think he needs time being moved to left guard. I think it was good that, you know, short we got, but I don't think, like, I think Cam, he's played guard in the NFL before he's played center. I think you're- What about the Jalen part of it? You're switching his center back and forth. I think if Jalen's okay with it, who cares? You know? Yeah. I would be shocked if Jalen's okay with it. The point was they did it. Yeah. So Jalen's okay with it enough to play the game with your Kendall and Jalen looked awesome. Or they did it despite Jalen's wishes. I doubt it. Like, I just don't see Jalen be like, I refuse to play. No, but I think Jalen could say I would prefer to keep the same center. Maybe. I don't. I mean, but they did. I don't know. I think we're making a lot of inferences here and all that. I just. Hypothetical. I. For you, moving Cam around a lot is a bigger deal than it is for me. I think it's the best way to put it. Well, I think it's probably a big deal to Cam. I don't know that it is. How do you know? Well, I might like playing guard. What if he's like, wow, I get to my guardian. This is so cool. Like, you've no idea, though. Honestly, you know, like, I don't think you are that way. You are speaking for Cam Jergens. Yeah. Now, to be fair, you know, so did he tell you? No, he didn't tell me. I'm just saying that I just can't imagine my opinion would be I can't imagine he would be thrilled about moving back and forth. That would be my opinion. Maybe someone who enjoys the variety of it. I mean, how would anybody in their own job feel that way? It depends what it is. If you're going to say, OK, you can go host for a week. It's sweet. Oh, so we can then go back and do that. OK, I like this, too. Like, it just depends on what you do like and what you do. Like, what if they ask you to do the social media videos again? It's about something I don't like. Well, that's what I mean. My point is, is do you know that Cam Juergens doesn't like playing guard to any idea on that? I do not answer that. I just I, you know, I can't imagine he enjoys it. Is my guy like, why would he? He's been an all pro center. But because he might like playing guard guard. Maybe he does. Like, it's like, look, I might be a great lineman, but if they let me play quarterback, I'd love to play quarterback. That'd be awesome. You know, I mean, like my point being that like, maybe, you know, Brandon Graham, when they brought him inside versus outside, maybe he liked being inside. Who the hell knows? You know what I mean? I'm just saying, like, I don't know for sure that Cam doesn't like playing guard. Yeah, I can't, yeah, true. I just can't imagine he was like, nice, I get to go against Jeffrey Simmons and have the Internet. That was a specific magic thing, but he's still a guy, Jeffrey Simmons at the center too. Yeah, well, it's also funny. Some of the reps people point out, like he did get beat bad by Jeffrey Simmons on one rep. It's like, yeah, man, what do you expect? It's his first game at the at the position. Yeah, so I don't know. I get your point. I just don't know that he feels that way. But yeah, I definitely agree that it doesn't feel very fluid with. Yeah, it feels like they're making it up as they go. I don't love that because they and again, they're a very well run team. So again, we're inferring and guessing. But like, it just feels like one of the situations. It's like, that was shocking. So and I don't think when you do something that's shocking, when everyone's watched you all off season, it doesn't feel like that was a well thought out plan. Sure. Yes, I agree. Again, though, like they won the game. Yeah, it wasn't like, you know, yeah, it was a good win. I just don't like to say it wasn't a well thought out plan. If it was like they might have really thought it out well and internally been ready for it and all this stuff. And just the way it was presented to the world wasn't that great. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't. It's different. Yeah, I agree. But I get your point. Like from the outside looking in, it doesn't look like. I also think where it's worth the the win has aged well, in my opinion. Like, I think the crowd of they didn't play well enough. I just firmly disagree. I agree. Like it was super hot. The offense actually was not as bad as people make it out to be. They almost 400 yards of offense. They were 11 of 18 on third down. They held the ball for almost 40 minutes. Like there were a lot of positives on offense. They were just negatives. And again, it's so early. I mean, we see all these teams around the league. Do people think that? I mean, I'm trying to think about the game. Do people think Minnesota is better than the Bears? Like they might be. They might not be. Who knows? It's way too early. Carson Wentz redemption story. The Jets almost beat the Packers. Like they brought them to overtime. They should have a fairing lens on an idiot. Yeah, I didn't follow that as closely, but it seems like they messed that up. Oh, money. Did you read? I wasn't watching, obviously, because I saw the Ryan Paganini thing. He had a chance to basically force the Packers to punt the ball back in a tie game with like 50 seconds left, a minute left, whatever. And had two timeouts and somehow ended up letting the Packers try Hail Mary. Like they never even fend the ball. It was crazy. It was really crazy because I don't want to back the defense. It was like the craziest. It's kind of crazy they kept him. Like he's obviously going to end up getting fired. I think it was just because it was one year. But yes, I agree. Yeah, he is. I don't think he has. Doesn't seem like a good head coach. No. Yeah. So but point being, like, I mean, I just think there's a lot of stuff that happens in the first few weeks of the season that that doesn't necessarily mean any. God, you're real struggling. I'm telling you, it's fine. It'll be OK. OK. Are you got anything else? I'm sure and get you out of here. Get you some rest. I'm chilling. I'm trying to think. I'm chilling. Let me turn my head. Being sore. The knucker don't make me turn my head. Well, yeah. Yeah. Tucker's neck was sore this weekend. He can relate. Well, I had a click in my neck. Not as sore as my neck. No, I just kept going like this. That's horrible. That sounded like a turn signal. My shoulder clicks when I go like this. Does it? So I can make my hand. I'm not going to make my knuckles. Yeah, I'm saying like just bite like this, right? Like I don't even need to. I only I can. Yeah, I can do it a little bit, but I don't like it's not like a fun thing. But I mean, the neck click that would that would weird me out of it. Yeah, I my whole body hurts. Have I mentioned that I'm tired? You guys know it's a complaining pod today. It is. All right. So nothing else before we get to final thoughts on it. No, I think we're good. Well, there is one other thing, Elliott, because the regular season is rolling now, buddy, in full swing and nothing beats kicking back on a Sunday to watch the game. But the weather cools down and it's cooling down. If your living room feels dry, your utility bills creeping up, you have a real problem. That's exactly right, James. You cannot ignore failing windows, especially with the raining outside. Imagine you had bad windows. 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That was really good. All right, final thoughts, my friend. Do you ever go through like phases where you're having trouble spelling a word? So there are a few words that I not like permanently, like restaurant. I can never really never never disease. It's just too like I just whatever reason can never really. So I'm a really good speller. Like I'm not like I'm not a great speller overall. I'm really good at spelling. Like Emily asked me to spell things for like I'm I consider myself a very good speller. So normally, no, I know you're saying there are just words that I always struggle with. Like what I need to think. I can never get unnecessary. That's a tough one. A lot of C's and S's. S's and C's. I think I have it. I feel pretty confident, but I agree. Do you want to try to spell it? Well, so that's the thing is I need to write them down. Like I can do it. Yes, I can try and spell it. Do you want to look up how to spell it? Well, actually, you're maybe not the one to do it. That's that's an autocorrect word. That's a word that I know if I get it, I get it. It doesn't always help you out as much as you think. Yeah, this is our unnecessary is a hard one to spell. All right. So anyway, let me finish out my thought. I'm going through a phase where I can't spell definitely. And it's so frustrating. That's a pretty easy. I know. But like, it's just I don't know what it is. Like, and I always have to autocorrect won't correct it. So I've been cutting and pasting me misspelling definitely into Google and search it and have them correct it. That is so funny. I've done it ten times in the past two weeks. Why don't you just stop using it? I don't know. Definitely can't stop. Basically, my issue with that necessarily is it two ends of the meaner one, but I think it's two. I'm going to go U N N E C E S S A R Y. Correct. Can I try to spell definitely? Boom. Let me try. So definitely I just give you a boom. That was good. Good. D E F. Yes. I N. Yep. IT. Yep. Oh, this. IT. L E Y E L Y. God, it's the word. But it's just the word definite and then LY. Like super simple. Good way to think about it. It's the only way to think about it. I feel like you really messed up the easiest part. I was in there like, is he not going to get this? I'm telling you, like, watch, I'll try to type it out right now. It's right now. You should be able to really start. Yeah. No, it's just some. I'm trying to think. Some of the EI stuff can be a little weird with certain words. I can never figure out. So rhythm, I got to try. You want to try to spell the word? Well, who knows how to spell it first? I hope people in the car are doing this along with them. Well, there's a Y in there that kind of gets you. Yeah. It's not so fun when you're the one having to spell it on the pod, is it? Mr. Oh, it's so easy. Just do definite. R-H-Y-T-H-M. R-H-Y-T-H-M. That's how I wrote it initially. I think that's correct. Yeah, that's how I wrote it initially. It's not correcting it on my phone. So, yeah, that's good. And then I was like, great, is there a second one? But I mean, I have an agreement on that one. Yeah, great. I think spell check is a problem. No, I just think it's made us worse. Oh, it have. Well, I also think it it doesn't always correct things. Do you ever do voice attacks when you can't spell something? My wife does that. No, it's a good idea. It's a good thought. Good idea. She'll be like texting and then all of a sudden I hear her say, like, unnecessary. That's pretty good. Yeah, definitely. Like you in the press box all of a sudden. Definitely. Rhythm. Ashley, what are you texting? Wait, wait. All right. Unnecessary. I'm trying to give a sentence with those three words. Unnecessary, definitely in rhythm. That definitely was an unnecessary rhythm. What a pod title that would be. That is definitely unnecessary to play that rhythm. The rhythm was definitely unnecessary there. There was a little. You don't need to there. Yeah. I don't like ending sentences with is to. Well, no one does. You're not supposed to. It's a preposition, right? Yeah. I mean, you can sometimes. But you guys remember Schoolhouse Rock? Of course. Conjunction Junction. What's your function? Pack my adjectives. I had a good computer game with that was a lot of fun. Did you? Yeah. I kind of think it's a little similar to the Magic School Bus. Sure. Yeah. I feel like they were saying there. Did you guys do Reading Rabbit? Yes, I did. That was a good one. Did you do Reading Rabbit? No. Did you have a reading rainbow guy? I was never a big guy. Take a look. No, and this is great. I just never watched it. Yeah. LeVar Burton. Yeah, again, it just wasn't my like, it was not in a reading. Yeah, it's not even a reading. Well, did you ever take computer classes? Yeah. We had like a computer lab. So do we. It's crazy thing they don't do. In middle school, we had like typing classes. Yeah. I remember doing that. I feel like they probably don't do that anymore. Like a room of being like, learn how to type, which is crazy because you probably still very much need to learn to type more than ever. I would like to first thank Shane, who reached out to me and felt me when it came to my list of 45 movies. He was like, I get it. That must be so hard if you take it seriously. Like respect. So Shane, you know, you know, I'm talking to you, buddy. Yes. I appreciate you for understanding the grind and the mental anguish about a movie. Mental. No, no, no. I'm just throwing this out there. Mental anguish that I've been going through with this 45. No, I've never met Shane either. He just reached out. Oh, okay. I thought for some reason you know, I didn't. But we did meet so many awesome people in Nashville. Shout out to the Georgia couple. Shout out to the Georgia couple. That fan that they gave me was the all time home run. The Georgia couple you're talking about is the one that was sitting in front of us. Right in front of us. They were the best. Yeah. The wife, I believe the wife should be the wife if not, was like didn't like me, started to like me after meeting me. Feels like we're friends now. So they gave me a little electric fan for the game. It was huge. Did they have? Honestly, I would have. They got it for me. They brought it to five of them. It's like I brought this for you. I was like, you are my hero. And George, a couple of as much as I appreciated when they gave it to me and ended up being like a thousand times more valuable than I ever could have thought it was. So no, I'm just I'm ready for the 45. We have figured out it'll probably be early next week. If I had to bet one will actually do the pod, you know, because it's going to be tough this week with my actual birthday on Friday. And we'll figure it out. You don't record. The 45 is coming. Well, I think we might have to record Friday 10, but to do an actual Eagles pod because I can't do Thursday. So we'll get one. Also, it actually works out well, I think, because everything's Monday. Yeah. So either way, I have. We'll get a news off the air. But yes. So do you have a final thought? So I do. I had a few I was trying to decide from, but I will give this because I meant to give this a while back. But I actually got into the US. Open in tennis for the first time in years. I've heard you talk about it on the air. I'm into Ben Shelton. We need an American man. We need him. When we were growing up, he was very patriotic of you. Yes, it is. But it's more than like we have Pete Sampras, we had Andrea Agassi, Jimmy Connors before that. And, you know, we everyone like the I mean, the whole life growing up, Serena Williams. Sure. Sure. I was talking about men. We still have their American tennis players. Well, I'm talking about we need a good American tennis player. A male. We've had women. The women have not fallen off. The men have fallen off. We've got Andy Roddick in 2003 was the last time an American male. American player right now. Got me Cocoa Golf, probably. Right. Yeah. I mean, she's still around. But the point is like American women still win majors. It has been 23 years since an American man is about to win the men's one. No, they lost. He lost in the finals. I'm just saying I was into it. It was the first time I watched like major men's tennis because. Did he make it to the finals? Yes. Yes. When did this happen? Like a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. He sucks because of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic owned the sport for so long. Like Americans just and there were no good Americans. I'm excited for American male tennis. I wonder if plus he's a lefty. Shout to Zoe. Shout Zoe. I called him Blake Shelton for a while. Turned out his name is Ben. A lot of people do that. Yes. I wonder if as many kids are playing tennis. It's possible. Bringing it back around. Yeah. It was fun to get back into tennis for the first time a long time. And I meant to do that while I was like, you know what? Tennis is a fun sport. Ben Shelton. He's got it. That's my that's my take. Here's a take. I think tennis players should wear jerseys. Oh, I like this. But their name on the I really like this. Elliott, you should have left with that. That's a frigging winner. That's a money making idea. Yes. Imagine like, you know, I was wearing another indeed. It's good for you to buy the jersey. Yo, Elliott, see that so many money. I'm happy I mentioned tennis just so you do that. Have I told you my idea for a movie about a bug? I must have. I don't know. It is funny, though, I actually I write it down and I'll do it on the next. OK, so I actually I did watch a movie on the flight out that it's funny because I was like, I actually thought about telling you about it, because I think it is such an Elliott movie. And then I purposely was like, you know what? I'm not going to. Yeah, I'm not going to screw up. Unless it was ballad while I was talking. Have you ever heard of or seen the movie Dave from 1993 with Kevin Klein and Sigourney Weaver and Ving Rhames and Ben Kingsley? Is that the one where he placed the president? Yes. Have you seen it? Yeah. My dad loves that movie. It's a wonderful movie. Wouldn't he like it? Yeah. So up his alley. He'll never watch it for a nice, like fall asleep movie. What you watch, Dave, Dave, Dave. It is. What year was it? 1993. Beautiful. Wonderful movie. Perfect. Rainy day movie. Everyone should check out Dave. It's a really good time. It's an hour and 45 minutes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Look at this. We did something here. All right. We'll be back later in the week. Turn 45. Yeah, it's happening. I get to see. I can't wait. You're better or worse. Until then, he's James.
Takes mentioned in this episode
- Philadelphia Eagles team · positive
“Shout out to like the 80 percent of the stadium that was Eagles fans... a thrilling win at the end of the day”
Hosts celebrate Eagles win and fan takeover in Nashville
- Tennessee Titans team · negative
“taking over the Titan Stadium doesn't seem that hard. We probably could have sent 5,000 of our finest”
Hosts mock Titans home crowd and fanbase
- Los Angeles Chargers team · negative
“Chargers top five embarrassing franchises”
Hosts call Chargers an embarrassing franchise with no home crowd
- Zach Ertz player · positive
“So let's talk, Zach Ertz. The legend is back... I wanted them to sign him”
Hosts excited about Zach Ertz returning to the Eagles
- New York Jets team · negative
“The Jets are absolute... The whole thing is a joke”
Hosts call the Jets a joke of a franchise
- Los Angeles Rams team · negative
“I'm not intimidated by the Rams... The Rams don't have an it factor. Like I think they might have a better roster for sure”
Host downplays Rams despite acknowledging strong roster
- Caleb Williams player · positive
“I couldn't be more in on Caleb. I love it”
Hosts love Caleb Williams despite mocking his hamstring injury display
- Ben Johnson player · negative
“I think he's a great offensive mind... but he is a smack ass man”
Bears coach Ben Johnson criticized for bold points-record talk
- Jaxson Dart player · negative
“Jackson Dart is out for a six or so... he definitely said four to six”
Discussion of Dart's injury timeline of four to six weeks
- Chicago Bears team · negative
“I mean, the Bears go from 59 points to three”
Bears offensive collapse noted ahead of Eagles matchup
- New York Giants team · neutral
“I think the Giants actually have like a bit of like chutzpah to them”
Giants showed fight against the Rams despite loss
- Arizona Cardinals team · negative
“Chargers, Cardinals, Jets, Titans, I mean, Jets”
Cardinals listed among embarrassing franchises
- Nick Sirianni player · positive
“I love the clip of him running off the field celebrating... he had an IV after the game”
Praise for Eagles coach Nick Sirianni's passion
- Jacksonville Jaguars team · neutral
“The Jaguars are a better franchise than the Jets. Full stop”
Jaguars compared favorably to Jets as a franchise
- Jameis Winston player · negative
“I mean, James Winston stinks. No, for sure. They're they're cooked”
Winston (as 'James Winston') criticized as Giants QB
- Joe Namath player · neutral
“They had Joan Namath”
Namath mentioned as Jets history (speech-to-text error)
- Minnesota Vikings team · neutral
“not if he's only scored three points against the Vikings”
Vikings referenced as Bears' opponent in low-scoring game
- Dallas Cowboys team · neutral
“I think it's intimidating to go into Dallas”
Dallas mentioned as an intimidating road environment
- Nick Foles player · neutral
“it just feels like a Nick Foles situation”
Backup QB situation compared to Nick Foles
- Tyson Bagent player · neutral
“They really like Tyson Bader... he looked awful... But he looked awesome in the preseason”
Bears backup QB Bagent (as 'Bader') discussed as likely starter
- Las Vegas Raiders team · neutral
“Did you see highlights from that Chargers Raiders game? The place was full of Raiders fans”
Raiders fans took over Chargers home game
