Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to present some off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and T
Bob Aber.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob aber.
Speaker 3: Talking to w w L legend my guy, Tommy Tucka
right here man who you Oh, River's got Tommy's number.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: So I started, uh I three w L. There's a
sister station over there doing a morning show, a Christian Garrett.
But Tommy has always been the eight to seventy morning
show guy. And so you know, if you ever listen
to L, it's new sports and everything, so you wou'd
have like these like eight nine minute breaks at the
top of the hour for news and you know, CBA
and everything else. And so my lasting memories of Tommy
are me being in the bath room install and him
being in the stall next to me, and him just
being very complimentary as and and gassing me up as
a young radio man as we did whatever install the stall,
as we did whatever people do in the bathroom stalls.
Very good, very good early memories from Mike, like you.
Speaker 2: Talk to us through the door still, which I.
Speaker 3: Hate, which I hate, But y'all talk about me sometimes,
and so I just want to make sure, like I
know this that me and.
Speaker 2: My wife had talked about a lot.
Speaker 3: I know that everybody talks about people behind their back,
especially with your significant other, right, and but this is
nothing like it's nothing bad. I think it's the most
normal thing in the world. It's very cool. But I
never want to hear what you're saying behind my back,
like ignorance is bliss. We're cool, we're friends. How do
we enact face to face? I know you care about me.
It's all good, like, yeah, every body when you're with
your other.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I'll just let everybody in his life, no,
he talks ish about you, you don't think, Okay, okay, okay, okay,
that's cool glass okay.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so y'all, so you can't put it out
to see y'll never.
Speaker 2: Exactly that's what.
Speaker 3: But I'm just living honest. I'm just living honest out here.
I don't know all are If y'all are denying this,
you know you're lying.
Speaker 5: You know it, don't lie not on radio row.
Speaker 4: I mean, I do feel like like if all the
people in my life, like you get probably the least
amount of shade.
Speaker 3: No again, it's not even I'm not even talking about no, no,
I'm not even talking about like active like shade.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about.
Speaker 4: Just talking about people, Yeah, talking about it.
Speaker 3: But I never want to hear what's said about me.
That's why if I hear Taylor bring up my name
when I'm in the bathroom, I yell at him to stop,
because I don't want to know, Like I want Taylor
to feel comfortable, to be able to complain about me
or make a joke about how I looked fat that
day or it look stupid. I just don't want to
hear it, you know, if you're just plus. But again,
I actually hate talking in the bathroom. But Tommy was
always so nice that I accepted it. But that's why
yell at y'all at the hallway back. That's a long
explanation where I exposed a lot for no reason.
Speaker 2: But that's ah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I guess guys, all right, Hour two in the books, Jake,
are now two starting off here? Jake, how's your Felt
Tip project coming along?
Speaker 2: It's good, it's good, It's it's done. It's done. It's done.
It's done. Okay.
Speaker 3: So the goal of his felt Tip project as Jake seven,
there has never been a three P champion.
Speaker 2: Nope, nine times. I believe we've had back to back?
Is that right? Or? No? One, two, three, four, by six, seven,
eight nine? Yep?
Speaker 3: Okay nine times at back to back champions. Jake has
collated the information. What did those back to back teams
do in year number three? As the Chiefs are the
first to ever make it for a third year.
Speaker 2: Yeah they are, which is wild.
Speaker 4: So Green Bay they went super Bowl one and two,
and the year that Super Bowl three was played, they
went six seven and one and did not make the postseason.
Speaker 3: Nobody talks about the Lombardi falloff, you know, I mean,
was the guy overrated?
Speaker 2: I think that has a coach year he's beaten twelvek.
Speaker 6: Now, super Bowls beaten twelve teams go out of here, plumbers,
plumbers and electricians.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: So the Dolphins they win seven and eight in the
year super Bowl nine, it was actually the Steelers beat
the Vikings. The Dolphins when eleven and three they lost
in the divisional round. Okay, all right, So super Bowl
eleven after Pittsburgh won nine and ten and Super Bowl eleven,
the Raiders beat the Vikings thirty two to fourteen, and
Pittsburgh lost in the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 2: Okay, so again, so.
Speaker 3: The Packer's still kind of the outlier in terms of
falling off completely.
Speaker 4: Super Bowl fifteen once again the Pittsburgh Steelers, after they
won back to back thirteen and fourteen, the Raiders beat
the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I believe that was actually in New World twenty seven
to ten. Pit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Pittsburgh went nine and seven, no playoffs that year.
Speaker 3: Okay, so they went four of like six years.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, yeah, four six, which is in probably I guess,
maybe the best run we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just going let's you just do the whole page.
Speaker 4: You do the whole Yeah, it's like six and ten
or something. That's done of gonna lasted so long obviously. Alright,
So after San Francisco wins twenty three and twenty four,
they beat Sincion twenty three Denver in twenty four. Super
Bowl twenty five was actually the Giants in Buffalo, remember
when Buffalo missed the kick. So Giants won twenty to nineteen.
San Francisco fourteen and two that year, but lost in
the NFC Championship game. Shows you how hard it is, man.
So fourteen and two your back to back super Bowl
chance and the Giants breakthrough managed to beat you and
go on to win the Super Bowl. All right, So
super Bowl twenty nine, that's after the Cowboys won Super
Bowl twenty seven against the Bills in twenty eight against
the Bills, got poor Bills, so in that in that
Super Bowl twenty nine, it was the forty nine Ers
forty nine to twenty six over my bush League Bolts,
the only time the Chargers ever made the Super Bowl.
That year, Dallas went twelve and four and lost to
San France in the NFC champions So that's the.
Speaker 3: Ninety four I read a very interesting anecdote this morning
about that was tied into the the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Front office moves.
Speaker 3: That's when free agency was new, and that was when
the Niners went all in. They added Richard Dent, they
added Ricky Jackson, they had Dion I believe, yes, they
added Dion as well. And they they drafted it, said
Bryant Young.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 3: They they drafted Bright. But whatever, the point is, like
Sam Ferd was like Okay, this AGC thing is new.
We gonna open up the check book because yeah, good
they get and they charged past the Cowboys. How depressing
is this? So the Eagles made three Super Bowls of War.
They the first team. Well I guess the bills bills
made for Bill row we didn't get one.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that that bo that's gotta pain you.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: So then we have the Patriots only did this once,
which again is shocking. So the Patriots Waitroncos skipped Broncos.
Oh yeah, Super Bowl thirty four? How could I skip
that one? That was the Rams Titans?
Speaker 2: That was that that game? That was the one who
was in Atlanta?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was twenty three sixteen. They get stopped
on the one yard line. And that's after Denver won
thirty two and thirty three. So in thirty two they
beat Green Bay and thirty three they beat the Dirty
Birds and the Falcons. You're probably a Dirty Bird fan
at that point, though.
Speaker 2: Yes I was. I was. I was a big Falcons
fan at the time.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget the NFC Championship where it's a fifteen
and one Vikings team with Randall Cunningham, Chris Carter and
Randy Moss and Gary Anderson.
Speaker 2: Was perfect on the year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and then missed the game winning kick and
Morton Anderson shout out to the legend. Uh not when
he got the opportunity and he sent the Falcons to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: But that's when the.
Speaker 3: Cow or the Broncos underdog's year one against the Packers,
big upset. Then they come back the next year and
lay finally has his Super Bowl MVP. He dominates the game,
he rides off into the sunset, and Bubby Brister.
Speaker 4: Couldn't bring him back to next year. No, they were
six and ten, Yeah, six and ten. No playoffs for
the Denver Broncos at fourteen and two. Yeah, after winning
back to back Super Bowls. Oof, Now we're on the Patriots.
Now we're on the Patriots. They went super Bowl thirty eight,
thirty two to twenty nine over the Panthers in twenty four,
twenty one, super Bowl thirty nine over a member Is
it the.
Speaker 3: To one when he came back from the highest Yeah,
went yeah, okay, Andy Reid early super Bowl for Reid
there yeah.
Speaker 4: So and that year super Bowl forty it was the
Steelers over the Seahawks twenty one to ten, very boring
super Bowl. But the Patriots that year went ten and
six and lost in the divisional round.
Speaker 2: So that would that.
Speaker 5: Have been when Brady hurt his knee.
Speaker 2: I feel like ten.
Speaker 4: Six was maybe with the year he heard his name
was my rookie year, so that was two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: The Stealers beat the Cardinals that year.
Speaker 4: And then of course we are here Kansas City, winners
of Super Bowl fifty seven and fifty eight, thirty eight,
thirty five over Philly and then twenty five to twenty
two over San Francisco, and they are going for a
third straight Super Bowl and like you said, see the
only team to make it to this point.
Speaker 2: Looking to be the first to ever do it.
Speaker 3: So history on the line this week in New Orleans,
all right. I also, though I know that we rarely
talk about I know that we rarely talk about the
NBA on the show, especially because the Pelicans have been
so god awful this year as to barely warrant any
coverage whatsoever. But this Luka don chis trade. And there
is a New Orleans TI here because it's got a
d involved a bit, But this Luka don Chid trade, Jake,
I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. Yeah, how it happened?
Speaker 4: Who had in the middle of the night evolves and
just out of nowhere area.
Speaker 3: I mean, a twenty five year old who is a
five time first team All NBA member traded for an
oft injured thirty one year old who is still awesome
but appears to be past his front. Rarely do you
see a team, I know of teams moving on from
aging superstars. I have never seen a team move on
from a current budding young superstar that's only getting better
and that it's fresh off of an NBA Finals appearance
like it wasn't like like this isn't like a situation
where let's say it's Ad with the Pelicans, where you
know he's awesome, but the wins just aren't there. The
wins can't get there. You were in the finals last
year because of Luka Doncic, and you trade him and
you don't get much in return. You get ad Max
Christy and one first round pick. They give those teams
out like can in.
Speaker 5: The NBA, and you only got one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you give up Lukadancic, who again isn't
just a great player, he's young all that, but also
like the heart and soul of the franchise, in the
city of the team, I've never seen anything like it,
and the GM what he said about it afterwards, he
is very much challenging Lukadancic, Like he basically told him,
we didn't want to give you the super Max. We
don't trust you. We'd rather move on and go to
a D who again is always injured as.
Speaker 2: Well, like literally always this.
Speaker 4: I mean, sure, there can be a beef and there
can be you know, disappointment from front office and a.
Speaker 2: Player, but it's it's a Luca.
Speaker 4: You don't think that if you open that up and
made that a story of hey, he's available, that you
could have gotten more than a D A bench player
and a first round pick that's probably not going to
be that great anyway. It's gonna be like twenty something
and you're gonna get some guard from Saint Mary's. Like
why not open it up? Like they said, this is
the only team they talked with. What I know, like,
if you open that up, you're gonna have great offers.
Speaker 3: Really high on ad Here's what Nico Harrison.
Speaker 2: These are a few quotes on a read.
Speaker 3: Here's what Nico Harrison had to say about the trade, quote,
as we turn the page, I think it's important to
know that Jason Kidd and I we've had a vision.
And by the way, the context here, Kid was also
told in the eleventh.
Speaker 2: Hour about this trade. He's putting on a brave face.
Speaker 3: But I don't know that I would appreciate if I
was Kid being kind of lumped into this. But as
we turned the page, I think it's important to the
James Kid and I we had a vision and the
culture that we want to create since we've been here.
The players that we're bringing in we believe exemplify that.
We think defense wins championships, and we're bringing in one
of the best two way players in the league. So
already there again, you were just in the championship, and
beyond that, you're saying that, yeah, we don't think Luca's
good enough defensively to be able to your challenge him
in that way. He goes on to say, quote, well,
let's be clear, I'm the one making the decision and
kids supportive of it. So it's me. And here's what
he gets really confident. He says, I don't do anything
that's scary I think everything that we do we put
a lot of work into. We study it, and we
restudy it, and we go back. I understand the magnitude
of it. The easiest thing for me to do is
to do nothing, and everyone would praise me for doing nothing,
but really we believe in it, and time will tell
if I'm right. I mean, so here, you've traded Luka
Doncic and you have publicly told him it's because we
don't trust him, we don't think he's good enough. And
I'm betting my career on the fact that I'm out.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is some.
Speaker 3: Jerry Krause from Last Dance level of self involvement from
Nico here.
Speaker 4: Oh he better hope that's like that they make a
run at least one.
Speaker 2: They gotta get one.
Speaker 3: If they don't get a ring, this will go down
as maybe the worst trade of all time.
Speaker 4: I mean minimum, They got to get back to the finals,
it feels like, and they don't feel like a finals
team right now. They were just there. I don't know
how you justified it. It's gonna be incredibly hard to do,
so I don't think they get it done. And poor
Jason kid, you could tell he got told in the
eleventh I mean he might have gone to the twelfth hour. Yeah,
driving got told in the eleventh hour. He looked upset.
He tried to put on, like you said, a brave face,
but you could tell its written all over his face.
You just got rid of a generational player. For a
thirty two year old, it's always hurt.
Speaker 3: And apparently it's because the Mavericks were worried about giving
Doncic the Supermax, citing conditioning concerns. And then you go
into the rumor MILLI step lower and they're talking about
him drinking beer before games and maybe they smoking a
couple of darts and heaters. But guys, guess what, he's European.
Okay here in European.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta let him do what.
Speaker 5: He's gonna do.
Speaker 3: Also, beyond that, what do you think Michael was doing
back in the day, I mean, famous for his partying ways,
smoking cigars before the games like this, this is overthinking
it to the point of being dumb in my opinion. Also, Jake,
you want to talk about motivating Luka Doncic, so he
would have been eligible for a five year, three hundred
and forty five million dollars.
Speaker 5: Supermax from Dallas three forty five.
Speaker 3: Now due to this trade, five years two twenty nine
is the max that he can get, which I mean, again, guys,
only two twenty nine. I get it, stupid right either way,
but they literally took over one hundred million dollars out
of his pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by making this move. Yeah, and I don't care
how much money you got, you gonna feel that one. Yeah,
Like that's gonna sting.
Speaker 3: I mean, if nothing else, for a competitor like that
at the most elite level, it's gonna piss you off
and make you very motivated to prove them wrong. Is
if you already weren't incredibly motivated.
Speaker 4: And now we got to watch the Lakers probably go
out there and thrive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, for the Lebron conspiracy theorists, this has
gotta be the most fertile ground that you could possibly imagine, right,
the NBA trying to keep the Lakers relevant, trying to
keep Lebron relevant. Where's David Stern when you need him
to veto a trade? Come on, David, that only happens here.
Come out of retirement.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But uh, I've just I've never seen I've never seen
anything like it, and again it better pay off. It
better pay off that first round pick two? Is it
until twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, David Stern's passed away, so he can't come out
of retirement.
Speaker 3: But somebody did, Uh, well come out of hell then
whatever heaven, whatever Hell's a will aggressive.
Speaker 2: That's that seems really agressive.
Speaker 5: David Stern always reminded me of John Lovett's.
Speaker 3: He did have a John Lovitz. They were always one
and the same to me. Oh, that's a good point
by Nookie too.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: The two hundred and twenty nine million comes with thirteen
percent state tax, which he had not which he would
not have had on the three that so even so yeah,
so again got the number knockdown and has the Cali
taxes versus Texas.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable trade.
Speaker 4: You just pulled, like poor David Stern, like you major league,
you know, the first one when they're putting the spring
training roster together and it's.
Speaker 2: Like this guy here's dead. He's like, we'll cross him
off there. You just did that to David Stern.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my fav that.
Speaker 2: That's Uh.
Speaker 3: I saw a very funny gift of some anime where
there's some demons walking out of the flames, and it's
like David Stern coming out of hell to to deny
the trade. I didn't realize who's actually dead, so recipes
David thurn Man. Yeah, I don't really have much say
about you, but you know, you look like John Lovetz
to me. And I find anybody who looks like John
Lovitz or gives me a John Lovetz vibe, I find
that that makes me happy. Who does it like John
lovettz uh Yeah, So shout out to the Lakers out
what a coup. It is weird though, to close this
with a little bit of a New Orleans twist, Jake,
I think this is really done by the Mavericks. But
at the same time, it does make me question how
in the hell is Dallas willing to make a move
like this and you still have Brandon Ingram on your team,
and you still have Zion Williamson on team like It
makes your inaction look even crazier, even if this is an.
Speaker 2: Absurd move from Dallas.
Speaker 4: And the Spurs made a move too, and that was
one of the landing spots for Bi yep, And so
now that's not even really going to be on the
table because they got their guard fox from from Sacramento,
and so that was probably one of your better options
as far as a trade partner.
Speaker 2: And so that's gone.
Speaker 4: So not only are you sitting on your player, other
teams around you are making moves for a player that
you know probably could.
Speaker 2: Have found himself in San Antonio. So yeah, it's bad
on all fronts.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's give the guys back home a chance real quick. Taylor,
you first, I see your comment here in the YouTube chat.
Bring it on air. You've done some math about the
durability of Ad and Luca.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, the MAVs are talking about, oh,
we're concerned about Luca's conditioning, which I think is a
load of crap.
Speaker 2: I think they made that up.
Speaker 7: Luka Doncic has played in eighty one percent of his games.
Anthony Davis only played in seventy six of his games,
and he's six years older. So if you're worried about
conditioning there, you just took multiple steps back. Also, you
were talking about Jason Kidd being in the dark. Nico Harrison,
a report came out. He went to the majority owner
of the Mavericks sent out this trade idea to him.
Speaker 2: The owner laughed in his face.
Speaker 7: He went behind the owner's back, made this trade anyway,
as well as keeping Jason Kidd in the dark. He
put his entire career on the line for this move.
Speaker 3: Bro Nico Harrison believes in some Nico Harrison that's insane. Uh.
And then Elandra, I'll open it up to you, as
the Spurs essentially get de Aaron Fox for nothing. You now, Wimby,
you pair him with Fox. How are we feeling in
Spurs Country?
Speaker 2: Alandra?
Speaker 8: So over here in Spurs Country, we're feeling great. We
got out of this trade deadline pretty much unscathed. Then
I would say we won the trade dead light. Well,
I guess obviously the Lakers did, but like it just
outside of the Lakers. Yes, we won this trade deadline,
but I think it's the the dumbest move that I've
ever seen in my life to trade Luca for uh
street clothes.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're sitting here talking about how you know,
if nothing else, you just got to keep Zion and
just live or die with him because you don't want
him to go to another team and have that meteoric rise.
And they had somebody who's infinitely better than Zion and
they just gave him up for one first round pick.
Speaker 4: An aging player, a bench player in a first round
pick is wild. And I mean Luca. They also gave
another player back to the Lakers. And it wasn't just Luca.
I mean, hmm.
Speaker 7: They gave up. So they gave up MARKI. They gave
up Markis Morris and Maxi Kleeber and guys. Maxie Kleeber
is not a slouch like he is a solid post player.
Speaker 5: And the Lakers and needed a solid.
Speaker 7: Post player when they got rid of Anthony Davis, like
they they dominated the street.
Speaker 3: It's it's, it's, it's it's it's honestly again, how it
happened middle of the night, the everybody thinking that Shams
had gotten hacked.
Speaker 2: Everybody shocked.
Speaker 3: There's like videos of NBA players reacting on the bench like.
Speaker 4: What like they had their phones out on the bench,
like the Suns had their phones out.
Speaker 3: Look man like people hate cigarettes, you know, especially I
guess if you're an NBA player, insane insane move very interested.
Oh and yeah, Luca, think Dallas, ad think la A.
D is still not think New Orleans, nor will he ever,
So you might as well stop hoping for anyway, crazy
crazy NBA tread dune.
Speaker 2: But when we get.
Speaker 3: Back, we got some local LSU new some big recruits
coming in.
Speaker 5: Also, we're gonna talk to Brits.
Speaker 3: Kubina, beat writer from the Athletic for the Philadelphia Eagles
coming up here in a little bit, get some Eagles insight,
and we're gonna send Jake off to his Super Bowl
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Super Bowl. We got Brooks here. But real quick, massive news, guys.
The bear Att Sports Media Top ten just came out
and the boys and girls have moved on up Dune
from number nine to number seven in the entire country.
That's right, the seventh ra eight con mid market local
morning sports talk show in the country. Like I said,
I'm very happy with the work that Taylor in Alan
to do. I think it's the best place that the
show's been at thus far, and so I'm glad to
see some outside validation. But if you're watching online right now,
you have no longer say about Jake. I'm sitting by
a name you probably remember from back in the day,
Brooks Chabina, now covering the Philadelphia Eagles for the Athletic.
Of course, Brooks was a LSU beat writer back in
the day, and you know, following in the footsteps of
Ross and all these other guys who go on to bigger,
better and greater things. Also very jacked right now, Brooks. Look,
so you've been hitting the chip Man. You look great.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: This is actually a response to coming in last night
and I went too hard with the po boy and
had three beers, and I remember why I lost ten
pounds when I left Yews Hannah.
Speaker 5: So I just ran three miles.
Speaker 3: Oh, let's go dose. You got the endorphins pumping, all
got it?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 9: And I broke something on Hester's headphones. So I don't
know my own strength. I'm already messing everything up.
Speaker 3: So okay, wait, so real quick, before we get into
the Eagles, take me take me through your years after
you left l s U, because you were with Houston
for a.
Speaker 9: While, rightyeah, yeah, yeah. I went to the Houston Chronicle
to cover the Texans.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that was right at the beginning of their rebuild.
Speaker 9: Uh, the all the allegations and stuff coming out against
Deshaan Watson, that whole saga. I stepped into that and
covered that year and they they went one. I'm done
with David Cully went one. I'm done with Lovey Smith.
I didn't cover really that many wins in my time
in Houston, so I think, you know the Super Bowl.
So last year I joined the Athletic cover the Eagles,
and as soon as I joined the beat, they tank,
you know, so all the people like, it's you, it's you,
And now they're in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So, oh goodly, you've been freed. That's right.
Speaker 3: What so you also covered a pretty crazy time with
the LSU Beat. What's the wildest beat that you've covered?
LSU is still still still just drama.
Speaker 9: I mean it, the highs and the lows every day,
you know, waking up at five am, wondering what's going
to be in the email sheet from you know, whatever
situation might be there. And then I mean the national Championship.
I was thinking about this because you know, five years ago, Yeah,
they won the national championship here in New Orleans and
the morning of that dreadful eight am press conference that's
after whoever does that needs to you know.
Speaker 5: Not do that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, awful, awful, but they won the national championship, which
is the highest of how you can get.
Speaker 5: But also Odell Beckham had been hanging handing out.
Speaker 9: Cash on the field, you know, the wide range of
things you have to cover. I remember calling somebody that
morning at LSU and be like, hey, congratulations.
Speaker 5: I did not think i'd be talk what happened? This
is my job. I was like, dude, I do not
want to bring the mood down, but what happened with this?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: But now, like you said, with the Eagles winner, and
so in our one, we laid out uh just kind
of you know, are our service level narratives and storylines
that we're playing with week and with the Eagles, so
much of it is tied into kind of Jalen Hurts,
Nick Sirianni, two guys who shouldn't need validation, but for
whatever reason, beat a high level of expectation. They a
lot of people still view them as needing to win
the big One to get there. As somebody who covers
his team intimately. What are your main storylines about this
team that are most interesting going into this week?
Speaker 9: Well, the number one is the greatest running back the
Eagles I've ever had. Saquon Barkley comes in and everybody
probably saw the Hard Knocks interview and everything about how
he left the New York Giants, a team that never
gave him the guaranteed money and the contract of long
term security that he has been chasing the whole time.
Speaker 5: He joins the Eagles.
Speaker 9: And I was talking to Howie Roseman, the general manager
of the Eagles, on Saturday, Nastimath if that was the
single most influential signing he ever had in his tenure.
He's been with the Eagles since two thousand, in various
different roles. Yeah, he wouldn't put it that way, but
you look at how the offense runs, and it runs
through Saquon Barkley. They are running the ball more per
game since nineteen seventy eight with this Eagles team, and
you got to look at everything through what they're.
Speaker 2: Doing through nineteen seventy. It used to be nineteen fifty. Damn.
Speaker 9: But the last game of the season, Jalen Hurts gets through. Yeah,
so that actually bumped them up to nineteen seventy. But
that's the main storyline. Saquon Barkley's influence on the offense
and also his influence on a very young team. You
look on the defensive side, that was something that they
were very They struggled so much on defense last year,
giving up explosive passes, all those things. They go into
the draft and you look at what the Eagles have
done as a personnel department. They went on a heater
in terms of what they sign earlier the you know,
drafting Quinnion Mitchell in the first round, trading up to
get Cooper Dejane in the second round. Both of them
are Rookie of the Year candidates. We'll see who wins
this week. But Barkley's influence there is being this person
who you know comes in with his ara already. And
I was talking to Lane Johnson, the right tackle who's
been around for one of the long time.
Speaker 5: Now he is and he's like it usually.
Speaker 9: Takes a while for a guy to jump in and
earn his stripes and how to use his voice, and
but with Barkley was immediate. And this is an organization
that likes to get young players in and have a
mentor prepared. You see, like Jalen Carter on the interior.
He had Fletcher Cox last year.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 9: But Barkley being there this year also helps those things.
So that's one main narrative and the other is Nick
Sirianni last year the biggest collapse that I can remember.
Speaker 3: In terms, I mean, these have been the two best
teams the NFL for two point seventy five seasons. Yes,
like a piece, like without the Eagles collapse. Yes, they're
they're They're as dynastic olmost as is run by the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But it just all inexplicably blew up. Yeah.
Speaker 9: But Philadelphia fans, they remind me a lot of LSU fans.
Speaker 5: People said, you're not ready for Philadelphia. It's like, well,
you know, it's kind of similar.
Speaker 9: You know, they live breathed diet, you know, it's it's everything.
So whenever things went wrong in Philly last year and
they go one and six to end the year, and
you know, the organization is trying to say, well, you know,
we made the playoffs. We like a lot of these things.
Philly wasn't having it. Yeah, like, yeah, get Nick Sirianni
out of here. We want to start over here. And
I mean you see in the offseason. I mean, he
has the highest win percentage in terms of win percentage
amongst coaches in Eagles history, and for him to be
fired last year would have been huge. But a lot
of people were calling for his head inside the city,
and he overhauled his staff. Yeah, fired his offensive coordinator,
defensive coordinator, made two new hires, Kellen Moore, who's up
for the Saints job yep, and Vic Fangio, who's now
in his seventh time as a defensive coordinator. I asked
him if he wanted to be a head coach again,
which I think he probably could if he tried, but
he said he's he's from the Eagles Philadelphia area. He's
reached him. He's sixty six years old. He started his
career here in New Orleans, which is another storyline. But Siriana,
what he's done to get back to the Super Bowl,
amongst a lot of the vitriol that fans had in
Philly against him for the collapse last year and wondering
what he does quote unquote because he's not a play caller.
He removed himself to more of a CEO type role
and that comes with a lot of questions, and it
comes down to who do you hire, how do you
manage your team? Are the game plans sound? And there's
no question that was successful this year. So he's put
himself back on the mountain top.
Speaker 3: And something else that we talked about was, I've found
some in the athletic I've found some great numbers on
offseason editions. And how unreal it is the Eagles adding
not one, but two First Team All Pro players in
Saquon Barley and Zach Bond. It's like, apparently only since
nineteen seventy only like fourteen teams have even had added
one the other team ninety teams have not, and the
Eagles added two. And what about Zach Bond, because that's
kind of the New Orleans angle to me, Here's you
had that guy in there. He's talking about rolling up
to herk crying in the parking. Absolutely miserable and now
he's first team All Pro. What is he said about
his transition to Philly.
Speaker 5: I think he's tired of me asking about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Zach Bond's been a fun story to be around
every week. And I did a sort whenever they played
here against the Saints in Week three. I think it
was I talked to him about that because he was
an edge rusher, came in. I kind of had everybody
in this area knows what Bond was with the Saints,
and he in the off season, the Eagles were looking
for somebody to fit kind of that mold on the edge,
someone that could fulfill that because they've That's a whole
other story about how they're managing the edge.
Speaker 5: But Vic Fangio.
Speaker 9: Receives film from Howie Roseman and says, hey, I like,
I like Zach Bond kind of on the edge. Maybe
a guy who can shift around and use as a
gadget guy.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 9: And he's like, I see him as an inside linebacker.
All right, Uh, well, okay, let's see what happens. And
he goes into the off season and he puts him there,
and even Bond had questions, Yeah, when do I get
to rush. You know, He's asking, Okay, this is cool,
and I'm like, I like how I'm playing in here,
but like when do I get to go out?
Speaker 2: Like most natural role was going to be.
Speaker 9: And he was talking to HOWI Roseman. They were like
at that time, like he thought his ceiling might be
be the best special teams player that they have. And
to understand why this is such an opportunity that he
fulfilled was that the Eagles historically have not really valued
the linebacker position monetarily. Well, yeah, a lot of the
problems last year originated from letting two linebackers walk from
the Super Bowl team two years ago, and they played
really poorly with the replacements that they had last year.
So Bond coming through in that way. They signed Devin
White in the offseason last year. Yep, so name people
remember from LSU here and people thought, including me, that
Devin White was gonna be the inside starting inside linebacker.
But Bond played so well that he beat out and
it just started like that. That ball just he ended
Devin White's a resurgency campaign and to the point where
White actually went to the Eagles and said, look, I
know I'm not going to play I'd like an opportunity
to go on somewhere else and get a shot.
Speaker 5: So that was ama cool.
Speaker 9: He gets released Week four and Bond's now a Defensive
Player of the Year candidate and he can't believe it,
and how he can't believe it, not anybody and what
he's been able to do here.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be interesting because he's on a one year deal.
Speaker 9: Yep, oh I didn't realize that. Yeah, so now the
Eagles have to decide pay him. It's funny. Uh, Jason Kelcey,
everybody knows jas kelsey is. He has a show on
Friday nights that's in Philly, and Howie Roseman attended it
and they talked about Zach Bond and he made the
joke Roseman did that's like, oh, we didn't you know?
Speaker 5: Did you expect this?
Speaker 9: And he used the word I can't say in there,
and he's like, I hope you remember that whenever your
contract comes up, we're gonna do it again. So well,
Bond knows that he got his opportunity in Philly. He's
playing well because he's playing under Fanjioe, who's not you know,
he's saying he's staying so he might decide to, you know,
instead of pursue this large contract with somewhere else, like
he'll still get his money, yeah, yeah, get paid, but.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not like min max it, but maybe take
a little bit of a discount to stay with the
team that launched him into the stratus.
Speaker 9: And that's one of the interesting things about what the
Eagles do as an organization. Look at the offseason moves
they made. They re signed aj Brown, Devonte smith, Landon Dickerson,
and Jordan Mylatta on contracts at the time that were
max deals, and then within months they reset the market.
And now those are the fifth, the sixth, the seventh
ranked players.
Speaker 2: So they get ahead. They got in.
Speaker 3: They got in on value when the value was good
before the price got driven it driven up even more.
Speaker 9: If anybody's a Cowboys fan in this regions, like the opposite,
you know, set the market.
Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts was like two years.
Speaker 9: Ago the highest paid quarterback in NFL history for all
but a minute. Yeah, and then every now he's like
the seventh or something like that. So they get ahead
on it. I'm sure they'll do the same with Pond.
All Right, Brooks last one to give about thirty seconds
here read on who wins or how you maybe think
this thing plays out.
Speaker 5: I think the Eagles win.
Speaker 9: Watching the Chiefs this year, it's they they They're so
savvy in terms of how a game plays out. Yeah,
there have been moments where defense is like the Texans
in the divisional round, where they get turnovers but they
don't capitalize. I was like, if the Texans had any
breath of life on offense, they might have been able
to upset the Chiefs. The way the Eagles play, they
leverage their offensive run game against this top ranked defense
has got a bunch of turnovers. And to understand why
that's important, Jalen Hurts has stepped into a more conservative
role in the pocket. He's taking more sacks because he's
not throwing the ball. He's not chucking, and he knows
that if he doesn't turn the ball over and they punt,
chances are they're going to be able to get a
stop on defense.
Speaker 5: So I think that.
Speaker 9: Style of play, they're going to capitalize on anything they
get out of the Chiefs, who have been turning the
ball over at times. They'll be in a position at
the end of the game where I think they might
be up by eight or nine and mahomes can't kill
you that way.
Speaker 3: So I think that's how this goes exactly well. Brooks,
thank you so much man. Again, guys, if you don't
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Speaker 3: All right, guys, look, I'm gonna give you all heads up.
I screwed this hour up, Okay, so we're gonna have
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I can hear Moscona grinding its teeth all the way
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see where everybody else falls. Also shout out to Brooks.
Great catching up with him, very funny. So that sentiment
about the LSU beat is something that I've heard from Brooks,
Brody Ross, like everybody who's gone on to these big
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what can we do the very quick here, Let's continue
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Speaker 2: Who's gone paston?
Speaker 3: Kling gone after frustrating off with the season Pacticleling no
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Now Stanfield seems like the name here. He's transferring him
from Auburn. Last year he was Auburg's primary center fielder
fifty one starts to his laying led Auburn in multi
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scored n SEC play. It's funny against LSU. You know
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is a true freshman Stanfield gets two hits off of Skeins.
In twenty twenty four, he had a three hit game
in the box. He's very good defensively. Now he's not
the only name there because, like I said, Jake Brown
pretty solid as a freshman, strong fall. He's in play.
Derek Curiel will have some opportunity as well. For what
it's worth. Hunt's final take is that look he likes
Curiel and left Stanfield and center and then right field
being some combination of Brown, Larson, Pearson, fry Beck. Like
to see who ends up winning that job. But again,
Stanfield's name to look at here, and you gotta wonder
can j Johnson, the development god do something akin to
what we've seen him do with other players that transfer
in and bring their game to the next level, probably
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you can even look at a guy like Tommy White
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Speaker 2: Cut her off.
Speaker 3: All very true, But I would like to point out
that I am equal opportunity in my cutting off of people.
Speaker 5: Do I suck up all the air in the room. Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Do I sit there and just spew and yell and interrupt, Yes,
Unfortunately I do, and I need to be better out
of it. Sometimes, like this hour, I just get too excited.
But just no, I cut off everybody, right, even Jake,
So it's not just Magelandra Okay, we had a ton
still to get to on today's show. If our phones work,
I'm hoping to catch up with Hold the Mayo next hour.
We've got weekend winners to start and there's a lot
to get today. We still got our TATA NFL Story
of the Day day and uh, by the way, I know, guys,
Jake did not quit. If you want to catch Jake,
he is going to be on super Bowl Radio. I
think I said it's serious xem one oh six and
that's gonna be nine to twelve. I'm gonna go over
there at ten fifteen go hop on with him and
then he of course he has off campus in the
afternoon as well. But I don't think this is going
to be Taytay's INNFL Story of the Day day. But
it looks like Justin Tucker is now up to nine
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Tucker with the vehement denial and I get it. But
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grouping there. Jake devastated they didn't make the top five
camp Better face anyone, dude, so competive, true, true, too gritty.
Speaker 2: To be pretty.
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Speaker 5: All right, Hour two is in the books again.
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