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06:23man philly the guys to know to fix your flow i think of everything it would take to do one
06:29of these outdoor games do i say hydraulics i don't think there's hydraulics i guess
06:35involved with it is there gone you seem like a guy that would know your way about hydraulics
06:41no not at all no hydraulics i like i think is what is the what is it that it takes to
06:46make a hockey rink in the middle of a football field it's it's it's an awesome process i would
06:53imagine i would love to be smart enough to understand yeah at least it's on the northeast
06:57this time like remember they did it at like lake tahoe and it was melting a little bit that was a
07:01huge issue hopefully tomorrow there's no issues and it's gonna be a great time and sunday well
07:05let's hope it's uh i don't give a damn about sunday let it you know let it be 70 degrees and let them
07:10melt but for tomorrow night we've got all the action with the flyers and the devils you're gonna hear it
07:15right here on 97.5 the fanatic tim saunders always brings you the color and pageantry of flyer hockey
07:22here on the station and uh timmy you're ready for the stadium series game i am i've done a few of
07:30these now but they're always kind of a unique thing and we look forward to them we're going to be
07:34on the ice today they're going to practice today at two o'clock weather permitting sunshine is the
07:40weather permitting part of that because sunshine's the real enemy of these things we found out in
07:46tahoe a few years ago uh but it's it's going to be a great setting and we're looking forward to it
07:51it's going to be a good game because it's an important game against the division rival tim where
07:55do they set you guys up and i'm sorry i'm ignorant to this where do they set you up for the broadcast
08:00and is it a incredibly unique sort of viewpoint compared to where you usually broadcast from
08:06yeah that's actually a good question in the first couple of years we were doing this they always put
08:12us in a booth you know a normal broadcast booth at benway park uh you know behind the home plate so it
08:18wasn't terribly far away the challenges in football stadiums you're really far away uh at citizens bank
08:25park uh baseball stadium we were in we were in a booth but the last couple of years they put us
08:32ice level right on the glass just inside your own blue line that was that presented its own problems
08:38in tahoe that i can talk a little bit about but uh tomorrow we're going to be up in a booth
08:44and you almost have to uh it's kind of like doing a game in the pandemic uh we'll rely on what we can
08:51see but how well we're going to be able to see we won't really know until we get to the booth tomorrow
08:56so a lot of the game you have to call off a monitor the challenge in tahoe and what a nightmare it was
09:03for a broadcaster because we were right on the cloud you know that once it gets past center ice
09:09to my right the other end of the ice i have to call it off of a monitor so i've got a monitor
09:15with a live feed set up next to me in the booth as i'm looking at our end i'm fine because i'm right
09:21you know inside blue line except that in tahoe in the first period the sun was behind our net
09:26so now i'm looking straight into the sun i can't see anything as i look to my right when play goes that
09:33way i can't see my monitor because the sun's on my monitor i faked it for a whole first period
09:39it was unbelievable it's like my ex-wife timmy um just faking it looking at uh this game it's it's
09:45very popular it's a kitschy nature you know it's different the outdoor games but it does pose
09:50problems as you talked about with the the sun and and weather permitting and all that and also the
09:54ice is never it's never good ice so do you get the sense talking to the players that they still
09:59enjoy playing the outdoor game or is it something that they kind of look at as a burden especially with
10:05the game being this magnitude being so important with the points in the playoff matchups no i don't
10:11think anybody looks at it that way unless the ice is really bad and really bad means slushy um slow
10:18uh or and the sun is again the enemy and that's what creates that uh the game at the lake weather
10:26wasn't great it was cold and rainy as you remember but even the rain isn't as big a problem as the ice
10:33melting under a hot sun i don't think that's going to be a problem so i think the temperatures
10:38tomorrow are going to be fine but the bigger challenge again for a broadcaster and i understand
10:44that you know we're the only ones that care about this is how well can we identify players
10:50based on looking at jerseys and as pat you'll remember i i can be a little reactionary maybe
10:59disagree with that timmy you're great at it not not very well you always handle things in stride
11:05so we get to the booth at heinz field in pittsburgh now we're in in glass we're in a
11:11a glass enclosed broadcast booth in a glass enclosed press box for an outdoor game away that was terrible
11:18that's terrible we're a mile away and we can't see anything and then they come out for warm-ups
11:24and i realized with the sweaters they were wearing that year we couldn't identify anybody
11:30oh no and i'm thinking how the hell am i gonna call this well luckily you had you had you had
11:36coachy with you who uh his nickname is eagle eye yeah i mean and coachy's on top of was on top of
11:40everything coachy was only worried about being able to see the popcorn at the concession
11:45but i i in in a in a weak moment i actually said on the air that whoever in our marketing department
11:54approved these jerseys should be shot and our marketing department was pretty pissed at me
11:59tim saunders joining us he'll bring you the action of the flyers and the devils and tim i love this
12:06we get to actually talk to you about a matchup that matters and i was talking about it this morning
12:12you could go nine points up on the devils for the third place playoff spot in the division
12:18with 26 games to go the math starts to work against new jersey and the islanders and everybody else
12:25this is a big game tomorrow night you're a hundred percent right and i'll throw one more caveat to that
12:31because it's even more important if you look at the wild card standing so the top three teams in each
12:36division are guaranteed a playoff spot and then the next two the best teams in the conference
12:42get the two wild card spots it's very possible that the two wild card spots are going to come from
12:47the other division sure so if you're not third or in the top three in the metro you're not making
12:54the playoffs probably so i think that blends even more importance to this game uh devils are not going
13:00to be an easy team an easy pushover but as the flyers have proved especially on the road this year
13:07they play their best hockey against good teams and often on the road so uh if they can stick to
13:13their identity their identity is create turnovers by defending well blocking shots and then they're
13:20off to the races and transition if they can do that effectively i think uh i think they'll be okay
13:26fires played by playman tim saunders with us timmy i don't think anyone expected them to play this
13:31well this season uh this quickly uh this quickly under john tortorella who's the one player that
13:36you think has benefited the most from torts being the coach that's a good question well that's all i
13:42asked him um the torts torts is famous for tough love right and at the time when you're you're the
13:50target of that tough love he's not your favorite guy in the world but smart players realize he makes
13:57them better and there are many examples of torts and that approach making guys better most recently
14:04i think a cam york the defenseman and morgan frost frost is playing his best hockey of his career
14:10he was in toronto last night so he went back home a little more than a year before or after last year
14:18when he was a healthy scratch and you know that forrest frost recognized what he's got to do to be an
14:26effective player in this league there's a foundation that you got to buy into uh what most
14:33people don't understand about torts is once you buy into that foundation he wants you making plays
14:38being created mistakes are never going to get you in trouble with john tortorella as long as it's
14:45aggressive mistakes where you're trying to make a play and you're responsible defensively first
14:51if you get that he's going to make you a better better player and he's done it time and time again
14:55tim who's the most dangerous as you sit in the three seed who's the most dangerous team behind
15:01you is it the devils could it be the islanders lurking just a point behind them uh could washington
15:05end up making a run i'm not as concerned about washington because i think they're far enough
15:11back i mean yeah there's plenty of time but i think i'd be more concerned one of the devils
15:16and the unknown is patrick was uh effect on the new york islanders the islanders are not as bad a team
15:24as the season they've had so far after the coaching change you almost always get a little
15:29bit of a bump and how long that bump continues for the islanders may dictate just how much of a threat
15:36they are tim with the march 8th trade deadline approaching as you know we talked about that
15:41nobody really expected the team to be overperforming the way they are but there is a plan in place with
15:45danny briere and keith jones to you know stay this stay the course uh do you think that there's a chance
15:51that they do end up buying at the deadline because they're they're in a playoff position
15:55buying no that doesn't mean though that they can't add pieces if the right offer or the right
16:04deal is is is made tomorrow uh you know if somebody comes calling for one of the guys on an expiring
16:11contract they're always going to base those decisions on what's going to make us better long term
16:17um they're certainly not going to go out and buy a guy on an expiring deal as a rental just to try
16:23to make the playoffs that's what i really like about the new approach of the hierarchy here is
16:29they're thinking big picture it's not just make the playoffs and we'll worry about next year and the
16:36year after later they've got a longer range view in mind right now and it's more about building this
16:43to the point where you can contend every year not just one year so i don't think they're going to
16:48change that regardless of how close they are to a playoff spot and i'm really happy that that's the
16:54case tim you do play by play for a living and i'm sure you wander from time to time you turn on your
17:00radio and you listen to things and you hear something about the flyers out there is there a
17:04misconception that you hear about whether it's a whether misconception of a player misperception of a
17:10coach that you hear that you say to yourself you're driving in your car and you go okay that's
17:13just not right and even if i say it so now i'm getting back to sometimes i'm my own worst enemy
17:21and i'm an idiot okay um last game of the season if we're at home the the plan is always we go out
17:30uh you know you guys know where the falladium is that's usually where we end up and we have a
17:35end of the year blowout party kind of and one year i was there for several hours and got to my car
17:44and uh turned on the radio i won't say what station i was listening to but some guy doing the late night
17:51shift was talking nonsense and i thought in the state that i was in that it was a good idea for me
17:58to call in and tell him how full of crap he was really stupid oh really really stupid probably
18:06good radio though probably good radio you got all jacked up on all those cokes that you were drinking
18:10uh and you were yeah it was that sugar rush that you had to call wogl and and give them what for
18:16and all they were trying to do was play you know the the hot hits of the 60s they're just they're just
18:20trying to play you know uh the hilly in the comments note to self never call in in that state
18:27of mind um and pat said you were not in that state of mind right now no he checked he checked
18:33beforehand oh yeah right he ran the audio breathalyzer on you hey everybody's got an opinion and that's
18:40the beauty of sports right nobody's opinion is necessarily a bad opinion except pats
18:46well he's just more he's wrong more often than not whatever it happens that's why i didn't get
18:52invited to the flame it's oh my gosh hey tim we're so looking forward to it tomorrow night we're going
18:57to hear the game uh right here on 97.5 the fanatic and uh it's getting it's starting to feel a little
19:02real it's starting to feel a little bit real these guys have been on me all year don't look at the
19:08standings don't look at the standings it's not about this year i have been looking at the standings
19:12since october and november i've been like totally dreaming about it potentially happening i'm excited
19:19to potentially see it happen i'll admit i didn't expect this to be where we are right now you're
19:25right we're excited about this because it's not going to change the long-term plan i think that's
19:30the right approach but this could be really fun this spring yeah you haven't you haven't got a chance
19:35to watch good hockey in quite some time timmy let's be real here so this must be exciting for you
19:40yeah it's a lot more fun doing this job when they're with yes hey tim thanks so much for
19:46your time we appreciate it okay guys there you go tim saunders joined us on the comcast business
19:51hotline where every day in business is a big day comcast business gets you ready for what's next
19:55uh and obviously the affection tim saunders has for our own pat egan comes right through the radio
20:00love love timmy to the point though of watching bad hockey and you do forget that these guys yes they're
20:06they're well compensated but it's a struggle to sit there and make a bad product sound entertaining
20:13and tim is great at it and i remember an all-time great clip a couple years ago of ironically flyers
20:21devils game of timmy and coachy just cracking each other up in the middle of the game and coachy just
20:26goes by the way you didn't miss anything and to go from to go from that right to go from that moment
20:32where the most entertaining thing was their banter not the game itself but their banter but what you
20:36have now on the air is a marked improvement and the idea too i i love hearing a guy because you know
20:43yeah and you know for a fact and you talk to these guys offline the when you talk to broadcasters of
20:49teams that travel with teams that are always out there when they tell you he sounds so excited for
20:55the future he knows because he hears things he knows what they're he knows that they are truly committed
21:01to the long-term plan and when i hear that that makes me smile more than anything because i really
21:07do i just want this to be long-term commitment to building this thing the right way and i don't
21:13want them to take shortcuts i don't want to because because when you're good in the nhl you can be good
21:17for six seven years on it if you build something right yeah you can easily put six seven years in
21:23hockey look at some of the franchises that are that are up there and i mean they've been you know
21:27tampa bay is always a cup contender and they they've done it well and they know how to draft
21:31they know how to develop and they get kucherov in the third round and brayden point i think was
21:35the second round pick and you know it's not just about hitting on your first round picks but it's
21:38just that the development and the players and scouting and all that and well-run organizations
21:42know how to do it and if the flyers can can turn that around and it looks like their path is is leading
21:48to that it's gonna go a long way in terms of getting this city excited again for flyers hockey okay when i
21:55ask you something quickly the idea of how long do you think torts wants to coach
22:02because he's still he's a very much if you've ever been if you've ever had the pleasure of being around
22:09john tortorella and i do say the pleasure uh even though he did walk off of a tv interview with me once
22:14back in the day i i love the guy and to me how long do you think he wants because he has the energy
22:21of a young man he doesn't have he doesn't i was shocked when i just looked it up he's 65 because
22:27he does not have old he does not have and there is not a single old man vibe from john tortorella as
22:33far as he he he's there he's a parent he is all for it you would never guess him for 65 but i wonder
22:41is how much he rides how how long does he ride this and i guess the youngsters playing well has to get
22:46him yeah he probably is feeling a little bit younger than dealing with some of the crap some
22:53of the crap that he's dealt with in his previous yeah previous stops but um i would probably guess
22:58that this is it and i i guess i mean like no not this year no no no that's what i'm saying is how
23:03long do you think he rides it out you know normally he's a five six year coach he is i you know you look
23:09at five five years from now he's 70 i mean he's he's uh he's him and andy reid are the same age yeah
23:15i mean i can't imagine john tortorella signed up to be the brett brown the the bridge gap coach that
23:20gets him to the hump and then get hands it over to somebody else i want you figure he's gonna see
23:25it through i want torts engraved again on that little chalice i want to see it engraved again with
23:31his name yeah considering he knocked us off from getting one back in 04 that bastard what a jerk what a
23:37jerk yeah and you hated him didn't you back then yeah you hated tortorella i mean he's one of those
23:43guys you hate until he gets in your city and then you love him i never i could probably count on one
23:48hand the amount of nhl coaches i've legitimately like hated really yeah like actually devil's coach
23:54lindy ruff i've always hated you didn't like this sour puss face never looks happy can't stand him
24:00uh and then i've talked about my my hatred of pete the boar okay wait a minute that's about it though
24:05so who are so do you tend to dislike other football coaches or basketball coaches yeah more more more
24:11more so football than basketball you just spoke about how much you despise nick nurse prior to
24:16coming yeah but like he did not like nick i did i didn't no i absolutely didn't and it's like it
24:22kind of reminded me a little bit of when the when the philly signed pedro in 09 and it was like you
24:27got so much mitt stank on you this yeah and the playoffs roll around you're like all right it's fine
24:32but but for for nba coaches not really it's more of nfl coaches for me that like okay they have my
24:38ire than anything else missoula gets on my nerves because i think he's not like accomplished enough
24:45for that job i think he's going along with the best team in the nba right now they didn't i mean
24:49they don't want him to have that job he was putting that job because because of i thought they were
24:53a sexual scandal that was a sexual scandal lapse but yeah emmy odoku decided to start sending some
24:59text messages and whatnot so you know you had to and he was dating neil long that's that's that's
25:04the dumbest fumbling of the bag i've ever seen stupid bro i mean how dumb are you it goes to the
25:09age-old adage of like take the hottest woman i'll show you somebody's like sick of her it's it's dumb
25:13like neil long is a dime what are we doing here like come on emmy i mean honestly like
25:19more to this day that pisses me off neil long she's been very good since her days on guiding light
25:26so fine specimen she's absolutely amazing yeah that's just that's just that's just dumb you're
25:32you're fine i mean he gets to let go in like september it's like all right we got we got to figure out
25:37something i think he would have gotten fired had they lost against sixers i think he absolutely would
25:41have gotten fired but you end up rallying the troops and getting to the easter conference finals
25:45like it's hard to move you move on in your first year with all the turmoil that happened try to
25:50think of other coaches that i just don't like though like bruce bocci but that's because they
25:54beat the phillies right tony la russa because they beat the phillies tony la russa is my he's a big one
25:59for me for baseball uh joe torrey always couldn't say i despise joe torrey did you really yeah i thought
26:05joe torrey was was is arguably the most overrated and then he goes to the dodgers and that that was part of
26:10the 2008 they're like oh they got joe torrey now they're gonna get over the hump no joe torrey
26:14kicked back with the dh and ate a hot dog and and watched hall of famers win them win them rings
26:18you know my shadow yeah which just brought such joy to me like i don't like i don't hate mcveigh
26:24i hate the hype yes right you shouldn't you should boy genius like he seems like every interview i see
26:31seems like a nice guy he's a great guy you know hairs well quaffed like he seems like okay i could
26:36probably hang out with him i worked for his dad but like i just it's the hype that goes into it
26:40it's the same thing like shanahan's hype and uh they're good coaches don't get me wrong but like
26:45are they overhyped what would you think his dad's like mcveigh's dad probably old school football guy
26:52intense gym rat like very intense yeah that's what i imagine because i think sean mcveigh's kind of
27:00intense i told you i said when when sean won the his dad ran the radio and tv block in atlanta when
27:09i first started in the industry great great dude and uh but he's very much sean working in working in
27:18radio and tv that same sort of just methodical you know way of going about things which is great i mean
27:24that's a it's a you know you're you're fired up i can understand i always laugh at the boy genius
27:28stuff mcveigh's been freaking awesome no he's been he's been he's got two super bowls he's got one
27:34one this past year they were expected to do absolutely nothing and they battled into a
27:38playoff there's one super bowl right i understand but he's two super bowls yeah i mean he's been
27:44nothing but he's been nothing but he's been he's been very good and you can make the case he's been
27:48very good because as less need sned f them picks honestly when they went in and they traded
27:54everything to get those super that they could get that one super bowl and i'm not saying that he
27:59didn't have a big part and he is a very very good coach but it was more to do with like do i need to
28:04be reminded that he can remember every single play yes he remembers honestly is a is a curse if
28:10anything like that's not a i wouldn't want that no as an nfl coach i would not want to be reminded of
28:16every play because when i lose a super bowl i don't want to be able to have a recall of every play
28:21that cost me a super bowl that i could have called instead yeah well i would tell you where it comes
28:25from too is that like live went to his high school and same high school and he won the last state title
28:32before one of the they did it during live's tenure there and there's a portrait of of there's a picture
28:39of sean mcveigh running into the end zone because on a fourth down he audibled on a fourth down play
28:48fourth and goal went against his head coach's call attaboy and called his own number listen when it
28:55works it works when it doesn't you're jalen hurts and aj brown getting scrutinized they called a time
29:00out and he went against alan chadwick who played for the bears our our coach is legendary and he's
29:06still coaching he could still beat your backside in his 70s just looks like he could just knock you out
29:11and sean they call time out fourth and goal like four and a half minutes to go on the state title
29:17game and they're trailing and they will not kick a field goal coach will not kick a field goal within
29:23the 25 yard line it's fourth down four down territory that's the marist way and he calls time out calls
29:30and play sean got to the line didn't like what he saw and audibled out of it love it and called his
29:36own number on a naked bootleg and went in running a football over his head and brian johnson call
29:41and plays at marist he beat out calvin johnson for player of the year his player of the year in georgia
29:46he could play he was legendary for doing it the fact the fact you beat out calvin johnson for player
29:52of the year well the thing is calvin played on crappy team sean played for marist so he had the
29:58bigger brand yeah exactly but i mean it's like when you look at guys like that is it their face is it
30:03the way they carry themselves or is it what they do to your team funny enough the nfl coach that's
30:07hated the most is probably our own because of the way he carries himself yeah probably like i i can
30:12understand why opposing fan bases cannot stand nick sir yeah i mean right now i don't like nick
30:18sirianni so i'm with him including philadelphia like i i'll tell you this in the press box divisional
30:26divisional playoff last year 2022 12 2023 january the giant game on the saturday night
30:34oh this chaps your ass and he's doing the i love this chaps your ass i love it because you hate it
30:40i can tell you i absolutely hate it so much i said it's going to come back and bite your ass but it
30:46did it though no but it's not that how is it a year later you can't say that but your ass no i didn't
30:51at the time what i just didn't like about it is nobody does this yeah i love it for that reason
30:57nobody used to do the forward pass john you know what somebody said how this is dumb we're just
31:02running we have the ability to throw it don't don't be sitting there peacocking on the sidelines
31:08like you made a great call what goes back to the super bowl because you i'll tell you what nothing
31:13yet in the nfl it doesn't you would have had a problem with it had he had won a super bowl you
31:17would have had a problem with it because the way he carries himself is unconventional but in that
31:21game you were beating their ass so bad i i mean i would have been i would have been taking my
31:26shirt off and looking like jason kelsey it was part of the character of that team yeah i didn't
31:30see him doing it this year when the giants giants who were playing for nothing i'm with you and they
31:35were are punking you i didn't see any like yeah yeah because you're losing you're not gonna do
31:42when you're losing exactly you don't then it's all the reason more why you don't have to do it
31:47when you're winning oh no you you know talk your bleep when you're winning let him know let him
31:51know what's up who in the nfl does it doesn't matter i don't care who it doesn't i mean if
31:56you're if you're beating someone's ass by 30 okay you really seriously let him know you think
32:00nick sirianni is so special that every guy who's ever coached in the nfl that they don't do that
32:05crap special no i don't care about special but if you're beating by 30 i don't mind you peacocking a
32:10little bit divisional round playoff game against a division team that a lot of people pick to come
32:14into philadelphia and beat and then you go out there and you dominate them from the opening snap
32:19yeah just like the giants dominated them this year when they were playing for nothing that's why he
32:23didn't do it if he did it it would have annoyed me had he done it this year it had he done it this
32:27year it would have pissed me off because i would be like what are you doing getting pumped up this
32:32year you're barely beating tyrod you don't think that that that gives the extra fire the giants
32:39should have mailed in the last game of the year the giants last year it doesn't matter if you gave
32:43them the extra motivation because they were the best team in the nfl for the longest period
32:47you should have you should have both raced the giants in week 17 but think about who is quarterback
32:52for the giants tyrod taylor a guy that is playing for a contract tommy devito a guy that's playing for
32:58an nfl career so like a lot of the players yeah mail it in look i mean the eagles got blown like it
33:05wasn't a good game and and all that but i don't think there was any in it i don't think there was any
33:10any talk of look what the coach did no but you don't think there was any motivation in the giants
33:16locker room to go not really let's stick it so far week 17 for the giants you think they want to
33:20stick it to sirianni that's that's absolutely i think that's it won five games i absolutely i think
33:25it's ridiculous that you stuck it to me so good that we would came out the next year won five games
33:29anytime anytime they can that they could stick it to sirianni they're gonna love to do they don't
33:35give a rat's ass about it they found out out they found out about that sirianni thing after the game
33:41that they got their ass beat by 35 they have bigger issues nick sirianni they don't care about nick
33:45sirianni i absolutely i could not disagree they want to win because it's a divisional game and they
33:49want to win because they don't want to get fired most teams when they go into the last divisional game
33:54at the even at the end of the year they literally mail it in they mail in the game yeah but a year
33:59later you think they're trying to get some revenge on the eagles and i think they can't stand nick sirianni i i
34:05think sirianni would be i'm telling you right now absolutely if you voted amongst players in the nfl
34:12if he wasn't the most hated nfl coach he'd be one of them i i don't he'd be right up until you play
34:17for him and then all the players like i don't know apparently well wait a minute i don't know about
34:21that kelsey cox and uh brandon grant all the veterans yeah exactly you heard a.j brown say good guy and
34:30he didn't say so much about brian johnson though so yeah i mean it's but i'm saying it is you it keeps
34:35i keep hearing this about all the players love him he was under fire i do think there's a disconnect
34:41between the vets and the young guys there was around four guys in that locker room that found
34:45their voice to support nick sirianni and jalen hurts was not one of them the most important guy in the
34:52locker room he was asked once he passed and then they came back to him cornered him to get him to
34:59say it again and he still wouldn't yeah but we pick and choose what we're going to take in from jalen
35:03hurts because most of the time it's a bunch of garbage but one of you want to hear something
35:06you hear something wait a minute he does not you're talking about something like that
35:09hey your coach is your coach is under fire your coaches is people are saying your coach should be
35:15fired hey jalen you're the quarterback throw him a lifeline say something nice about him say
35:21something that you like about him and he passes twice do i ever expect jalen hurts to say anything
35:26of substance i do never no i do expect him to say come on now he's being asked to say something nice
35:31about nick sirianni the guy's under fire people are saying your coach should be fired and then and
35:36you could be you can make the case that by saying i wasn't aware that this was even a conversation was
35:42ridiculous saying something that i yeah but that was the first time then the second time that they came
35:47back to him they he already knew he was made aware of it and he still wouldn't say something nice
35:52about i mean i'm not going to defend nick sirianni because i don't like him at this point but yeah
35:56we also know jalen hurts is very close to brian johnson so if that was the tension in the locker
36:00room to pick between one or the other i don't expect jalen hurts to ever pick nick sirianni i don't
36:04think you throw him under the bus and said the guy can't coach well then i mean there were a lot of
36:07other microphones could have been a lot of other opportunities for guys to be effusive in their praise
36:13hey here's a microphone say something nice about nick sirianni you didn't hear a lot of it
36:17you didn't that's going to be like the eagles.com video this year is just say something nice
36:20but yeah the training camp so we really like it he makes a mean brisket like he's easy on us in
36:25training camp yeah but why is it thrown out the door when the vets say it because because here's
36:30it the guys going out the door said it well i can see graham cox the guys that have pedigree to them
36:38okay guys that have been through a bunch of coaches and then nobody else the guys that have been through
36:42a bunch of head coaches said it and nobody else uh you're reading too much into it i think what when
36:46does jalen carter ever speak to the media jordan davis like when do you want these guys to come out
36:50and say something every player speaks to the media on the locker cleanup day they do but it
36:55goes under the radar no one even reads about it no it wasn't it was absolutely all over not every
37:00player is gonna get at like you're not gonna ask jalen carter what do you think of nick sirianni
37:04because he's a rookie you're not gonna ask jordan davis because he's in his second year you're
37:08gonna go to the vets because they've been through some stuff so i doubt that those guys were even asked
37:13about it but i i don't i didn't read too much into it honestly like the the jalen hurts thing he's so
37:18robotic that i just don't it like that's what i said for me like for me anything that guy said
37:23is in one ear and out the other it's not the first the first time that jalen hurts was asked the
37:28question i agree with both of you when he then comes back two days later and he has the opportunity
37:35he you know he's been briefed on it and he has the opportunity to say something nice and he refuses
37:40all right that's all you need to know yeah he's never given you anything no but that's that's not
37:45that's different he's the teacher from charlie brown he was called on it and said hey well
37:49the other day you passed on the opportunity you said you didn't know that nick sirianni was under
37:53fire what did you expect him to do come out and like defend him with flying colors like i didn't
37:58expect yeah say something i enjoy playing for nick sirianni i look i look forward to playing for him
38:02next year simple i i wouldn't have read into that any more than i read into what he did yeah yeah because
38:08if he came back and did a 180 from what he did the first time i would have thought it was just
38:11complete blowing smoke up our butts hey uh good job today gunner nice job bob hope you're feeling
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