00:00It is not an easy task to ask a team to repeat
00:03because there are so many good teams out there.
00:06If you're a Philadelphia Eagle fan,
00:08I do think you have to come into this season.
00:11Look, be cocky, be arrogant.
00:12You guys are defending champs.
00:13I respect that.
00:15We're going to find out how good your kind of revamped defense is.
00:18We're going to find out just how good.
00:19And now I think it's fair to say getting older,
00:22not old, but getting older offensive line is.
00:25I think it's fair to ask the question,
00:27can Saquon Barkley come close to replicating last year?
00:31Nobody ever has.
00:33So we'll find out what Saquon brings to the table.
00:35Obviously, you got the great quarterback in Jaron Hurts,
00:37most disrespected quarterback for my money in all of football.
00:41He's a top five quarterback, no matter how you slice it.
00:44And you've got arguably, not maybe the best wide receiving duo,
00:48but a top five there too.
00:50So they've got all the tools to come back and repeat.
00:53The problem is your schedule.
00:55If you guys could put up the schedule, thank you right there.
00:58You know, outside of Dallas and the New York Giants,
01:01when you get to what's that week six, right?
01:03Yeah.
01:04Playoff team, playoff team, playoff team, playoff team.
01:07Yep.
01:08So the Eagles could win every one of those games.
01:10I'm not saying they can't,
01:11but there's also the possibility
01:13that if the Eagles kind of fall into that syndrome
01:17of champions resting on their laurels,
01:20not do all the little things that you needed to do
01:23to become a champion, and I'm not, I want to be clear,
01:26I'm not saying it's going to happen,
01:27but if I'm an Eagle fan,
01:29the first month and a half concerns me
01:31because I could play really good football
01:34and I could be one and four going into the Giant game.
01:39Now, when you have Giants twice in three weeks,
01:41Minnesota's in between there with extra rest
01:43off the Thursday night game against the Giants,
01:46I think they'll right the ship quickly,
01:48but if you're an Eagle fan,
01:50you've got to come out of the gate
01:51where they win tonight.
01:53You have to.
01:54Because if you lose tonight,
01:55now you've got Kansas City in Kansas City,
01:59very, very tough place to play,
02:01and I know the Eagles started off two and two last year,
02:03but this schedule's different.
02:06If you go 0-2, all the negative stuff,
02:10all the pimples and warts that we talked about
02:12the last couple years with Nick Sirianni,
02:14with the relationship between the coaching staff
02:17and the locker room,
02:18all that stuff comes right back to the surface
02:21in Philadelphia,
02:22and winning the Super Bowl will no longer mean anything
02:26because now you're in trouble.
02:28So the Eagles, and look,
02:29they're favored by eight and a half points tonight,
02:32so this would be a monumental upset
02:34if the Dallas Cowboys go into Philly on Banner Night
02:37without Micah Parsons and find a way to steal a W.
02:40I don't think Dallas will,
02:42but if they did,
02:44you can start the panic button in Philadelphia,
02:47and I want to be clear, Tyrone,
02:50I'm here for all of it.
02:52Yeah, you don't have to worry about that.
02:54They're not going to lose tonight,
02:55and that's part of the reason that schedule
02:56is part of the reason why I had the Eagles
02:58winning the division,
02:59but not getting the one seed.
03:01The whole NFC East has to play a similar schedule.
03:04It's a tough schedule for the entire division,
03:06and that's why I think the Eagles will win this division,
03:08but I don't have them getting the one seed overall
03:11because they play a lot of good teams.
03:13They play a lot of good teams,
03:14and look, I'm not even looking at the back end of the schedule.
03:16You end the season Washington-Buffalo-Washington.
03:19Yeah, it doesn't get much tougher than that.
03:20You're talking about arguably the best team in the AFC
03:22and a team that was just in the NFC Championship game.
03:25Now, you owned them last year, for sure,
03:28but beating them two times in three weeks,
03:30that's very difficult for anybody,
03:32so it's going to be fun, man.
03:33Yeah, it's going to be fun.
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