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Howard Eskin joined Shan, RJ, and Bobby to discuss the Eagles' medical handling of Jalen Hurts, Nick Sirianni's future, offensive line concerns, MNF/NFC East predictions, and more.
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00:00and for the first time in years of having him on we see him on the fan camp twitch and
00:06youtube
00:07look at the setup wow for mr phil is that elvis howard eskin in the corner right there
00:13that is elvis that is elvis all right uh showing off your age a little bit but you're still looking
00:18good you're still looking i was an i was an ellis fan i you know i saw him in concert
00:23two months before he passed away how how how miserable are you having to root for and cover
00:29lebron in your city i am not a lefraud fan um because i'm not miserable it's just the fans
00:41they're still drinking kool-aid but now they're drinking it for a different reason
00:44uh because i don't even know why the nba plays the season because as far as philadelphia fans are
00:50concerned the 76ers are going to win the championship so why even play the season they're 2-0 they're
00:56going to go 82-0 they're not going to lose the game so why even play why even play the
01:01season uh
01:02he is um a great player he's not even really he's not close to my top five all time oh
01:10top five
01:11what's that let's hear the top five or so well excluding uh excluding wilt chamberlain and oscar
01:20robertson because people say well they played in a different era i was a little i was a young kid
01:25when i saw wilt met wilt a few times did a few stories with him but saw him as a
01:30player talked
01:31to uh billy cunningham uh who was a sixers coach at one time but played with wilt wilt would devour
01:37the nba today but okay i'll exclude wilt uh michael jordan kobe bryant larry bird magic johnson
01:50kareem abdul jabbar if you want to throw in somebody else uh charles barkley actually thinks
01:56tim duncan's better than lefroy james too so that's six so that's six uh he keeps on trying to tell
02:05people that uh you know he's the goat and all this nonsense well if you play 117 years you're going
02:12to get a lot of numbers and and that's that's what he does uh i mean last night uh the
02:19sixers
02:19were down by 29 i don't know how that in the nba i don't know how that happens and i
02:24don't know how a
02:25team can come back from that but in the first half he had five turnovers and five points uh so
02:32but then
02:33every report on the television stations every report lebron james leads the sixers lead him to
02:39what he actually i think they were just as good without him they would have won the same amount
02:47of games without him as they will with him uh there's not enough basketballs i mean they're maxi
02:54and brown are two players and vj edgecom are enough uh mbeat is going to be what he is
03:03uh but and you just the sixers hope he doesn't get hurt but the reality is they're just as good
03:11a team if they didn't have lefroy james too focused on golf that's my take are the he's too focused
03:17on
03:18golf yeah well that's uh you know that i don't want to even get into that before the before the
03:27next game because uh you know it becomes a political issue and i don't really want to talk politics
03:33but you know he just i don't even know why he would do something like that uh but that's he
03:39does
03:39whatever he wants uh he runs the team he's living in new york flying in on a helicopter to practices
03:46and i don't even and the media people don't have the guts to ask him like why are you living
03:52in new
03:52york why are you living in new york no it's just and then somebody has stupid question hey what's it
03:59like flying on a helicopter well just another he said it's just another mode of transportation oh
04:04really okay uh okay howard eskin from philly here on 105 three the fan your thoughts on how the eagles
04:11handled the jalen hurts situation and do you feel like the league has let them off the hook too easy
04:18too quickly okay let me start with twitter x social media but twitter is the toilet of the internet
04:27the toilet okay because the things that are put out there first of all nobody knows who puts out
04:34incorrect information nobody knows who puts out correct information anymore because there's so much
04:41out there i will say this the eagles made a huge mistake in one area but it's not the area
04:49of the
04:50way he was examined the way he was treated i know uh for a fact they did the medical team
04:58did everything
04:59possible to make sure things were all right uh you know people complain well he shouldn't have gotten
05:04on a plane they checked with research from another medical group in london they did tests before
05:11the game but they checked with another medical group before he got on the plane and all their
05:17research and that medical group has connections to a hospital in philadelphia all the research of that
05:24situation with the clot that he had said there was no danger in him flying they checked them before
05:31they took off uh all the doctors are on the plane uh they have uh medical equipment on the plane
05:39but they checked him and said there was no risk he didn't start feeling pain again until the wednesday
05:46and that's when they did another ultrasound and they found out the clot had spread this nonsense
05:53uh and it's just total bs of he didn't sleep for 30 they told him not to sleep for 36
06:01hours it's total bs
06:03it's it's incorrect he slept for seven hours now is that enough i don't know that that's enough
06:08but he slept for seven hours so the 36 hours that he wasn't allowed to sleep that's nonsense they did
06:15a lot of uh examinations they checked him think about it this way the doctors in the nfl for every
06:23team are not insured by the team they're not insured by the nfl so doctors are at such risk and
06:30players
06:30uh bring suits uh malpractice suits against doctors a lot when they can't play anymore and they've had
06:38surgery oh it's the doctor's fault but they're so susceptible so susceptible to malpractice do you
06:47think they're going to leave any stone unturned so the information was out there i'll give the eagles
06:53medical team um um you know every every prop in the world they did everything correctly what they
07:01didn't do and this is howie roseman and a weak head of public relations for the eagles a really
07:08fraudulent head of public relations what they should have done what they should have done
07:13is not put nick seriani out there to be fried and cooked and destroyed that was wrong and it was
07:22a
07:22disgrace and now if they try to clean up their mess and say well we did this right and they
07:27won't say
07:28it now because nobody will believe them uh you've got to put somebody else out there i'll say this
07:33going back to the days that andy reed was the coach of the eagles and now with kansas city he
07:40always for
07:40a serious injury he always put the head athletic trainer out there to talk to the media and explain
07:47things and that's not a hipaa violation if you explain we we went through this procedure we're not not
07:53giving any medical information just that we went through this procedure we went through this
07:57procedure we found no risk uh in this situation but the eagles don't do that they they hide everything
08:04they try to control every narrative that's put out there that's where they screwed up that was
08:11disgraceful you can blame howie roseman for that uh you know howie roseman doesn't want to ever get
08:17involved other than ever oh look look at all the things he did for the eagles well he hasn't done
08:22that
08:22good a job in the last couple of years they got old uh the players weren't replaced there's some good
08:28signings and there's some bad signings so in the end that's where the eagles made a mistake not with
08:35the way they handled his medical situation but the way they presented it to the public and it was wrong
08:42to do what they did uh to nick seriati but you know he's gonna carry the torch and say you
08:48know i'm up
08:49here to do my news conference and that's nonsense uh so that was the problem that was the issue
08:55is hurts and bolts both hurts and syriana are they both gone after this year they not it's hurts not
09:01going to play anymore well hurts will play football again i don't think there's uh there's some doubt
09:08everybody always has doubts i mean it's just it's a serious injury but they'll clean it up uh i think
09:14hurts will play football again i question whether he'll play with the eagles uh because if they were
09:21before this all happened if they were solid on bringing him back they would have given him a
09:26contract extension and they did not so now it's it's wide open uh there's so many there's other layers
09:35to this on whether they're going to sign him would you sign jalen hurts no this being the eagles
09:41well to five years at 60 some million dollars a year there's just i don't think there's any way
09:48so would anybody would any team do that i don't think so so now you know five years from now
09:53there'll
09:53probably be a malpractice suit and everybody settles which is unfortunate because all it does
09:58is drive our medical insurance rates up every year because uh and people get get slammed it's just
10:08it's just terrible but i doubt whether jalen hurts will be back it's not nick seriani's fault that
10:16this team is so bad uh you know it's the players got to make plays in the end the players
10:22have to make
10:22plays the coaches call the plays and the players have to make plays i think nick seriani is a good
10:28coach
10:28i think andy reeds the best coach in football but nick seriani is a good coach he's got the respect
10:34of
10:34the players uh the players love him uh he's creative and those are the first two things are
10:41hard to get uh bill belichie uh didn't always have the love of the players he had respect and he
10:48also
10:48had tom brady uh so there was a difference there but i think nick seriani would be back because to
10:56not
10:56bring him back you're really uh blaming somebody that shouldn't be blamed now all the coaches be back
11:03no somebody will take the hit somebody always takes the hit uh kevin batula who was the offensive
11:08coordinator last year took the hit they're not doing you know the offense is different but the
11:14players still aren't making plays so it wasn't his fault uh it was the player's fault and jalen hurts
11:20uh he resisted running uh plays under center taking snaps under center uh and the coaches wanted to do
11:30that because it makes play action a little bit better so you know now i guess many quarterbacks
11:36take snaps out of the gun but the eagles won a super bowl because they had maybe the best offensive
11:43line in football two years ago uh they had a running back to rush for 2 000 yards by the
11:50way i don't think
11:50saquon barkley will be back next year either ninth year he's had injuries the last two years uh they have
11:57an
11:57out in june of just over two million dollars i believe so hey listen it's time to move on
12:04if you have a good offensive line you're going to be able to run the football and the reason their
12:08offense is not successful is because of the offensive line so they can't run the football as well and
12:13that's the quarterback uh isn't as good you really break it down look at deandre swift with chicago
12:19he's a thousand yard rusher he was here would he be just as good with the he's not as good
12:24as saquon
12:24barkley but he would be just as good uh in with the running game if the offensive line was good
12:31so
12:31i don't blame nick seriani i think there's a better chance that he'll be back unless they want a
12:37scapegoat uh the fans always criticize the coaches i don't know what they're doing in dallas but if the
12:43cowboys don't win again which they won't do uh your coach you just had on in the last hour uh
12:50will not
12:51be back next year uh jerry jones is impatient uh so you know i and i don't know whether he's
12:58a good
12:58coach or bad coach players got to make plays and that's the way i always look at it players have
13:03to
13:03make plays and the coaches just put them out there are some play calls good and some play calls bad
13:08and listen when he uh what did he kicked it out of the end zone uh in that game what
13:14was it a few
13:14games ago yeah that was just stupidity uh but and he took the hit for that nick seriani i think
13:21paid attention to that and then didn't kick it out of the end zone when he should have kicked it
13:26out of
13:26the end zone against what was it jacksonville uh and he took the hit for that but again it should
13:32never come down to one play you should have scored more points eagles had 17 points in the nfl you're
13:39not
13:39going to win most games with 17 points last year they didn't score 20 points against the seven
13:44winning teams they played uh you've got to score more points and the special teams coach the run
13:50back in jacksonville i don't know how many people that are listening remember that uh but the eagles
13:57gave up a kickoff touchdown to start the game was called back on a penalty same uh design on the
14:05formations to run it back to the other side of the field on that last kick so the special teams
14:10coach
14:11and the player he i'm sure he told them but they didn't execute it properly they got in position to
14:18kick the field goal so again it shouldn't come back down to one play when a coach makes one mistake
14:25like that at the end of the game howard we got a minute left who wins monday night who wins
14:29the nfc east
14:30well i don't understand why the cowgirls uh are favored by it's now three and a half i i don't
14:38get it you don't have a quarterback yeah well you you know you don't have a team uh you you
14:44have a team
14:45now i'm wearing something that has a super bowl logo on it that has an eagles logo where's that
14:50the cowboys haven't had one of these two put together um since most of the people out there
14:57were born i mean david akard buried them at the draft after they won the super bowl 52 and he
15:04was
15:04right the draft picks weren't even born yet the cowboys are not going to win another super bowl for
15:09years uh and i still don't know why they're favored i think and i don't know i think tanner mckay
15:17athletic is not as good but fundamentally he's better he's got a stronger arm and he makes better
15:23reads now is with that offensive line are they going to be able to execute i'm not saying he's
15:29better than jalen hurts but he does things better uh i think he'll be better on monday night i think
15:34the eagles will win the game not because i'm in philadelphia but because i think the cowboys as they
15:39always do suck and the east mckee will get eight hours sleep in the east what's that who wins the
15:47east
15:49the new york giants oh gosh howard eskin great coach great coach uh the team that wins the east
15:58could win with a losing record could be well the giants can't be eight and nine because they have
16:03a tie uh but you know it's it's wide open i i can't see how the cowboys would win it
16:09uh i i don't
16:11think the eagles are a very good team uh because there's there's a lot of holes with with talent
16:16they've got some guys coming back whether they'll make a difference but now like the giants i it's
16:22giants eagles are cowboys i would give all of them but i would take the giants thank you howard
16:27enjoy monday night appreciate the time hey you guys are just ridiculous get out of here