PHLY Philadelphia Eagles Podcast - Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl: Time for Lane Johnson & the best O-line in football to take over

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

There’s no better unit in the league than Jordan Mailata, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens, Mekhi Becton and Lane Johnson. With Chris Jones and George Karlaftis on the other side, it’s up to the guys up front to protect Jalen Hurts and pave the Lane for Saquon Barkley. With that in mind, Geoff Schwartz breaks down what make the Eagles’ group so great before Nick Wright stirs up some pro-Chiefs pot and Marcus Allen explains why he wishes Saquon Barkley had gone for Eric Dickerson’s rushing record.Join Zach Berman, Jamie Lynch and Bo Wulf as Radio Row week trickles ahead. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to show 8 of 9 from the week of Radio Row. PHLY Eagles presented by Bet365 and Ace Hardware Home Services. Download the Bet365 app and use code PHLY365 when you sign up whatever the moment. It's never ordinary at Bet365. And please do visit Ace Hardwarehomeservices.com to get started on your next project. We are here as the atmosphere is starting to dwindle behind us, It's a busy day on Radio Row. Bo-Wolf, Jamie Lynch, Les Bowen,

Zach Berman. Zach, how you doing? Long time, no, C. Long time, no, C. How you doing? You know what? It seems like you have a little more energy than you did a couple hours ago.

Did I lack energy a couple hours ago? I'm just saying you have more energy. You seem like you've got a little more of a pep in your step. You know, I feel great. I'm excited. Been getting lots of sleep. You know, I'm not worried about that. Honestly, I'm thinking,

It's a little melancholy that today was the last day talking to the players here. Oh, I thought you were going to say the last day of two a days, podcast-wise. Oh, yeah, that as well. But no, it was a productive week talking to the players, the assistant coaches in particular, and excited for this show, excited for tomorrow's show, and then turn the attention to Sunday. We'll have a couple interesting interviews to play on this show that were captured today. We talked to Zach's old radio colleague from his Syracuse days,

Nick Wright, who cuts a nice heel promo. against the Eagles. The man knows what he's doing. I'm pretty sure everybody in Philadelphia loves Nick Wright. I do. I think it's from. He even gave me to love you. I think he's very good at his job.

He's incredible. He leaned into it. Marcus Allen with a little perspective on Sequin Barclay. Heard of him. Jeff Schwartz to break down the Eagles offensive line and Lane Johnson, Jordan Milata, the things that they need to do against the Chiefs. Les, how are you?

How was your day today? You know, it was a pretty darn good day, Bo. I skipped the Chief's availability this morning. I felt bad, but I am here as a retiree who's just sort of writing stuff, you know, and not an Eagles beat writer anymore. So I had got to the Chiefs all the other days, and I felt like I had gleaned the knowledge I needed. I mean, you were getting after it with Donovan McNabb last night. Yeah, DMAC.

DMAC was never that glad to see me 20 years ago. But last night, you know, it was like we were long-lost buddies. It was heartwarming. What did you guys talk about? Oh, you know, nothing, the usual stuff, kids and, you know, small talk kind of thing. His son is a big-time wide receiver prospect out in Arizona, yes. So, you know, it wasn't. We didn't spend hours together, but it was very nice.

You know, that came on the heels of Wednesday morning, the longest ever conversation I had with Carson Wentz, much longer than any that were possible back when he was the Eagles quarterback. I feel like, you know, if you wait long enough, I don't know, tragedy becomes comedy or comedy becomes tragedy or something like that. I don't know. But people just, people get to different places in their lives. I think Carson was like not unglad to see me. And you see someone who reminds you of a different time.

Go ahead, Zach. What do you disagree with? I don't think he was glad to see us. I don't think he minded it. I have a, when Carson was drafted, I went to the draft in Chicago, and I met all the reporters from like Fargo. And so there's a guy, Dom I iso, who has a radio show there, and he and I would commiserate as Carson got more and more remote. The people in Fargo couldn't even get a word with Carson wins. And Carson agreed to do like half an hour on the guy's show this week.

Because Carson needs a job after tomorrow. Sunday. I'm sorry to interrupt. Super chat from Frank who says, how much caffeine have you had since the last live show ended? None since the last live show ended? None. Good for you. Good to know. Jamie, you're on a coffee. How you doing? Doing all right. Yeah, it was a long day.

Walking a lot of miles down here in Nala. I think I'm averaging over nine a day right now. Do you go Nala? Nola. Nola. Nolla. Yeah, I think I started Nolins. I go for Nolins.

And then I go to the stream, yeah. Listen. We're all feeling it. Yeah, Jamie said to me today, Jamie's like, I'm ready to go home. Yeah. Chase Daniel Plainview with the SuperChance says, is it odd that Lurie said triple threat QB a lot? No, he leans into J-Ewan's mind as well.

Arm, legs, minds. That must hurt. How do you lean into a mind? Yeah, I don't know. Lean into the J-1 being a smart quarterback. The Vulcans could do that on Star Trek. Sure. take on this. Do you remember your first kiss?

I'm not sure that I do. I mean, that's a long time ago. You know, the earth was still cooling. There were dinosaurs roaming around. You were covering Marcus Allen? Yeah, I don't know. God, that was, yeah, I honestly don't. That's not made quite an impression. That's all right.

Do you remember your last kiss? You know, I'm not sure. Donovan last, not. No. Who did you talk to about availability today, Les? You know, you have a story to tell. I do. I have a story to tell. I sat down with Jamal Singleton, the Eagles running backs coach, who was not a man I had ever met because I stopped covering the Eagles on a day-to-day basis about the time he was hired,

not too long after that. So I was prepared to, like, explain the whole deal. I covered the Eagles for the Inquirer in the Daily News for a long time, now I'm here for PHLY, blah, blah. And so I say, hey, I'm Les Bowen, and Jamal Singleton's eyes light up. And he says, I've been waiting three and a half years. Whoa. Really?

I'm jealous now. And you're not going to believe this. Apparently, during the Eagles Denver game in 2021, which was in Denver, I went there with, I actually wrote a piece for the Inquirer, even though it was after my retirement. Okay. The premise was I have a son in Denver, Matt, and my other son, Dan and I flew out to Denver, and I actually watched an Eagles game with my sons for the first time ever because I was covering the team all those years and couldn't do that. So we watched the Eagles beat the Broncos.

And apparently during the game, I tweeted, oh my gosh, they left Kenny Gainwell to block a defensive tackle. That worked out well or something along those lines. So Jamal goes into this very long and elaborate. description of all the things that broke down that ended up with Kenny Gainwell blocking this defensive line. You're kidding me. And he was, he had just, he'd been waiting three and a half years to explain that he did not leave Kenny Gainwell.

That's great. That's funny. That's amazing. And it kind of like, the interview got off to a poor start because I was just sitting there. And you don't remember that? What else have I ever written about anything tangentially related to him at all? Think about how many tweets you fired off in the middle of the games. I get the head coach or get to the system.

Yeah, the fun thing about that is to now think back of like the tweets that you did not expect anyone to ever see or notice that Jamal Singleton was just scrolling around. He didn't have any further updates for me, but, you know, I'm going to be real careful Sunday. I can tell you that, especially when it comes to running back smoking. Zach, does this context make you think any differently about the tweets that you've sent to? Anything untoward about Jamal Singleton over the years? I don't think I've sent untoward tweets As it is

Yeah I'm more susceptible to that sort of thing than you are I've gotten a lot of trouble over the years In various forums I like him more now Yeah I always enjoy talking to Jamal Fascinating military background Yeah EJ Smith did a good piece on him

Three and a half years ago Yeah Jamal He was going to be Maybe a lot of the folks out there know But he was going to be a jet pilot He was going to fly A-10s, and that was his whole focus. He knew he wasn't a pro running back.

He was a decent running back at the Air Force Academy. I had a very good team. I'd kind of forgotten that until I looked it up today. They were 12 and 1 and ranked 13th in the country. Yeah, I mean, you would, even though you were four years old. I didn't remember that. I remember Fisher DeBerry was the head coach. That was about it.

But, you know, Jamal had no intentions of making football his life. He had been born on an Army base, our Air Force base, and thought he was going to fly jets and got an opportunity to help out with a prep school there, I guess, and coached and suddenly decided to leave the pilot program and become a football coach. So, yeah, good guy.

All right, right. Well, that's all I got. No, what is there to say about you won't see? That's fantastic. But, you know, my premise was that he has a pretty easy job coaching Sequin Barclay. And he actually, he leaned into that very well. Okay.

He said when he first got to the NFL, he was very self-conscious about the fact that he had not been an NFL running back. But he happened, his first guy was Frank Gore in Indianapolis. And Frank Gore. He was a legend. Yeah, told him, you know, don't ever assume that I know something. You know, just go ahead and tell me. And, you know, he was able. Gore actually, there was one thing in particular he described to me.

It's in my story that's on our website right now, that Gore was like, hey, nobody ever told me that. And then years later, because Frank Gore played until he was 80, Frank Gore was in Buffalo, and Jamal gets a message on his phone, hey, I tried that backside cut that you talked about. So, you know, anyway, he had gotten over the lack of personal expertise in doing this stuff by the time he got to Philadelphia. So coaching Barclay hasn't been as, you know, he doesn't hesitate to offer him tips. And Barclay's the kind of guy that isn't going to say, who are you to tell him? And I think he's made him a better player. Yeah.

Fran has talked about this. For all of the things about how the situation is much better for Sequin Barclay here, he is also a slightly different player here. He is following holes a little bit better, less susceptible to bounce stuff outside. Now, maybe that is because he can trust the line more than he could in New York. but I think he is obviously getting the most of himself somehow. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I also talked to Will Shipley, who has great hair.

Man, I was so indious of that hair. You don't really see that during the games on TV, you know. You don't pick up on these nuances. Yeah. What do you think's got the best hair on the team, Zach? Best hair on the team. Yeah. Depends what you're looking for in a hair do.

I mean, I like a nice tight cut. You're a fade man? A fade man. So I would go Jallon. Jallon's got a nice, Jallon's always got a good fade going. But if you want, like, the flowing locks, then go Nick Gates.

Yeah. I wouldn't call those flowing. I would call them greasy. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. No offense. No offense to the great Nick Gates.

Yeah. Who, by the way, pops up on the injury report today, Zach, out of nowhere. What do you think? What do you think there might be a bit of a game afloat? Yeah, so he has a groin injury. A bit of a groin of groin. Yes.

So he was limited today, showed up on the injury report, and just to let everyone know, if Brandon Graham plays Sunday, and we're expecting him to play Sunday, he needs to go on the 53-man roster. So the Eagles would then need to cut someone who's been practicing all week with them, or you need to place someone on injured reserve, right?

You can't play someone on injured reserve unless they're on the injured report. So my guess here is that Nick Gates, it's like the week that Donnell Pumfrey kind of showed up on the injury reports so the Eagles could put him on IR. Nick Gates, who was not going to be active this weekend, right? He hasn't been active in games. He's been Brett Tooth, has been active. That Nick Gates gets placed on IR on Saturday. Brandon Graham gets put on the 53-man roster.

Nick still gets to be with the team. Nothing changes for him, like salary-wise, anything like that. This explains. I saw Big Dom. kicking Nick Gates in the groin. I wasn't sure what that was about, but... And he thought to himself that this, Nick Gates, the need to cut the player.

There you go. You know who has the... Oh, thank you very much. You know what the best on the Eagles is Nick Mews. Yeah, the best? Well, Nick Mews, who has... You found yourself a bit of inspiration with Nick Mews. Oh, because he's a Mew.

Oh, God. This is best host in the city right here. I'm telling you. So Nick Muse, Nick Muse got signed to the practice squad late last week. Okay? So he gets the free trip to the Super Bowl. He gets to be the tight end in practice. He's on the sideline in the Super Bowl.

He gets a ring if they win. He didn't have to do training camp. He didn't do anything. He just shows up now. This probably doesn't even know anyone's name. Like, this is. How is it meaning? You don't think he's been doing anything?

You think he's been just sitting at home on the couch watching? My point is he gets to come in right now for the fun part. But he was on the team before for a couple weeks on the practice squad. One week? One week? One week, yes. Okay. During the playoffs.

Yeah? Yeah. All right. Well, you spit in his face. Remniscient of Jeff Thomason 20 years ago. Yeah. What was his job when he got called up? Construction work.

Construction, right? Yeah, he was like a construction supervisor. But, yeah, he had played my first year on the beat, 2002 he was a backup tight end. Back in those days football was so primitive that the long snapper Mike Bartram also played tight end and caught touchdown passes

and stuff. Zach a super chat from Miller's who says ZB, who do you think has the worst hair on the 53? Well, there's some people who have no hair so therefore they don't qualify. I mean, Jamie's sitting right here, man. No, but that's not, no, I'm saying that's not the worst hair. So

the worst hair I don't know how to Yeah. How to judge that. I'll go. Cam Juergens. Yeah, that is. Looks like you ought to be sitting in the back of a pickup truck in Mississippi.

What the hell? It makes good jerky. Um, yeah. This man went to college. Am I wrong? Different people sitting at the end. For six years, Bo has wanted me to, like, share what I think, okay? You're his dream co-host here.

Because I don't have to go in the locker room. Cam Juergens, unless he does the Jamal Singleton, like five years from now. You know, but, you know, when am I going to see Cam Juergens? I'm leaving here tomorrow. I just need to tell you, Vinny Curry said 60 to 70% of the locker and watches this show. Well, maybe not this particular episode, but they don't know where I live. Steve with a super chat says it was disgusting. preseason and probably dismissed as the risk not being worth the reward.

But what do you think about having Sequin Barclay returning kicks in this game? Absolutely not. They've done well enough without him. But maybe in a big situation, wouldn't be the worst idea. I mean, if it's late and there's only one left in the game, maybe. That was Steve's first Super Chad. So thank you, Steve. Yeah, right.

Stevie boy. Stevie. Steve Rooney. Yeah, one quick. thing to add here from the injury report jalen carter back full participant so jalen as we said on the earlier show did not participate in media availability because of the illness but he's full participant devante smith not a back injury though yeah correct illness davontase smith limited with the hamstring injury brandy graham continues to be limited with the elbow but he will play roheed wants to know

details on a p hl y meetup we don't we have no details we have no firm plans but at some point on Saturday if somebody wants to go ahead and organize this themselves Zach and I will go somewhere but we don't really have preferably commander's palace but you know 25 San Martini's hell yeah yeah I mean I we can I think worst case scenario everybody could go to Zach's room yeah yeah he would love that no yeah no yeah it's like the Michael Scott party in the office I have a date Saturday night with an Advil PM I'm gonna I'm gonna knock that thing out boom I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm yeah Yeah, that's going to be awesome.

It's going to be a large. Best night of that Advil P.M.'s life. That Ville PM's going to leave a man. We lost Julia. That sleep number better have an eight or a nine. Rest in peace, Julia. Better have an eight or a nine in front of it on Saturday. She died doing what she loved.

Laughing at both jokes. Laughing at both jokes. She's a little bit of P.M. So what rib number are you going to be in? For the meetup And the hotel, yeah I actually don't know I'm not even in that

I got to change hotels So yeah I don't even know I'll give my room number My current hotel Because I'll be out of that But Okay go ahead

Actually it's not nice to Whoever's taking over So I was wondering what the squatter rules are For that Like yeah Yeah Because it's not gonna be fun

To move rooms No And these are nice rooms Yeah And the location is great But it's like it's great for a free day Saturday, whereas the place where we're moving is better for the where we've been, no, for where we've been for Radio Row, where we haven't been.

So it's like we're actually going the opposite direction. But you know what? I'm just happy. Happy to be here. More than happy. Thrilled, excited. I mean, ecstatic, excited for the weekend. All right.

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All right. Time to send it to an interview from earlier today. Zach, give us a little bit of your memories of working with Nick Wright in Syracuse. So Nick Wright was the most eccentric personality I could imagine back that. He was like he was so colorful. Like he was, you wish you could write a story about him. Actually, Andy McCullough was at The Athletic. He actually did write a story about him.

Nick. I first met Nick actually outside of the radio station. He was in my freshman. In your hotel room. He was in Political Science 121. That was the course. He was a sophomore. I was a freshman.

Your memory is incredible. And he did not show up to class except for he came to, you know, there was like two lectures, and then there was a small group run by the TA. And he came to that. And he was like, I, like, I was. Brilliant. You know, he was debating the TA. He was, he was, him, he was brilliant. And I remember that. And then I started working at the radio station. And it's just what you see now on TV, is that often wrong, but never end out. I'm kind of joking with you often wrong, but so, like, confident and had such fascinating delivery. And I used to listen to his shows and I used to study his shows. I called into one of his shows one time. because he had like an argument. I remember one time he said,

Kevin Love isn't going to be an NBA player, where he's going to be the biggest bust, and I, like, called in with, like, historical data of Kevin Love's rebounding numbers and how that can he just. But he was, and then I started doing shows with him. And, I mean, you're an incredible host. He was a much different type of host, but he was just an awesome host to work with

because he could fill a clock, right? Very talented. Yeah. And then I'll say this, too, as a radio boss, I would send my, I would do tapes. I would do like post-game shows, Phillies games during the summer. And I was sending it to him. And he would send me, I showed Bo like 600-word emails, breaking down every part of it. You have to work on your teasies here.

Your delivery's not good there. What's with this phrasing? It was so nice. And then I'll give two other quick, like real quick anecdotes. I had a meeting with him one time. and I thought we were going to have a meeting, like, in the office. And so I get there early, and I'm waiting for him, and he comes, and he, and he pulls me up, or he, he pulls up to the office, to the radio office.

He picked you up? No, he, and he's like, come in my car. And basically, he was just running these errands and, like, doing this, this meeting as he was running errands, like, place to place to place. And then there was one time when, um, he was. I was covering a Patriots, this was as a professional, I was at the Star Ledger, I was covering a Patriots Jets playoff game. It was the one where Bart Scott did the South Palantone. Can't wait.

Can't wait. Yeah. And I had to drive to Pittsburgh the next morning to, because I had to spend the week leading up to the IFC championship game. And I call up Nick Wright probably 1 a.m. Eastern time. I'm driving back to Hoboken because I had seen someone from, from Kansas City in the press box I want to tell them about. And we proceeded to talk for four and a half hours on the car ride home.

Like every topic under the sun. Four and a half hours. Four and a half hours. I don't know if I've talked to my wife for four and a half hours. It was like I pulled in to the parking spot or like it was a street park in Hoboken. And it was like he was doing a radio show. Like every topic under the sun he could talk about. He had an opinion on.

He's always been good to me. and so I warn you the video he was great. I know the height differential makes it weird optics. There's a lot of YouTube comments. I get it. I know I'm sure. I'll get ahead of that right now. Get over it.

Who cares? Not you. The commenters, yeah. It's like every comment in there. Enough. But yeah, it was great seeing Nick today. All right. Let's hear that now.

And then we've got more on the other side. We have old friends here. Nick Wright and Zach Berman. and on our way over here, Nick, you were kind enough to wait for us. Zach is combing through his email, and what do you have, Zach? I found, oh, you'll hold it, okay. I found notes from my tape review back in 2006. Both couldn't believe.

These were like, it was probably an 800-word email you did. I did a random July Phillies baseball game, and you did the whole review for me. Tell me what I needed to improve and everything. Well, so, Zach, I've known Zach since, for 20 years. now. It's unbelievable. And one of, there's at Syracuse doing radio, so obviously a ton of people come through,

and Zach was one of three guys that I knew definitively if he wanted to would make his living in sports media. The other two, I was three for three on my picks. It was him, Andrew Filiponi, who now does

afternoons in Pittsburgh, and is like Mr. and Danny Parkins, who now hosts mornings on FS1, but did afternoon in Chicago forever, and Zach, who right after college, I think, was writing for the New York Times, and then the Washington Post and everything, and has, yeah, I followed, Zach and I haven't talked a ton, but I followed every step of his career. It's unbelievably. I am, so. That sounds like that's on you, Zach.

Eagles fans, no, no, no, no, Nick changed his number back in 2020. That is true. That is a bad job by me. That is true. But I, so I'm like Nick's biggest defender in Philly. I got to say that. That's a tough job to have, bro. We'll get to that in a second.

But the Nick's right story I always tell is my first time doing a postgame show. It was with Nick. I was the co-host. Nick was the host. And I'm nervous out of my mind, okay? And Nick is like literally the best talk radio host you can imagine. And I have like hours of preparation for the show. Every, I'm going to practice, I'm doing all this.

And I get there, Nick's like, don't worry. It's Syracuse Colgate game. and Nick starts the show with a four-minute monologue about something that happened with Eric Diefendorf the night before that I was not familiar with, and I'm like, oh my God, I have no idea what to say. It's so funny. No idea what to say.

He was the best then, he's the best now. Well, that's very nice. And despite all that, Philly hates me. But, you know, such is life. Listen, it's, I would, I understand Philadelphia Eagles fans and Niners fans and Bill's fans angst, because they all feel like, if not for this one team, we might be the team going for a dynasty.

The Niners feel like they'd have a couple Super Bowls. The Eagles here in 72 hours are going to have zero and are going to feel like they should have a couple. And the bills feel like they should have four. It's not fair, but it just is what it is. And there's nothing wrong with second place. There's not. There's 32 teams.

30 of them would love to be able to play in this game. And this is the other thing I'll say to all the Eagles. Listen, it's a great roster, and it's, I mean, I was way wrong on Sequin. He's having maybe the best season of any running back ever, all of it. All of these guys forever, for the rest of their lives, whether they're big time players, role players, whatever, are going to be immortalized as being part of the films that are made about the three people. They're going to be on the field, you're going to see them, you're going to be like, oh, man, there's Jalen Carter.

Like, that maybe propelled him to a new level. Like, that's special. That's something. Like, Byron Russell gets remembered. Like, it's something. Here's my framing. Maybe the only way to take down the best team in modern history, the dynasty, is with a team from a bygone era, a team that is built from a 1980s, 1970s. Before the forward pass?

Basically. And maybe that's the only way to take them down. No. Listen, you guys can win. I'm not like. It's all weighted coin flips. You guys can win. I think it is going to be very, very hard to beat this team because I think that it's a combination of the healthiest they've ever been playing the best they've played at any point in the year.

And I'm a little concerned on Philly's behalf how healthy are Jurgens and Dickerson. I know they're both full at practice or whatever, but that is like dealing with Chris Jones all games a problem. But Mike Calliando dealing with Jalen Carter or what's the other DTAC, Milton Williams, dealing with him could be a problem too. It should be a great game. The issue for Philly is no one can blow the Chiefs out. It's impossible. And if it's a close game, you feel like, well, the Chiefs are going to win. So it's just like they're just a hard team to beat.

And listen, Philly has the pieces to do it. the quarterback plays great. And I know that sounds facile or whatever, but no one is gone for 90 yards against the Chiefs in the playoffs from running back since Spagnola's been there. That's six years. Even if Sequin breaks that, I don't think he's going to have 160. And so can Jaylen do what he did in the last Super Bowl? He hasn't done it in a single game since then. If he can, you guys can win. I don't think he can, and I don't think you'll win. You get to be the Sequin guy because you've been the Sequin guy from the beginning. You tell me if you think he can do it.

Well, no one's been able to stop Sequin all year, right? And so I saw what James Cook did against Kansas City. I think that's where the vulnerability is in that Chief's defense. The Eagles offensive line has been the best offensive line all year. Sequin, if he played Week 17, would have broken the record. I'm sorry, week 18 would have broken the record. Now, I'm not convinced that the Eagles are going to run the ball as much as they have all year. I think J-Lan's going to try to be unleashed a little bit more.

But, yeah, Seacquon, no one's been able to stop Saquan. So, totally correct. Listen, what's he, 130 yards per game now for almost 20 games, the 19 games. It's remarkable. The James Cook thing that I, the difference I would say is, I felt like the Chiefs went into that game saying, if James Cook beats us, James Cook beats us, we're not going to let Josh Allen beat us. I think it's going to be the opposite in this game. I think you're going to get a lot of one-on-ones with AJ and Devante.

And listen, it's the second best pair of receivers, maybe the best. I think second-best pair of receivers in the league. The sneaky most important player on your offense, obviously Sequin's most important, but that's why I said sneaky is Goddard. The one spot the Chiefs have stunk at all years covering tight ends. So can he have a big game? And it's like four plays. Can Jalen make four high-leverage plays?

plays. And what makes you guys so annoying is third and six, you might run the damn ball. You know what I mean? And that's like that's such a hard thing to deal with is teams that unless it's third and more than seven, you can't sell out for the pass. Like, because you guys will run and be fun. They like to run the ball in like third and ten. Right.

And they're also not necessarily even trying to get a first. They're trying to get within two yards. They can run their stupid rugby play. And so, yeah, no, you guys are a lot to deal with. I also, the better the coaches, the more time to prepare the better. The inverse, if that's true as well. The more of a duvis the coaches, the more time the worse. So I might have liked the Eagles in this spot if they could have played it with one game to prepare.

But with two weeks, Andy Reid there, Siriani somewhere else, I don't know. All right, Nick, Rick. Wait, real quick, on Siriani. If we're doing a post-game show back in college, and I tell you, There's a coach who in four years has made two Super Bowls, four double-digit win seasons, you know, four play of appearances, three double-digit win seasons. The winning his coach among active, the highest winning percentage among active coaches, what would you say about those numbers?

I know it sounds amazing. I can't figure it out because I just know in my bones the guys are dufous. But you're right. Listen, wins and losses are a coaching stat. His resume is really unimpeachable. and yet he was almost impeached by the team that's what I was going to say and yet it felt like they it felt like he was a week five loss away from being fired

it felt like whatever game it was when he screamed at his own fans against the was that Cleveland yeah yeah felt like man if they lost that game were they going to fire this guy like maybe and now it's like flip side is he's one win away from wait is this guy going to be a Hall of Fame coach. I don't understand it, but it just keeps happening. All right. Nick Wright, thank you so much. If the Eagles win this game, maybe we'll have you on to talk tennis another time. Listen, I would love to.

You know, Zach, I should tell you this. I come to Philly all the time because it's the closest poker rooms to New York. So maybe, yes, maybe sometime I'll come see you guys either way. Great to see you, brother. Love it. All right, see you guys. Thank you. Great. Awesome. Thank you so much.

All right. Let's move on. How is everybody doing? What do you want to talk about? There's a lot I want to talk about, but this is Les's final time on the show. Yeah. Yeah, so how about this? Not ever, we hope, but in Super Bowl Week.

Until we get home. What's your big sentiment about this game? Ah, I wish I had a better handle on this. I'm struck by two really contradictory things. I hear a lot of national talking heads say some version of, well, the Chiefs have the better quarterback and the better coach. Yeah. But these same people who are using this as a thesis for why they think the Chiefs will win,

well, in the blink of it, I tell you that games are won up front. Now, do you see the contradiction I'm pointing out here? Eagles are better up front. Yeah. If that's where games are won, I don't know. I'm going to pick the Eagles to win just because it's no fun picking the Eagles to lose. I have been, I was a Philadelphian during the long stretch from 1983 to 2008, even though I'm not from Philadelphia.

And in my secret heart of hearts, I'm always amazed when a Philadelphia team wins a championship. Sure, sure. I was sitting there trying to write my story in 2018. I was writing about Doug Peterson. And I was like, focus, focus, focus. After Brandon Graham swatted that ball, it occurred to me that in all likelihood, the Eagles were going to win the Super Bowl. And it kind of paralyzed me a little bit, you know.

And I'm trying, I'm a professional here. I need to, you know, get my, I have a job to do. I want to do a good job because this is going to be a story that people will read, you know. And I'm like, oh my God. So anyway, I do, I like the Eagles. I honestly have no idea. I don't think you win games with magic with the fact that you've won them before. You know, I think that there's a little bit of that with the Chiefs.

People are, well, you know, they've won three. And, you know, I saw the, you know, I covered a lot of Super Bowls for the Daily News back when the Eagles were involved. I saw David Tyree. Did anybody think the undefeated patriots were going to lose the Super Bowl? You know, I mean, there's no such thing as, you know, because you've won a championship or two or three, you don't just go out there and win the Super Bowl, you know.

If they don't have the goods Sunday, if Kansas City can't stop Saquan Barkley, you know, they're going to lose. I'll say the same logic that the same logic you're saying here, exactly what was said in 2018. Yeah. In 2017 season in February 2018 was like, well, it's Brady and Belichick, right? Right. But then the Eagles were better on both lines of scrimmage.

And the Eagles are better on both lines of scrimmage here. So I'm fascinated to see this. I know this is going to go, the thing that's going to go viral is all those ESPN people picking the chiefs. Yeah, Marcus Spears was the only one to pick the Eagles on the whole set today. I think six picks and only one Eagles. And what do you make? of that, Jamie? I love that. I think there's something too

feeling disrespected. I don't think it's something you can necessarily quantify or apply, but I love that the Eagles are kind of getting counted out just because Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are on the other side. I think they're better in the lines. They have the number one defense in the league. They have perhaps

the greatest running back season I've ever seen in my life. And Jalen Hertz has done a tremendous job. This game to me is just going to come down to turnovers. Yeah. And Jalen Hertz has done a really, really nice job of protecting the football. You can't give Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs any extra opportunities. And I think as long as they play a clean game, as cliche as it sounds,

I love the Eagles chances in this game. I am wildly optimistic about the outcome on Sunday. And everybody down here, everybody on the national, you know, we talked to Marcus Allen, we talked to some other people. I talked to Kyle Long earlier. Everybody goes, well, the Chiefs, because they don't lose. And I'm like, well, okay, yeah, they're human until they do. Yeah, until they do.

And I think Sunday's a day they're going to lose. I think it's very possible. Yeah. Super chat from Grace, who wants to know if the locker room is indeed watching 60 to 70% of our show. Zach, have you ever been, has a player ever mentioned something to you? About the show? Yes. Not about the show.

I get more about tweets. players will bring up tweets Such as Good thing they don't see mine I don't consider that on the record So But if you put something out that Yeah

Maybe it's something Somebody thinks is unfair Yeah or it actually could be the other way Like you notice something And they're like Oh you know I appreciate you seeing that Oh yeah

Or you put their quote out Like sometimes I'll put this Sometimes players are surprised When they're quoted accurately Right Oh yeah It's like oh yeah

you know, like, thanks for putting that out there, right? And because I do think sometimes when there's quotes just put out by the locker, it's just like a summation of what they say. Sure. And like I go back and like I'll transcribe everything that said and like players will. Now, people are wondering why don't you don't just rely on AI for quotes. And this is why, because you want to be accurate. Exactly.

Otter and then there's other services. I use it. But, yeah, it misses words. Or it gets the wrong word and you don't want to misquote somebody. Right. So it helps you transcribe quicker. But if I just put in that, the quote wouldn't make sense. Right.

Les, I'll give you this super chat from LB908 who says, any concern for you about Donald Trump being at this game and his connection to Patrick Mahomes and maybe swaying the refs since all businesses are cowtowing to the president? I don't. No. I don't think that'll be a factor in the game. I did see something today on Twitter about Trump had this snippy little thing about Tommy Tuberville. Did you see that?

Yes, he claimed the coach Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, he invented this conversation with Tommy Tuberville about what kind of quarterback Patrick Mahomes was when Tuberville was when Tuberville was coaching him. And, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course, it never happened. They did not overlap. They missed each other by two years, I believe. Yeah. either the conversation with Tuberville never happened or Tuberville told a very colorful lie to Donald Trump,

either one could certainly be true. Let's take a break. On the other side, we're going to talk to Jeff Schwartz about the Eagles offensive line. I really enjoy his Twitter account. He's a good follow for football fans. I think he's an informative teacher. How do you feel about a G-off, spelling-wise? It's different.

That's unfortunate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's Mosher. That's true. It's good to see Moshe this week. G-off.

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Download game time today. What time is it? Game time. Les, did you see the clip from the McAfee show? Oh, yeah. Yes, I did. You're Phil Jackson. Apparently, yeah.

I'm not quite that tall. Do you remember covering AQ Shipley? Yes, yes, I do. I mean, he could have done you better than that, I feel like. Oh, that's who that was. He's one of the people. Yeah, he's like I knew who you were, yeah. McAfee was the only guy.

guy there that I had any idea who the heck they were. I mean, they didn't know me either, so that's fine. But, yeah. So Shipley was the one who eventually came up with my name. Yes. Okay. Yes. Less need. Cycling through Les Sneed. Yeah. Have you gotten Phil Jackson before? One time, a picture taken from an odd angle on Facebook, an old friend of mine who lives down in the Washington area now, said, hey, you look like Phil Jackson these days. He hadn't seen me years and I thought no I don't but you know I mean but there it is again so maybe I do maybe I can hire myself out as a Phil Jackson impersonator or some such there you go all right let's talk a little

offensive line Fran Duffy talked to Jeff Schwartz about the Eagles offensive line earlier jaylin Carter and Chris Jones talk love that let's check it out Jeff Schwartz yeah with the G off G off g off schwoch squawk G G G G off how long is this club four hours. Now, do I have time to... Join now by NFL analyst, Jeff Schwartz, to talk through some of the trench play that we're expected to see here on Sunday.

And we'll start Eagles O line going up against the Chiefs D line. Obviously, the guy to circle, Chris Jones. As you're watching him this year, we know he's an elite player at the top of the position right now in the league. What stands out most to you when you watch Chris Jones on film? Well, it's got to be the hands, man. I mean, he's able to just place those hands right, the double arm underneath.

But I'm really curious because, you know, he has spent this postseason actually going good versus good. He's gone against Dionne Dauka's a bunch and got against Tunsel a bunch. And he's also like not as good on that side as well. But I think what it does is it eats up the left tackle. And everyone wants to say we're going to slide to Chris Jones. It allows other guys on the other side like Carl Offtis and the Menehew inside sometimes in Nickel to make place. I'm really curious what he does this game.

You might just say me and you, Lane, like let's go for it. and we'll leave Bechton try to leave him on an island versus someone else and put George the other side. So he gets to pick and choose sometimes where he goes, which is kind of fun to see who he chooses the matchup. I do wonder how much they twist and try to get Bechton moving a little bit as well. I mean, that feels like the guy,

unless Dickerson's that hurt still, and they target him over left guard, it does feel like they're going to go after Beckton, which is, I mean, Bechtons played well. It's not like the best option, but he goes offline is really good. Yeah, I'm fascinating to see it just because,

I mean, Chris Jones, the only player in the NFL, to have 25 pressures lined up inside the tackle and then over tackle. You mentioned how they've moved them over the offensive tackle spot so often here this postseason. So when you look at it, if you're the rest of the offensive line, you know, all right, if he's going to be left one-on-one with Lane or if we're going to be sliding that way, who are the guys that you're looking at and saying, okay, I feel like I need to make sure we get this guy blocked along that KC front. Is it Carl Laftus with what he's done down the stretch?

Who is the other guy up front that you're most worried about? Um, Menichu's had his good to rushes, like spot rushes. Karloftus, a lot of production has been against tight ends, which the Eagles don't really do. They're not going to leave a tight end and do like that. So I would say if Amenehue is able to just, like, picking shoes where he lines up,

I think he's more of a problem than maybe Karloftus. Because Carlopthus is probably better throughout a game, if that makes sense. But at many of you, has those bursts sometimes. They're really making them productive. All right, let's go to the other side. You and I have caught offline here on the floor at Radio Row. talking about Jalen Carter and what the plan could be there. Let's rehash that conversation now that we've got a camera here.

What are your thoughts on Jalen Carter going to this game? Right. So Jalen Carter primarily is over the right guard, right? The defense is left, and he will sometimes move over the center post-snap, and he has the moves he likes. He's a club move. He will sort of have an outside double-arm swipe, and then he will sort of have the bull to the swim or rip underneath.

But that's mostly over the right guard, right? It's the center. He's going to go inside and club for the most part. And the question is, the Chief's left guard. is the weakness for the Chiefs, with Joe tuning out of left tackle. Do you move Carter over there where he's not done a lot? And he did a little bit last week. And I would say no.

And I'll tell you why. I know people say, we'll target the weak guy. But what happens is when you move Carter over there, he's probably not as good, right? He hasn't been doing it. Correct. And then you put someone else over the right guard. Now Trey has a better matchup and Carter's worse over the – now you've made two matches better for the Chiefs essentially, right?

Where just say you put Carter right – and you say, look, you're getting a lot of one-on-one most likely because we're going to slide the center to help the left guard. And good versus good. Guys, it's a Super Bowl. It's good versus good. That's what you get in the Super Bowl. So I think Carter will stay where he is. The advantage of the Eagles have in this game is the Chiefs cannot run the football right now.

And with tuning outside, you're not going to do it. So you're going to be probably more past-risk situations. I do wonder, and the Chiefs have not done this postseason and not option of theirs. Washington didn't do it that much is tempoing. Using tempo. get those big guys moving a little bit. But then you move too much. I don't think he's going to do it,

but it's a thought I've had. One question last one I got for you is going to be Juan Taylor at right tackle. So much talk about Joe Tuny. Nolan Smith has been hot for this Eagles to pass rush down the stretch. What's the weak point for Geron Taylor in your mind?

What's an area that he can attack? I'll tell you what, he's been great this postseason. He's like the Chiefs just sort of turns it on. He gets off that ball so quickly. It's so funny that he gets to blame for that when it's Lane, they started doing it and like DeWan Taylor gets all the blame

and I love Lane of course I think for him you just have to try to get him going up the field too much and get you back inside you're not going to be wrong he gets off the ball so fast you're not going to beat him

up the field very often it's a matter of I think just sort of getting him to go up the field and coming back inside but then of course if you do that Mahom sees it he sneaks out and the Eagles don't spy I don't think right so then when he sneaks out

then you're broken Tain and with the zone zone, you worry about Kelsey finding areas in the zone to make play. So I love these matchups and these games because it's such a micro level. It's like what happens here, what happens there? Because these teams are really good. They're really good football teams. So it'll be a lot of fun.

72 hours out, prediction? I said Chiefs 3431. It's a lot of points. People are trying to convince me that it's going to be a lower scoring game, which is certainly possible because if you think that just eagles run the ball, chew the clock up. Eagles will let the Chiefs get seven yards to the Red Zone. There's a lot of ways where I just think the teams move the football.

The question becomes, obviously, fourth down, and then do you turn Red Zone possession and touchdowns? No question. And so those can be reasons why it goes under and over. So I'm really curious to see. But look, I've said this for a while. I've said it all week. I'll continue to say it.

Until the Chiefs losing the postseason, I'm not betting against them, right? And that's what I'm going to go with. Eagles can absolutely win this game. It's not like an anti- Eagles. The Eagles are really good. Absolutely win the game. But until the Chiefs are dead, I bet on the Chiefs.

Jeff Schwartz, you can make sure you follow him on Twitter. Check out his podcast, everything that he's doing. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll talk soon. Take care. All right. Thank you, Mr. Schwartz. Mr. Duffy.

Time to run through some super chats. Grace, yes, we do watch the game from the press box. How do you enjoy it up there? Because I've done my fair share of press box viewing. Do you guys like it? I do like the press box. I do. Yeah.

That's a good view. This particular press box. Freezing cold is the Super Dome press box because you're at the very top of the dome. Yeah. And the AC for the entire building comes blaring right into you. It also is it still open like it used to be. Yeah. See, I had an issue with that because I felt they were piping noise into the press box through the speakers.

And, you know, the job is, you know, you're trying to concentrate here, you know. And it's, yeah. I like it because you feel a part of it. the game. You feel a part of the atmosphere. Now, do you miss stuff on TV, though? Like, do you feel like that takes away from your? So this is the great thing. These days, I don't need to say what system I use to watch TV because they can advertise. I would love that. But I can, I pull it up online. So, and I keep one AirPod in, usually decide that Bo is not sitting there because, like, I want to talk to Bo. But you don't have a delay. You're watching.

No, I have a delay. But actually the delay's better. But just so you're catching. That would drive me nuts. It delays better, I think. Really? You want a delay? Yeah, because you can go back to see. You see it live and you look. Exactly.

So I put one air pod in, which is if Bo's sitting on my right, then I'll put the air pot on my left because I love watching a game next to Bo. I mean this, Bo is so perceptive during the game. Yeah, I get to watch a lot of games. Yeah, awesome guy to watch football with. That'd be really cute if you guys shared like wired headphones and each did one ear. That would be nice. Zach Bryant wants to know.

Do you know a biggie line? I don't know if this is biggie. It might be about biggie, but there's the thing. I love where this is going. Biggie, biggie, big, big, can't you see? Don't you know your words? Just hypnotize me? That is biggie.

It's close enough. It's Puffy singing it in a biggie song. Okay. Or is that a female singing that part? It's a female, yeah. But it's hypnotized, yeah. I thought you were going to go. It's not quite exactly correct.

It's okay. I expected you get a 10 crack commandment. but, you know. What's a lyric from that? Don't get high on your own supplies, Zach. I've heard that expression. I've never heard of this song. What's relevant about, like, I know I sound ignorant here.

What's relevant? He dropped a line earlier. Oh, okay. That was responding to that. Gotcha. No, no, I did see. Sega Genesis. I did see that.

For the record, number one, without a doubt. Somebody asked about it. One more chance I made as good as it gets. As good as it gets? Jack Nicholson, maybe. more chance of this song. That is my favorite biggie song. Oh, okay.

Yeah. I did see that movie. The rest can always move around, but one more chance will always be number one. I want to make sure I'm bringing. Les, how about you? Your favorite biggie song. Yeah, I do not have one. I'm sorry.

Which favorite dead song? Ah, that's a very good question. Althea might be my favorite. Yeah, that's in my top five, I think. Okay. I was saying I want to bring adequate juice to the table here. You could be juicy. Well, quote,

The, our partners over at DNVR, they got complimented by our friends over at Pat McAfee for the juice that they brought to the show right there for their intro. So, you know, you have to be authentic to yourself, but I want to bring the appropriate amount of juice here.

That's good. How many concerts have you been to, Zach? Concerts? Yeah. In life. Malcolm Gladwell doesn't count. Well, so not including, like, Like school concerts, right?

Yeah, those don't count. Professionals. Three. Hmm. Okay. Two or three. All right, let me see. Most recent? Wait, one I covered though.

No, that doesn't count. Okay. That's unbelievable. One I covered. Which one was that? That was- Thanks for watching on Fast, by the way. Go to all p-h-o-o-com to find out what concert

Zach has been to. So, great tease. So when I was in college, I wanted to write for every section of the paper, because I thought it was important, like, to be versatile. It was just some idea that I had. So I went to the arts section, and I said, can I do a concert, like a story on a concert?

And they said, sure, it was Bob Dylan. I'm sorry, I wish Bob Dylan. Billy Joel was coming to Philadelphia or to Syracuse. And so I went to a Billy Joel concert at Syracuse. And I... Isn't it a Joel, Billy? No, it is Bill. And then interestingly, years later, when I started dating my now-wife, Emily, her parents got tickets to a Billy Joel concert.

So you've seen Billy Joel twice? Yes. And I, the only song. So 67% of your concerts in your life. And the other one. And the other one was my ninth grade year, a friend of mine invited me to see. Ooh, let me guess. What?

Dave Matthews. No. Ah. I couldn't. I thought I saw you doing beer bombs and camping with me. Joy was at the Dave Matthews concerts. I couldn't hang at the Dave Matthews concert. Oh, those were a party, man.

I was at, it was a U-2 concert. It was at the Wells Fargo Center. It was then the first union or of course, states, whatever it was. Wachovia. And I had never been to a concert before. And I sat, it was the top row of the second level, of the top section. and I was like mystified by I was like what do you do here like do I sit down do I I didn't know what to do there smoke a doobies and then and then I remember I remember the line what did you end up doing so long

what I you see back then you didn't have phones I didn't have a phone so it's not like I could look at sports scores did you sit up or stand down what was that did you sit or stand Well, the person in front of me stood, but I was watching the screen because they were so far down there. Sometimes one does that. I was watching the screen, and it was fine, but I always used this line. Joy has probably heard me say this in high school. To me, I could have sat in my car and put the music on really loud, and I would have had the same experience for a lot less money than I did at the concert.

Jamie's shaking his head Yeah, no Chris Stapleton is here tonight in New Orleans Oh yeah? M.J. Lenderman was playing a show Yeah, yeah, I thought about that, yes. How many shows do you think you've been to, Lus? Oh.

You're a music head? Yeah, a little bit. Because my wife and I are trying to compile a list of every show we've seen. Oh, God, I could never do that. And it's been an ongoing thing for a couple months now, and we're over 150. Combined?

Yeah, some of, that's just how our mind's probably a little longer. I just thought of something relevant I can contribute to this conversation. Okay. So in the old days of the Super Bowl, they would have a press conference with the musical performer. Yes. And they had that today. One year in Miami, it was Prince. Yeah, and the rain.

Well, but not the press conference wasn't happening. It was inside the convention center. Prince didn't want to do a press conference. So he walks out there, says that, curtains part, all of his backup singers and his bands is there. And he gives this like a 45-minute set. Really? Purple Rain, Little Ray, the whole bit. Raspberry Beret, the whole, you know, the singers are, you know, dancing.

Not at all what I expected when I went to the concert. I got to sit in on three Super Bowl sound. checks of the performers. It was Bruce Springsteen in Tampa. It was Katie Perry in Arizona. Oh, so then I did go to a concert then because I was at those games. I don't know if those count. All right, keep going.

And the third one was Madonna. Okay. So I got to see those sound checks. That was kind of cool. But those didn't count towards our list. So if you include this, Justin Timberlake was the halftime act for the Eagles Patriots game. Nipplegate.

No, no, Eagles Patriots. Oh, that was. Shannon Jackson, yeah, yeah, yeah. Rahana, Rihanna. Rihanna? Sorry, Rihanna was the halftime show for the game two years ago. Rahana's hips do lie, by the way. I'm sorry.

Oh, that's Shakira. Oh, that's Shakira. I'm sorry. Oh, well. I did. I remember vividly. Under my Umbahrella. Hello.

I remember the lead to my story. I love Rihanna. The lead to my story. Hello, hello. It was about how the Eagles lost the second half, you know, lost the halftime lead. And so it was as Rihanna was playing, but I remember R-I-H-A-N-N-A, as Rihanna was playing, you know, Kaiser White and T.J. Edwards or whoever it was, were saying the game zero-zero, something like that. But I used Rihanna in that.

Bruno Mars. I was in an elevator with Bruno Mars before the Super Bowl in 2013. Mm. Okay. Yeah, so I've been a few of these. He's a, so count as concerts. What? You have to go to you and transfer one night.

Yeah. I would go for Kelsey's show. That would be, but honestly, it's like. Chris Stapleton, I would love to go see it tonight. Yeah, me too. Yeah, that would be great. I have nothing against, I have nothing against concerts. Great, okay.

I mean, you clearly do. No, what I'm saying? Three is, like, hard to do it. I'm not saying you guys need to go to the Philadelphia speaker series with me, right? Like, everyone has different interests. I would go to that. Okay, I got, I'm a season ticket holder. So everyone, you're going to have season tickets to that?

To the Philadelphia speaker series? Yeah. Oh, yes. Really? Yeah, there, there's a waiting list. Who's up next? Who is up next? It is, the one in March, I can pull it up for you.

That's okay. Do you go to everyone? I try to, yeah, during the season it's so hard, but I try to. In any event, I don't, I don't have a passion for music. as much as other people do. I don't judge anyone for going to. I'm not judging you. You just fascinate me at all times.

You have a beautiful brain, Zach. Thank you. Concert venue-wise. Someone mentioned union transfer, which is a great place. But as an old person. The Met? The Met. And you know why?

You get to sit. I can sit down, yes. I do not need to stand for two hours. Come on, man. If you're, I mean, if it's like a real energetic thing, sure. But if you're standing there, I agree with you. I saw iron and wine at Union Transfer. You know, I was like, you know, I mean, it's not, you sit there and watch iron and wine.

You don't have to, you don't dance to iron and wine. I saw Sturgle at the Met, Sergius Simpson about two months ago. And we actually got to sit because it was on the side. And it was a school night, you know, tired parents. It was just nice to sit down. Yes. How many concerts have you been to, Bo? if you had to like throw a dart and guess.

Not that many. I would say something like 35. Okay. It's a good number. And most recently? Mount Joy. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah.

Shout out to Matt. Yeah, Matt Quinn. Mountjoy's awesome. Yeah, I think I saw them with Kurt Vile one time. Well, nice. There you go. Matt's our tight end expert. E.J. Jenkins.

Super Chat. Z.B. would you have gone to a festival? me and Julia went to a three-day festival right before we launched up in Woodstock Really? Yeah.

We had a port of We had a camper, Zach, so you had a bed. Okay. No number two is on the camper, though. So you had to do that elsewhere. Where? Port-a-potties are in the facility. All right, I'm a no right there.

Yeah. I'm a definite note. You know, in 2017, when the Eagles played the Rams and they were redoing L.A. Coliseum, yes. Jeffrey Lurie came out of a porta potty, and I thought, this might be the first time in Jeffrey Lurie's life that he is used to port-a-pottie. Could be. He did not look impressed. Now, if you told Zach that Jeffrey Lurie had been in the porta-pottie, he all of a sudden...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He may reverse course. I will wear it. Never know what you could learn. We're not that close, but. All right. Real quick, before we get out of here, there's a question, I guess,

towards you guys have been around the team more than I have this week. Any concern about the sicknesses that is apparently traveling through the team? You know what? 2017, there was a bad illness going around. They were staying in the Mall of America. Everyone was sick.

Actually, a few people, Duce Daly included, missed the parade that following Thursday because of, like, the back end of the illness. A few of reporters were sick that. Dama was dreadfully ill during the, Paul Dama, which during the game. Yeah. I mean, that was, you didn't go outside during that Super Bowl. Everyone was in, and so everyone was getting sick. So, look, the fact that it's earlier in the week or I guess relatively earlier in the week. Yeah, we have several days here.

Yeah. Now, if it's one of these things that it's spread. from Jalen Carter. But I said the other day, Nolan Smith was in the locker room the other day wearing a mask. Yeah, I got to think the medical staff is going to kind of be on this.

They're not going to just let events take their course, you know. Yeah. Oh, we have one other super chat from Steve who says, better 2024 offseason acquisitions, Sequin, Barclay and Zach Bonn or Les Bowen and Fran Duffy. I can say it's a tie. Yeah. Can I reserve judgment until Sunday night?

Well, Fran's got to be carrying the load there, I think. I mean, Fran is doing an awesome job with this draft guy to hope everyone. And the diehard sale ends this evening, I believe. Get in there. And let's get some thumbs ups in the chat here. Mr. Berman's been to three concerts. That deserves some thumbs up. Here, here, let me just say this, okay?

You're going to get the draft guide eventually, right? Now, so like. Yeah, you're right. Why not get it tonight when you're the best deal of the year? Yeah, absolutely. It's like, you know, look, I got a, hey, moron. I'm not telling anyone how to spend their money. Like, look, you might want to, you know, you might have more money coming in a month from now and you'd rather buy it then.

But you're going to get this. This draft guide is outstanding. Trust me, it is outstanding. I'm sure. It's a living document. You're going to get it. So why not take advantage of the deal right now? Listen to the man.

And I don't know if you can hear it on the stream, but there's like a marching band practicing. I don't know if that's practice or it's for the Super Bowl experience, but you hear those big old drums. So Zach has now been to his fourth concert. I'll tell you what. I feel like I've been to a concert every night. night this week because Bo and Joya what is going on outside our hotel oh the train yeah both is that what it is there you don't hear it no every night oh my it's all it's outrageous city noise is nothing to me I have true I mean this is no this is like this is like this is not city noise

this is like a freight train there's oh I've heard the trains yeah no it's like a it's like a it's like a beeping sound right yeah hmm it's brutal that's a that's a that's a nice sound to me that's a that's a sleeping sound is the sound of the city so then what I do is on our TVs, they're smart TVs. I put on YouTube and I put on our shows. I try falling asleep, listen to the shows, and then I end up just studying. Studying our shows.

I thought you were going to say I put on white noise or something. No, no, no, I put on our shows. I agree. That is kind of demented, yeah. Why? But there's so many things I want to do better from these shows. So, like this show tonight, I'll have some opinions on. But the good thing is we'll be back tomorrow.

Put on a Billy Joel concert. Yeah, you're still rock and roll to me, right? Right? That's something. I can do, you know, the piano man. Sing me a song, you know, piano man. Let me keep going here? Yes, please.

Yeah, keep going. Okay. What's the one with Joe DiMaggio in it? That would be Simon and Garfunkel. No, the one where he just names everybody. Oh God, I didn't start the fire. I didn't start, yeah, that one. Okay.

I said it's still rock and roll to me. New York State of Mind. Yeah, he played that at Syracuse, actually. So, yeah, look, I got to say, and my in-laws watch this show, okay, I turned it on that night. You would have thought I was the biggest Billy Joel fan. I researched him. I can tell you everything that. I can tell you about Christy.

I don't doubt this. I could tell you about Christy Brinkley. I can tell you about, like. How many DUIs? Oh, Bo, this was, or I'm sorry, less. No, I'm less. Yes. Yeah, this was like 2014, so I don't know what's happened since then.

But yeah, I had every fact ready to go. I had every fact ready to go. Just like every good concert goer. Yes. Yes. There will be a quiz at the evening. And did you get them all in that night? Oh, yeah.

It's like the time when, you know, you know how Father's Day is the U.S. Open in golf. And we were spending Father's Day with my father alone, and he loves golf. And I don't know anything about golf. And, I mean, I knew every backstory going on in that U.S. Open that year, because I'm sitting there, and I'm like, yeah, so, you know, Anthony Kim, I'm going for this, and I'm going on and on. So anyways. great stuff i hope you guys learned a lot about the super bowl

and they let their daughter marry this annoying little no at all you know we've got one more show to come this week that'll be tomorrow at two o'clock easter uh day niz is hoping to make it here just in time oh is he's going to the game he's going to the game he's flying in he gets in a little bit before showtime he's got a day pass to radio row but there's no guarantees that he'll get here on time i have I have Word that we may be joined by Greg Rosenthal and Jordan Rodry. Oh, that's awesome. We're a little sit down.

That'll be fun. And we'll see what other surprises we get as we finally turn the page to the big game on Sunday. Thank you, Les. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you, Zach. Thank you, Julia. Thank you, Chris. Give it up, give it up for Les Bowen.

Get a diehard membership, if you haven't. Great time to do it. And that's all we got. We'll see you tomorrow. And as always, we love you. Y'all silly like the mayor.