PHLY Philadelphia Eagles Podcast - The Eighth Annual Osprey Awards: Hit The Road, Zach!

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

It's the greatest night of the year, live from the rebuilt Hard Rock Cafe, as Nick Sirianni, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, Howie Roseman, Zack Baun, Devin White, A.J. Brown and Zach Berman are celebrated by an adoring crowd. Don't miss the laughs, the speeches, the trophies, and definitely don't miss the music. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

And we are here, finally, in person. What an achievement to have rebuilt the famed Philadelphia Room here at the beloved Hard Rock Cafe, after it was terrorized and burned to the ground just 193 very long days ago. Thank you to all of you for helping us get here. Building back brick by brick by rock and roll, memorabilia brick, look around and don't ever forget that while beauty is impermanent, so too is destruction.

There is poetry in this rebirth for this iconic symbol of Philadelphia glory, and the joke is on the heathens who sought to tear us down. While Washington remains the symbol of greed and moral bankruptcy, Philadelphia, in our daily grit, is once again the city of champions. The capital, you can have it. The hard rock over our dead bodies. As for the vandals who stormed these hallowed halls, drunk on the stupor of a rookie quarterback, blind to their old, terrible defense, they would be served to think about their team's name.

Commanders, commanders, commanders, commandars, command ars, of course, the keyboard shortcut for reload, which is exactly what we have done here tonight. Beyond this resurrection, we are here for two purposes this evening. First, to celebrate the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. A season that began when an ill-time snowstorm led to the delayed return of head coach Nick Siriani, who was then buttressed by new coordinators in Kellyn Moore and Vic Fangio, an offseason of home run swings by Howie Roseman, and the additions of Sequin Barkley, Bryce Huff, Zach Bond, Mackay Beckton, and CJ Usama,

a draft in which staying pat for Quinyon Mitchell meant being able to trade up for Cooper DeGine to invigorate youth into an aging secondary. A season that began with a trip to Brazil for mall sushi and difficult to pronounce cocktails. Caprene. Which led to late-game mishaps,

sagging defense, shaved heads, and yelling at fans. A season that's began to turn as Vic Fangio's defense coalesced into a smash-mouth unit built the way you're taught not to wipe back to front. A season defined by Sequin, Barclay's dominance on the ground as he chased 2,000 yards rushing behind a powerful offensive line as the team answered every challenge along the way. Come the playoffs, the Eagles dismantled the greatest quarterback of our time.

Jordan Love The divisional round delivered a scenic snow game for the ages With Jalen Carter coming up huge When the season was on the line Next up were the commanders Who were beaten up so badly They left Philadelphia

Looking like Josh Harris And then the Super Bowl When the Eagles completed a monumental run That landed them on the list Of the greatest teams of all time And delivered another parade down Broad Street. Yeah, give it up.

But as the Eagles prepare to begin their new climb with the preseason opener tomorrow night, we are also here to say goodbye to a friend. Please, give it up, give it up. For the one, and definitely the only, Zach Berman. All right, Zach, we're going to get to you later. In the meantime, please accept this parting gift.

Hold on. I've got a few things for you here. It's going to be a long night. I can imagine. I want you to be prepared. Some limes, some sugar. Ah, a caprina. And what you need for the caparina. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Ospreys.

You can take the hats off. How about the best? Take the best off, too. That's up to you. Boys, how you doing? Doing great. Doing great, excited for the show. How are you feeling, Zach?

Honestly, I am touched and overwhelmed and appreciative of everyone here, and I am, as always, in all of your creativity. Well, thank you. All right, the first award of the evening. Who's ready? Talking to this, Mike? Okay. The best separating player of the year. The nominees, Landon Dickerson, who went to his third straight pro ball.

at left guard. We got a little feedback here, huh? Fred Johnson, who started six games in place of Lane Johnson and Jordan Milata and earned himself a contract. Tanner McKee, who finished the season as the second best quarterback in the league by EPA per dropback. That's true. DeVante Smith, career low, 833 receiving yards, but made perhaps the most memorable offensive play of the Super Bowl. and Mackay Bechtin who won a job in the summer dominated as a run blocker en route to a handsome free agent deal. Landon Dickerson was the winner last year.

What do you guys think? God, Zach. Give us off. So I'm going with Devante Smith on this one because of the dagger in the Super Bowl, right? So you think about the season, you think about that memorable play, it's a parroting player award,

or is it supposed to be somebody who we didn't expect? it's up to you yeah look i i want some equity with devonte so give me smitty here so your journalistic integrity is in question no no not at all keep that in mind fran how do you feel uh i leaned towards landed dickinson here only one in the vest yeah only right um i'm gonna go landed dickerson here i think that you know obviously look devonte faced injury at times he had the huge play in the super bowl uh had some great moments throughout the year. But I think Dickerson was a steady force throughout. And yeah, I'm going to go with

Landon Dickerson. I think you know who I think should win this. Yeah, we know, we know. I mean, what I can't, he stole a scene. Well, who do you guys think? We should pass it back and forth, me. What do you say, Reed? Tanner McKee, Reed, and the Osprey for best separating player on offense goes to Julia, hit it. Senator, what's going on, man? It's Benjamin St. Jude's defensive back for the L.A. Chargers, and I wanted to personally send you this video to congratulate you on winning the award,

which led to you getting a promotion. There's nothing better than congratulate someone for some hard work dedication and discipline that led to him getting a promotion, man. I love it. And you got to thank your not-so-secret crush for allowing me to send you this video, man. So we thought of you,

and she wanted to make sure that you feel seen and recognize for what you did. So, um, felicitation for your promotion. I'm really content. And if you had to be anything or whatever or whatever to be sure, I'd just not to send me. Always there for you support.

It's all right. Zagrebrenz, Benjamin San de Juska. Congratulations, Canter McKee in French, on winning the award for best Seperning player. Ha, ha, ha. Once again, that is not

how they speak in Montreal. He just did. But I'm proud of my Canadian heritage. I'm proud of my son Reed. He's the one who said that. So shout out to Reid over there. All right. Next up is the best separating player on defense.

The nominees, Cooper DeGine, who entered the lineup in week six, never looked back and became one of the best nickels in football, allowing the Eagles to stay in their nickel personnel for most of the stretch run. N'Cobie Dean, who played the best football at the best football. his young career until he suffered a season-ending injury. Milton Williams, who had a career-high, five sacks, and a dominant playoff run. Brandon Graham, I mean, you want to talk about a supporting character arc, dominates, suffers a season-ending injury, comes back for the Super Bowl, and you've got Nolan Smith, who, as we've talked about, perhaps the best in-season improvement of any player

I can remember, where do you guys fall? Fran, I'll start with you. I think this one is much easier than the offensive one. I think this one's Cooper DeGine. I think when you look at his role from week five when he got inserted into the starting lineup on. The impact he had, obviously the pick six in the Super Bowl as well. To me, this is Cooper DeGine. Yes, I feel similarly here going with the Super Bowl theme of Devante Smith. I need to stay with Cooper the Gene. The season changed, too, when he entered the starting lineup.

And I should add with the Super Bowl theme that Cooper the Gene is on the back of a book coming out on September 23rd called Leap Year. Have to get that plug in while I can. Where can people buy that? What's that? People can buy that wherever books are sold. And shout out to Brandon Graham, who wrote the foreword for that book. I think we can agree.

The Osprey, or Best Separating Player on Defense, does, in fact, go to Cooper DeGine. A PHLY employee. We were in the tank. Next up is the Rook of the Year. The nominees, Quinyon Mitchell, who established himself as one of the league's best young corners. Cooper DeGine, the winner of the Best Sopariting Programmer. player award for most outstanding supporter on defense. Jailix Hunt

who ran through Joe Tooney like a Mack truck. Will Shipley, who had that force fumble, and Johnny Wilson, who boy can he block. Zach, where do you go? I got to go Quigionan Mitchell, not just for the way he played, but I like to diversify the awards here, right? It shouldn't just go to the same people.

Why is it always about race with you? I mean, spreading it out, giving different people the awards, right? You know, remember in high school at the award ceremony, the same person won every award? I don't want that. I want everyone to try to get different awards. So this one goes to Julia? It was typically Alex Kaplan and Pete Vernon. Shout out to them. Yeah. Joy was awesome in high school. Julia, I think you're awesome now, too. It's Quinyan. I'm a little alarmed by how much football we're getting into this early in the show, considering we have three hours

to go, but it's... You gotta front-load it. You gotta front-load it. Everybody agrees, Quinyan Mitchell? Congratulations to Quignan Mitchell for winning the Rook of the Year. Next up, a fun category. The Egress, I've had a few, award for the worst decision of the year.

The nominees, Nick Siriani, kicking a field goal, up three, with under two minutes to go against the Falcons in week two, thereby incentivizing the Falcons to win the game, losing Dylan McMahon in favor of James Bradbury and Alberto, signing Bryce Huff.

There was reasons. Not extending Milton Williams sooner. And Terrell Lewis for not paying that OnlyFans model. I mean, which one had to be his consequences in their life? Nick Seriali will probably have more hair if it were The decision in week two against Atlanta. I do the Super Bowl if he doesn't do that. You can say that about a lot of this stuff, though.

You're thinking. Yeah, no, I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to go with the Nixiriani at the end of the game. I think that's the one. Look, it's in crunch time, it's a tough one, but you were incensed. You were inconsolable. It's day one stuff.

Yeah, that was a bad one. Yeah, I like to think who you are some of the time is who you are all the time, so I would probably tell Terrell Lewis that he probably should have happened on. But in reality, I agree. Nick Siriani at the end of that fourth down, they lost that game.

They could have handled it differently. Who knows how the season wouldn't materialize otherwise, but I still believe that when you look at win probability, that was a game they should not have lost. So, egress, he would have a few. Very nice. We all agree? Siriani?

Okay, McMahon. Oh, McMahon. I don't know. There's a populist uprising for Dylan McMahon. We'll give the Osprey to Nick Siriana. Congratulations to Nick Seriana. All right, Zach, we do have a couple other non-award cameos for people who we have reached out to wish you well on your way. And so let's play the first one. May I turn around and look?

You may. Zach, Seth Greenberg here. and I want to congratulate you on your new position. And, you know, I really did appreciate how you covered me while my time at Virginia Tech. You were always fair. You always had a job to do. Hopefully, we gave you the access that you needed to do that job. But I have to admit that your coworkers are a little mift.

I mean, you're leaving them. And, you know, they're not really happy about that, especially you're leaving them for that other team down the road. they call it the enemy. I don't know if it's the enemy. Actually, I think it's a great opportunity for you. I think a lot of exciting things are happening. You've done a great job in what you've done. Now, I have to admit, your group, if a picture came up on the wall of you,

they might put a big X in the middle of it. I don't know, but I always did appreciate the manner in which you did your job. And I always respected the job that you did. And that's the most important thing. if someone's honest and fair and does the job the right way and doesn't have an agenda, that's all you can ask for as a coach. Now, your coworkers, they might never mention your name again. That's bullshit.

You know and I know it. They really do appreciate and respect you. And, you know, you do your job at the very highest level. So I'm wishing you best of luck and enjoy what you do. because you do it really, really well. I hope to see you soon. We can hear that very well, huh? What's that?

Okay, we'll work on that. Zach, does that make you feel? I am eager to watch this on Friday to hear what Seth said. Seth Greenberg was one of the first college basketball coaches I covered at the Washington Post in 2008, and I learned a lot covering. him and I pestered him probably more than he appreciated then, but yeah, he was a joy to cover back

then. So I, I'm eager to hear what he said. I hope he said nice things, but I appreciate, I appreciate set. All right, I missed a spot in the rundown. We're going to circle back. We're going to play another video here. We actually have somebody to present the award for the rook of the year. Oh, gosh. Hey, Kenyon, former watch your quarterback in Super Bowl, M.V.P. Mark Rippin here. On behalf of myself and Fran and Zach, we'd like to congratulate you on winning this award for the best new hire at work. We thought you were going to be good, but even still, you surpass all of our expectations. I know your favorite restaurant is Hard Rock Cafe, and you love jewelry. So go, commanders, and thank you for everything you do, my friend.

Have a great day, and HTTR, HTTC. Hail to the birds. And hail the commanders. Cheers. All right, Mark Rippin. You see, we're making them a part of it. You understand what's going on. Yeah. Okay.

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doing cameos for sickos over the past couple years. It's like around $1,300. Nothing to sneeze at. And so we're going to be donating that split between CHOP and the Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia. So that'll be about 200 for CHOP and 1100 to the Attic Youth Center so we can officially close the book on the Emanuel Forbes bet.

Fair enough, fair enough. Okay. We move on, the next award of the evening. The Ugly Duckling Award for the person who most surpassed expectations. This one feels a lot of actually a lot of good potential options here. Zach Bonn, tough to beat Zach Bonn in this category. Signed as a special team's player turned into the best inside linebacker in football. But, Sequin Barclay, signed to be great, turned out to be historic.

Quinion Mitchell, way better than rookie cornerback should be. Vic Fangio, we thought, what might be reasonable was bring this defense to respectability. Instead, he brought him to the best defense in football. And then Nick Siriani, let the team do a Super Bowl? Zach, where do you go on the person who most surpassed expectations? ZB. Zach Bond. He made good arguments for Sequin.

Made a good argument for Quignan for Nick Siriani. But we're celebrating ZB tonight. We've got to go with Zach Bonn. I think that when you consider what the expectations are with him coming in, sub-package address or maybe, becomes an all-pro linebacker. You can't ask more. I feel like from now and maybe

when I read a name, we'll do applause and then we'll read it that way. See what people think. But we do have somebody to give us this award. The Osprey for Ugly Duckling goes to... Up everybody, Jay Gruden here. X head coach of the Washington.

Canberds. Hail to... Cambirds. Now the commanders. I'm sporting my WMBA shirt. Sophie Cunningham. Man, I'm a huge fan of her. She's a tough son of a bitch. Anyway, I want to congratulate Zach on winning the ugly duckling award. Zach, everybody had their doubts about you.

Nobody thought you could do anything. They thought you were a bum, but nothing to offer the world. However, you came out of nowhere and turned into a beautiful, awesome bald man. Congratulations. Prove the doubters wrong. Keep doing your thing, Zach. You are the man. Pretty cheap.

All right, I'm hurting for money. There is something with, I mean, there is something with him and Rippin. These guys are just dying to say the name of the former team. They want to shoot wearing it in there so bad. So thank you to Jamie for go-birdsing those instead. All right, next up, the Kaka-you-Suck Award for an opposing player, coach, or executive who performed the worst against the Eagles. Some very good nominees here.

We begin with Frankie Louvre. in the NFC championship game, embarrassing himself in front of the entire country. Next up, Cooper Rush in week 10. 13 of 23 for 45 passing yards. Next up, I'm sorry about this, friend. Jordan Love in the wildcard round. 20 of 33 for 212 yards and three interceptions.

He was hurt. Patrick Mahomes. In the first half of the Super Bowl, six for 14 for 33 yards. passing in two interceptions. And finally, Joe Shane. That's after the season.

I think it's got to be Joe Shane. The crowd. You were right on there. It's got to be Joe Shane. Delivering Sequin Barclay to our front door. First award he's ever going to win. Unclassy move there. Come on, Joe Shane's party.

What a cop. Joe Shane. Congratulations to Joe Shane on his Osprey Award. All right, a brand new award that we've never had before. It's time for the very first Franz Dovebird Award. Yes. Now, before we get there, friend, you know, last year's Ospreys, your debut.

Yeah. Are you feeling reflective? Are you feeling ZB-ish about this whole thing? I would say a little less angst than ZV right now. But overall, though, it's been a great year. Okay. Great year. Amazing year.

Wow, thank you. Yeah. I think you will agree, Zach, probably harder to find things to make fun of Fran about for than either of us. Well, Fran's football opinions are outstanding. Yeah. I mean, I would like to think that it shouldn't be so easy

to find things to make fun of me about, but I agree. Fran is impenetrable. He did it again. What? Did what again? All right. It's too early for this.

Wait for the third hour. The nominees for Franz Dubbert go to doing guys. Jordan Love. Guilty. Season two's. That's going, yeah. Nathan Peterman, just in perpetuity.

Deep cut, yep. And then Swooper. What was that? What did it? What was that? that one? Couch Ferry. Oh, the Couch Farr.

That's great. Very good. Yep. I love that. Good job. That's a good one. Good one. I mean, the applause for doing guys.

Yeah. Speaks for itself. Congratulations to doing guys. Yes. Well. For winning the Oscar. My, my best memory ever at St. Elmo's,

and I've been to St. Elmo Probably every year for 13 years, is sitting with three of students. football minds and them just talking about all the guys they were doing that that that that that that that it's like and I'm the only one there who hasn't done all these guys and of course who was the only guy who you did do who was that rock Sanders you're on Rahim sanders that is true Rahim Sanders former five-star recruit four or five star recruit all right next up we're going to keep rolling through these awards we've got more fun stuff to come but we

got to get through these first okay the golden fruit double award for the player with the most juice. A.J. Brown, the defending champion of this two years in a row, he is nominated once again, as is Jalen Hertz, Sequin Barclay, Jalen Carter, and Zach Bond. I think this is Seekwan Barkley. I think when you, especially considering the fact that he set all the records for the big play touchdowns, the way that he carried this team, to me it's number 26. for all of you who have met me in person before and the question I always ask is how can the show be better so I like to take your feedback so give me your answer who's the answer for this one there's the answer Sequin Barclay. Great crowdwork fantastic I think this is Sequin yeah congratulations to Seyquin Barclay. All right next up we have the Zach's dovebird of the year. A lot of options here.

Oh God. We start with Seekoine Barkley. You were very, you know, you were very ahead of the curve on Sequin Barclay. You got to give you credit. Yeah. Next up, Malcolm Gladwell. Also nominated, Technology. Another in-perputity nominee for you here, Kyle Pitts. Of course.

And of course, the final nominee, Zach, Dane Brugler. I'm going to give this to Fran because I can't vote from him for a line. Dane Bruegler. Congratulations. to Dave Rulman. Make sure everyone reads Fran Duffy's diehardtrak. It is outstanding.

I need to say, so Fran, well, a Bo and Shield were always privy to Fran's draft notes. This was my first time seeing Fran's draft notes this year, right? I wasn't on that text chain.

I was like, I felt like Coach Flynn at a certain point when Bo and Shield used to text Coach Flynn. So now that I see Fran's draft work, I can say Fran is my favorite draft Now, by the way, you mentioned Sheal.

Yes. I believe Sheel is in the audience tonight. Sheel, I'm very touched that you came by the neighborhood and stopped five. I did it again, by the way, I skipped a cameo. The Golden Fruit Duff Award for the Player with the Most Juice goes to. What's going on, Kwan? It's Cameron Cheeseman here, former long sapper for the Washington Commanders. Your friend Jeffrey wanted me to come on here and wish you a big congratulations on a heck of a year. You had an awesome year and you won the Golden Fruit Dove Award at work.

I mean, that is, that's unbelievable. I mean, that's one step above the Super Bowl, in my opinion. You brought the juice every day. You did what it took to get the job done. You had excellent work ethic. just like all my teammates and good friends, we strive to complete a goal, and you did it. I hear you are a huge commanders fan,

and just want to wish you a big congratulations, even heard you got to meet the president. That's awesome. That's a great time. And yeah, man, congratulations on winning the award and having a great year of work. It's Cameron Cheeseman again. Hope you have a great rest of your year.

put in a lot of more work, a lot more work ethic, and have another successful year, and maybe I'll catch you out a game or something. Who knows? Have a good one. I worked very hard on making sure that they didn't have that idea. Like, oh, a big commanders fan here, you know, at work, you know. But there were a couple of commanders people who did not respond to the camera request. So maybe they stepped it out.

I think I called him Kwan, Not Seiquan to make it less obvious? Okay. Yeah? People call him Say. That's, yeah. When he grew up in Whitehall, they called him, you know, Sey. That was his name then.

Okay. For next year's Ospreys, I'll take that advice. All right, Zach, we have another cameo to play for you. This is not an award. This is another admirer of yours who wants to wish you luck on your future. Hey, Zach, congratulations on your new job. exciting, well-deserved. H.Z. tells me that you're going to do a good job, but that you have to be careful because he doesn't want to have to hire you a defense lawyer. I have

no idea what that means. He asked me to send you that message. All I want to do is wish you absolutely good luck on your new job. You're contributing to the economy and to your friends and family and I know you'll do a good job. So here's to your new job and to doing great at it and congratulations. He was the most expensive of the cameos.

He was also the quickest to respond. I'm talking like within an hour Dersh hopped right on it. But you probably couldn't hear it. Did not follow the prompt at all. The prompt was for him to tell you, good luck in the new job.

Just be forewarned, your colleagues want you to know, if you are as horny at your next job as you are at this one, you will need someone like me. And so because he didn't follow the prompt, I have finally decided, I don't think he's a good guy. So I understood the Seth Greenberg connection. When I saw that, I had to ask Fran who it was, and I didn't quite understand the Alan Dershowitz connection.

I said the O.J. Simpson lawyer? That was not, so, but I, I appreciate the creativity. I kind of know what it's referring to. I know what, you know, the Sheriff Joe thing a few years ago, I had no idea what that was. No idea. I'm not so pop culture, literally, like I do read the newspaper, so I'm familiar with some of this. But, um, I don't know if I should be complimented or insulted, but not. Nonetheless, thank you for the contribution.

You're very well. Yes. Okay, next up, one of my favorite awards. I think one of everybody's favorite awards, the Chicken Little Award for the best short-lived storyline of the season. Classic. The nominees, Devin White's group text

with J. Brown and J. Lerlund Hertz. That's a good one. That's a good one. Clint Kubiak Offensive Genius. Nick Siriani's beef with Zach Ertz. A.J. Brown tosses the ball, Tanner McKee's first touchdown ball into the stats. And then finally, Nick Siriani's kids at the podium. What do we think?

I'm hearing mostly group text. I think it's the group text. That would be my vote. Yeah, definitely the group text. I was working on a story on the group text at one point, never materialized. I was also working on a story on Devin White's. being a Starbucks owner in Los Angeles, didn't get to write that one either. So short-lived stories, definitely Devin White. Congratulations to Devin White's group text.

When do you think the last text, do you think he sends them a, like, congrats on winning the Super Bowl text? I'm sure that group text still exists, yeah. I hope our group text will still exist. Maybe not on Friday. All right, next up is the Goose Egg Award for the Best Eagle to not play a game for the team.

Hmm. Devin White, congratulations, nominated again. Also nominated. Albert O. Kuebunam. Matt Hennessy. Zach, maybe the last scoop

that we broke together. Never say never. We can, you know, we're gonna be did in this business for a long time, but we can work together. Speak for yourself. I plan on being in this business

for a long time. Next up, the great Dylan McMahon. And finally, Kaden Stearns. Wow. That is. It's harsh.

Crickets for Caden Stern. You were very high on Caden Sturton, Zach, I feel. I remember him at Texas. And with the Broncos. Tough injury. Played for Vic Fangio. That's right. Seems like the crowd is pretty heavily behind somebody here.

Has to be doing McMahon. Let's hit the cameo. Dylan. Mike Silver of the athletic hair. By here, I mean Steelers Camp and La Trobe. On my camp tour, I understand you won the goose egg award. I wanted to congratulate you on that. Sorry, you missed the party. I know your people love you, despite that unfortunate state of affairs. And listen, I hear that you are coming off the highest of

highs as a sports fan because you're an Eagles fan and they just won the championship, partly because of the roster that Howie Roseman built. And I've known him a long time. We've had moments of conflict and moments of humor. But one thing I've learned about Howie over the years is that one of his talents that you may not appreciate is that the man eats pound for pound more than anyone in the NFL. Apparently can hang with Andy Reed or really, really large people when he goes out and just crush his food. So just know that while he's wheeling and dealing and building a winner,

he is also showing down and somehow staying skinny. All right, Dylan, congrats, Goose Egg. You're the man. As far as you're concerned, he's Mike Gold. I see what you did there. All right, next up is the Bose Dovebird Award. We'll get a little crowd participation here. The nominees, D'Meiko Ryans. handsome man.

What a looker. Dylan McMahon. Lou Nichols. Brandon Chubb. That's a joke for the two of you. Brandon Chub is the Super Bowl Radio Row interview we did that never aired. Because we didn't know who he was.

But I think I did a very good job on the interview, nevertheless. Speak for yourself. I sort of parsed it out as we went on. Chris hasn't. We can play it later. And then Mike McDonald. I couldn't figure out a fifth one.

I think I was a little too high on Mike McDonald last year. It's a two horse race. Yeah, it's Don McMahon. Has to be Don McMahon. I thought we were going to go Chubb. Well, I would, but I don't think anyone in the audience would. They don't know. Well, you know.

There would. There you go. There you go. Congratulations. to Brandon Chub for winning. The Bose Dubb for Oscar Award. All right, I think you guys are going to like this one. We have the Cockatoo Good Award for Best Performance

by an Opposing Player or Coach. The nominees, Xavier Worthy, for his eight-yard reception in the third quarter, down 24 to nothing. The next nominee, Xavier Worthy, for his 50-yard reception in the third quarter. down 34 to nothing. We also have Xavier Worthy

for his 24-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter to make it 34-6. We have Xavier Worthy for his 50-yard touchdown reception with 156 remaining to narrow the score to 40 to 20. And finally, we have Xavier Worthy for his one-yard reception in the first quarter

when it was zero-zero. What a performance. I gotta go with the second touchdown because that raised his fantasy value by like four rounds this summer. Yeah? Yeah, Xavier Worthy for this one. Congratulations to Xavier Worthy's one-yard reception

for winning the Oscar. All right, Zach, I have another cameo for you. This one, I think you will like a little more than the Dersh. I hope so. Zach, what's going on is Jimmy King of the Fafire. Me and my Fafire. five brothers, along with Bo, want to congratulate you on your new job. Congratulations, my brother.

But I know you're a huge Fad F5 fan. Thank you for that support. Thank you for that love. And you may know more about our team than you do about your own family. But Bo and the family want to let you know that even though they're happy. before you, you broke their hearts by leaving. And could you please take the knife out of their backs? But anyway, they still wanna give you some love

and congratulate you. So for me, Jimmy King, my FAAFive Brothers along with Bo, congratulations. But we're gonna miss you and give us our knife back and go blue. FAB FI five, right there. I can, man.

Me and Nick Siriani can go back and forth. Jamie Lynch was at the Final Four game, he says, in 93. I'm envasive a lot of things about Jamie. That included. You'll have to rewatch it on Friday. I can't wait. Okay. Are you guys, are you two ready for the next ad break?

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You sick fuck. I think I can speak for everybody when I say that the second take was much better. All right. All right. We are back. The game of awarding a lot of the worst earlier.

Earlier. So let's run through those. You of course at the note. The Oscar for Even Solani excellence in the toughness like a hockey player. That went to the brand and rang. The unexpected virtue of ignorance award for Best Birdman goes to the Athletic Greens guy. Congratulations to him. On entry to family.

We have the Gussal Money Award for most evangelicals eagle. That was a serious. The Rocky Egg Award went to Bryce Huff. The Stork Award for Delivery of the Year went to Leah Woolf. Tough Night for Bryce. The Bustard Award for the Biggest Bust also went to Bryce Huff. The Terradactal Award for the Best Player of 31 Years or Older went to Lane Johnson. The Owl Be Better Award for Most Likely to Improve in 2025, went to Morrow Ojamo,

the closest voting we had narrowly edging out, Jelix Hunt. And then finally, the Exit Stage Flight Award for player of the team most needs to replace, went to Darius Slay. Congratulations to all of the winners. Okay. I got to tell you, this is my favorite part. So typically, the Ospreys are confined to just the league year, okay? Which ends in March, even though we do this show in August for some reason. But the story of the 2024 Super Bowl champion Eagles cannot be fully told without something that extended throughout

the off-season into late May. I'm talking, of course, about the tush-push. The play that has served as a lightning rod for the last three seasons, and that teams whine about giving the Eagles no credit for their implementation, while Roger Goodell uses it as a misdirect from the league's nefarious doings. This culminated, of course, we remember, with an intense vote and at the other owner's meetings in May, as Jason Kelsey joined the Eagles envoy to help make an impassioned case to make the play legal. By the skin of their teeth, the Eagles were victorious

in that push, thanks in no small part to the vivid arguments by the team's owner. God, where's this going? That's right. And so we reached out to Jeffrey Oh, no. No, I didn't. To see if he wanted to send a message of reflection on the Tush Push's journey for this celebration

of the season that was. He responded, surprisingly, in song form. Oh, no. I'm worried about this. Oh, my God. There was a time when boys grew hair. When their voices cracked And their bodies were changing

There was a time when the underwear And the sheets were a mess Because the thoughts were exciting There was a time Then our play Came along I dreamed wet dreams in time gone by God.

Of plays so good they'd be worth banning. It was young and had in chimes were had and tissues wasted, unpushed Lombardy rice. He's soft as cheddar, as Bart Star wants our play out of the get better. Of Anna de Blasio over here. who's a sicko or Miss Anna, as we know her, the biggest celebrity in our house. And if you are so moved by this, you want to hire this incredibly talented actress. And singer, go to Anna Duplosio.com. Thank, I mean, unbelievable. Give it up, give it up.

I just need a disclaimer as brilliant as that writing was. I want Jeffrey Lurianneau and everyone who was associated with Jeffrey Lurie to know. I had nothing to do with that one. So I've had a 15-year relationship with him. I'm looking forward to 15 years more, and I just... I promise you, Jeffrey is going to love that. You're sick. Number two, this is supposed to be his night.

Why would you put him in that kind of sticky situation? We have one more award here before we get to the Zach part. Oh, no, that's okay. I didn't want to go straight from Wet Dreams to you. Thank you. So we have the Come Black Swan Award for Comeback Player of the Year. The nominees, Brandon Graham, C.J. Gardner Johnson, Isaiah Rogers, John Ross.

He has a family. And Nicholas Mora. I'll go first here. Yeah, go for it. Yeah, so I was in that locker room in Los Angeles when Brandon Graham essentially said he was finished for the year. And he did not expect to return. And for him to be active for the Super Bowl, contributing member of the Super Bowl,

a wonderful ending to one of the storied careers in Philadelphia. So Brandon Graham is worthy of this award. This is for BG, but throw it on the pile. It's got a lot. Yeah. We actually do have somebody to deliver this one to Brandon Graham. BG, David Acres here. Hope you're doing well, brother.

Hey, I want to congratulate you on B&B. the comeback player of the year. And what an incredible career you've had from starting off as a rookie, being your teammate, watching you coming out of the University of Michigan, and how you dominated as you kind of grew through your career. And as you grew through life, obviously becoming a husband and a father. And not only being the legend on the field, but the legend off the field, the type of person you are is shown on a daily basis.

And with that, I mean, heck, man, you could probably run for mayor in Philly right now and win the job. You're just that quality of a person. So I just want to say it was an honor to be your teammate. It's been impressive to watch your career grow over the years. And the way you just stayed with the passion behind each and every game, all the trash talking you did, love watching that, brother. I couldn't do it myself, but I love watching you do it. and what you were able to do on the field.

So congrats as the champion that you are, and enjoy retirement as the champion that you are as a man and a husband as a father. Wish you knew the best, brother. God bless you. Congratulations to you. Go ahead. So you told David Acres to this report.

This one I did, yeah. There's no surprise on that one. All right, it is time now for the Cecil B. Duckville Award for Lifetime Achievement. Here he goes there. Not for that. Mr. Berman, I was going to come up here and talk about how much of a pleasure it has been to work with you for the last six years, how your dedication to the job and obsession with detail made life easier for me as your co-host.

I was going to thank you for being comfortable, being uncomfortable, and continuing to open the curtain to your off-the-press box life. I was going to say how refreshing it is to see that a man of your age never loses his youthful excitement about the job, nor his horniness. Instead, and buckle in because we've got a while, I don't have to say any of that, because the sickos have done it instead. Once I was able to scrounge up the password, I checked my work email last night.

By the way, it turns out BG is going to make an appearance at the Primo's New Orleans on February 4th, if you want to cover that. And I found a deluge of reflection from the sickos. Messages like those from Dan and Omaha, who thanked you for being the voice of reason in the first half of last season. He says, when so many people thought the season was hopeless and ready to call it quits on Siriani and Hertz, even after victories, Zach stayed true to his not too high when it's going good, not too low when it's going bad approach, even though he was often ridiculed during those weeks for still having a positive outlook on the rest of the season, and he was so fucking right.

Dan also wants to know if you're leaving meetings that now you can go to your future brother-in-law's bachelor party. No. Emily is shaking her head. There were a lot of messages from people thanking you for your dedication when you met them in person. Like Alex B., who met you before the Tampa game last year, a season after you had a misconnection at a preseason game the year before, which led to you giving him your personal cell phone number. Interesting choice.

Or Brian, who once shouted at you outside online to get into a John Mullaney show. He says, poor guy tried to enjoy his night out, and I couldn't let him escape his notoriety. He also says that he is going to pretend like you are not leaving the show. You just have bad Wi-Fi in Brazil. There's James from Scotland,

for whom you signed a book before the Panthers game last year. Rich Bobby is here. Rich has met you several times and notes that you are still the same guy, super kind, and always asking what you can do better. And for the record, his answer is always the same. He's got no idea. Tom in the UK started listening to us during COVID and says we were very important in giving him a sense of normalcy.

Then he and his girlfriend, Emily, flew to Philly for a game, and you met them before the 2003 mid-collapse Cardinals game. He says, Emily was a friend. thrilled a few months later when Zach gave her a special shout-out in the Spotify rap segment, which was controversial in the household. Because when you met in Philadelphia, Zach, after that, did not respond to his emails defending London's food city status or his Instagram DM thanking you for the birthday book you signed that she reached out to you. So he arranged for her to send you the screenshot of his Spotify,

knowing that you guys had a rapport. They also have a baby due in October. They said they might name it Berman. So there you go. Simon, who is here tonight, writes, Zach, you are the heart of the show. You had the unthinkably hard job of walking into a podcast with hosts who were inside jokers when you were on the outside,

who were irreverent when you were earnest, and who were used to talking about their personal lives on air when you were clearly uncomfortable doing so. And probably unsurprisingly, given what we know about your work ethic, you figured it out. You figured out how to do postgame podcasts at 3 a.m. for preseason games when Bo wanted to ask abstruse trivia questions, and you wanted to go to sleep and or die. You figured out how to make us root for you, even as you lost every single game of Swooper, the one per team draft where you picked

Derek Brown, or whatever that game was during the pandemic when you drafted Trey Thomas in the first round. You figured out what hentai was. The show must go on without you, but it won't be the same. Thank you for the endless hours of information and entertainment. Shout out to Amazon. Jason and his wife, Kelly, and Missouri are tried and true sickos, and Jason writes, I still remember the day it was announced you were joining birds with friends. I wasn't thrilled.

Now, several years later, I cannot imagine the P.HLY Eagles podcast without you. I would like to pass on one piece of advice. Please, please, please stop reading all the comments. Yeah. He says, stay true to yourself and your convictions. That's always been enough for the true sickos. There are a lot of recollections of favorite moments from calling a charcutory board a sharkucci to your valet story or your pronunciation of a certain Brazilian cocktail. Your disdain for Devante Parker or your dilemma with the phallic locker room trophy. Brian L. writes, some of my favorite Zeeb memories are him finding out about Entile Live on air, how embarrassed and proud he was after breaking the news of the Eagles draft pick,

all the super moments, dirt of the earth, him acting like riding Waymo was like entering heaven, him singing, I've got friends in low places for Shields Ospreys goodbye, and so many more. I'm sure Zeeby will be successful in his next venture, but please make sure it gets through to him how the sickos feel about him. That's our guy. Is Michael Moreno here tonight? Michael Moreno. Ah, well, I'll have to skip over that one, that. Instead, we go to Sicko Mark,

who helped make the original Birds with Friends theme song, and he hopped into action to make a new tribute for you, Zach. Julia, you can play that bad boy if you have it up. Your mother, Zach's flying a coop, using his natural leverage to ditch the group. Was it something Fran or Julia said, we got to know, wise boat, go through so many co-hosts,

but seriously, Zach, thanks for squark and the squawk, and signing Sicko's dad's copy of underdogs. Keep flying goose. Keep attacking a grind with your enthusiasm, unknown to mankind. Birds with friends. Sicko Schiol K or S. Kapadia. I'm not sure which one he wants to go by. Remembered how to write.

I mean, you say the same thing about me. Z.B. When you signed on to do a podcast six years ago, it was quite clear that you had no idea what you were getting into. You wanted to talk ball, yet days in you were stuck avoiding questions like, where did you honeymoon, why don't you pee sitting down, and which steakhouse does dynamic personality Pat Schumer like to frequent? But like Vit Fangio on a second possession, you adjusted quickly, learning when to lean into the bit and when to push back on Bo's many, many, many annoying habits. You were committed to bringing Eagles fans of boots on the ground perspective,

even if that meant powering through frustrating Wi-Fi issues. Shout out Brazil, shout out SEA. You embraced your inner Frank Lambert and the Maha movement, make America horny again. You told the story about how a high-ranking Eagles exec once asked you who you liked in the draft, and you mentioned consensus number one overall pick to Devi on clouding. Then you told the story a second time.

and a third time, and a fourth time, and a fifth time, and you get the point, C, B, with all due respect, you never need to tell that story again. He continues, the truth is you got good at this, really good. In fact, I'm not sure you ever realized how good you were. You had juice, you had perspective, you had personality,

and people liked listening to you. Having said that, the heart. What the heart wants what the heart wants, and like Isaiah Simmons, you are a positionless media personality. I have no doubt that you will continue to crush it at your next stop. All that I ask is the next time you write a feature, please don't go to the subject's favorite restaurant. We all need a second pitch or a plan B, unless, of course, you're Johnny Gans in the Super Bowl. That guy can write. So good luck and farewell.

Bo would say he loves you. I'll say, do better tomorrow. Now I will forward all of these to you So you can continue your crying Back Sweat Bob wrote you a poem Idiot Sandwich wrote you a full article No word from Big Farts Jones Tyler M is going to miss

your inadvertent sexual innuendo Noah V says he discovered the show in 2020 and hasn't missed an episode since Ruben from Maryland shares your Montreal heritage and is grateful that you let us inside your mind for the last six years, he correctly notes that the reason the comedy of the show works so well is because you have a built-in gravitas from your reporting bona fides. Claire, who was here, I mean, really pandered to you.

She could not have pandered more. She says, I'm going to turn to the esteemed West Wing. Ah, yes. As is only appropriate to sum up what kind of person you are. There's a scene when Leo is talking to Josh. means nothing to me. It means a lot to me. And shares a story about a guy who is walking down the street and falls in a hole.

Walls so steep he can't get out. A doctor and a priest each passed by, throwing something down when the guy asks for help, but moving along. Then a friend comes by and jumps in the hole and reassures his stuck friend that I've been down here before and I know the way out. That's you. Thank you for helping the sickos out with your knowledge, dedication, hard work, and kindness over the year. years. Sam in London is a couples therapist and regrets not offering us his services pro bono, which I do think would have made for a great episode. Then he offers this insight. Usually when people use the phrase old-fashioned values, they mean something ugly, but Zach embodies

the very best of them. Yusuf says, you've become my most trusted source for Eagles-related news and the central part of my Eagles fandom. Rahim Rock Sanders writes in, One thing in particular stands out about ZB. He treats every host, guest, production staff, and listener the same without discrimination. No matter the make, model, or spot of the car, ZB looks past the superficial features

and recognizes the simple truth that everyone parks the same. With all that said, I want to congratulate ZB on his job as the next NFLPA executive director. Ethan from Chicago. Zach embodies journalistic integrity to a near ascetic degree, a quality so steadfast it occasionally borders on self-sabotage. His passion for the craft is unmistakable, tangible in every article, audible in every exchange with colleagues. He prides himself on reading every comment and in my own case once honored my request

to use the word nincompoop on air. Though I'm not typically one for aphorisms or sentimental quotes, Zach's sincerity, incisive wit, and off-hand adages have left an enduring impression. long considered myself a composite of Zach and Bo. And with his departure, I find myself missing the ZB sensibility that has long complimented my fan identity. More than a beat reporter, Zach has been an inadvertent companion during difficult stretches, offering levity, insight, and a welcome respite from the grind. I'm certain he'll thrive in whatever comes next, but selfishly this one hurts. Who knows, maybe one day I'll thank him in person at a book signing in a great food city.

There are more mushy ones coming. Greg and Lancaster says you are a role model. As a high school counselor, I love helping students find what makes them tick. I want them to seek paths that marry their skills with their passions. Zach identified his path at a young age and consistently took the steps needed to reach his goals. Not only that, he constantly, to the disdain of his REM cycles, works to be better. I know jokes are told when he signs off by saying, we'll try to do better tomorrow, or when he shares a quote from a book he's read, I think it's incredible that he lives up to the ideals he believes in, he's not all talk.

If I could get one student every year to follow their dreams, the way Zach has, it would be the reward of a lifetime. The most common refrain was from the sickos who are grateful for the sense of community. Yeah. Like Michael from Western Canada, whose Eagles fandom had been isolating until he discovered the show. He says, you are so smart, dedicated, caring, and genuinely funny. Your commitment to improving your craft is inspiring if bordering on obsession. You speak so highly of those around you, and I hope you know how highly we all think of you. Similar sentiments were shared by Joe and Jason and Mike and Danielle Fissel and Brendan,

who studied abroad in New Zealand, and thanked you for the normalcy and taste of home you gave him every day there. He says one of the hardest times he has ever laughed in his life. was the 10-minute tangent to discuss how to pronounce Gabe Hall's name in a way that doesn't sound like Gabe Hall. It was such a dumb, or as you would say, sophomoric tangent, and only you and Bo would ever think to go down that rabbit hole, let alone spending the time pronouncing the name with each different inflection possible. It certainly helped that the office I worked in was open concept and deadly silent. I had to hold in the laughs and tears. I'm sure the intern convulsing with his headphones on drew some odd looks, but it was worth it for the moment.

Jonathan, who often listens while running, flex, also has to deal with the awkwardness of laughing in public. He then writes, there are big serious things going on in the world and in our lives, and while this is not just football, and some may feel it isn't that important in comparison, I find tremendous value in what you do because it informs me and entertains me, distracts me sometimes from those big serious things going on in our lives. That is not a minor thing. Finally, Neil writes, Seeing the Eagles when multiple Super Bowls has emphasized to me how much of sports are about the love we have

for the people we watch the games with. There have been times on this show when Zach has famously been hesitant to say, I love you. I don't entirely fault him. It is hard to say I love you to someone you don't truly know, but as listeners, we know Zach. We have spent years watching football with Zach. We will be cheering on whatever he does next

and rooting for him the same way we root for this team. As always, Zach, we love you. And with that, we roll the video. Oh, wow. Yeah, buckle in. My question is, did you, on purpose, match the orange Yes, with the shoes? Yeah, the orange flare on the hoodie

with the orange shoes? I was picking which shoes to wear and I thought, you know what, I'll wear the ones with the orange on it. That's drippy. I like it. Look at that. What did you say?

That's a drippy. Yeah. It's true. That's my son always says that that's dripping. How do you do fellow kids? Yeah. Oh, that's drippy. Yeah, my son's.

I mean, I know that this happens a lot where we say we got to make that a drop. I do think we need to make that a drop. My son's, yeah, my son talks about people's drip. Yeah, your son's allowed to say it All right, I can't say, okay. So you got drip right now. Did you read the Time Magazine cover story on Jalen Hertz?

Were you interested in the six people that he chose to have dinner with? I love that question. You love that question? Yeah, I love that question. Would you like to give us the six that Jalen Hertz said? Can you remember them? Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant.

Yes. Was Freddie Mercury on the list? Freddy Mercury? What? was Freddie Mercury on the list? Did you see the other people he had on the list? Freddie Mercury? I think you're going for Frankie Beverly,

who is decidedly not Freddie Mercury. If Jalen Heard started with Freddie Mercury, that would have been very interesting. That's who I meant. You're right. I was using your line here. Yeah, this is... Probably about as old as Calcutera.

Yeah, this is a six-year guy in college. Okay? Cal, then UC Davis, than Tennessee has a master's degree in agriculture leadership. Got to love that. Yeah. Honestly, I was unimpressed with... Agriculture leadership?

Yes. What do you think that means? It means he's leading agriculture. He has... You, over there. Plow that. You, over there, you ho! He's planning.

He's going to barking orders and farmers? I mean, yeah, he could start, he could start a landscape and company, he can start a, yeah, I don't know, yeah. Okay, well. He's, he's, he's, he's very familiar with agriculture. He's, he's working. So you might call him a leader in the agriculture field. A leader in the agriculture industry, yes. Yeah, I mean, he, look, he's, he's, he's from South Lake Tahoe, okay?

Um, so, uh, so, uh, so? So, so what? I was saying South Lee. All right. Let's compose ourselves here. So I did watch McCowncastles. And I guys say I was... He's from South Lake Town.

Oh my God, we're so punched drunk. All right. Please, please... His high school is SLT, so I didn't think, like... He's a lot... This is ridiculous. Be a professional's now. Yes.

Come on. Journalism. Let's come on. This is not. This is... All right. So I watch... went back and I went back. So, I think that Harrison Bryant is probably going to beat Jerome Baker.

This is the downside of AI. Oh, this is the downside of AI. Yes, we have a DFOP who sent us a screenshot of the AI chat summary of this episode. It says viewers are discussing a picture of Harrison Bryant and his grandfather at Hooters and a possible incident during a live podcast involving Bo and an anti-Roma slur. They are also reacting to the latest episode of the podcast. That's a, this is your technology, maybe. Sell me on this great technology. Well, clearly, AI needs to improve, right? We talk about this. I don't think we discussed Hooters on this show. Yet.

Lastly, given that Zach never sleeps, that Fran has been working completely around the clock, and I have a four-day old at home. Yeah! Uh, we haven't acknowledged that on air yet. We haven't acknowledged that yet. What a reaction. Can we clip that?

Sorry. Sorry, that was a little, that was, that was like Howard Dean. Disgusting. Yeah. Sorry about that. I'm sorry. I, we've been sitting here for 35 minutes. One of us will fall asleep on air this weekend.

I thought you would say that at the top, I didn't want to make the announcement for you. Like, we've been sitting here. It's been the else. Sorry, that was a weird reaction. I apologize. I can't wait to watch that back later. Congratulations, Bo. Yes.

And mostly congratulations, Rachel and the whole Wolf family. That is awesome. But yeah, yeah, that's, that's, thank you very much. People have been asking me, and I, and I've been saying, it's not my news to share. It's your news to grunt that. That wasn't a grunt. That was like, that was Howard Dean. It was a release.

and congratulations. Thank you very much. We're very happy. And thank you to everybody who has sent kind words. I really appreciate it. Zach mentions that he and Vinny went to dinner at the same place they ran into each other.

Do either of you remember where that was? Vinnie won't. I know exactly where that was. Yeah, I remember exactly what that was. Yeah, it was at Raw sushi. Okay. And this might have, this was probably 2014. Correct. If memory serves.

And I was dating my wife at the time. And, and she had like, she had like a pet pee that like people would, you know, because at the time I was on TV like once a week. And so I guess like people were starting to like recognize my face. Yeah, people were starting to recognize my face a bit. And so like we would be out to eat and like people would like come up to the dinner table and say hello. and you know me, like I'm talking to everybody and like, oh, what's your name?

That kind of thing. And she would get really annoyed. And so Vinnie being the nicest player in the world, you know, we're leaving. And she doesn't know Vinny's a player. She's not an Indian Eagles fan, right? And so we're leaving. And Vinny comes and says hello.

And she's like, to me, she's like, is this guy really have to interrupt us? And I'm like, like, this guy. I was like, I promise you, everyone in this restaurant knows who he is. They don't know who I am. So, yeah, I remember that well. It was raw on what?

Wealth and Sansom. Does that sound right? Yeah. Yeah, it's good spot. You said you were just getting a decision. Yeah. Vince says, if we scroll down, we already got the Justin Simmons one. Oh, no, that's not a Vince one.

First of all, let's start with Idiot Sandwich. Zach is medieval times in Good Food City. All right, so I'm going to, so I shared on the show that my brother's like to tease me a lot all the time. Okay? This is a great story. And so I, before I go anywhere, I research the menu, food, and the reviews. And I heard that they have great garlic bread, all right? So I'm driving up to the medieval times.

I went up there with my family. We all went together. It was for the kids and, like, my brothers, my cousins, all that. It was a great time. The kids enjoyed it. And anyways. Shout out to leave. Shout out to live.

Yeah. Go ahead. And so on the drive up, I'm saying. I hear they bring garlic bread. Here they have great garlic bread. And so I get there, and then they serve the garlic bread. And the waitress keeps coming back to me and saying, these guys up here say that you love our garlic bread and want extra garlic bread.

So if you looked at my plate, I had like a pile of like eight pieces of garlic bread. And I'm like, what am I supposed to do with all this garlic bread? First off, I'm not going to consume all this garlic bread. Second, the tomato soup that they give you or whatever, which, by the way, they don't give you any utensils. You got to drink the soup. You can also scoop it up with the garlic bread. I don't have enough tomato soup to scoop up the garlic bread, okay? And I can say this now.

It's not like exceptional garlic bread, right? It's essentially just Texas toast, right? No offense, medieval times. So I was really excited for this garlic bread. and I was a little underwhelmed by, I mean, it was fine garlic bread. But whoever these Yelp reviewers who were talking about this garlic bread as if it was like the end-all be-all, I got to say, like, let's chill with the garlic bread.

Yeah, come on. Yeah. Have a great job by your brothers. Oh, yeah, they were just, this waitress, like, and like she kept coming over with the garlic bread. And I'm like, I'm not the type of person who's like, no, I'm like, oh, thank you very much. Thank you. And she's like, and she just keeps rolling with it.

And like, my brothers are, like, getting a kick out of this behind. Like, they're sitting behind me, right? And I was in a row with, like, three kids, okay? And none of them were eating their garlic bread. And so, uh, I think at one point, like, the waitress is like, do you want to eat their garlic bread? I'm like, no, I'm good with the garlic bread. And I didn't want to be rude there.

Okay? So, um, that's my medieval time story. Yeah. Who do you consider, uh, well, I mean, who would you consider closer with? And I, I don't take this person one, okay? someone who you've worked with or someone who's an usher in your wedding. Depends.

Okay. Well, I don't really. I mean, ushers, okay. Yeah, it depends. I bring this up because we talk about Nick Siriani with Kellan Moore

and Jonathan's Ganon and Shane Steichen, Tennessee Titans general manager Mike Borganzi, an usher in Nick Siriani's wedding. Oh, well, that's a good one then. Yeah, so. I think maybe he called in that favor. Called in that favor, yeah.

That's a good one. Yeah, maybe so. I tell you what, I don't think, in fact, I know that there is not another Eagles podcast live right now talking about the tush-push and giving you the info that Mike Borganzi was an usher at Nick Siriani's wedding. That is Zach Berman's superpower. We are lucky to have you. I appreciate that. I am predicting March 5th, the Eagle signs that Guantel contract. So you think going to happen right down.

Yeah. The Eagles are re-scystaping. all-pro Zach Vaughn to a three-year $51 million deal. They're taking Quigian Mitchell. Wow. Did you break that? Is that you breaking it? I guess, I mean, I haven't seen it on Twitter yet.

Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news on the P.HLY Eagles Draft Day show, Zach Berman breaks it. The Eagles are taking Toledo's Quinyan Mitchell at 22. They stay there. The Jason Candle Mount Union Connection, Quinion Mitchell went down to the Senior Bowl and blew everybody away,

answered questions about his ability to play man coverage. Vic Fangio, presumably putting his thumb on the scale, wanting Quinion Mitchell over Terry and Arnold. This is an interesting one to follow over the years. They have made this choice of the top two corners. They're taking Mitchell over Arnold, who comes with a better profile.

But Mitchell, more height, height, weight, speed. And most importantly, the thing that we will remember, as Quinion Mitchell joins Darius Slay to presumably start week one and eventually take over as the number one corner is where you were on April 25th, 2024 at 1042 at night when the news was broken by Zach Berman. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. I have checked Twitter. I have put up the latest so I could see any Quinnian Mitchell tweets.

and unless somebody tweeted it five minutes ago. Zach got it. ZB is your winner. And the problem is Zach doesn't even know because he's on the for you tab. It's true actually. I wasn't looking at Twitter. I was, but...

Let's get it in the chat. The chat is going. Here we go. Zach. Stop, stop. No, let's give analysis. Let's give analysis about what it is. We got all life for analysis.

Now is the time to celebrate you. No, no, no, no. You broke it. Six foot 195. Now, I'm correctly predicted it, but you broke. He ran a, he ran a, 433, like you said. Is he allowed to come in?

Absolutely. This is the quote right quick. I'm so excited. Daryl Doucette. Who's Ducet? I think that's right. Want to come on? Say hi.

I appreciate it. Give it on the chat. How about a read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read. My man right here. That's friend. I believe, aside from Fran and VHLI employees, this is the first chat sicko to ever make it on the show. It's true. I think so.

I appreciate you coming off. He's a little nervous. Read. We watches all the shows. I know that you and your dad were talking about this draft on your way in here. Who was your number one? Who do you think is going to make the biggest year one edition? The new player's going to be.

God can't. Good choice. Consensus big board for a reason. Guy knows ball. Yes. All right. Well, let's let Reed close us out. Read.

I'm going to ask you, at the very end, I'm going to ask you to say, we love you. Okay. So, enjoy your. Memorial Day weekend, everybody. For Bree and Zach and Fran. I'm Bo. We'll talk to you Monday at 2 o'clock, and as always. I love you.

Yeah. To close your eyes for a second. Ladies and gentlemen, the 2025 winner for the Cecil B. Duckbird Award for Lifetime Achievement. Come on up, Zach Berman. Zach Bow. This is so nice.

Not necessarily what I need for. my mental sake right now. I'm so grateful. I did write a few things down here. I'll be quick. Okay. Julia. Oh, yes.

For the pie. That's for the show. Yeah, it's always for the pot. You know, I'll be quick, I promise you here. If I'm being honest, I did not want this longer by. The slow drift that started four weeks ago, the announcement last week. It was, I assure you're not

my preference, and for someone who admittedly tries to be the straight man and lead with my work, it's presented some complicated emotions during the past month. But it's also in a way, I'm so grateful for it because it's been rewarding

to read the notes and the comments and to see the way this show, both Birds and Friends before and PHAY Eagles Now has played. played a role in the lives of this community, right? And I'll be honest, I probably didn't fully appreciate that

until these past few weeks. I intellectually knew the power of podcasts, but I've seen it anecdotally, and I appreciate it at a level that I've never realized in that, frankly, it's caused me a lot of conflicted emotions. But, you know, I'll just say this here, because this is probably my, that, that I came here two years ago with excitement about a new challenge and sharing a studio with such a talented group.

And it's been a thrill, honestly. We started from zero, literally. Bo and I did the first show on September 12th. Never forget. We wrote a Jason Kelsey story that night. And we built an audience and community in a way that's been so rewarding to experience. It will always be an honor to be a part of this. group. I've poured, I don't say this like as a flex or anything. I say it's honest, I poured

everything I've had into this job. Sometimes at the expense of my health, my sanity, my personal time, but it's been so worth it to see what we've created. Like, you know, tonight is in a go evidence of that. I'm indebted to Anthony, he's not here, but to Anthony for identifying me, recruiting me, believing in me for this role. Same thing with our CEO. Brandon who went to bat to bring me here. Vince, who's here, has been a loyal boss in my biggest support. I appreciate that.

I remember asking at one point in the recruitment process what the competitive advantage of PHLI would be. And I heard a few different answers, but I quickly realized upon coming here, that's the town in the building. Honestly, it's been awesome to share a studio with all of them. I see Derek here. You know, you go on down the list.

I can name everyone. It's an association that I am so proud of, and that extends to everyone in the building. You know, on Chris and social, I'm gonna get to the production staff, the ad staff. Like, it's, I've never worked in an office in my life. Like in journals, we don't go into an office, and it's been awesome to be in a team during this period.

The key to any on-air production is what happens behind the camera. I've learned that. And the producers, have been outstanding. I will single out Julia in particular. You know, I've known Julia for 29 years. She's been a loyal friend. She's a terrific head of production. One of the parts of this job that I didn't expect was work with her again, and I've enjoyed seeing her every day for these past two years. I miss that. I'll say

the best part of the job without it, you know, this job is a lot too, if the best part is the hour and honestly, usually longer, that we do the show. I'm grateful to Jamie, to Rich, to Vinny, to Professor Selman, Coach Flynn, all those who contributed to the show. It's been a joy sharing a set and a screen with you. I'll say in a year that included Saquan Barkley joining the Eagles, Fran Duffy was actually the best acquisition in Philly. As good as you think Fran is, I promise you he's even better because I knew he was good. And then I worked with him and I was just, I was blown away. It's not just the product that he puts out there.

It's the work that he puts in, the way he articulates technical thoughts. He is an absolute star. I wish we could have worked together longer. I wish I could buy stock and Fran, because trust me, fans go in places, I promise you that. But I can promise you there's not a bigger Fran fan than me in media right now. Finally to Bo, I could fill three hours on this,

but this is already probably two hours longer than I'd like it to be this show. But Bo and I've worked together for six years. He's made me better at my job. He's left me in awe of his endless creativity, as you see here, of his wit, of his personality. I say he's the best host in the city on the air. I say it off the air.

It's not pandering. In some ways, he's like a work spouse, Rachel's real spouse. But I say that because a question I get often is, do you guys actually like each other? and I'd be disingenuous if I said that there weren't shows when I left, you know, frustrated or annoyed. And it probably works the other way, too, right? But I've come back for six years. And every time.

And I can tell you that... You sound battered. No, no. And I can tell you, you know, without getting into too many details, like, you know, two years. years ago when I was considering making this jump and I was like, you know, I got to go with Bo, right? Bo's the best. And part of, you know, a lot of the conflicted emotions during this past month has been not being able to work with Bo anymore. So it's like anyone you spend every day with, right? So I can say he'll appreciate this. I choose my words carefully.

I love Bo. I'll miss. I will miss sitting next to him in the studio every day. He'll still hear from me too often. We'll disagree on many things. He'll make fun of me more than I appreciate. But I, you know, I know I have a friend for life here. But honestly, really the people I'm most indebted to is everyone here, everyone watching, the viewers, the listeners, the readers.

Simply thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm grateful that you watched, that you listen, that you read. The most rewarding part of this job is you. If you sent me a note, I probably responded with that, because it's, I mean that. Like, it is this sense of community. It's people reading your work, listening to your work, watching your work.

It's, I so truly appreciate it genuinely. I hope you'll continue. following my work. After nearly 600 shows, I looked that up, along with VODs, shorts, articles, events. I am taking on a different challenge. It will still involve the Eagles. I'll share that in due time. But for now, just simply thank you for watching, for listening, for reading. Thank you to everyone here at PHLY. It's an amazing place, amazing place that's dear to my heart, more so than I could articulate more so than I even realized, and I can promise you I will remain an avid customer and supporter of a place that I will always cherish. So thank you.

I love you too. We're not done. People say you promise. It's a shotgun of beer. It's not happening. I got work tonight. All right, we got the big five awards still to come. We start with the Gullet Sur Prize for best individual performance. All right, the nominees. Let me pull it up. Not there. Here it is.

Okay, best performance by an individual in the game. Saquan Barclay against the Rams the first time. 26 carries for 255 yards, two touchdowns, 47 yards receiving, 302 yards from scrimmage the most in Eagles history. Saquan Barkley against the Giants. First game against his old team. 17 carries for 176 yards in a touchdown. Over 10 yards of carry, pulled himself out of the game.

Sequin Barkley against the Rams in the playoffs. 26 carries for 205 yards. Touchdown runs of 78 and 62 yards to go with 27 yards receiving. Jalen Hertz against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. 17 of 22 for 22 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, Super Bowl MVP. And finally, Josh sweat in the Super Bowl. Two and a half sacks going on with a bang. What do you guys think?

Fran, I didn't give you a chance to speak here. Did you want to say something about Zach? I'm sorry. It shows long enough. Yeah, we did like 45 minutes of Zach. It's about 34 minutes too long. So, yeah, thank you. I'll get my words from, Jack.

To answer your first question, though. Back and forth from Seidon against the Rams part two, and Jaylon Hertz in Super Bowl. I think I'm going to go Seekwon. Definitely, Sequin. Yeah, the two big play and the two big runs. In the snow? In the snow.

What do we think? In the snow. We'll give a little penny. Sequins. Congratulations to Sequin Barclay for his performance. Nesting, netting himself. Another thing, Austria, next up, the Palm Doreal for best team performance.

This one, I think, is pretty easy. The nominees, the Wild Card Round Against the Packers, Week 13 against the Ravens, week 12 against the Rams, the NFC championship game against the lowly commanders, or the Super Bowl. Super Bowl.

Super Bowl. I think we can say it. Next up, the Chickadee defensive player of the year award. The nominees. Zach Vaugh... Let's go by applause this time. Zach Vaughn.

Jalen Carter. Dion Mitchell. Deerius Slay. Josh Sweat. All right. It sounds like you guys want the award to go to Jalen Carter, but we do have a cameo for this one.

What's going on, y'all? I hear there's a debate going on about who was the best player on the defense last season. I'm sorry to disappoint, but I'm going to give you guys the PR response, the PR answer. It's really tough to pick.

You know, JC is obviously a dog. ZB is a dog. Q is a dog. Coup, Slay, so many different people, Nacobi. we all work together. We're all kind of cogs of one machine. So I think that everybody's success kind of builds off of everybody else's.

Those were obviously some great picks that you had. Obviously, I'm parcel to my D-line guys, so I love JC. I feel like he absolutely wrecks the game in ways that I don't even think, you know, people that watch the games are aware of, of course. But we all play team defense, really. It's a team effort. It's a team unit. So that's all we can do.

And that's why it's kind of hard for me to pick. I'm sorry to not give you a strict winner of this one, but, you know, we got dogs everywhere. We fly around. Goverries, baby. Non-zero chance of that. That's possible. I'm Jaylen Carver. Congratulations to Jaylen Carver.

All right, two more. Next up, the Gulletzer Prize for Best Play of the season. The nominees, Zach, the best play Zach has ever seen in his life. Dallas Godderts, 61-yard catch-and-run on four. third and 16 when the Eagles were down late in the fourth quarter. Best play Goddard's career. We've got the Sequin Barclay reverse hurdle. We've got the Sequin Barclay first offensive play of the game

against the commanders in the NFC championship game, taking it 60 yards to the house. We've got Cooper DeGine's pick six in the Super Bowl. And we've got Jalen Carter sacking Matthew Stafford on third and two with the season in the ballot. Gotta say, Jalen Carter, the defending champion in this category for last year attempting to intercept a spike. Seekwon's Leave. What's that?

Sequin's Leave. Reverse lead. Boone. It's great pictures, though. Yeah. Look good at a book. Thank you. September 23rd.

It's called Leapier September 23rd. Whoever books are sold. What do you think, Frank? I think it's the Cooper regime pick six. Me too. Yeah, I think that's that. But they're not in that. I actually think the Sequin first touch

against the commanders is even better than the reverse hurdle. Because, you know, you've got the drip, drab possession from the commanders and then one play gone. You can also make the argument that either of those plays happen if Jalen Carter doesn't get the sack phone. A late surge for Jalen Carter. What do we think?

I still think it's Cooper to. Congratulations to Cooper de Jeehan. For winning the Gullet's a prize for that's play. All right, before the final award of the evening, We have one more musical performance for Zach. This one from an old friend who is very familiar to the Ospreys. Ah, my man.

It's not Thomas Booker. My favorite musician. It's not Bob Dylan. Tom Davido. All right, Zach, on behalf of all of us, Sickos, thank you for everything. You are amazing. Lyrics here by your pal, the great Bull Wolf, and there are a lot of It's a long text. Here we go. I'm going to have to scroll.

Thank you, Zach. Best of luck. What a waste of his talents. You can still write. I promise you that. Thank you. And yeah, shout out to Matt Quinn. He's my favorite musician without a doubt. Shots fired at Bob Dylan. The final award of the evening, the Emperor Penguin Award for the King or Queen of the season. And there are a lot of good choices here. The nominees, Nick Siriani overcoming the doubts about him and leading this team to a Super Bowl. Howie Roseman putting together another Super Bowl championship roster and doing that thing that he texted all the reporters about, about how it's like two quarterbacks in the same,

whatever it is. Very impressive. Sequin Barclay. I mean, probably the year of Sequin. Jalen Hertz getting over the hump. Or was it Vic Fangio's year, after all of his time in the NFL, finally getting his Super Bowl? What do you guys think?

I'll go first year. I think this was the year of Saquan Barkley, the offensive player of the year. You heard what Jaywin Hertz said on the sideline, that he brought them to a different place, right? So now, Vic Fangio wasn't there before either. I get that. But Howie and Nick and Jalen, they're all worthy candidates here. But Sequin elevated this team last year, and it was perhaps the best season of running backs ever had.

So, Seguan, Barclay. I mean, the guy was ridiculous from start to finish. I agree with Zach. I think it's Seekwon Barclay. I think he was the – what's the name of this thing? The Emperor Penguin Award. King or Queen of the season, of course. I think the whole – you know, the footage from a Super Bowl of Siriani and Jalen saying, like, you changed it.

I feel like that is what cemented it. However, this is not up. to us. We have a cameo to deliver this one as well. Zach, I hear you're receiving an award because you was the best at work this year. No one works as hard that you do. I want to congratulate you, Sackwan, and also wish Sack well. It is a new job. He's a big fan of mine. I want to thank you for that. on Joe Arpaio cameos. Sheriff Joe, closing it out for Sequel.

I know who he is this time. That's good. All right. We have one last thing tonight. The only thing that could ruin the night so far is the one thing we haven't done, and that is me singing. I mean, we've heard from two world-class musicians so far.

Why not ruin it with me? Unfortunately, the person who was supposed to play guitar, for me could not come. So is there anybody here? Raise your hand if you are a guitar player, please. Let's see what we got here. Give us a second. Zach, I believe this belongs to you. You play guitar? From him? Sure. I'm gonna find my lyrics. What are we playing? I do. You know that? Yeah. You know that? Yeah.

Okay, let's do it. What are the odds? How's that? Sounds good. How does it sound to you guys? You want to count me in? You count it and you're the musician. I'm not going to count.

Okay. I can't count. Well, let's just start. Okay, you got it. Friend is the sickos I see here. The sick goes, the sick goes, lonely as I am. Together we fly. It's searching for be.

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