What's going on good people? You know what day it is. Yes. Well, I know what day it is. It's the Ph.LY-6th podcast day here on the Thursday as we come to you live from the Xfinity Lounge.

But it's also football day at the birds start the season off, kicking off the NFL schedule,

and defending their crown, beginning with the hated, stinking Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field.

And he is ready to my left as he's playing tonight.

I don't know what position.

I don't know what you're doing tonight.

But he's got the hat on.

He's got the shirt from p.l.

All p.g.com. The merchandise. Look at that. Will loves the hat. It's Derek Bodner. This is fantastic. So I'm usually a nervous wreck at the start of football season. Really any game day, I'm a nervous wreck. Football is like the one that, I think it's probably because there's only 17 games, so like everyone feels like a huge deal. And I get to be a nervous wreck. And this might end up biting me. I'm not only excited, but I'm calm. I'm calm about this one. You should be. They outclass them so badly. That Cowboys defense is such trash. I am excited for tonight. It should be a fun time. I'm hoping it's

going to be a stress-free time. And I'm hoping I don't eat these words. You should be calm. Listen, I think they, look, I think they're going to win tonight. I'm not saying it's going to be a blowout. Dow's deck Prescott somehow finds ways to score against the Eagles defense. So he will put points on the board. That's going to happen. But I do think the birds win. And the one thing to your

point that always gets me, and I'm sure a lot of other fans just watching from afar, is you know what happens, Derek? What happens? Teams that play on Banner Night, it's always, it's like a 50-50 thing. It's a 50-50 proposition if they're going to win or they're going to lose because of the emotions and all. Sure, they're not going to be out on the field, but they know what's happening. They know what's going on out there while they're in the locker room. So that's where I have a little bit of concern, but I think the approach that they've had going into this season, all the things that we've seen leading up from the coaching staff to the players,

watching America's game last night on NFL Network, how cool is that again?

Seeing these things from the birds that where they have this other thing

where Siriani is talking to the players in the office and how laid back they are,

but motivated and focus to not let

this, just have them not prepared and not ready to go out there and play and be the team

and the players that they know they are. I'm not worried one bit either. And I don't think,

this is not an overconfident thing. This is just a, we know they're good.

Yeah, and look,

Dak didn't play in either game last year, right? No, he did not. And you've obviously got Cidie Lamb, they added pick-ins. Like, they're going to be able to put, you know, get yards through the air. Like the secondary is going to have to be there. Obviously, the defensive line's going to have to show up. But man, they should just be able to run it down there,

bleeply throats tonight.

Oh, you're not worried about Kenny Clark being, but man, they should just be able to run it down there, bleeply throats tonight.

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