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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Mitchell Schwartz is going to be joining us a little bit later to do his weekly segment.

It's great to have Mitch back on. Also, we have Doug Peterson, former Eagles coach, to dig into a topic that I've always found interesting, just kind of how teams evolve and find themselves over the course of the year. Going back all the way to the off season. How you figure out how you want to be a new team in a new season. How you kind of pare down your game plan. How you tailor who you want to be and settle into that. It was actually really good timing because earlier today, Brandon Staley had a quote about what they're going to do during

the bi-week to self-scout. And I was already planning on doing this show. So it worked out very

nicely, very excited to have that chat with Doug. Let's get to it. I'm thrilled now to welcome

former Eagles coach, former Super Bowl winning coach. Doug Peterson, Doug, thank you very much for taking the time to do this. I sincerely appreciate it. Yeah, no, thanks for having me on. And, man, I look forward to visiting with you this afternoon. So we've talked about this a little bit, but the idea I wanted to dig into with you is something that I've talked to coaches about in the past. but I wanted to really kind of chew on it. And there was this notion of how a team kind of

evolves over the course of a season, because it's an important process, figuring out what you

do well, figuring out how to deploy your players, but it's also a difficult process. So I wanted

to kind of go through the entire lifespan that a team follows, starting

in the spring all the way, in your case at times, to the Super Bowl. So I wanted to go back all

the way to the start of an off season, because this is always a process that's really interested

in me. And it's kind of that self-scout post-mortem that teams do. So when you were in Philly,

what was that process like for you? How was it structured when the season ended for you guys to

kind of go through, all right, this is who we were, this is what we do well, this is what we didn't.

Yeah, you know, you know, the biggest thing and one of, I guess is one of the biggest things, especially when the season ends, is, you know, you sit down with the GM, with, you know, player personnel guys, your staff, you know, you evaluate your season, you evaluate your own team.

But you also have to come up and honestly know exactly you know the pieces that that won't

be a part of your team you know in that next year free agency being being one of them or having to

let a player go or something of that nature and so you you start right there with just understanding

you know where you are as a football

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