Eagles Bye Week Check-in With Zach Berman!

The Ringer's Philly Special

The Ringer

Sports

4.8 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Eagles are sitting at 6-2 with a big lead in the division heading into their bye week. Sheil Kapadia is joined by Zach Berman of The Athletic to discuss the progress of the reigning Super Bowl champs. They analyze this week's trade in which Philly acquired five-year veteran slot corner Michael Carter II from the Jets in exchange for John Metchie III. How will Carter fit into Vic Fangio’s defense, and could we see Cooper DeJean play more outside corner (02:37)? The trade deadline is quickly approaching, and the Eagles could use some help in the pass rush. Who are some possible targets at the deadline (16:57)? Will the Eagles offense see more improvement after the bye week (30:07)? What about on defense? Could there be progress when some players come back from injury (35:50)? What does the rest of the season look like for A.J. Brown (38:29)? How will the Eagles finish out the season (44:12)? Plus, a mailbag full of airport and plane etiquette dilemmas (57:57). Email hot takes: Ringerphilly@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram: @ringersphillyspecial Become a member of our Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/RingersPhillySpecial/. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Sheil Kapadia Guest: Zach Berman Producer: Cliff Augustin Music Composed By: Teddy Grossman and Jackson Greenberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What's up? It's Todd McShay, host of the McShay Show at the Ringer and Spotify.
0:04.6	We're building this thing up and I couldn't be more excited to be back, talking college football
0:09.5	and everything NFL draft with the most informed audience out there. That's you.
0:15.0	My co-host, Steve Mention, I will be with you three times a week throughout the football season
0:19.8	with all the latest news, analysis,
0:22.0	and scouting intel from around the league. For even more insight, subscribe to my newsletter,
0:27.8	the McShea report to access my mock drafts, big boards, tape breakdowns, and other exclusive
0:34.0	scouting content you can't get anywhere else. It's going to be a great season and i hope you'll be with us at the mcshay show every step of the way I And that's this team. I'm not going to be a year.
1:12.3	Mike check one, two, three, four.
1:14.5	All right.
1:15.2	Good there.
1:15.9	Let's do it.
1:19.7	Three, two, one.
1:24.5	Welcome to the Rickers, Philly special.
1:27.1	Shield Capadia here. It is a Thursday. There's no Eagles game, but you know what? We're not letting ZB have a full buy week. He signed up for this, so we're having him on every Thursday. Lots to talk about trade deadline. Eagles make a trade. What else are they going to do? How do we feel about this team in the
1:44.8	second half of the season? We're going to make some predictions. And then, of course, the weekly
1:49.8	mailbag with ZB, these clips that clip is posting just going viral on Ringers Philly Special
1:56.8	on Instagram every week. I love it. That's exactly what it's for, right? I mean, I think more clips the better.
2:03.8	I'm not trying to give anyone more work.
2:05.8	I think more clips the better, right?
2:09.2	That's how people are consuming stuff often.
2:11.9	That's true.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.