Hello everybody and welcome the P. H.O.I. Eagles podcast on a Thursday afternoon, live from the Xfinity

studio, presented by Ashley Bowulf, E.J. Smith, we will be joined by Fran Duffy in just a few

moments. E.J., how you do it? I am doing well.

I'm excited for this exercise. My first shadow draft. I'm curious to see how I did in comparison

to you guys, but I've got philosophies. I've got principles. I wrote down some things I want to

make sure I hit on. Not debatable. But yeah, no, I'm excited for the show. All right. Yeah, we'll get into exactly what that means in just a minute. Big, big day in Philly. The Flyers. That was such a great game. That overtime period was like. Nothing like playoff hockey. I was very lucky got to go to the game last night at an awesome time. What an atmosphere. And

everybody's, everybody's just so tense. I know. Well, it was a tense overtime period. And yeah,

PHOI was well represented. The post game show. A lot of juice. Yeah. See those guys there,

they're obviously doing such an awesome job. Absolutely. Yeah. Shout out to Charlie and Bill and

Brennan and the whole gang. Awesome stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Very excited. Yeah. Now, I will tell you that we've, to celebrate the Flyers moving on, we've got some new merch that you can check out. And listen, Sixers going on, big game tonight. Can they extend? We just finished the draft. A lot of balls in the air. But this cool new shirt, you know, it's not going to cost you a lot of marbles.

We don't need to be testy about it.

But I think that you would be nuts, not to get your hands on a scumbag shirt.

There you go.

Scumbag hockey.

Love it.

Love the shirt. Yeah. Fantastic. All right. And check out the show's going on tonight. Sixers. What do you think? If Joel Embed can be the best player on the court again, I give him a chance. Okay. Yeah. I'm hopeful. Let's bring on Fran Duffy. The great. Also the NFL job analyst, our dear friend.

Fran, time for a shadow draft. Now, EJ's asking some questions. Like, he doesn't,

he doesn't exactly know how this works. I could have explained it better.

Oh, no. That's not on you. The conceit here is that every time the Eagles make a pick, we have to make a pick.

Now, in a perfect world, we would make these picks live because part of the difficulty of doing a draft is you can't just sit back and, you know, see where guys go and then choose after that because we were doing it in the middle of a show.

That was a little bit more difficult to do.

But, you know, I don't know how you went about this obviously you have your own board which you have published on all p.l.i.com I created my board and it doesn't it is you know, EJ's like well how did you decide what to do you go by the board and you know there are times when you might not, you know, want to duplicate a position,

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