Hello everybody and welcome to the PHY Eagles podcast on a Thursday afternoon, live from the Xfinity Studio and presented by Bet365 and Ashley.

This is the PHLY Eagles show. A big one coming your way. And for the first time in what feels like forever,

the three of us are back together in the studio. Nice to see you guys. Friend, how have you been?

I've been great. It feels like I've been here in the last 24 hours, but who's to say? No,

it's good to be back. Good to have the gang back together again. E.J., how are you?

I'm doing great. It feels good to be employed, you know?

Just thankful that, you know, my key worked getting in here today. Amen. Actually, mine is not, but

that's because I need to get my, my brevo updated. But that's a story for another day. Very exciting show today.

Flew World Order.

Difficult.

I feel like every year, Fran, now this is only your second year.

And we will say, defending champion.

So heavy as the head that wears the crown as the greatest of all time.

Someone who won four in a row, I will tell you, it's a little, it's not,

it's, the second one's harder than the first. That's what they say. I feel like every year I do

this, it feels as if, uh, it's, it's harder than the year before. And maybe that's just a

recency bias. Yeah. But this year was interesting as I went through it. I felt like I had an easy 27. Usually that's how you do it, right? You've got your top, you've got your bottom. You squeeze the middle. I had I had like a top tier. Yeah. But then like eight through 26 could have been anybody. No question. This was it was hard. Honestly like

I wouldn't even go as an eight like I would say it was like four to five to 25. Yeah. I was like

man this could be any order and you can convince me. So it was tough to feel super,

super confident about a lot of these. E.J., how did it go in your first foray preparing?

Yeah, this is my first time doing this. You know, I'm off to a bad start with the games too. And I, you know, I am competitive, so it's bothering me. Like, I don't want to be the guy who loses games on the show. But you're not as competitive as Fran. That is true. Fran it kind of, Fran has a different side that comes out. I think it's

just, I don't know if it's a different side for me. And you're not as competitive as me.

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