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and visit the ocean ac dot com let's welcome in in, Andrew, the Checo, into the Thursday edition of the Sports Match. Andrew, welcome in. How you doing today? Josh, I'm doing great, man. Great to be with you. I'm glad to have you on. And Andrew, it's not every day recently. We've actually had good news to talk about but for the eagles there is good news one of

not the most important players on their offense has announced that he's returning lane

johnson confirmed on his own social media previous reports earlier today that he will be back

for the 2026 season just kind of give your your initial thoughts on Lane Johnson returning for next season and

what the weight of that means for the Eagles.

Well, first of all, it's enormous, but it would have been tough to envision life without

Lane Johnson.

That would have been very difficult to fathom, especially when you look at how it ended for him, right?

Missing the final eight regular season games with the Liss Frank sprain and then, of course, the postseason game.

This gives him the opportunity to leave the game on his own terms. He's still playing at the height. He's still at the height of his game, right?

So there's no drop off in production.

He'll be 36 years old in May.

But if you're someone like Sean Manning and you're a first year offensive coordinator

trying to get things rolling and reimagine this offense, well, you check off a major box

by getting Lane Johnson back in the fold here.

And his resume speaks for itself.

He's one of the greatest right tackles to play the game,

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