Hello everybody and welcome to the PHY Eagles podcast.

On a Friday afternoon, we are live from the Xfinity Studio and presented by Bet365 and Ashley Bo Wolf, E.J. Smith.

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I don't know it anywhere. I live here. I mean, I'm in town in the studio.

Gotcha. What's going on? They've seen me. I know. We're twinning.

We're brothers. Big brothers.

Bow Wolf wore at first. I have to say. You owned the hoodie before me. I feel like I got to take the L on this one. You guys got to send me the memo next to. You're allowed to wear it. I just wanted to use the line. I put it on today. And in my mind, I knew there was a chance that you were also going to wear it. I put it on today. Easy Friday one. I barely remembered you over the city. The whole reason you like it.

Hey, and here we've got fellow professors. Yeah. A little synergy going on here. Two professors. There you go. Unlike us, professor. Yeah. You are a fan. I am. I am. Yeah.

So how are you holding up?

Fran texted me to ask me something about like, you know, what he thinks fans would want to hear and not hear on the Monday show.

And it's good that you guys delayed the Monday show because I had my phone off until like 4 p.m. on Monday.

I didn't even get his text until then because, yeah, I don't handle it well. Yeah, it sucks. You put in all this time and energy and suspension of disbelief that they're going to figure it out, you know, like all this stuff. And then especially for it to be, and we'll get more into my thoughts on the game a little bit later on the show,

but like for it to be such a microcosm of the season on offense. Crazy. You know, it like makes it even worse. You know, like I would have preferred some completely different way to lose, honestly, and been like, well, you know, they fixed some of those things. And then it was just other random stuff that got us, you know. it was, it was like exactly the same mistakes. There's no better way to describe it than the way that Fran did earlier in the week. Yeah. But worst band in the world. Yes. And they're playing all the hits. Like Blink 182 if they played all their hits. But it really was like, it's crazy. it's crazy that they had all of these different things to solve all season long, and they didn't solve any of them. I know. And it was different on defense, and we'll get into that. I thought the defense was, was disappointing in a way that hadn't been during the season. We can talk about those things. But yeah, no, it sucks.

And you look at the teams playing this weekend, you're like, man, like, these teams aren't that good. You know what I mean? Like, you have this, like, thought, even after the Eagles are out, like, I'm such a fan that I'm still thinking, like, man, like, would have beaten the Bears or whatever. But, like, you know, obviously that's not, that's not how it works. It's also worth remembering last year, you know, Jalen Carter doesn't get that sack against the Rams or whatever. Like, there is a randomness to it. Sometimes I think, especially in football, because there are so few games, we tend to think like after the season is over that we learn something. Oh, yeah, we describe all kinds of narrative to narrative. Oh, it turns out the truth is like this.

And it's like, well, no, like there's an alternate universe that may have been more likely than the one that happened where the Eagles are out in the divisional last year. And then what are we talking about? We're talking about a new head coach. We're talking about all kinds of things. So like, I just think, you know, it's worth remembering that like part of what makes it fun is the randomness of it and part of it was random. But in this, in the case of this offense, like obviously. Well, and it's funny. In the case of this, and I know that this is not necessarily breaking any new ground, but if you look at the, you know at the up and down every other year thing,

I mean, if they had just had Brian Johnson's offense, they would be in the Super Bowl. I know. I know. And that's crazy to think about that. And it is probably, it is unfair to Brian Johnson the way that those two years get lumped together. Oh, yeah, yeah. That offense was fine. Actually, like I didn't, I't, like, you know, prepare them for the show today.

But, like, maybe we can do it in a future, like a slower news week or whatever. Like, I just made a bunch of, like, charts comparing the five years that's how you cope. Charity's been here. I know. Yeah. Someone wrote that on social, and it's so true. They were like, you know, some people like, you know, they turn to drugs or alcohol.

Some people do this.

Like, Dennis makes charts. It could be worse.

Yeah, no, I make a lot of charts. I make charts when I'm happy too, but, um, and it is funny,

like how bad this offense was compared to all of the other ones, including 2023,, which the 2023 offense wasn't that bad. Right. It turned, there were, there were so many turnovers. It was like relative to how much talent they had. It was still bad, but not catastrophic the way it was this season. No. And it was like a well above average offense. Like the problem with that team was the defense and the, because the offense turned the ball over in key situations I think like that got you know highlighted a little more than than you know what

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