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Check them out for free@wasabi.com wasabi hot well, the Philadelphia Eagles, who have the best personnel in the NFL, the best roster since probably about the Niners three years ago. But the Eagles have a much better O line and they're much better at quarterback. I don't know how Buffalo, if they get to the super bowl, is going to stop this. It's going to stop this offense today. I mean, Washington obviously helped. Multiple fumbles, three fumbles. But this roster is insane. I mean, I went into this game thinking winner of the AFC is Super bowl champs. I mean, here's how good Philadelphia's roster is. You forget DeVontae Smith is on the team. They have to engineer jet sweeps and little clever misdirection plays to get him the ball. Otherwise you forget he'd be a number one on a dozen teams in the NFL. Number one receiver. You forget he's on the team. I mean, they have to work to get the ball to A.J. brown, who's a top five wide receiver talent in the NFL between Goddard, Barkley Hurts. I mean, it's just again, it's they have an elite player at running back, two at guard, two at tackle, two at receiver, one at tight end, one at defensive tackle. I think both their corners are really good. It is. And Jalen Hurts makes just enough, just enough big throws that you got to play him. Honest. I think Jaden Daniels is better from the pocket. I think Greg Cosell's been telling us all year, but he makes just, you know, 18 yard throws good in the red zone. It just, this team is just insane. I mean, think about, let's go back to the beginning of the season when the Giants allowed Saquon Barkley free agent to go to Philadelphia. And we said it at the time, it is this is as bad as GMing gets. Joe Shane of the Giants, it doesn't get any worse than that. I always thought Reggie White to the packers greatest free agent acquisition, Drew Brees to the Saints. I mean, Brady wasn't in Tampa long. Pretty damn good, right? Peyton Manning, the Denver. This feels like it's in the same class. I mean to let them go to your division rival. I don't even. Congrats on Joe Shane retaining his job. It's as bad as it gets and you could see it coming from a mile away. This is Babe Ruth to the Yankees. You could see it coming from yesterday. It was like a slow heavyweight fighter's right hook. Jerry Quarry, look that one up telegraphed. Philadelphia is a handful, man. There's just not much out there I've ever seen like it. There are drives throughout the course of a game and there are halves for the Eagles that you just don't know how anybody ever stops them. And you know Washington, you know they'll, they'll sputter initially because you know a defense has all sorts of energy. But have you noticed what they're doing in the second half? It just. They wear people out. They just wear teams out. That's why I said what the Rams did in snow for an indoor team to be, you know, have a chance to win the game late is insane. That like keep your eye on the Rams next year because, because I mean there was a point in the second half I thought okay, they're down 14 points, they're still in it and maybe without the mistakes they would be. But it is, you know, listen, both teams were in the top 10 in the NFL and 10 plus play drives and Washington's opening 18 play drive, I thought I would have gone for it. By the way, my take is take 22 plays, score a touchdown, get into Philly's head. I mean you have to take chances like the fake punt, you have to take chances against Philadelphia. You don't have the same personnel, you're on the road. The fake punt, I would have gone for it in that opening drive. Just, just 22 plays and a touchdown. Get into Phillies head. You're not getting into anybody's head when you settle for a field goal. But I feel like in this game I did not feel the Eagles were under coached. Now mid second quarter when Barkley only had three carries, I'm like let's go. Let's not out think the room. But I think Philadelphia is coached well enough to win a Super bowl. And their personnel is insane. I mean I'm telling you, I'm thinking of the last roster that was this good, the Seahawks. When the Seahawks had Russell Wilson on a rookie contract and they went and got Cliff Averill to rush the passer and Percy Harvin as a Gadget player. I mean, they barely played Percy Harvin because he had those migraine headaches that Seattle team had. They had just so they had a great player in every unit. Safety, corner, pass rusher, weapon, elusive quarterback, star running back. O lines back then were better. Probably the best of Pete Carroll's NFL coaching career. So I, I, I, I think Philadelphia, I worry that Jalen Hurts will be forced to play from behind. I don't love him there. But you know what? He's good enough. He's good enough. This roster is just ridiculous. Now, good news for Washington. You're going to be back in this game several times over the next decade if Jaden Daniels stays healthy. Terry McLaurin, 16 touchdowns this year. That's as much as or more than the last three years combined. So we've always said quarterback leads the receiver. You can have the world's best receivers. You can go get Larry Fitzgerald. When he had better quarterbacks, he put up better numbers in Arizona. So, you know, Terry McLaurin's always been good. He's a great player now. Spectacular player. Quarterback drives the wide receiver. So Washington, I think, is well coached. Cliff Kingsbury, in my opinion, should remain in Washington several years. Play out your contract until there's a great job opening. There really isn't. I thought New England was about as good a job opening as you're going to have. Stability and ownership, Drake may, decent defensive personnel. But if I was Cliff Kingsbury, stay put. And I remember before the draft, I was lucky. I had a really good source that said Washington is going to draft Jaden Daniels. There was a lot of questions about Drake may going to. And I'll say this, I was told very early, Kingsbury pounded the table for Jaden Daniels. He saw him, he thought, this is the offense. I'll mold this guy. Very quickly. And two weeks into camp, I was told that Kingsbury was like, he's better than I thought. And the kid's spectacular. He's so good from the pocket, so clever, so smart. And he has a quality that you could confuse it with being emotionally remote. Like, he doesn't. He's not somebody that is high spirits and high fiving. I think that wears well. I think his ability. He doesn't pout, he doesn't sulk. That's different. But he is emotionally into the moment. You know, you don't see his emotion. He doesn't wear it. And I think that temperament is so important. Listen, Baker Mayfield has done a great redemption tour. He wears his emotion on his sleeve. And because of that. He throws a lot of picks and he's reckless. I love Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold gets very emotional, amped up. You don't get that with Jaden Daniels. It's just same temperament, and that is going to pay major dividends. I didn't think he was overwhelmed. He didn't have half the team. He's got one weapon. He's got Austin Eckler. But I mean. I mean, Zach Ertz. Good players, But I mean, McLaurin's a special player. So I got reams and reams and notes that I'll get to more of the Eagles with former Eagle scout John Middelkoff later. But that fourth and 12, they went for it. When Daniels got sacked in the fourth quarter, that was all she wrote. Just. I mean, you're watching the same thing I am with Philadelphia. Sweet Jesus, is this roster insane? It will be the best roster in the Super Bowl. It will be the best roster I can think of, except for the Niners. And I won't even say that the Niners were not this stacked on the offensive line. And Hertz is a better quarterback, but in the red zone. Good night. Pick your poison. Good night. I get the tush push, actually is. You can. At least when they run the tush push, you know the direction, the dimension where Philadelphia is going. They have the ability. They had a couple drives today, and you're sitting there thinking to yourself, and I like to guess the call before the play. I've been my entire life watching football. I'm trying to kind of guess what they're doing. I can never guess Philadelphia except the tush push. That's the only time I know what they're doing. But when I think they should go to Saquon, they don't. And then I think, where's Devonta Smith? And they get it to him. I mean, that gutsy call on fourth down, they threw it up to sideline to A.J. brown. That would have been the last thing I would have envisioned or predicted. So the play calling today I thought was really good. I'm just not a fan of the tush push. Congrats to the commanders for a remarkable season and drafting what I believe is the Patrick Mahomes of the NFC for the foreseeable future. When I look at Kansas City and I look at that front seven defensively and I look at Brett Veach's drafting and I look at Howie Roseman's drafting is, you know, GMs, we don't pay a lot of 10, a lot of Attention. Outside of Moneyball, we don't pay attention. I mean the Dodgers just go buy the best players. Right. We don't talk about Andrew Friedman, even though he's excellent. It's mostly their in baseball, we talk about how much money can Steve Cohen spend in the NBA. Once you draft a star, the GM is just trying to find rotational guys around the star. In the NFL there is a gap in quality of general managers and to me, not just because their teams are good. I think Howie Roseman's one, I think Brett Veach is two, depending on the draft. And I don't think I love Andy Reid, but in Philadelphia he didn't have this kind of talent. I mean, it took Brett a couple of years to get this receiving core right. Remember that's the hardest position to draft in the first round. It has the most misses in the last 20 years. But I think they're button now going forward.