The Eagles just had a GIFT dropped in their lap…

The Eagles just had a GIFT dropped in their lap…

The funniest thing Philadelphia could do right now might actually be happening already behind the scenes. Despite what Nick Seriani is saying externally, KM Bulo might not be safe. Plus, what the timing could not be more perfect for bringing back a familiar face, the latest on Justin Herbert’s hand posts surgery. Why the birds defense does not deserve the pass they’ve been getting. Thomas M. This is a smart show. Philadelphia is now full speed ahead as they hurdle towards their Monday night matchup just a couple of days from now in LA. Not only did we get the latest surgery updates on Justin Herbert’s hand this morning, we also got a very big hint out of Chargerland possibility of one of their biggest weapons not playing. Plus, Nicki once again addresses the Chem Bat situation as only he can do. While at the same time, history might be repeating itself in Philadelphia in more ways than one. 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Now, let me actually slide this to the top of today’s video because right before I was going to hit upload, the Pittsburgh Steelers officially released cornerback Darius Slay. And naturally, Eagle Nation is going nuts. Bigplay Slay signed a one-year deal to be the starter in Pittsburgh this past offseason where he was coming off a career best in literally every single coverage stat during his Eagles Super Bowl run. A lot of us, including myself, were wondering why get rid of him. And yet, they also got rid of Isaiah Rogers. And so it was like, h I guess they don’t want either. However, Darius Slay in Pittsburgh, really the rest of the entire Steeler defense has been completely cooked this year where everybody looks washed, which eventually led Slay to be a healthy scratch this past Sunday and obviously now released. And let’s just not even beat around the bush. This makes a ton of sense. Whether you think Darius Slay is washed or not, bring him back to Philadelphia for pennies on the dollar at this point in the season where they probably desperately need him, it makes way too much sense. Howie, you got to make a call. What’s important to note though, before you get too excited, Darius Slay must clear waiverss first before he’s able to sign elsewhere. Once he does though, and it’s likely he will, Philadelphia has nothing to lose. At worst, he’s completely washed and they simply just keep playing Adori Jackson. That’s fine. At best though, he slides instantly back into the starting quarterback role opposite of Quinan Mitchell and then fully allows Q and more importantly Cooper Deene to play their normal slot and outside quarterback roles. Plus, the veteran leadership, it could do wonders. I’m just saying the funniest thing ever would be for Philadelphia to let Darius Slay walk. We don’t want to pay 10 million bucks. He then is washed for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were right to let him go. He gets cut and then they bring him back for pennies on the dollar and he actually plays well and helps save our season down the stretch. Is it a guarantee he’s not washed? I don’t know. He’s over the age of 33, but he clearly left Philadelphia. His wife loves Philadelphia. It makes a ton of sense. Am I being crazy here? Let me know down below in the comments section if you’re interested in bringing back Big Play Slay. Now, first things first, the latest once again on the Justin Herbert hand injury. We do a fresh update today. The Chargers quarterback underwent surgery on Monday afternoon. Team said it was a successful and b marked him as currently dayto-day with a status for Monday night to be determined according to the organization later in the week. Further digging though revealed that we don’t actually know which finger or what kind of metacarpal fracture he’s dealing with. The likelihood is they place either a pin, a plate, or a screw somewhere in his left hand to go ahead and stabilize it. And that stability seems to be the main issue here. At least according to former NFL doc David Chow. That’s the question mark heading into Monday night. With the great splint and the job that they did with the buddy taping yesterday, he’s more secure for Monday night than he was this Sunday. Okay. Because of plates and screws. That’s right. won’t feel the micro motion. So this is why I’m optimistic that he can. The only pessimism for he can’t is if it’s commuted and it feels unstable and it would displace where you would need more surgery again. Whereas yesterday if it displaces more, who cares? You can fix it with surgery, right? You don’t want to expose Justin Herbert to a second surgery, right? Can avoid it. But why was he allowed to play without surgery? Because and probably he had a block too numbed it a little bit as well. The reason why they could risk it is you’re going to do surgery anyway. So if it moves a little more, you can fix it at surgery. But after surgery, you don’t want it to move. No movement. So that’s that’s the ying and yang of it. So in summarize, I don’t mean that to be so long- winded, but that’s the type of insider knowledge stuff that we do. I think Justin Herbert is very likely to play next week. I of course like many think Justin Herbert is going to play. It’s his left hand, not his right. However, there was a little hint at a press conference yesterday in LA that they are prepping Trey Lance for certain situations. As their head coach Jim Harbaugh told the media on Monday, Lance will get all of the first team goal line reps this week. This likely means also all the under center reps as well. So, as I mentioned yesterday, Herbert did not go under center at all in that game versus the Raiders once the injury happened to his hand. And going under center usually means run, at least for the runheavy charger ground game, which did activate rookie sensation Marian Hampton to his 21-day practice window following a long stint on IR with an ankle injury earlier this year. Hampton last played all the way back on October 5th in that loss to the Commanders and would instantly boost the backfield if he’s able to play. However, good news for Philadelphia. LA just signed another running back and Royce Freeman to their practice squad this morning which have some Charger beat riders wondering if Hampton’s ankle injury suffered a setback. Again, like Herbert, we’re not going to know when to marry Hampton till probably later on in the week. But fact, they signed a running back. I think it’s probably a bad sign for Hampton. He might wait one more week to get ready. Either way, the Charger injuries, as I said on Monday, TBD also want to give a massive shout out to the sponsor of this video, Cook Unity. 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So, just to clarify, Nick, Kevin still is the play caller. Yeah, not that convincing. But if you’re wondering Nick’s rationale for keeping Kembulo, well, it was basically the same old spiel that it’s a team effort. It’s a collective effort that’s not getting the job done and not just one person. It isn’t just one person. We have to it’s the ultimate team game. And so, um, like I said, we’re we’re working through everything. Um, you know, I have a lot of faith in all the players. I have a lot of faith in all the coaches. We just got to we got to execute it better and we got to uh scheme it better and we got to they all can be true and we got to and we got to call it better. It’s every it’s every um area that we need to improve on. That’s why we always say we look internally um through all these things and like I said to you guys like if all that’s not jelling that to me that’s on me first um and and it’s my job to do whatever I need to do to help get it fixed and that’s what we’re working on right now. And yet, despite the big talk defending Cam Patulo, how about big-time Eagles reporter Zack Burman, he’s not exactly convinced, noting back in 2023 during the decide debacle, Nick Serrioni, very similar fashion, took to the podium early in the game week and said, quote, “I feel good with the people that we have in this building. We’re 10 and three. We’re in control of our own destiny and we’re going to keep rolling and finding answers with the people that we have.” which like yesterday sounds good until 5 days later historically in 2023 Fox’s Jay Glazer dropped the hint that they quietly swapped out the side for Appatricia and the rest was history. So once again just because they’re saying externally we love Kembulo it’s not his fault it’s all of our faults does not necessarily mean history is on Nicki’s side. What is true are the unavoidable cold hard stats that continue to work against Kembulo week after week after week. Philadelphia has the highest hitch route rate, the lowest crosser route rate, bottom five in pre-stat motion, bottom two in play action fakes. They keep wide receiver AJ Brown away from the slot more than any other wide receiver in the NFL. However, there was one play calling argument or schematic argument that Nicks during his presser was eager to push back on. That was a report from Jeff Mlan over the weekend that Jaylen Herz does not want to run the football as much this season following his 2024 hit against the Washington Commanders. We’re always thinking about how to protect Jaylen and and make sure that he is healthy for the for the long haul. Um different different plans have different uh reasons and of why you run different things. And uh like I said, we we’ll do everything we need to do to con, you know, to help this offense get rolling. Um Jaylen’s talented and you know, running the football. He’s talented in also holding the backside, you know, when he doesn’t run the football. So, a lot of different ways to do that. Um, you know, again, um, always looking at everything and, uh, how we can improve. I think most of our problems, however, are the majority of these runs, like in the first Cowboy game were actually scrambles instead of designed quarterback runs. We want you to design Jaylen Herz running the football. But, of course, Nick Serani denied all of this and said they are trying to run the football and protect Jaylen Herz. And so, as with classic Nicki press conferences, you kind of go, “All right, we’ll see.” The other thing fans want to see going forward, the possible return of offensive coordinator Frank Reich, who most Bird fans have been tweeting about the past couple of days. And yet they forget he just finished up his season as the Stanford interim head coach led the Cardinals to a 4 and8 record. And the connection here obviously makes sense himself once mentioned Frank Reich as one of his favorite mentors in the National Football League. And unlike Doug Peterson or an outsider like Brian Dable, Frank Reich knows the organization well and obviously had a clean break because he was hired away by the Colts to be their head coach. Plus, many are arguing that Frank Reich as a consultant right now, not just a future OC, really can’t hurt because everyone remembers the makeshift offense he helped create really on the fly in 2027 that jumpst started the Nick Full Super Bowl run. This was not the same offense they were running with Carson Wentz, Doug Peterson, Frank Reich, they changed things up and the rest was history. Still, much like Brian Dable yesterday, the odds of them bringing in an offensive consultant seemed to be pretty low. I know all the claims about Vic Fanio helping the offense scheme against Patrick Mahomes in the defense and vice versa in 2022. It’s out there, but I still think it’s a low percent chance, but it would be pretty darn funny to go full circle and bring back Frank Reich to be the offensive coordinator once KP was let go. What’s not funny though, ciring back to Friday night, was the play of Philadelphia’s defense, as that Bed Johnson le offense absolutely carved up Vic Fangio’s unit in a way we haven’t really seen much this year. Like I get it. All the talk this week has been on the Eagle offense and Kembulo and rightfully so. I’ve been doing the same thing. But I don’t think we quite understand just how bad the Birds look versus Kayla Williams and company until you watch a breakdown like Brian Baldinger dropped on his Twitter account earlier this morning. This play has been bugging me since last Friday. Since last Friday. It’s first down at the four. All right. Kyle Manungai, a rookie seventh round pick in the back field. It’s a 10-9 game. Whatever reason, the Eagles, they shift here. All right, fine. All right, we got the linebackers 10 toes on the goal line. Good. Mitchell, 10 toes on the goal line. All right, defending the goal line. This is the worst. I’ve never seen a goal line defense where your defensive tackle goes up field like this and then you get this. Like, nobody wins. All they’re doing is catching blocks. Nobody’s penetrating like they’re just catching blocks here. Nobody wins. So now because Carter goes out there, you got Nico getting washed up. And Manungi scores and he’s like when we played Ryder College at Ruters, it was more difficult to score than that. Philadelphia’s run defense didn’t just give up 281 yards on the ground. They failed to adjust at all the entire game, which we don’t really want to admit it, but as Anthony Deona did earlier this week, this has been a problem for Philadelphia a lot so far this season. Going back as early as week seven versus the Vikings, where Jordan Mason, he had statistically just 15 carries for 57 yards, yet five of those carries were for 34 yards on the first drive of the second half. And then for some reason, the Vikings decided to not run Jordan Mason at all, albeit but two carries the rest of the way. And then later on, that was just a one-ame instance. Denver had a buck 30 on the ground in their win. The Giants part one 172. That was nuts. Even the Packers most recently on a terrible Jordan Love passing game had 104 yards on the ground versus the Eagle defense. And while it’s not just one player or one scheme or one play call, I do think there is one player in the Eagle defensive line who’s not getting enough criticism right now for not being bad, but not being elite, at least where he should be, and that is Jaylen Carter. Jillian Carter’s not been terrible this season. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s been fine. But just two sacks and 34 pressures are about 11th best in terms of interior defensive lineman in the National Football League. And 11th, it’s not bad, but he’s supposed to be what the next Aaron Donald. That’s what we all claimed that he would be. These numbers need to go up and he cannot have another game like he did versus the Bears last Friday. We have to remember Jaylen Carter is not just a pass rush force. His presence must be felt in the run game going forward, especially verse a runheavy Charger game this coming Monday night. Now, one thing I do hope the Eagle players, really the coaches as well, are right about this week, at least externally, are how different they think the 2025 team is to the 2023 epic collapse birds. At least verbally, again, externally, everybody keeps claiming this year is totally different. I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you right now, this is nowhere near close to 2023. So, let’s put that in the uh let’s nip that in the bud right there. There’s this is at least as a player in the locker room that was part of the 2023 team and part of this team. It’s nowhere near nowhere near. How so? I I’m telling you now the way the way we go about it, the practice, the detail, although we’re not winning games. I shouldn’t even say that. We won eight games. Yeah. Yeah. I shouldn’t even say that, you know. And I think just the way we we attack every day with the attention to detail, some would say I I would probably say the detail right now is our in-game execution, right? That is lacking. We now we can go back to practice and that’ll probably be a big emphasis of putting ourselves in these situations where they keep hurting us in games and that’s all you can do. And I feel like that wasn’t there in 23. It’s there this year. the coaching the coaching technique. It’s there this year. It wasn’t there in 23. So, I just think I want I just want to I want to dead it. If you didn’t know where that came from, dead it. I’m going to dead it. Um right then and there, this is not a I mean, maybe as a fan, but I can tell you now as a player, this is completely different to 2023. It’s like I don’t even want to go there. Yeah. I think that all the lessons I think you saw a lot of that the lessons we learned in 23 resulted in kind of what happened last year. Um so of course you always take lessons in and everything. Win, lose or draw, you’re always constantly uh trying to to learn and get better. Philadelphia lost five of their last six in 2023 and right now they’re on a twoame losing streak. Winning versus the Cardinals, it could be similar to that scrappy barely kind of squeak by win versus the Giants. Their lone win of the six. It was final six in 2023. But let’s hope that’s not the case. Let’s hope they turn things around on Monday night, get a win, and that springboards them to more wins, and it’s not a collapse like 2023 was because again, toward Milot Nicki, they said that’s not the case. Of course, time will tell. We’ll see. They got to win the first one Monday night, then beat the lowly Raiders, then beat the Commanders Bills. You know, it can’t be that hard. And yet, it has been the past couple of weeks. So, again, we will see. Plenty more stuff happening the next couple of days and weeks. Get in on your Birds hoodie. Pick up one of these. I’m telling you, this thing, it’s incredibly comfortable. 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Some wild Eagles news just dropped as the Pittsburgh Steelers released Darius Slay this afternoon and Philadelphia could be in line to re-sign their former Pro Bowl cornerback. Slay signed with the Steelers this offseason but has had a down year to the point that Mike Tomlin felt comfortable benching and then cutting him. Slay will hit the open market and a reunion with Vic Fangio and the Eagles defense makes so much sense. Also, hear why Nick Sirianni continues to defend Kevin Patullo and what Frank Reich’s final game at Stanford could mean for the Eagles offense. Finally, Jalen Carter needs to step us following the Eagles’ poor performance on defense, and Justin Herbert has hand surgery. Tons of Eagles news and rumors on today’s show.

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Time Codes:
0:00 – Intro
0:24 – Wild Day in Philly
0:47 – Birds Hoodie Giveaway
1:26 – Big Play Slay’s Return?!
3:10 – Herbert’s Hand Update
7:16 – Sirianni Defends KP
9:21 – Hurts Running More
10:29 – Bring Back Reich?
11:37 – Eagles Defensive Concern
14:28 – No 2023 Repeat?

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