The Raiders just HANDED the Eagles exactly what they needed… + Maxx Crosby injury latest

The Raiders just HANDED the Eagles exactly what they needed… + Maxx Crosby injury latest

There are now three things standing in the way of Philadelphia finally getting their season somewhat back on track this weekend. The first is a fresh coat of snow at Lincoln Financial Field. Second is a Raiders team currently tanking for next April. The third is a very familiar face. Despite some not so promising injury news for the birds this week, Jon Herz and Keatulo sound eager to build upon their best offensive performance minus the turnovers in weeks. All while new faces on the birds defense look to continue their strong showing this coming Sunday. Thomas spots. This is the Thomas show. There are games in every NFL season that are not only must wins because of a team spot in the playoff hunt or what happened the previous few weeks, but there are also games against bad opponents quietly tanking for draft picks that become not just must wins but must win while also looking good. And the Raiders coming to Philadelphia on Sunday versus a floundering Birds team is precisely the latter. And while I personally been very curious to see if Philadelphia would show any signs of giving up this week following the Charger loss, the opposite has 100% been the case, even with some not so great injury news right before kickoff. First though, I wanted to highlight an Eagle Raider watch party happening this Sunday during the game in Deepford that I think you guys might want to go to because LeShawn McCoy is going to be in attendance as the guys at Grand Cormino, the official tequila of the Philadelphia Eagles, are hosting the watch party at PJ Willahanss in Deepford starting at 12:30. I’ve been told they’re having a live roasting session which you can actually participate in that’s judged by Shady himself and the winner is going to get some pretty awesome merch. So again, PJ Willahands in Depford 12:30. I’ll link it all down below. Shady is going to be there. Say hi to him for me. Have fun on Sunday. Oh, and the Saquin Barkley statue winner that’s also at the end of the day show, so stay tuned to see if you won. Now, first things first, there was some panic the other day with Philadelphia’s injury report made to the fact that both Lane Johnson and his replacement appeared on it with foot and ankle injuries. And while I personally am a little bit surprised Lane Johnson he’s not going to play on Sunday now because he hasn’t practiced all week mainly because the NFL Network and Lane himself seemingly hinted that this was the target date to return. I honestly think it’s the best decision Philadelphia could have made because sitting lane along with Jaylen Carter for as long as humanly possible to get them as healthy as humanly possible is obviously the right choice as the playoffs whether you think Philadelphia is going to make it or not loom very very soon. And come on, if Philadelphia can’t beat the Raiders or Marcus Mariota’s nursing home team twice the next couple of weeks, they don’t deserve to be in the playoffs anyway. Even if Lane Johnson and JC are not going to play. So get healthy, guys. We’ll take care of the rest or we should. And then if they come back 100% for the playoffs, come on. Anything’s possible. Either way though, as I mentioned, Lane, he’s not going to play verse Las Vegas. However, the good news on Friday was Lane Johnson, despite being limited on Thursday, he was back out there, confirmed he’s going to play. He’s ready to roll to hold down that right side. Was feeling great. Uh yeah. Yeah. I got nicked up and that led to uncovering some things that was like hindering me the last couple of weeks and got it figured out. I felt great today at practice. Felt back to my old self. So think you’ll play on Sunday? No, I’m definitely playing. And yes, for those wondering, Fred Johnson will match up a lot on Sunday against Max Crosby, who despite missing Wednesday’s practice with a knee and shoulder issue. He’s been back out there the past couple of days for Las Vegas. He will play along with the limited Jamal Adams, Jeremy Chin, and Michael Mayer. Both teams are honestly pretty healthy. There’s some banged up guys here and there, but everybody we expect to play is going to play. The real headline though, as mentioned a couple of days ago, no Gino Smith, it’s official. It will be Kenny Picket against his former team at the link. And I’ve actually gone back and forth on this because like sure, on one hand, Fino Smith, he’s been so bad this season, I was hoping he would play. Pickicket technically could be an upgrade. And yet, us Bird fans, we saw Picket last season and 99% of us thought Tanner McKe was still the better quarterback. Ask yourself this, is Kenny Picket really going to roll into possible snowy Philadelphia and dice up the Birds defense that just had seven sacks of Justin Herbert had been held for five quarters in Los Angeles? Again, knock on wood, I don’t think so. Still, Vic Fanjo did mention during his press conference on Thursday that just because they went against Picket in practice every day last season doesn’t mean they have some sort of secret gouge on him this time around. He’s going to be different. Yeah, obviously we have respect for Kenny. Um, started a couple years in Pittsburgh. uh did well when he had the play for us last year. Um obviously saw him on the practice field all last year. You know, I don’t think there’s a way advantage, you know, just because he was here that we know him. He’s in a different offense running a different scheme. You know, I think all of that’s way blown out of proportion. The good news though, Philadelphia’s pass rush, it’s been their strength. They’ve generated 20 sacks over the past six games, including seven, as we know, versus the Chargers on Monday night. And you don’t become a 2-1 team, like the Raiders are, without giving up a ton of sacks by your offensive line. And Raider quarterbacks actually been sacked the most of any quarterback in the entire National Football League, or at least tied with Cam Ward. 49 times Raider QBs have been on their backside. Safe to say Pick Fangio’s guys, they should be able to get after Kenny Picket all game long this weekend. We’ve improved our rush. Um, you know, bringing uh JP in has helped obviously. Um, as we alluded to earlier, Jordan’s improved. Um, we’re getting into some more third and longer stuff. You know, some of the games where our third down numbers weren’t good. It was because we had a lot of third and shorts. Um, you know, so I just think it’s a little bit of everything, not one thing. 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Oh, and underdog it’s available in most states including Florida, California, and Texas. So just use my code mod to get $75 when you play five with underdog. Now, quickly on the back end, it is worth at least acknowledging the second straight start for safety Marcus EPS, who hardly had his name called last week vers, which actually was a good sign because it meant he did not give up any huge mistakes and I thought in fact looked fantastic. Plus, EPS was the starter in Las Vegas most recently, so there’s some extra motivation for a solid day from number 39. I personally thought last week EPS played a game compatible with Drew Makuba’s best performances this season. I think he has a real chance to cement the starting role the rest of the year with another good game this coming Sunday. same stuff, you know, that we’ve talked about. Good instincts, good experience. He’s got a good knowledge of the game. Um, knows how to fit different plays that come up, whether it be in coverage or on the run versus the run game. You know, you can feel his experience, his instincts, and his knowledge when you when he’s out there. And yet, in reality, if we’re being honest, we’re not worried about the Raider offense or Kenny Picket or the Birds defense. The main focus on Sunday at the link is going to be can Philadelphia’s offense, I don’t know, look competent, move the football, don’t turn it over, and actually score some points. Besides winning, all I care about on Sunday is seeing more progress from this offense going forward. But after 14 weeks, I said a few days ago, it technically looked slightly better against the Chargers. And I say slightly here because they went from a team that couldn’t move the football but didn’t turn it over and always score in the red zone to a team last Monday night that could move the football and also did turn it over a ton while not being able to score in the red zone. And while yes, that does count as progress, at least according to Ken Patulo. It’s frustrating when that happens because when you have good drives, you get it going and then you just can’t capitalize on it with a touchdown. Um, you know, you come to the sideline, you’re excited about the drive and we had good plays, but you know, ultimately, you know, when we get down in there, we want to score touchdowns. That’s the name of the business for us on offense and and it’s frustrating. All jokes aside though, to defend KP and Xeriani for at least a second here, all the great film breakdown gurus you see on Twitter have acknowledged this week the Charger game plan on offense was the best we’ve seen all month. They ran the football well. They took their shots down the field. They moved the football consistently, converted on third down, nice throws across the middle, and were a catch or two away from probably winning that game. But I think there were some positives that came out of that game. we were able to do some different things that we’ve been pushing towards doing and trending towards at times that showed up and was very encouraging. I think the guys felt pretty good about the things we did well on. They know what we need to fix and kind of continue to grow from and the plan can keep growing from there, especially this week going forward. And while yes, it shouldn’t take that long to implement some of the changes we saw this past week, I guess at this point, we shouldn’t complain when the changes actually do come, regardless how slow they were to actually get here. Oh, and by the way, if you’re worried about Jaylen Herz and how he’s gonna bounce back against a five turnover game versus the Chargers, um he doesn’t sound worried at all. I think he’s gonna have a really big game on Sunday afternoon. The problem the problem about the game is is is as ugly as it was throughout. You know, I had an opportunity to win it in the end. And so that’s what I take a lot of pride in and I didn’t come up for my team. But how does how do you keep the confidence up despite that? Wake up the next day, go back to work. And to put this an easier way for you, in the Raiders lone win since October 12th, even Cam Ward put up 200 plus passing yards and a touchdown against the Raider defense despite being sacked six times. Jillen Herz is a lot better than Cam Ward despite what you’ll say in the comment section. I know who you guys are and not even Max Crosby, let’s be real, is not going to slow him down. Well, I mean, they got a um a really disruptive front led with Max Crosby and the way he plays, he’s all over the field, has a high motor. So, definitely got a lot of respect for him and their linebackers are I feel very underrated and how they play and fly to the ball, how physical they are, and so um just, you know, got our um got a got a good defense in front of us and we just got to go out there and really find our game and play our game. As it currently stands, Philadelphia is all but locked into the number three seed, or at least that so far is going to be their floor. A win on Sunday though, keeps them obviously at number three, but gets them a little bit closer within striking distance of the two seed or if things really fell in their way, the number one overall seed. Sunday, as I said at the end of today’s show, it’s not just a must-win. They can’t win 1713 and all this be excited. They have to win and look good doing it. And that means a double-digit victory where the offense doesn’t turn it over, moves the football. Well, that’s exactly what I told Josh Davis earlier in the week during our weekly live show. I’m still panicking, but I feel a little bit better. I feel better after this loss than I did after the Bear loss. The Bear loss was nothing. The Bear loss, there was nothing to be excited about. This loss was a championship caliber defense and the best offensive performance we’ve seen from Saquon Barkley and the passing attack except for interceptions, which, you know, Jaylen wants to throw more interceptions. We’re not going anywhere. But if he doesn’t, I think the offense might uh not be Ben Johnson level, but better than it’s been. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Um and and to make it clear, which we already have in the recap videos and everything else there, but Jaylen Herds is QB1. He’s not being benched. the talk from everybody which why the reason that it gets thrown out there and the reason that we even say it is because a lot of people on the streams from the game stream itself of how I mean how many chats super chats comments everything else during is like is it time for Tanner McKe Tanner McKe Jaylen he’s not the answer now he has been really bad I mean even the last several games it’s not just that one but obviously in the Chargers game he was bad but I’m right there with you you know we we say this all the time the tape tells the story like the the knee-jerk reaction emotions that’s fine you know every we’re all there. We can all have moments where it’s like get him out of here. He’s done not the end all this. Then you you reflect, you take a day, you take two days, and then you look at the film and you kind of see, okay, are there some semblances of life? Is there any sort of optimism? And that’s what you saw there. So, I do agree that in the sense of what this offense has been, you the Chicago game, it looked terrible and then you watched the film and it still was terrible. Like there there was not much that you could go off of. for this one. You’re like, “Yeah, it was, as you said, poor execution. There’s some tipped passes. There’s some drops that have happened. Guys that are still not making plays. Offensive line continues to be an issue. Better, but still continues to be an issue. But you look at the layered concepts in the passing game. You look at the routes they threw. It’s not all hitches. They ran a lot still, but it’s not all hitches. They have play action under center. They have under center just by itself. Like that is a win. But the fact that they continue to use it and they can see some some benefits that come from it and they have cross routes over the middle of the field. Jaylen being willing to take those. Yeah, there’s a lot of positives to come away from that. The question then just becomes and Anthony and I were talking about the live stream last night as well. Do the Eagles coaching staff, Nicki M, but Sirriani and Kevin Patula, do they look at that and go, “Oh boy, nope.” You know, turnovers did it happen. It happened. So, let’s let’s let’s pull it back. Let’s go back into our conservative shell and we’re going to inside zone and we’re going to hitch route and we at least can’t get turnovers. We’re going to punt the ball a million times, but we will not turn the football over. I hope not as well, but that that is maybe the the biggest concern. But if they can find that happy medium, there were still bad instances, bad play calling issues out there, but there were some good parts of it as well. they can find the happy medium, then I think, yeah, we’re going to be walking away from it going, “Okay, do you know, we don’t have to say they win the Super Bowl, but as you said, just some sort of optimism, a little bit of hope here.” Well, and let’s let’s be real again, we are not trying to sell you guys. I see that comment right now on a bad product. Philadelphia’s offense is still a bad product. But if Philadelphia’s offense was 28th in the National Football League versus the Bears, you know, in terms of how bad that game was, and they were 17th versus the Chargers, that’s a big enough gap to overcome a lot of sins as long as you don’t turn don’t turn the football over. And as far as Jaylen Herds, let’s just get one thing straight here. I’m not sure WIP talked about anything else today besides benching Jaylen Herz. I didn’t listen at all, but I saw their social media clips, which is to me nuts. Jaylen Herz though, if there is a criticism, and this is very true of Jayen Herz, the selling point on Jaylen Herz has always been the stats are not always going to be there. He’s not going to throw for 500 yards a game. He’s not going to have four passing touchdowns. He’s not going to do what Josh Allen does or Patrick Mahome does or Lamar Jackson does, although two of those are not doing much this year. Silence from the media still. But he’s not going to turn the football over and he’s going to win games. And as long as he does both of those two things, I think everybody in Philadelphia, except for the fringe haters who always, you know, want the backup quarterback and want their quarterback to throw for 500 yards. Not saying we don’t, but you get my point. We’re pretty much content because last year he won a bunch of games. He had plenty of stretches. We forget where they didn’t do a lot on offense. EJ Brown reading the book, and yet in the end he won all his games. He performed at the brightest stages like he does, and he did not turn the football over. The second that Jill Herd stops doing those two things, he starts turning the football over and stops winning games, people will rightfully abandon Chip. And if it keeps going the next four weeks, we’re gonna have a real conversation whenever we get to the offseason about the future. I don’t think there’s any scenario where they move off of Jaylen Herz. I know Jeremy Fowler had a little thing on ESPN today saying maybe they’ll draft a quarterback. They probably will because they’re going to probably get a Kings ransom for Tanner McKe by the New Orleans Saints. Second round draft pick third. Nothing crazy. Yeah, I think they definitely draft a quarterback, but they always do. They drafted Kyle McCord last year. So, you know, to say the Eagles will draft a quarterback is like me or you saying how he will make a call for an edge rusher over the offense. Like, yeah, he’s going to call about it all the time. But yeah, that’s totally fair point. But basically, the point is once Julen Her starts turning the football over and losing a lot more, then everyone can start panicking. But everyone cannot immediately throw the towel in after a couple of bad games when we are less than a calendar month. less than a calendar year remove from him outdueling Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl winning MVP. And if you want to type that was last year, it doesn’t matter. He’s made two of them. He’s made two of them. There’s really only one quarterback in my lifetime to actually make two who was pretty average overall in the regular season and that was Eli Manning. And Eli Manning still won a ton of games and is still considered one of the better quarterbacks of the 2020s even though or last 20 years even though you know he’s not Pton Manning or Tom Brady. It’s hard to make one. It’s hard to win one. He’s made two so far. And the excuse that he had a super team in 2024 doesn’t work in 2022 cuz that defense was awful. So, I will continue to defend Jaylen Herz. But if he’s continues to lose, continues to throw interceptions, those are the two things that he has to keep on his end of the bargain for me to keep defending him. And I think his leash either way is still very long. Now, of course, plenty more stuff happening the next couple of days and weeks, including our live stream of the Eagles and Raiders game, which is kind of a bummer because I’d rather be in Deer, New Jersey, meeting Lean McCoy at the Grand Cormino watch party. But again, if you guys want to go, it’s going to be a bunch of fun. They’ve told me all the details. Trust me, you’re going to have a good time. I’ll link it all down below in the description box. And as we always do at the end of this show, let’s announce the winner of the Saquon Barkley to the house collectible statue, which I think looks absolutely fantastic. And that winner was at Timmy or at Tim Tim. I’m sorry I put it up on the screen. You know who you are. Uh send me a email link down below and prove it to you. I’ll get this bad boy sent out to you and hopefully we’ll do some more giveaways with these guys because I think this thing is absolutely fantastic. Um that’s basically it. They better win on Sunday. It’s that simple. They better look good and win on Sunday. I think they will. Let me know what you guys think down below. Thomas M. This has been Thomas Shop.

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Eagles vs Raiders last-minute injury news and rumors look at the latest updates before Kenny Pickett returns to Philadelphia to take on the struggling Eagles. Jalen Hurts is coming off his worst performance of the season with five turnovers against the Chargers. However, Hurts himself and OC Kevin Patullo seem very confident in the offense’s progress and are looking for a bounce back game vs the Raiders. For Las Vegas, Maxx Crosby has been limited at practice all week; however, he is expected to play as Pete Carroll’s unit looks to play spoiler for the Eagles strong chances at winning the NFC East and making the NFC Playoffs. Full Eagles vs Raiders preview with news and rumors on today’s show!

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10:28 – “Must Win” for Philly

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