Appreciation.
Little little bit of sweetness with but now, I mean, listen,
I have my wife and I are family, we got a lot of great memories,
you know, back there,
I've spent
eight or nine years there
once with Coach read and wants obviously, is the head coach
and
brought that see a championship and something to be proud of
obviously. And, and
we're looking forward to getting back there and just
I understand that City. I understand the passion for
football but And now I'm on the other side, right? And and
you know, it's still a long way away it's
you know, seven days away or six days away. But you know,
we've got to prepare,
you know, this week
like we have these last couple of weeks but I'm looking
forward to it, you know, getting back up there. It's
been a great place.
We did a lot of good things there and and,
you know, looking forward to the hopefully the welcome.
I'm not sure what kind of Welcome Doug Peterson is going
to get, even though I'm Peter, we had this conversation three
weeks ago, is Russell Wilson, Was preparing to return to
Seattle, the propriety, the etiquette,
the wisdom of booing
Russell Wilson. They should not boo, Doug Peterson, and I know
that I'm speaking to the wrong fan base. Here,
this guy won you, you're only Super Bowl ever
and he got fired.
He didn't want to leave.
He'd still be there.
He got Fired, he got told to leave.
So I hope that if there's anyone on Earth other than Nick
Foles maybe
that they wouldn't boo,
that Doug Peterson is that person.
Mike, I totally agree.
I just I don't understand the logic. First of all,
I understand the logic during the game of booing Russell Wilson,
okay?
But I don't understand the logic when he goes out
for warm ups before the game of booing, the living crap out of
them, which the Seattle crowd did was ridiculous. Same thing
at
Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday either
but that's I mean I'm 65 years.
Is old. I err on the side of etiquette and most people who
are DieHard, fans obviously don't. But
I do want to mention one thing about this team
that Doug Peterson is bringing into this game.
And that is this,
there are 32 teams in the NFL,
okay? The number1 number-2 team in the NFL
right now, in scoring margin points for versus points
against East
is the Jacksonville Jaguars.
They've scored 46 more points
than their opponents
when they played. That's that is significant
and I don't discount.
I don't say. Well, Jacksonville doesn't have a chance.
I think they got a chance.
I mean, they're pass rush has been really, really good.
I may have underrated Trayvon Walker coming out of the draft.
We'll see how that goes. But this is an impressive team is
not a fluky team. It's an impressive team after three
weeks.
Yeah, 62. 210 is the margin of victory in the last two wins
for the Jacksonville Jaguars in hindsight. I don't know how
they lost to Washington to start the season. They have
been phenomenal, the shutout of the Colts, the obliteration
of the Los Angeles Chargers.
This team is for Real, Sims has been all over them.
They're kind of like the Bengals from last year in that,
you look at them and you think they're not supposed to be Be
good. You look at the uniforms. You look at the Players. Like
wait, they're not supposed to be good. Why are they good? Oh
crap. They're good.
And they're going to benefit from that because
they aren't yet a measuring stick team. Now maybe if they
beat the Eagles, they'll become a measuring stick team on
the Fly. And other teams will have to reconfigure their assessment
when they see that the Jaguars are next up on the schedule.
But this is a game that the Jaguars could win. And I think
you throw in the Doug Peterson factor and it makes them even
more dangerous because he's going to be even more
motivated.
20 go in there and prove that the Eagles were wrong for
throwing him overboard.
Now, I'm sure the Jaguar players are very happy that
they have him instead Urban Meyer, but this team is good
enough, especially on defense
to match with an Eagles team that has been dominant this
year.
Yes, they lost. Or they haven't lost a game. Excuse me, they
were in a close game week 1 against the Lions, where
the final score. Did not suggest dominance,
they were dominant in that game.
They were dominant against the Vikings.
They were extremely dominant against the commanders, on
the same field where the Commander's beat the Jaguars.
And I don't put any stock in those dotted line comparisons,
but the point is, the Eagles have been dominant three out of
three weeks and it's going to take everything the Jaguars
have to beat them,
but they can.
Yeah. And you know, the other part of this game Mike is, you
know, the institutional knowledge that Doug Peterson
has
about some of the players on this team.
I mean, and you can start with Jalen hurts. Now, Jalen hurts
is a different player than the one, who was a second-round
pick,
you know, three years ago. So, I'm not necessarily saying that
Peterson has a huge advantage in this game. All I'm saying is
that
I think he will laugh in the face of getting the crab, boot
out of him. He doesn't care.
He's not playing in the game
and I think that this is really a measuring stick game for
Trevor Lawrence.
And I love the fact that Trevor Lawrence has played well so far,
but he hasn't gone into anybody's pit of despair.
Has he has he really want to game or competed?
On semi equal footing
in one of the hardest places in the NFL to play,
he has it. This game
to me is a lot for Trevor Lawrence is going to be a lot
like a really tough ACC game. Whatever one of those would be
in a place that there's 85,000 people, screaming and see,
I just don't think he's had that yet in the NFL and that's why
this is Measuring stick game for Trevor Lawrence.
Here's what Doug Peterson should do.
He should bring his Super Bowl ring with him.
He should put it on his finger, he can choose which one
and he should have it ready to go and maybe that's what he
should do. If they boo him, he should move the Super Bowl ring
from the ring finger
to the middle finger
if they boo him.
Because again, he was one of the people most responsible for
the Superbowl Championship that the folks in Philadelphia got
to enjoy. And what I was going to say earlier about
the Statue. Yes statue.
What I was going to say about the Statue was something about
pigeons, pooping all over it and making some sort of
a parallel to booing Doug Peterson.
It sounded a lot better in my brain,
but there's the statue
to guys no longer in Philadelphia. Both have been
with the Jaguars Foles previously
Peterson now and here comes Peterson,
please don't boo him
Philadelphia. You should be thanking him
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