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What a day we got going on.

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So a lot of Phillies, I wrote on my news on this morning,

my 26th bowl predictions for the season.

Some of you love some of you all,

that's the nature of bowl predictions.

But I wanted to talk on today's episode

about yesterday and the winner of the afternoon show

insider of the year, Eagles,

insider of the year, Diana Rossini of the athletics.

So I've got five takeaways.

Five things I learned from Diana Rossini

winning the Wi-P Eagles insider of the year.

Of course, last year was I learned

from her parks this year is Diana Rossini.

Number one, and the first and foremost,

the biggest thing that I took away from her winning

is she deserves an apology, probably from you,

not from me, but certainly from a lot of people.

They may be not used specifically,

but a lot of people out there over the past six, eight months

have really tried to discredit Diana's reporting

on the AJ Brown thing.

When I think she's been the most spot on,

the most spot on of any insider around the NFL

on the AJ Brown thing.

She was the first and then the clearest

to signal dissatisfaction from AJ Brown.

That could manifest itself into a trade.

And we all saw dissatisfaction here for years,

but she's the first one that said,

hey, keep an eye on this.

This could lead to a trade,

which I think everyone would have clear mind

thinks it still will.

And she was on it from the jump.

She didn't get off it.

She has done an incredible job reporting on this.

And I think sometimes as stands, we have this thing,

where we don't, and honestly,

if this is more than a sports thing,

it's kind of a real world thing.

If we don't like the message,

we get mad at the messenger.

We don't like what's happening.

We get mad at the person who's illuminating lights

on what is happening.

And that is what it's like.

That's what Diana's routine is job is.

She's a national NFL reporter and insider.

And she has put light on the AJ Brown situation.

And instead of asking yourself,

why remote she hates the Eagles,

which is one of the Eagles inside of here.

And I believe her husband from the area that Eagles stand,

just no hate for the Eagles.

Most of these people that cover the league

on a national basis don't give a crap

about any of these teams in terms of loving or hating them.

That's down the middle.

And if anything, I think Diana will be more empathetic

to the Eagles because she's got a connection, obviously,

to the city and the area and all that kind of stuff.

So yeah, this is not about any of that.

It's about, she's got, she's a good reporter.

And obviously she has a good source on this

within one of the camps.

I don't know where her source is.

I don't know where she gets her information,

but she gets good information.

And I enjoy her reporting, her work.

Go ahead and she won Eagles inside of the year today.

So the first thing is you probably shouldn't apologize

to Diana for seeing her or everyone out there

who likes to pop off a little bit on social media

about her and everything she says and her reports.

You don't want to read it or buy it.

You're a clown because she's the Eagles inside of the year

and you're not.

So I mean, I'm kidding about the clown thing.

But the idea is she deserves her apology.

Probably probably a lot of people who did not act very kindly

to her reporting.

That's number one.

Second thing I learned from Diana

for seeing the winning Eagles inside of the year

is aging the Eagles are probably working together

here more than we might think.

She mentioned yesterday on the afternoon show

that the Eagles and AJ probably both

feel best to go their separate ways.

And AJ is trying not to make this

a spectacle in the off season.

And that strength, as you kind of deconstruct this thing

and put it back together, what it really seems to me is

the Eagles tried to make the AJ thing work

for one more year last year.

It didn't.

They could have, and I'll get to this training

during the season when he's probably requesting trade.

They tried to just say, let's just get through the vacation.

Let's get through the holidays.

And then we'll really look at our relationship

instead of blowing this thing up now.

That's what they tried to do.

Last year was the therapy session.

It didn't work.

They don't want to be together anymore.

And now everyone's trying to act like grownups

in the divorce.

And I think that's best for both parties.

And what I assume now that we're kind of here

is that at some point, Jeffrey Laurie,

when he went down to talk to AJ Brown

in the season, right?

The beginning of November when AJ was upset

and the Jackie Rondo thing, when that happened,

when he spoke to AJ, my guess is he

brought some sort of message up, hey, I need you

to give me your best.

I need you to put everything that you're frustrated

about aside for the betterment of the team, for me,

for the organization, for the rest of this season.

After the year, we'll sit down and talk.

If you still feel the same way, we'll find a resolution.

That's what I believe.

I believe Jim Flurry asked him, or told him,

this has to stop now.

And if it does, if you work with us,

and you give us your effort, and you give us your play,

and we keep this thing quiet, and we don't pop off again.

If you still want to be out of here for the season,

we'll get it out of here.

And I think that's where we're at.

I think there's been some understanding of, hey,

no more, no more ripping the players, no more,

coaches, no more ripping the quarterback specifically.

No more popping off, none of this, not in that sense.

You play nice and we'll do right by you after the season.

I believe that is where we're at.

And I think there's a patience level

that AJ is showing, which is admirable right now,

to how he always would do his job,

and they're going to get him out of here eventually.

I do think we are there.

I do think that the Eagles and Brown are working together.

I don't expect AJ Brown to cross that line.

Now, Mike, he'd do a social media post maybe.

But I don't think he's going to cross that line

in the next couple of months where he goes on a pod guest

or a show and he says something about wanting to be out

or can't wait for his next spot.

I don't think he's going to do that.

I think they're working together more than we think

in all this, probably less animosity

between the two parties and more of a working relationship.

Almost like what people get divorced

and they're really amicable about it

and they're grownups about it.

That's what this feels like.

Third thing I learned from Diana

was seeding winning Eagles It's Out of the Year

is how he's using June 1st as leverage.

Everyone now is saying June 1st, June 1st.

That's because how he is saying,

I didn't get a good enough offer.

So if you want him before June 1st,

you better come and knock it.

I think there are two dates now on the calendar

that will lead us to a trade.

And the first date is the draft.

And that's a game of leverage

and that is a game of chicken.

And that is a game of each side

daring the other to change the storyline.

And the page is going to change the storyline

by drafting a receiver in the first round.

They could.

I doubt they're going to after paying dobs,

Kyle Williams last year in the draft.

The AJ still thinks they'll out there for them.

I doubt they're going to take a receiver in the first round.

But if they did take a receiver in the first round,

it hurts the Eagles.

There's just no other way to look at it.

It hurts the Eagles because they're

made for AJ Brown would go down considerably.

So that's the first thing that's the first thing I thought of

is the draft.

The second part of this is if the Eagles take AJ Brown.

I was going to take a receiver in the first round

or a second round.

I don't think it completely hurts the Eagles leverage.

But I think I think it would signal

a team's AJs out of here.

And I think it'd be harder for how

we'd hold the line to steal a Hugh Douglas line.

It would hardly be harder for how it's

to reasonably sell to the Patriots.

I might keep AJ.

Oh, really, you're going to keep AJ.

You have Devonte, a first round pick receiver.

You pay $6.5 million for Hollywood Brown.

You're really going to keep AJ Brown.

No one buys that.

But I think it would hurt the Eagles a little bit,

but prepare them for the trade.

The other day, of course, is June 1st.

And the day I mentioned, Julio Jones,

as the last post-June 1st trade of this kind of ilk.

And it's interesting from the perspective

of AJ Brown's really close to Julio Jones.

He was excited when he came here a few years ago.

He talked about watching, growing up.

He's his favorite receiver.

I'm sure they can fight it each other.

I've had that June 1st thing about what it was like,

about patience, a true AJs communicating with AJ,

with Julio Jones now.

So June 1st is a leverage number used by Howie.

That I think the, I think the cat thing is a little bit

of a red herring.

I think Howie's going to use it to his advantage

unless he gets something big right now.

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Fourth thing that I learned about

from Diana Rossini winning Eagles inside of the year

is they really should have tried them at the deadline.

I mean, now that we've looked back,

it wasn't worth keeping them.

It didn't work.

Eagles didn't get past the first round.

He didn't play that much better

in a second half of the season.

You know, he had a couple of big games,

but really it was, it was nothing.

The playoff game was a joke.

And I don't believe now the Eagles will get a huge bounty.

Now, you would think during the off season,

you could theoretically pit 32 teams against each other,

31 teams against each other

because everyone could use more talent during the season.

You know, 10 teams by the trade deadline

are obviously not gonna trade anything.

If no, they're selling, right?

Or they're just not buying, they're done with the point

of even getting infamous.

But I didn't think that has become clear

during this off season,

as AJ has the preferable list of teams.

Diana mentioned some of the teams quarterbacks

that he'd be open to going to.

So the Eagles don't have a lot of wiggle room anyway

to create a bidding war.

If they could have pulled it off to the trade deadline,

the headache would have been gone.

We would have been past this now.

The whole off season could have been about acquiring

AJ's replacement instead of just kind of tip-toeing

around this whole thing, which I think we are.

And the Eagles are, everyone knows,

they're gonna need a receiver early in the draft

because AJ's gonna be out of here sooner than later.

They need cheap labor at that position.

But yeah, we gotta do the pretend thing that AJ's still here.

It's been awkward.

It has taken up their time.

It has taken up their energy.

It has taken up their work around with the salary cap.

It's been a lot.

And I think in retrospect,

now in the unpack,

they should have just traded the deadline.

And the last thing that I learned

from Diana Rossini winning Eagles inside of the year

is that I am much better at predicting divisions

being over whether it be the National League East

or the NFC East than I am predicting Eagles inside of the year.

Now, I will point out that in unveiling the where

hours before we found out in WIP,

Jeff McClan had the scoop, Jeff McClan had the story

that I feel justified in saying McClan ran away with this.

I would have voted for Jeff McClan.

I think Jeff McClan should have won Eagles

inside of the year after the show could do the voting

anyway they want.

They gave him Diana.

She's got the crown.

And she earned it for the AJ reporting.

But I guarantee that the division being over,

or should be the division,

the Eagles inside of the year being over

to Jeff McClan a few weeks ago.

I still believe he dominated this thing.

And I do think in retrospect now,

him getting the scoop of the Eagles inside of the year

is the biggest scoop.

He's scooped the competition.

He's scooped the story.

He had the story that he didn't win,

which in effect, I think it means he should have won.

But I digress, I will stick to calling divisions over

instead of inside of the year voting.

I will stick to that.

That might be my wheelhouse.

I will continue to go down that path.

And I think I'm much better at that.

And we'll see what part of this baseball season,

whether it be May, June, July, August,

whenever the feeling comes over me,

I will declare the NL East over hopefully

in favor of the Philadelphia Phillies

and not the New York Mets.

But hey, I mean, one of these years,

whether it be the Cowboys or Commanders or the Mets

or one of these years is gonna go the other way.

I mean, two years in a row,

I told you the NL East is over

and it was over at that date,

even if you had that little thick skin to get through it.

And I told the NFC's was over and it was.

So we're gonna do it again this season

for the NL East.

We'll do it again for the NFC's.

The day I feel like the thing is over.

We'll talk about it,

but I might have to retire from the predictions

on equals inside of the year

because I don't have this one.

I just, I don't have the same feeling that I do or did

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