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00:00Total, 49 and a half.
00:01Opening still sits at 49 and a half.
00:04That's a tough threshold to get over.
00:06Because it's like, you know, the,
00:07hey man, 99.99, that's a good price.
00:10100 bucks, that's too much, man.
00:11I'm not paying 100 bucks for that thing.
00:13Price point sometimes does matter to the optics.
00:1550 seems like a ton.
00:1749 and a half seems doable at this point.
00:20But at this line, let's just say this.
00:22Any time between right now and Tuesday,
00:24the closing line on Sunday,
00:26do you think we see a 50 at a prominent outlet
00:30for the total in this game?
00:32I think so.
00:33I do.
00:34I think it is a number that is more likely to trickle up.
00:38I think, Donnie, one of the things
00:41that could influence this total
00:43is clean bills of health for Dickerson and Juergens.
00:47Yes.
00:48Which I'm kind of expecting.
00:49Like, you just think about news
00:51that we're waiting on, right?
00:53Well, Kansas City's not gonna really give us any, right?
00:56You were listening this morning to the early line.
00:58Oh, really?
00:59Yeah, that's fine.
01:00Listen, you know, some guys who maybe know
01:03what's going on then, I guess.
01:06I imagine, Donnie, that that type of positive news.
01:09I mean, also, listen, people keep talking
01:11about the fast track, you know?
01:15I don't know how much it's worth
01:17playing the game in New Orleans
01:19versus, say, playing a game in Kansas City.
01:22I probably disagree with how much it's worth,
01:26but that's par for the course
01:27because I typically bet against
01:30weather movement all the time.
01:33Yeah, no, and your point is exactly
01:36what I was going over this morning
01:37because the thought was, like,
01:39where's that line gonna end up?
01:40Is it two?
01:41Is it one?
01:42Is it one and a half?
01:42Is it Eagles favorite?
01:43Is it three Chiefs?
01:44You know, going over all those options.
01:46And I was with you, and I said to myself,
01:48the Chiefs coming into last week,
01:50you know, we were saying, like,
01:51they were really healthy across the board.
01:53They came out of that game pretty much unscathed
01:56for the most part.
01:57So they're gonna head to the Super Bowl,
01:58as is, as what you expect.
02:00Because a lot of times in the past,
02:01you're like, oh, man, we got two weeks
02:03to talk about if this guy's leg is healed up.
02:05Jalen Hurts, who the question on Sunday was,
02:08and rightfully so, is the guy gonna be compromised
02:11in the pocket, to say the least?
02:12Like, can he stand up?
02:13Is that pass rush gonna be coming down
02:15and he can't protect himself?
02:17He was okay in that game.
02:18But now he has two weeks to get even better.
02:20So that is a positive for the Eagles.
02:22Same way you brought up the line.
02:24Cam Juergens, a Pro Bowl center,
02:26like your center, being out for a football game,
02:29and the Eagles going like,
02:30just throw Landon over there, he'll be just fine.
02:32He doesn't snap the football,
02:33but we're not worried about putting Steen at left guard.
02:34It's like, wait a second.
02:36This is the best offensive line of football.
02:37Maybe the most important spot, you're down,
02:39and you're using maybe the best guard in football
02:41as your center, which is gonna limit
02:43some of the things he can do,
02:44and is that gonna affect protections?
02:45And it worked out in their favor.
02:47So now we're saying, Jalen Hurts gets two weeks
02:49to get the leg amped up when he looked fine,
02:51and they scored 55 points, and he ran 10 times.
02:55Saquon Barkley, which was my biggest one, Kevin,
02:57because I still date myself back to this.
03:00Me and the big man on campus got into it on Facebook,
03:04on Twitter slash X, when I said, you know what?
03:08Lost to the Washington Commanders, no big deal.
03:11That means we have an automatic bye,
03:12we'll take in week 18, healthy for the playoffs.
03:15Can't do that, you gotta play for the one seed.
03:18Now, as it turned out, if nothing changed, which it didn't,
03:21everybody else won out,
03:22Eagles had to play all 18 games without their bye week,
03:24which was in the fourth or fifth week of the season,
03:28and they wouldn't have had that.
03:29Saquon Barkley, they knew he was gonna be needed
03:31in the playoffs, shot out of a cannon
03:34in all three of those playoff games.
03:36Now he gets two weeks to sit back and relax and say,
03:39you know what?
03:40Let me be full strength.
03:41And the same thing as you pointed out, Landon Dickerson,
03:43he's gonna play in that football game.
03:44Could he play maybe a week later?
03:46It's a big, strong, big, ugly guy up there,
03:48like he's probably gonna get in anyway.
03:49That extra week is massive.
03:51So usually you say, Kevin, like, oh no,
03:53wish this game was in like four days.
03:55Like, look at the advantage.
03:56No more advantage at all for either side on health,
03:59which actually favors the Philadelphia Eagles.
04:02So I'm with you on that take.