Herbert’s Future, a Week 6 NFL Preview, Plus an NBA Deep Dive With Cam Johnson, Tommy Alter, Tom Pelissero, and Joe House

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Cleveland, Tampa doesn't really matter, but Brewers Cleveland would be the sweet spot for me because Cleveland hasn't won since the late 40s. I don't think the Brewers, not only have they never won, I don't even remember the last time they've even been to the World Series. I have some Brewers friends in my life, including my old college roommate, Chip Kane, who's over the moon and beside himself. So the baseball has been really fun. We have the WNBA Finals is finally starting this weekend after they completely botched, let's see, the schedule, the arena, other than that, great job WNBA. We talk about it later with Cam and Tommy, but very, very fun stretch coming up here. We taped all this before Niners Broncos, so hopefully nothing crazy happened in that game. But if you missed the Over Under Podcast, I did with Zach and House, two parts, West and East. It's been up for a couple of days, so that's why we have pivoted forward here to some football and some NBA talk. We'll see you all next week to take a break. Pearl Jam and then Tom Pelissero.

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All right. This segment is brought to you by Uber Eats. We're recording late Thursday afternoon, Pacific time. Tom Pelissero is here. You can read the sweep newsletter. You can listen to him on the Ringer NFL show. A lot of Eagles news out of nowhere. Jalen Hurts, it was already the year from hell in a lot of different ways for the Eagles, and now it's gotten worse. And did you hear about this before today? What was the process before we get into the six pack?

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So he popped up on the injury report on Friday with a calf, which is where the blood clot is. But there were no alarm bells about, he's not gonna play, he was listed as a full participant, he didn't have a game designation last week. So it's one of those things that you kind of file away, like, all right, something going on, but you didn't see anything in the game that was like askew. You didn't think, oh, this guy's limping around. And then it was on Wednesday when Jalen had his presser and he started saying this was kind of a unique thing. Remember, he was a full participant in practice yesterday.