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The DiCecco Daily: Takeaways From Eagles Coordinators Comments On Struggles · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome in to another episode
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: of DiCecco Daily. It's Andrew DiCecco, Eagles beat reporter for InsideTheBirds.com.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Thursday's injury report, not practicing. Linebacker Zach Bond, concussion. Wide
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: receiver Hollywood Brown, ankle, tight end Dallas Goddard, knee. Tackle
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Fred Johnson, knee. Wide receiver Devontae Smith, hamstring. Limited defensive
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: tackle Jordan Davis, calf. Safety Marcus Epps groin. Defensive tackle
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Mauro Jomo, calf elbow. Running back Will Shipley, foot. Full participants.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Running back Tank Bigsby, abdomen. Linebacker Jahad Campbell, knee. Defensive
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: tackle Jalen Carter, wrist. Wide receiver Darius Cooper, knee. Outside
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: linebacker Jonathan Grenard, pectoral. And defensive tackle Byron Young, toe.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: So, let's start with the obvious. Not good defense.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: For Devontae Smith to be a non-participant on Thursday, which
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: is a really important practice. Well, really every practice is important,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: but to not have Devontae out there on Thursday, it
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: seems as though he's trending towards not being available.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: On Sunday, and all signs point to that.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: And that's a big loss for the Eagles, needless to say,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: on an offense that is struggling to find its footing,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: that needs all of their aces in place to be
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: able to produce points against a really high-octane Rams team
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: that can score points in bunches, of course, with Matthew Stafford,
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams, Puka Nakua is expected back. They have a
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: number of tight ends. Kyron Williams, their running back, is
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: a solid football player. So you need Devontae Smith. The
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: passing game runs through him. But this is a hamstring
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: injury that going back to August, he missed three weeks
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: of camp with a hamstring. It popped back up early
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: in the season and it revealed itself now. And this
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: is a shortened week that he's dealing with this. So
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: my expectation is that Devontae won't be able to go.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Barring something unforeseen, I would be really surprised. But also,
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Zach Bond is a player that came up with a concussion.
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: And it would be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there's even enough time for him
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: to clear the protocol. There's five steps you have to
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: go through. And I think the shortest amount of time
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: would be five, six days.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It seems based off of everything that I've gathered and
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  Speaker 1: just the sense and the pulse of the locker room
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  Speaker 1: that Zach Bond won't be available Sunday. Again, that would
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: be something unseen, you know, barring something unforeseen, but not
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: practicing for a full week as you're going through the protocol.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: It's tough to imagine him being out there on Sunday.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: I would expect him also not to be out there. So,
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  Speaker 1: by what we have to go off of, you would
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: be without your top linebacker, arguably their best defensive player,
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: and one of, if not their best offensive.
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  Speaker 2: Player in a game that you need all of.
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  Speaker 1: Your stars to be able to go out there and,
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  Speaker 1: and give yourself the best chance of knocking off a
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: team in which you're your home underdogs. So, and you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get back into the, the wind column here.
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  Speaker 2: This is a really daunting matchup.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: And that's really my biggest takeaways from this week is
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  Speaker 1: the injury situation. And unfortunately for the Eagles, there are
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: some key players that have a doubtful, I would, I
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: would say their status for Sunday is doubtful. Now, let's
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: look at the players who would step into more prominent
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  Speaker 1: roles in their absence.
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  Speaker 2: At linebacker, it's going to be Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: and I know that there is a lot of folks
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: out there that have been calling for more Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
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  Speaker 2: though it was at the expense of Jihad Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: I have more thoughts on that later on that I'll
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  Speaker 1: get to, because there's something there that doesn't sit quite
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: right with the the the the piling on of jihad
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  Speaker 1: campbell a young player who i don't i don't think
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  Speaker 1: is performing as poorly as some might suggest and then
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  Speaker 1: you have jihad campbell who was a full participant which
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: is obviously a good sign now jeremiah trotter jr is
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  Speaker 1: a very instinctual player but he doesn't have the range
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: or the multifaceted skill set, if you will, of a
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Zach Bond. What he's very good at is being disciplined.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: He's an instinctual player and he has an exceptionally high
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: football IQ. What I would expect from the Rams, namely
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: quarterback Matthew Stafford, is to try to manipulate him with
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, try to get him in space and take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of that. He's really good at diagnosing things. So
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  Speaker 1: I think as a downhill player, He will check off
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those boxes and help against the run.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that, based off of everything that
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: I know and that I've seen, that the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: going to try to pepper the side of the field
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  Speaker 1: that he's on, the intermediate levels.
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  Speaker 2: Of the field.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that this is sort of an even
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  Speaker 1: bigger point here because teams have been doing that with
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Jihad Campbell as well. And Jihad Campbell, immensely athletic player,
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  Speaker 1: but someone that has maybe overrun some plays. Maybe he's
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: out of position at times. But, I mean, you look
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  Speaker 1: at the upside that he has, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: make my point now while I'm on this topic. Jihad
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  Speaker 1: Campbell is a good football player, and there are inconsistencies, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And to some extent... This is an extension of his
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  Speaker 2: rookie season.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he performed pretty well last season before he
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: gave way to N'Kobe Dean, and that, to me, was
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  Speaker 1: just Vic Fangio showing deference to a player that knows
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  Speaker 1: how to play the position in N'Kobe Dean. There's a
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: lot of trust and confidence in N'Kobe, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they went that route. I didn't think it was at
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  Speaker 1: all an indictment on Campbell. Now, this season, it's been
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: shaky at times. I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's been a, you know, a strong start
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  Speaker 1: to the season for Jihad. I think there's plays that
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: he would like to have back. I think there's plays
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: that a lot of players would like to have back,
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  Speaker 1: but what I, what I don't put too much stock in.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's kind of ridiculous is some of
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: these arbitrary numbers that you see out there on social
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  Speaker 1: media that are, you know, looking at speaking of Jihad
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  Speaker 1: Campbell and coverage and things like that without context, those
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  Speaker 1: stats are worthless.
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  Speaker 2: And I, I, And I think all that's.
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  Speaker 1: Doing is fueling the skepticism and the angst, and it's
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: needless because I don't agree with it. I think without
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: context and without understanding the player's role and the coverage responsibilities, look,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: teams are always going to look to isolate a linebacker
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  Speaker 1: in coverage.
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  Speaker 2: It's the biggest mismatch you can find.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's a running back, a tight end, a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver coming across, that's always going to be a mismatch.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: And you look across the NFL, depending on what metrics
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: you value or you look at, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the top linebackers in the league that have been susceptible
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  Speaker 1: in the passing game. So I think there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too much piling on with Jihad Campbell. He's a
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: young player. We're three games into the season. And to
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: be honest with you, there's no better option anyway. You
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: drafted him in the first round. You've invested time and
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: development in him. The only way you play yourself out
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  Speaker 1: of whatever funk you're in is by going out there
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  Speaker 1: and repping it and working through those challenges and growing pains.
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  Speaker 1: And I look at the athleticism that he brings, the range.
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  Speaker 1: He has the makeup of a modern-day NFL linebacker in
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  Speaker 1: that he can do a number of different things. He
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't give you the run support that a Kobe Dean has.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't maybe give you that that thumper type of style.
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  Speaker 1: But what he does give you is uber athleticism, really
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  Speaker 1: good length that I think can help and contest some throws.
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  Speaker 2: And he can close quickly.
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  Speaker 1: He's someone that I think has done that and will
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  Speaker 1: continue to do that. And they need to be better
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  Speaker 1: at that across the board. And he's one of the players.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: But if you're looking at the levels of concern on
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: the Eagles defense. He's not one, he's not two. He's
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: a little further down the list there. And so I
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: think a lot of the scrutiny, the criticism, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: directed at Jihad Campbell, I think a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with the defense having some early turbulence,
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: you look naturally at the new faces, Jihad Campbell and
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Drew McCuba, the two young players that have now stepped
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: into more prominent roles this year. And you're naturally going
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: to look in that direction. Also, the fact that Jihad
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Campbell is not the Kobe Dean and you see the
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: season that the Kobe Dean's having right now through three.
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  Speaker 2: Games, it's pretty impressive.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: But look at the coverage numbers as well. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to If you're going to play that game with
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  Speaker 1: Jihad Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: I've kind of always been along the lines of affording
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: young players the opportunity to grow and develop, especially when
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: they have a lot of obvious talent. And then you
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: coach them up on their shortcomings. And if you're the Eagles,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: you hope that they're able to work through that. So
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: that's their linebacker situation.
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  Speaker 2: I would expect, to be clear.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the Rams, Sean McVay, to craft a
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  Speaker 1: game plan that looks to take advantage of the Jihad Campbell,
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Trotter Jr. linebacker tandem. And the Eagles are going
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: to have to combat that. So that means that Vic
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Fangio is going to have to cook something up to
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: counter whatever the.
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  Speaker 2: Rams might do.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: And if you're looking at it with the silver lining
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  Speaker 1: in mind, Vic Fangio has done a nice job against
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay. This is a very daunting matchup, and the
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Eagles are probably going to enter this game pretty undermanned.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to try and sell it or
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: spin it anyway, but that's kind of my assessment of
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: the linebacker situation right now. And then you get to
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver spot. I mean, that's tough because Devontae Smith,
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: if you go into the season, there's a handful of
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: players that I would say that the Eagles can least
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: afford to lose for a game or whatever. Devontae Smith's
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: pretty high on that list. Quinion Mitchell is very high
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: on that list. Jalen Hurts, of course, is high on
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  Speaker 1: that list.
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: There's a number of players, but the point is Devontae
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: is hugely important and critical to the Eagles' success offensively.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at the players behind him, and
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of those players are in their respective.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Roles, have done a nice job.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: But now, assuming Devontae doesn't play, that now requires Dontavian
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Wicks to step into the top spot at wide receiver.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: He's never been asked to do that before at the
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: professional level, but he seems pretty confident. And I actually
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: have a quote from him because he spoke on Thursday
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: about And he gave a good answer when it comes
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: to developing that early rapport with Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 2: He says, I said, what do you attribute that to?
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: He said, reps.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: It's repetition and off-season work. Being around each other when
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: everybody else ain't around, doing the small things that go
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: towards just getting that chemistry and building relationships. It's not
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: just about on the field, but it's about building a
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: relationship off the field so that that trust builds on
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Wicks also spoke about the preparedness, not just for him,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: but for the group in terms of stepping into a
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: bigger role.
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  Speaker 2: And he mentioned prepared. It's next man up.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to practice and get the reps in,
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  Speaker 1: the other guys out there, we're ready for everybody to
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: step up.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: It's football now.
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  Speaker 1: You know that those times show up, come up during
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: the season. It's a long season, so some weeks you
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: might not have guys out there. But we just go
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: in with it, and however it plays out, we're going
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: to be ready. When asked, does it change anything in
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: terms of your preparation and all that, he said, I
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just know, if so, I got to step up.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Be there for, for Jay, be there for the, for
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: the offense and just capitalize on the play, the opportunities
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: the coaches give me.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, he said, it's been.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Good in terms of just settling in so far through
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: three weeks. He said, just staying on it, building that
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: chemistry that builds through the season too, not just before,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: not just at the start of the season. And I
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: feel like it keeps building and we've been building on
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: our feet and just keep going, stacking days, stacking weeks. And,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: and things like that. So that was Dontavian Wicks, who
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: spoke Thursday. We also heard from Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
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  Speaker 2: and I'm focusing on these two players because.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: They're the ones who are elevating into a pretty important
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: role for the Eagles on Sunday. He mentioned, and this
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: is pertaining to how prepared do you feel if you
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: do start this week, and Trotter Jr. said, I'm going
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: to make sure I'm prepared because I got to go
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: out there and just take the same type of film
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: study and preparation I take every single week and just
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: go out there and make sure that I'm out there
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  Speaker 1: doing my job to help the team win and put
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: us in a position to win. Do you have a
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: sense of how much more prepared you are now than
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: you would have been earlier in your career in.
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  Speaker 2: The same situation?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I think I've definitely gained a lot more
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: experience with it with being uh with it being two
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: years now well two full years i guess but you
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: know i've gained a lot of experience learned a lot
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: and having more experience always helps what are some of
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: the things that the rams do to put the linebackers
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  Speaker 1: in conflict and how do you combat that yeah you
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: know we definitely see a lot of boots on film
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: mess with your mind and mess with what you're trying to,
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  Speaker 1: your reads, but as long as your eyes are in
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  Speaker 1: the right place and you understand your responsibility and your
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: role as far as the one piece out of 11 guys,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be fine. You just got to slow the game
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  Speaker 1: down and make sure your eyes are right and get
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: back to fundamentals.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of wanted to just bring you some
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: quotes from the locker room. They both spoke and that's
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the Eagles injury report for Thursday. Now, Eagles offensive coordinator
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Sean Mannion spoke at the beginning of the locker room period.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to go to his press conference. I
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: went to the locker room. I had to make sure
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I got the rookie diary done. And I wanted to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: see if Dontavian Wicks was going to be in there
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: so I can get some insight into his preparation for
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: this coming week. But I have some Sean Manning quotes
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  Speaker 1: for you that I'm sure you're going to want to
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: hear and offer some clarity to a lot of the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: questions I'm sure you may have about the game and
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: talking about the second half struggles, including the Chicago game
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: and his thoughts on solutions. He said, certainly as a
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: staff and as a team, we're working through getting better there.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: You hate to do a lot of nice things in
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the first half and some of these games and kind
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: of fall into a rut in the second half. It's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: something we've been discussing each week, looking to get sharper
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and sharper as a unit and as a staff. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: think we got some good things to work on there,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: some good thoughts moving into this week of how to
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: improve on that because you hate to have, in the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Tennessee game, you had some good long drives and then
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you kind of stub your toe out of the gate
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: in the second half. Certainly that was the case in
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the Chicago game as well. We're working at that. We're
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: attacking it each day to be better. They're coming out
• 16:30
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  Speaker 1: The run game and how it was going well in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the first half. and in the second half, not so much.
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  Speaker 1: What would you identify there? I think the effort, the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: physicality of our unit up front, and I think, too,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: it's the whole unit now. I mean, that's one thing
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: we stress. It's the receivers blocking. It's the tight ends blocking.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's the running backs finishing. It's the quarterback carrying out
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  Speaker 1: a keeper fake. The one thing you can never question
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  Speaker 1: with our guys is their effort, their physicality, their play style.
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  Speaker 1: I've been really proud of that through three weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: thought we were pretty sharp in terms of our fundamentals.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big focus going into week three. I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: thought we did a good job in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: There were a couple of things we can be a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: little bit cleaner on in the second half and then
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  Speaker 1: some adjustments that we can make schematically too. I think
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  Speaker 1: the second half adjustments, things like that, some little tweaks
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  Speaker 1: here and there that will help put us in a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: more opportune situations. The other thing is we kind of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: fell behind on a couple of those later drives. We're
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: trying to push the ball down the field in the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: past game a little bit more, but certainly want to
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  Speaker 1: expand off of what we did in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: I was encouraged by that. Just need to carry through.
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  Speaker 1: In the second half, with, again, some adjustments on our
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: end as a staff, and then continue to lean into
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the fundamentals and play style for the unit. Wide receiver
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Devontae Smith and Hollywood Brown both dealing with some injuries.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: How does that throw things into the mix? And that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: was in terms of the heavy 11 personnel team. that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: seems to be tied to the injuries. And he said,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment on our upcoming plan for
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the Rams. But like you said, I think the nature
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: of football, especially as you get deeper and deeper into
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the season, it's only week four, but.
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  Speaker 2: You're always going to be managing certain things.
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  Speaker 1: It's my job as a coordinator to our staff's job
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  Speaker 1: to manage the plan and ultimately give ourselves the best
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: chance to succeed. The screenplay to Devante Smith right before the,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: The half where the Eagles had 19 seconds. He spoke
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: about that. He said we had 19 seconds left and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: we had a play that we felt like we believed
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in and we could take to the end zone. We
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: had enough time, I felt, that even if we played
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it short of the sticks, we could go up and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: get a clock. Now, it was a longer push-the-pile type
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: play towards the end zone. Obviously, we didn't want it
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to come that close, a heads-up play by Jalen to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: push it into the end zone, but I'm not going
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to speak too much on the details of our scheme there.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: With 19 seconds left, I felt comfortable that if we
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: were short of the sticks, we could get the ball clocked.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It was a heads-up play by Jalen.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And we almost scored on the screen there, and he
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: did a good job getting us to the line, getting
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the ball snapped. Last one, the screen passes that I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: sure you guys want an answer to. Especially with Makai Lemon,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: they've been going for negative yards. What are you seeing
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: with that? Common themes type of thing. Sean Mannion said, ultimately,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: we've got to be better in the screen game. That
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: starts with me. I think we look at all facets
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of our offense, and we want to make everything about
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it as good as it can possibly be. There's things
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to clean up there. There's things that we're looking at
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that we can do differently now. different schematically to improve
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in that regard certainly the screen game we want to
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: get more out of it we're working every day to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: get more out of it ultimately it's my responsibility to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: get that going in the right direction we're constantly looking
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at how we can make corrections and evolve and see
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: how we can be the best team that we can
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: be moving forward So there you have it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: There's Eagles offensive.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Coordinator Sean Mannion on some key storylines coming out of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the Monday night game, and in some cases, some themes
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that have been reoccurring throughout this young season. And with that,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this episode of DiCecco Daily.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrew DiCecco, and I'll catch you all on the
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  Speaker 1: next one.