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Football at Four: Initial Thoughts on Eagles Trade for DB · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 2: This is the Sports Bass.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have made a trade Michael Carter from Duke
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  Speaker 1: and a seventh round pick to the Jets for John
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  Speaker 1: Betchie from Alabama and a twenty twenty seven to sixth
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  Speaker 1: round pick are heading to the Jets. What does it
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  Speaker 1: all mean? Let's bring in Jeff Boscher from the Inside
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  Speaker 1: the Birds podcasts, which you can get on all podcasting
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  Speaker 1: this news just comes down. Michael Carter, a corner who
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  Speaker 1: is you know, signed to some pretty big money. Has
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  Speaker 1: specialized mostly as a sluckef But I think what most
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  Speaker 1: people liked about Michael Carter coming out of college at
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  Speaker 1: Duke was his versatility, his ability to play both. But
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  Speaker 1: what is the messaging here? You trade Mechi not a
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  Speaker 1: big factor. Obviously you get Carter in return. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a guy that factors in your mind immediately on this defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think he can. I think immediately is a vague question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think they're gonna come out on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: our Thursday of next week when they start practice for
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  Speaker 3: their Monday night game, and all of a sudden, Michael
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  Speaker 3: Carter is in the starting lineup.
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  Speaker 2: You know that it doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 3: They have to see what they've got in him.
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  Speaker 2: Health is always a case with Michael Carter. He's battled
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  Speaker 2: some injuries.
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  Speaker 3: He's only played four games this year, so they have
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  Speaker 3: to first make sure that he's good to go and
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  Speaker 3: gonna be fine. But Mike, you know, the first thing
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  Speaker 3: I thought when I saw the trade report was that
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  Speaker 3: Michael Carter has played the slot quite a bit throughout
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  Speaker 3: his career with the Jets, maybe even with the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure. I haven't seen too much Cardinals tape,
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  Speaker 3: but he's played the slot, and this is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: If the Eagles believe he can excel in the slot,
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  Speaker 3: then to move Cooper to Gene outside in not just
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  Speaker 3: base but Nickels just a full time outside cornerback for
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  Speaker 3: this year, not for the future, for this year, and
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  Speaker 3: that might be their best course of action as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to trying to see what to Corean Bennett's got, see
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  Speaker 3: if they can get Killer Ringo to better see if
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  Speaker 3: there's a corner on the trade market, which you know
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  Speaker 3: is very difficult to bring in a corner on the
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  Speaker 3: trade market without giving up a whole lot in return.
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  Speaker 2: This might be their best course of action for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously you said he probably doesn't play
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  Speaker 1: maybe on Monday night against the Jets or excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: against the Packers. But he's out there. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who got a pretty good deal three years,
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  Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. At one point, you would think that
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles and Joe Douglas drafted in. Joe Douglas is
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  Speaker 1: now here. I'm sure there's some intel of saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy that can come in and play
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  Speaker 1: for you pretty quickly. I thought it was interesting yesterday
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  Speaker 1: when or I guess it was Tuesday, which was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that eighteen inning game really screwed me up,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So yes, but when Vicdangio was like, I
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  Speaker 1: got minuscule input on Hollie Roseman making moves, the next
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  Speaker 1: day they get him a corner. So it's just them saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we really got to go get something, and let's do
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  Speaker 1: it before you know, the trade deadline. So we can
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  Speaker 1: get him in here during the bye we can get
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  Speaker 1: him up to speed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why you make the trade now. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, let me let me hit the reverse button,
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  Speaker 3: and thank you for not embarrassing me publicly. I did
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  Speaker 3: it myself. Michael Carter did not play for the Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: this past year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing that thence here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the running back and they both happen to
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  Speaker 3: be with the Jets at one point. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: this Michael Carter is coming over from the Jets as
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  Speaker 3: a cornerback.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm now got my brains correct.
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  Speaker 3: And again, he played the slot there, so and yes,
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  Speaker 3: the reason why you would want to bring him in
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  Speaker 3: is because you now have some time you can get
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  Speaker 3: it familiar with the playbook throughout the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: It just gives you a little bit of a head start.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's not like he's out there practicing because the
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  Speaker 3: team is probably away during the for at least a
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  Speaker 3: few days, but it certainly gives him the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: get a head start on the playbook. And again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of fact finding that's got to
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  Speaker 3: come from the Eagles and from Michael Carter over the
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  Speaker 3: first few days he's with the team.
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  Speaker 1: So where like, do you think the Eagles would be
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  Speaker 1: against moving Cooper? Now? He has played both bass and nickel,
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  Speaker 1: so he's moved to the outside at times. But do
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  Speaker 1: you think that they like him playing in that nickel
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  Speaker 1: when called for or would they be okay if they
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  Speaker 1: found someone they're comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: With, you mean okay with somebody else if like.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's not a guy that they feel more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with that they keep moving him back there instead of
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  Speaker 1: just saying you're gonna stay at this spot. But he's
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  Speaker 1: a big factor for them in the run game playing
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  Speaker 1: that nickel slot. I know victors don't like to call
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  Speaker 1: them slots, and he likes to call them right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think that that's the point trying to
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  Speaker 3: make about the fact finding Mike, because there's no question
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  Speaker 3: and I'm already getting people, you know, reaching out to
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  Speaker 3: me on Twitter of some of the things I said.
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  Speaker 3: There's no question that Vic wants Cooper, likes Cooper de
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  Speaker 3: Gene in the slot, and he probably views him there
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  Speaker 3: long term in the slot too, because he's so impactful.
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  Speaker 2: But this isn't about long term.
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  Speaker 3: It's about right now and what's best for the defense,
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  Speaker 3: and they've gotten by over the last two weeks off
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  Speaker 3: playing Adri Jackson Orchille Ringo, right, and really the opponents
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  Speaker 3: haven't targeted him too much. I think that's that's because
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about Carson Wentz, who is very erratic right
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  Speaker 3: and injured, and then Jackson Dart. So then it's going
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  Speaker 3: to turn to Jordan Love and Jared Goff pretty soon here,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think they're going to get away with it.
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  Speaker 3: So what they can do is see in practice how
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  Speaker 3: things go.
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  Speaker 2: Is Michael Carter good enough.
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  Speaker 3: In the slot as a slot defender, as a run defender?
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  Speaker 3: Does he do the things that good slots can do
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  Speaker 3: that it makes sense to move Cooper to Gene outside. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: you might weaken yourself a little bit in the slot,
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  Speaker 3: but you might improve yourself even more on the outside.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what VIC has to figure out, and figure
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  Speaker 3: it out pretty soon, because, like I said, the gantlet
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  Speaker 3: starts right over again with the Packers and the Lions.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea if Phil he'll be ready to
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  Speaker 2: play Carter in the slot at that point, but.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to emphasize, because VIC said yesterday it
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  Speaker 3: is press conference that Cooper to Gene is too valuable
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  Speaker 3: in the slot to they've considered moving him outside, but
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  Speaker 3: he's just too valuable. But later in the conference someone
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  Speaker 3: asked him about, well, what would it take or something
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  Speaker 3: of that line.
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  Speaker 2: He said, well, we would have to solve the slot issue.
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  Speaker 3: So even though Vic said that Cooper to Gene is
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  Speaker 3: too valuable in the slot to move them out, we
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  Speaker 3: have to acknowledge that they talked about the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they have considered it. They've already played him outside in
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  Speaker 3: bass downs and that what's the biggest impediment to moving
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  Speaker 3: him outside was the fact that they didn't have someone
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  Speaker 3: that they were comfortable with in the slot.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was asking before, is like, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: would move Cooper out there. We like him there, but
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  Speaker 1: if we found someone that could handle that role. The
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  Speaker 1: versatility that Cooper brings, he talked about it. He could
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  Speaker 1: play safety, he could play outside corner, he could play
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  Speaker 1: nicol They I just wonder if he values him so
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  Speaker 1: much more in this Swiss Army knife role or would
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  Speaker 1: he prefer to just lock him in on the outside
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  Speaker 1: if he had someone that was serviceable. So far, they
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  Speaker 1: haven't had that guy, not even close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I'm very careful in my wording,
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  Speaker 3: even when I'm on social media. I am saying this
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  Speaker 3: is a good solution for now, for the short term.
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  Speaker 3: It would not surprise me if next year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and we're far from that, but Cooper de Gen right
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  Speaker 3: back there in the slot, and they may have somebody
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  Speaker 3: they made draft a corner in the first round who's
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  Speaker 3: outside or second round. So yeah, I think VIC was
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  Speaker 3: pretty clear, and I don't think VIC was being cooy
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  Speaker 3: or trying to mislead people by saying how important Cooper
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  Speaker 3: to Gene is this defense in the slot, and probably
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  Speaker 3: in the future, if they can upgrade the outside corner,
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  Speaker 3: he'll probably go back there.
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  Speaker 1: What I think is important for the listeners to also
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  Speaker 1: come in on and the people watch it on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: is Carter was drafted by Sala and that regime. He
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  Speaker 1: fit the solid defense better than he's fitting the Glen defense.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been banged up, but he's a guy who
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  Speaker 1: has been you know, a tackler who can make those plays.
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  Speaker 1: And I figure Joe Douglas, who drafted him, said hey,
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  Speaker 1: this might be the answer to some of our issues here.
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  Speaker 1: We can move Cooper out if we get a player
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  Speaker 1: like this.
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  Speaker 3: Right, of course, Joe Douglas is really the one who
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  Speaker 3: drafted him in the Jets, so Row knows him better
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  Speaker 3: than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I mean, there's a really long line of.
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  Speaker 3: Great tackling cornerbacks to come out of Duke University.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, I mean, we we could spend all day talking
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  Speaker 2: about Michael Carter. I'm making a joke there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I honestly think that we've.
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  Speaker 3: Seen this before with trades, where you get a talent
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  Speaker 3: and you try your best to see if it works
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  Speaker 3: and if it's not, if they don't see him as
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  Speaker 3: a great slot and they don't want to put Cooper
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  Speaker 3: to gen outside. For Michael Carter, it's okay because there's
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  Speaker 3: not tons of financial ramifications to this, right he had
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  Speaker 3: his extension with the Jets, of the money sort of
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  Speaker 3: gets trained to them. I saw a report where he's
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  Speaker 3: even waiving five million dollars or injury clause. And then
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  Speaker 3: you know, now, if you might like him in your dime,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to keep Cooper and Nicol, you might
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  Speaker 3: play more dime and just keep to Coreyan Bennett. If
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  Speaker 3: that's the flavor of the week to Corean Bennett stays outside,
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  Speaker 3: it gives them at very least optionality and improvement in
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  Speaker 3: their secondary because the guy's a good player, even if
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't wind up being that he's the slot and
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  Speaker 3: Cooper to gen moves outside for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously one of the questions at the trade deadline
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher corner. I don't know that this is the
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  Speaker 1: end answer the answer, but they went out and got
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  Speaker 1: a corner today. Michael Carter is the acquisition and they
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  Speaker 1: also get a seventh round pick from the Jets in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for John Metchi and a twenty twenty seven six
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  Speaker 1: round pick. The Mechi thing just never worked out. They
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  Speaker 1: got him in this trade and he thought, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: guy who was a first round pick has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talent. How can we use him. They designed one
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  Speaker 1: play for him and he was terrible on kick returns.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the Mechi fit going back to when
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  Speaker 3: they got him and.
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  Speaker 2: Adam and I reported on a good.
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  Speaker 3: Player, you know, obviously had a battle cancer early in
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  Speaker 3: his career, but it never it never sort of made
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  Speaker 3: a ton of like they needed this guy, right because
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  Speaker 3: he's mostly a zero receiver and you already had John Dotson,
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  Speaker 3: and you already had Why can I Devonte Smith? They
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  Speaker 3: were getting good, good rookie play from a surprisingly good
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  Speaker 3: rookie play from Darius Cooper, and it just I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: They don't throw the ball to anybody other than Brown
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  Speaker 3: or Smith enough to you think make it essential. And
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  Speaker 3: remember they actually traded for him before Johnny Wilson got hurt.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the day that he arrived is
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  Speaker 3: the day Johnny Wilson got hurt training camp.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't like he was traded for to replace.
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  Speaker 3: It was just an opportunity to bring in a guy
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  Speaker 3: who had some talent and let's say sort of you
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  Speaker 3: know this might think could be wind up the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't cost them a whole lot. And if he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make any impact, no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: No, and listen, uh, it doesn't cost him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Metchi a guy who they were not using at all.
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  Speaker 1: And you just basically flipped back end draft picks here,
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  Speaker 1: so you didn't even have to like give up you know,
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  Speaker 1: a middle round drafters. You just gave up the player
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  Speaker 1: because the Jets are saying, all right, we need a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver so badly. Will take the shot with the
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  Speaker 1: guy who has some talent, and we'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: guy that really isn't fitting into what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And in some sense, I think that.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see a lot of player for player
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  Speaker 3: trades more in the future because the trade market for
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  Speaker 3: really good players, especially on the deadline, it gets to
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  Speaker 3: be absurd, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you see guys moving for pretty high picks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the Eagles once trained in a third round
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  Speaker 3: pick for Golden Tate, and I know he caught that
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  Speaker 3: touchdown against the which was on a rub route that
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  Speaker 3: like you could have caught Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Gil It wasn't it was a scheme to touchdown. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like he was he did anything all that special.
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  Speaker 3: But and then he was gone off to the Giants
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  Speaker 3: the next year, and then you think, I give him
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  Speaker 3: a third round pick for that can give They give
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  Speaker 3: up a fourth round pick for Janard Avery. So at
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  Speaker 3: this point it almost seems like the way the trademarket
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  Speaker 3: is at the deadline, it's so inflated.
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  Speaker 2: It's better if you can just give up.
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  Speaker 3: Something low cost to get something low cost that you
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  Speaker 3: think has upside and can help you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and One thing, too, is everybody is assuming that
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  Speaker 1: Michael Carter, who's played almost eighty percent of his snaps
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  Speaker 1: from the slot, he has played outside corner as well.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Eagles can try to give him a
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  Speaker 1: run there at practice see how he fits in with
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  Speaker 1: the other guys. But this could be the first door
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  Speaker 1: opening to Cooper Degene kind of moving more full time
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  Speaker 1: to that outside corner spot. They might have seen enough
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  Speaker 1: through eight games, all right, we just got to put
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  Speaker 1: our best guy there. What's more important the outside corner
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  Speaker 1: or that nickel spot.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on who you facing. I honestly believe that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean again, over the last two weeks, it's been
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  Speaker 3: more important to have a good Nichol because Nichols are good,
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be good tacklers. Cooper de Jean's great he
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  Speaker 3: blitz from the slot which caused a sack when Dark
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  Speaker 3: stepped up and right into Jordan Davis. But when you're
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  Speaker 3: when you're facing Jordan Love and you're facing Jared Goff
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  Speaker 3: right and you've got great, i mean great outside weapons
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  Speaker 3: on both of those teams, if you feel like your
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  Speaker 3: slot can.
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  Speaker 2: Just handle the coverage and tackle well enough.
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  Speaker 3: Then you don't want to, and you don't want your
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  Speaker 3: adri Jackson or Jacoreyan Bennett or Killey Ringo exposed to
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  Speaker 3: guys like Matthew Goldener Dubs or or Jamison Williams or
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  Speaker 3: you know whoever it is that's gonna be out there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on Rassain Brown, who kind of moves around. Then
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  Speaker 3: it might be more important to you to be stronger
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  Speaker 3: on the outside, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Jeff Boscher Football at four from the Inside the
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  Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, real quick, that's a great point
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  Speaker 3: that you're making. This doesn't have to be a permanent
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  Speaker 3: for this year, even move for Cooper to Gene. It
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  Speaker 3: could be now you have enough corners so you can
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  Speaker 3: be matchup based, they might find that, Yeah, we like
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  Speaker 3: Michael Carter in the slot against teams X, Y and Z,
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  Speaker 3: but when we face some other teams, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go back to putting Cooper to Gene in the slot
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  Speaker 3: and live with either Bennett or Jackson or whoever you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ringo or Michael Carter outside.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely think that that's a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: So question was I just about to ask you before
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  Speaker 1: you rudely interrupted me notes, Oh what is your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on how this Dean Campbell thing shakes out here? Do
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  Speaker 1: we just get to a point where, look, John Campbell
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  Speaker 1: is not going to get the snaps that he was getting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I always say that the coaches give you the
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  Speaker 2: answers to the test. You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's something me and Adam talk about a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: that actions speak louder than words.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very glaring that.
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  Speaker 3: I think Campbell played what he played the fewest snaps
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  Speaker 3: that he's played all year by by a lot, but front, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: twenty STAPs, which was like forty percent of the defense
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  Speaker 3: or something, after playing no fewer than I think ninety
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  Speaker 3: percent of.
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  Speaker 2: The snaps in every single game. So was that matchup base?
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  Speaker 2: Was it a chance to get n Kobe Dean more reps.
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  Speaker 3: Against a bad team that they knew they were going to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, beat after the second quarter. It's very interesting
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  Speaker 3: that they didn't against the Vikings when they brought Na
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  Speaker 3: Kobe in, they moved Jehad Campbell down in the five
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  Speaker 3: to two front, and then I think he played a
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  Speaker 3: few snaps at edge in nickel, But against the Giants,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't play him at edge in the nickel at all.
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  Speaker 3: And then you heard Vic say he kind of had
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  Speaker 3: a choppy week, which I don't think was smearing Jihad Campbell.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's very difficult in this defense when you
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: haven't practiced it to play nickel end because it involves coverage.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: You saw Patrick Johnson had a struggle there with camp'scademy, right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not just go get the quarterback, and
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: all he has practiced since he got here is basically
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: nickel off the ball linebacker and then sometimes base five
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: to two defensive end to stop the run. So I
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: can understand why Vic just didn't trust him as a
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: natural four to two look for nickel edge yet.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: But we'll see as that goes on. And you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: you have Brandon Graham coming back, Nolan Smith coming back.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine that Johd's just gonna suddenly just sit
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: behind Nikobe Dean as well as he's.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Sixty three percent of the snaps. By the way, josh
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Uja played sixty percent of snap so they obviously already
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: value as a pass rusher more than they do Campbell. Ye,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: so yep, And then you've got Graham and Nolan Smith
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: coming back. So both of those guys coming back j
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: playing thirty one snaps, Dean getting thirty three, and I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: would only imagine Dean's not gonna go down, right, He's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: probably go up.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: We'll see. I don't know that, Mike. I think that
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that's where the danger is.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: And assuming what they did one week in a game
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: that they were winning pretty considerably after you know by
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: halftime third quarter, is going to stick for the rest
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: of the year. I don't think that there's a reason
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: to just take Johod Campbell off the field. I think
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Nikobe's looked pretty good. But it's not like Johid Campbell
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: has looked bad. Miss the Simon's done anything wrong either.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was playing ninety percent of the snaps
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: each game up until this last game. If you were
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: not playing well, certainly Vic could have played like dime,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: he could have used Trotter. I mean, he could have
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: done something if he didn't think John was playing well.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: And it's not that Dean's not playing well either. It's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like he's playing well. You're not like, what are you doing?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: This guy like was playing well and this guy's Dean's
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: playing well. So it's it's just just like, hey, you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: don't lose your job because of injury unless you stink well.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Usually you don't lose your job when you're a first
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: round pick and you're playing well.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: And that's why that's the surprising part about this whole thing.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's why I'm not committed to the fact
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: that he's lost his job yet.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We'll have to see what happens coming out of Green Bay.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Again, that that was a Giants team that they were
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: starting to build a pretty good lead on.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: They had control of that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Game from the beginning, so it could have been just
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: a very good opportunity to get Na Kobe Dan out there,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: continue to get get him reps, get him back in shape.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to read too much into one game.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, football a four, of course, a trade
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: happens here. Michael Carter is here, John Mehchi is not
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Mechi not really a factor. I would assume Carter becomes
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a factor, Eagles win the deal.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I got there. All right, sounds good. I'll
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: take your word for.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It, Jeff Boucher. I'm sure the team over Inside the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Birds dot Com and the Inside the Birds podcast will
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: have more on the fit of Michael Carter in the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Eagles defense. Hey, a trade during the bye week. It's
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a perfect bye week, the trade week. It fits right
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in there perfectly. The Eagles will be getting ready for
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the Packers. We'll talk more about that next week with
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Jeff Boucher here on Football at four.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks Man, you got it, Mike. Thanks