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The DiCecco Daily: Naming My Preseason All-NFC East Team (Offense) · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the check O DEII. It's Andrew de Checko, Eagles beat
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  Speaker 1: reporter for insidethebirds dot Com, here with you. And today
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  Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to do something a little fun
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  Speaker 1: and I will be drafting my all NFC East team,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna do offense today. I'll do defense tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and just some parameters here. I'm not picking players based
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  Speaker 1: on what they've done. I'm picking players based on what
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting them to do in twenty twenty six. And
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  Speaker 1: there are no rookies on this list. And what you'll
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  Speaker 1: quickly find out, there is an awful lot of Eagles
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  Speaker 1: on this list. And I think you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: look at the NFC East and understand where I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: from here. But I rationalize things and we'll see where
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  Speaker 1: we land. But let's start quarterback. And I happen to
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  Speaker 1: like all four quarterbacks in the NFC East, and I
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  Speaker 1: sort of grapple between two. But let's look at Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: So Jackson Darts a young player. I appreciate the way
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  Speaker 1: he plays the game. He's exciting to watch, but I
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  Speaker 1: do have questions about the way he plays the game,
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  Speaker 1: does that lend itself to always being available? And can
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  Speaker 1: he grow and develop and become a little less reckless.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go there with Jackson Dart. Jayden Daniels is
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  Speaker 1: a player who I've liked quite a bit. He was
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  Speaker 1: my top rated quarterback coming out of the draft. He's
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  Speaker 1: been injured quite a bit. He doesn't have a very
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  Speaker 1: big frame. He takes a lot of hits. While I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that the Commanders have done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: addressing the offensive line, it's still not quite where it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be. And I'm not quite sure that Jayden
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  Speaker 1: Daniels will be able to withstand some of the punishment
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  Speaker 1: for the long term. So I can't go with Jayden Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at Dak Prescott and Jalen Hurts, and while
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  Speaker 1: I believe that Dak Prescott has been the better quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and probably is the better quarterback just based on style,
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  Speaker 1: based on track record, take winning and all that aside,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at playing the position and Dak Prescott to me,
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  Speaker 1: should be recognized if he isn't widely recognized as one
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  Speaker 1: of the better quarterbacks in the NFL. I don't do
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  Speaker 1: rankings but I want with Jalen Hurts as my quarterback
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  Speaker 1: because I think he's really going to take this new
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  Speaker 1: offense and once fully imagined, I would imagine that it
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  Speaker 1: should be able to make life a little bit easier
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen. I do expect the running game to be
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  Speaker 1: at the forefront and with a healthy offensive line that
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  Speaker 1: should also take a little bit of pressure off Jalen.
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  Speaker 1: But also the quick decision making, the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: field utilization, the fact that he he's starting learning those
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  Speaker 1: type He's starting to learn those type of things in
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  Speaker 1: the spring should give you some confidence. He's not being
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  Speaker 1: asked to do it in the middle of the season
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  Speaker 1: like he was last year around the Chargers game, and
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  Speaker 1: he's someone who has responded to every challenge. And with
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  Speaker 1: this new look offense, no one really knows what to expect,
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  Speaker 1: but I do know that Jalen Hurts is a top
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  Speaker 1: notch quarterback who checks off all the boxes and is
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  Speaker 1: going to really attack this process. And it's not hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to envision a year where he takes his
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  Speaker 1: game to another level. That's the whole point of bringing
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  Speaker 1: in someone like Sean Mannion, and I'm kind of betting
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  Speaker 1: on the player in this instance, because it was really
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  Speaker 1: close for me, I could have went Dak Prescott. But
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  Speaker 1: I am bullish on Jalen Hurts in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of responding to his latest challenge at running back, well,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't really much of a contest here. The Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: have Javonte Williams, who I thought had a nice season
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  Speaker 1: last year. There's Bill Krosky Merritt for the Commanders. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in contention. Cam Skataboo is coming off a really
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  Speaker 1: nasty injury. And none of these players who I just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned are in the same class or anywhere near the
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  Speaker 1: same class as Saquon Barkley. Saquon Barkley is my pick
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  Speaker 1: at running back, and I think we talk a lot
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  Speaker 1: about the passing game and what needs to change and
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  Speaker 1: how it's going to look. But ultimately, with the healthy
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, I do believe that the Eagles are going
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  Speaker 1: to lean heavily on the running game, and that means
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  Speaker 1: that Saquon Barkley will be fed. I am sort of
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  Speaker 1: forecasting a really big season for Saquon. I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: want to put a number on it, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a high volume running attack, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to see him exceed last season's production
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  Speaker 1: by maybe even as much as four hundred yards. So
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  Speaker 1: I think Saquon has proven that he's the same guy,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been affected by the volume and all the touches
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  Speaker 1: that he's had as a receiver and as a runner.
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  Speaker 1: And so for me, I look at this Eagles offense
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's going to go well because I
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  Speaker 1: think that the running game is going to really revert
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  Speaker 1: back to twenty twenty four form. Now, I'm not suggesting
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  Speaker 1: that Saquon is going to have two thousand yards that
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  Speaker 1: would be that would be something that would be unrealistic,
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  Speaker 1: I think. But to suggest that he can't get fifteen
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  Speaker 1: or sixteen hundred yards or what have you and be
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  Speaker 1: a focal point in the red zone. We'll have to
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  Speaker 1: wait and see how much the Eagles lean into the
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  Speaker 1: push play with Shun Mannion. I think Saquon Barkley is
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  Speaker 1: going to benefit a lot from those short yardage carries
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  Speaker 1: and the production will be there. Saquon Barkley is my
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  Speaker 1: running back, full back, and I yes, I threw a
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  Speaker 1: full back in there because, as you'll quickly, I felt
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  Speaker 1: the need to throw another team a bone, and I
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  Speaker 1: went with Patrick Recard, who is thirty two years old.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around for a while, began his career with
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  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and is with the New York Giants.
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  Speaker 1: He's a three time All Pro, a six time Pro Bowler,
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  Speaker 1: just a longstanding body of work and someone who has
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  Speaker 1: really set the tone at the point of attack. He's
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  Speaker 1: paved the way for a lot of different running backs
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  Speaker 1: over his career. It's hard to lean any other way.
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  Speaker 1: And I wanted to go at a fullback into this
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  Speaker 1: just for the sake of conversation. And you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles have Cameron Latsu, but we don't quite even know
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to use a fullback in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: So I went with one of the better players at
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  Speaker 1: his position in Patrick Recard and wide receiver. Was really
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  Speaker 1: interesting because there's a number of different ways I could
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  Speaker 1: have went and not making the and this was tough.
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  Speaker 1: Was Malik Neighbors and Terry mclauren Mylak Neighbors Let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget as a rookie was targeted one hundred and seventy times,
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  Speaker 1: he had one hundred and nine catches for one two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and four yards. And Terry mclauren is a player
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  Speaker 1: that for five out of his seven seasons he's had
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  Speaker 1: one thousand yards and he's had over one hundred targets.
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  Speaker 1: But the players that I opted to go with, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't put Neighbors on for my top three receivers
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  Speaker 1: because we have to see how he responds from the injury.
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  Speaker 1: He suffered that knee injury in Week four, and when
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  Speaker 1: you're projecting it in terms of the twenty twenty four season,
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  Speaker 1: there are just other players that I have in front
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  Speaker 1: of him that I feel a little bit more confident
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  Speaker 1: in being able to kind of pick up where they
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  Speaker 1: left off. We'll start with Ceedee Lamb. Ceede Lamb is
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  Speaker 1: the driving force of the Dallas offense. He's had three
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  Speaker 1: seasons of over one hundred catches and was targeted oh
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  Speaker 1: one hundred times in each of his first six seasons.
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  Speaker 1: So Ceedee Lamb, he can line up all over the field.
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  Speaker 1: He's predominantly a slot player, but he's a volume based
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  Speaker 1: guy and someone that Dak Prescott tends to look to
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  Speaker 1: in critical moments. I mean, nothing's really gonna change in
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  Speaker 1: that offense. Ceedee Lamb's still going to be the primary
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  Speaker 1: target in the passing game, and he's a three level threat,
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  Speaker 1: really good route runner, and he's just been remarkably consistent
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  Speaker 1: over his career. The second receiver on this list, I
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  Speaker 1: went with George Pickens, and in his first season in Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: he had ninety three catches for one thousand, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty nine yards on one hundred and thirty seven targets.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see much changing there either. I'm pretty bullish
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  Speaker 1: on the Dallas offense. They have a lot of players
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  Speaker 1: on there who are playmakers. They have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: big play threats on that offense. And when you look
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  Speaker 1: at how George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb complement one another,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really ideal. You have someone who's more
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  Speaker 1: of a safety valve, a consistent presence in the short
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  Speaker 1: to intermediate levels like a CD Lamb, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have your big play guy, your fifty to fifty ball
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  Speaker 1: contested catch alpha type of receiver and George Pickens, who
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  Speaker 1: I think he's in a really good spot in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: to fully realize his ability. The third player, I went
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  Speaker 1: with was Davonte Smith. Last season, Davante had seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: catches for one thousand and eight yards on one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen targets. Well expect that number to go up
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  Speaker 1: significantly in terms of the target share with AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: no longer there. Davante Smith is a quietly productive wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver who I think would be a Number one for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of teams, not just the Eagles because of
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances. Really smooth route runner, He's a smooth operator
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to route running, precision, soft hands, three
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  Speaker 1: level threat, has a developed you know, he has a
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  Speaker 1: chemistry there with Jalen Hurts that I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to help him really have a more commanding presence in
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  Speaker 1: this offense with regard to the passing game. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just really high on Davonte Smith this season. Knowing that
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  Speaker 1: he's stepping into a situation where he's elevating to that
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  Speaker 1: top spot. He knows that the passing game is going
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  Speaker 1: to be questioned without AJ Brown, and I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to take it upon himself to prove to everyone
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  Speaker 1: out there who maybe are skeptical that he is that
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  Speaker 1: guy and he's going to be able to keep the
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  Speaker 1: production high and the standard high. So DeVante Smith was
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  Speaker 1: my third receiver tight end. I thought about going with
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, and up until the final moment, I had
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard on there. He had eleven receiving touchdowns last year,
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  Speaker 1: has that chemistry with Jalen Hurts that shouldn't just be
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  Speaker 1: the Smith. His blocking, however, regressed. That's not why he's
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  Speaker 1: not on this list. But he's also a little bit older.
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  Speaker 1: Injuries have plagued him in his career, not last season,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a year older, and I think when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the passing game, the only thing I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: about is DeVante Smith really taking on a larger workload
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  Speaker 1: and thriving in such a role. Now, in theory, tight
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  Speaker 1: ends have been a very prominent piece of the offenses
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  Speaker 1: in which Sean Mannion is familiar with, so you can
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  Speaker 1: make a case for Dallas Goddard having an even larger
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  Speaker 1: role in this offense. But I instead went with the
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  Speaker 1: player that was targeted over one hundred times in two
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  Speaker 1: out of his four seasons. Last year, he had eighty
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  Speaker 1: two catches for six hundred yards and eight touchdowns on
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and two targets, and that's Jake Ferguson the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And Jake Ferguson's probably flying a little bit
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  Speaker 1: under the radar in terms of just NFL tight ends
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  Speaker 1: and that overall hierarchy, but he's a really consistent player,
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  Speaker 1: a good red zone presence. I think the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he's younger and still growing and developing factor into my decision,
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  Speaker 1: because again, I'm picking these this roster based off of
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  Speaker 1: who I'm expecting to or what I'm expecting them to
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  Speaker 1: do in twenty twenty six, and he has become a
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  Speaker 1: safety valve of sorts for Dak Prescott, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's continuing to grow and develop and they have to
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  Speaker 1: be really pleased with where he is in those terms. Now,
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  Speaker 1: his yards per catch was a career low seven point three,
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  Speaker 1: and he hasn't necessarily been a big play threat, but
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  Speaker 1: I think the volume is going to be there, And
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  Speaker 1: that's the whole point. What am I expecting these players
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  Speaker 1: to do in twenty twenty six? I think Jake Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: and this Dallas offense is going to be on fire
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  Speaker 1: this year. And a lot of my bullishness on some
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  Speaker 1: of these Cowboys offensive players stems from just my belief
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  Speaker 1: and the evidence that we have to go off of
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  Speaker 1: that that offense is high flying and the players that
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned are key pieces to it. This wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: clean sweep, but as we get to the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: At left tackle, I went with Jordan Mylotta twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four All Pro. You can make a case that he
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  Speaker 1: had a bit of a down year last year. I
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  Speaker 1: would argue that he was fine, but it was also
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  Speaker 1: possibly a byproduct of the injured players around him, and
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  Speaker 1: he may have been trying to do a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more than his job description. In any case, I think
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  Speaker 1: Jordan my lot of reverts back to his twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four form. Now. The other player that was in contention
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  Speaker 1: here was Andrew Thomas, who was also an All Pro
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, but he does have injury concerns
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  Speaker 1: Despite being just twenty seven years old. He played in
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  Speaker 1: thirteen games last year, six to the year before that,
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  Speaker 1: and ten the year before that. So it would be
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  Speaker 1: unfair for me to suddenly project Andrew Thomas as someone
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be available for the full complement of
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  Speaker 1: games and being able to play at a level that
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  Speaker 1: would exceed Jordan my Lotta. I just don't see that.
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  Speaker 1: So left tackle Jordan Mylotta, left guard was easy for me.
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  Speaker 1: That's Landon Dickerson, the Eagles three time Pro Bowl guard.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a bit of a projection here because Landon
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  Speaker 1: battled injuries and he really has throughout his career. So
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  Speaker 1: in order to really qualify for this list, I'm banking
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that Landon will be healthier and available now.
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  Speaker 1: He guts it out. He battles through a lot of pain.
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  Speaker 1: I don't and I've said this before on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that it's fully appreciated the lengths that
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  Speaker 1: he had to go through and the pain that he
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  Speaker 1: was battling through to just to be out there on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday with his teammates. But I'm operating under the assumption
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  Speaker 1: that right now he's healthy and he'll continue to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So Landon Dickerson is my left guard at center. That's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting one because I could have went the route
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  Speaker 1: of Cam Jurgens, the twenty twenty five Pro bowler, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but Cam Jurgens had a down season. Cam Jurgens, like
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  Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson, had to go to Medeen to get stem
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  Speaker 1: cell treatment to ensure that or to take measures to
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  Speaker 1: give them the best chance of being as healthy as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But until you see it with Cam Jurgens, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little hesitant. And while he's been we've seen
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  Speaker 1: moments of dominance from him, and I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: this new offense, with this blocking scheme, getting lateral and
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  Speaker 1: climbing to the second level where you're really able to
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  Speaker 1: accentuate the athleticism of the offensive lineman, should suit Cam
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  Speaker 1: even better than the previous principles of the offense under
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Staltlin. I just need to I need to see
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  Speaker 1: it before I can kind of pencil him in. And
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  Speaker 1: he's a bounce back candidate. I've had him, I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about him as my bounce back candidate on this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going with Cooper Bebe from the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: So I think is primed for a breakout season, which
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to measure from an offensive lineman's standpoint, but
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  Speaker 1: I've been impressed with his growth over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's ready to take his game to another
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  Speaker 1: level playing beside the right guard, who I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: mention in a minute, certainly helps, and that offensive line
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  Speaker 1: there in Dallas is pretty sharp. It's pretty well put together.
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  Speaker 1: But Cooper Bebe is my center. At right guard. I
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  Speaker 1: went with Tyler Booker, and both BB and Booker haven't
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  Speaker 1: really they haven't gotten any league wide accolade or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, but it's it's widely known that they are
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  Speaker 1: developing ascending type of players that I think when you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to look at the twenty twenty sixth season, it's
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  Speaker 1: not hard to envision them being able to gather those
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  Speaker 1: accolades when all was said and done, I think that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be at the forefront of the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, paving the way for Javonte Williams and keeping
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott clean. And Tyler Booker is someone that I've
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  Speaker 1: been impressed with and I really liked him coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the draft as well. A really bright young player
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  Speaker 1: that was an easy selection for me at right guard.
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  Speaker 1: Right Tackle No suspense here, there's little suspense. It's Lane Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, five time All Pro and six time Pro
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  Speaker 1: Bowl right tackle. There wasn't even anybody them that I
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  Speaker 1: considered here. I like Terren Steele, the Cowboys right tackle.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a really solid player and a great
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  Speaker 1: story of development. But Lane Johnson is at the head
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  Speaker 1: of the class when you look at tackles around the league.
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  Speaker 1: He's a future Hall of Famer. I thought last season,
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  Speaker 1: before the injury, he was playing at a pretty high level.
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  Speaker 1: So even at thirty six years old, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of questions regarding Lane Johnson being able to
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  Speaker 1: continue where he left off. If you want to kind
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  Speaker 1: of split some hairs here, I think it's fair to
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  Speaker 1: have questions about his health because he had the list
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  Speaker 1: Frank last year. He's thirty six years old, He's played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of snaps, He's played a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: for the Eagles. But again, much like Landon Dickerson, I'm
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  Speaker 1: operating under the assumption that Lane is healthy. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have a healthy Lane Johnson, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: give that much thought. He is the right tackle on
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  Speaker 1: my All NFC East team and still one of the
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  Speaker 1: best tackles in the game, and, as I mentioned, a
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  Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer. So let's look at this for
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  Speaker 1: a second. In recap for the Eagles, I have jaywhen Hurts,
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  Speaker 1: Sakwon Barkley, Davonte Smith, Jordan Mylotta, Landon Dickerson, and Lane Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of just one player, and that would
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  Speaker 1: be Giants fullback Patrick Recard. The rest are Cowboys. I
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  Speaker 1: had a difficult time fitting any commanders into this list.
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  Speaker 1: Now it could be a little bit different when I
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  Speaker 1: do the defensive portion tomorrow, But as you can see,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the Eagles have a lot of star I mean it
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  Speaker 1: goes without saying, but when you do an exercise like this,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: it really reiterates how well stocked the Eagles are in
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  Speaker 1: terms of star power, and as you can see, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: think it could be a closely contested battle between the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and the Cowboys. Injuries always play into it, but
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you should feel pretty good if you're an Eagles fan listening,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and presumably you are about where the Eagles stack up
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the NFC East and really around the NFL.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: They have a lot of premium players at key positions. Well,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: this was a fun exercise I used to do. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do the defense tomorrow. I'll even throw in some special
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  Speaker 1: teams as well to kind of make it as well
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  Speaker 1: rounded as possible, and we'll see where we land. But
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  Speaker 1: for now, that's going to do it for this episode
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  Speaker 1: of the Czecho DELI. I'm Andrew Decheco. I'll catch you
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  Speaker 1: all on the next one.