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Football at Four: How Do NFL Teams View This Year's Free Agency Class? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: for the Eagles as they get ready for free agency.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at today at what
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  Speaker 1: is the word around the NFL on this free agent class,
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  Speaker 1: What kind of talent is there? Where are the deepest
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  Speaker 1: positions where kid Philadelphia go shopping in this free agent
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  Speaker 1: class here and of course on the offensive side and
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive side, and if you're looking to add,
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  Speaker 1: where are the weakest spots in free agency. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about all that right now with Adam Kaplan
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  Speaker 1: of next week, a week from tomorrow. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: go inside NFL free agency now, Adam Kaplan is in
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  Speaker 1: the house as a free agency, as we mentioned, begins
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  Speaker 1: one week from tomorrow, unofficially on Monday. What is the
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  Speaker 1: word around the NFL on this free agent class? We
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  Speaker 1: know the Eagles have a lot of talent that are
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  Speaker 1: free agents. We'll get Adam Kaplan's take on that. What
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  Speaker 1: is he hearing about the deepest position on offense and
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  Speaker 1: defense and the lightest positions on offense and defense. How
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  Speaker 1: can Philadelphia improve? Well, let's take a look. Adam Kaplan's
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  Speaker 1: here from the Inside of the Birds podcast for Today's
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  Speaker 1: Football at four. Welcome Adam. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: So, Mike, the word coming out of the combine was
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  Speaker 2: in terms of free agency, is that it's a week
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  Speaker 2: class overall, some depth of which we'll talk and discuss
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  Speaker 2: and get into and help people understand. But one of
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  Speaker 2: the other things was that the trade market could be
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  Speaker 2: more robust, because if you don't have a player at
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  Speaker 2: a certain position and you're trying to get to the
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  Speaker 2: next level, either wait for the draft and wait for
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  Speaker 2: that player develop, or you get a guy who's more advanced.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why the Texas made two trades. They traded
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  Speaker 2: away the right tackle, Titus Howard, and then they traded
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  Speaker 2: for David Montgomery, the Lion's running back. So we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: we're already seeing action. We saw the big trade last
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  Speaker 2: week between the Titans and the Jets teams trading two starters,
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of surprising and kind of odd, but
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  Speaker 2: in the end, it's because Robert Salah coached Jermaine Johnson
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  Speaker 2: with the Jets and Ice with the Titans, and the
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  Speaker 2: Titans straight away to Andandre Sweat, who is a good
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  Speaker 2: fit for the Jets defense. So it's about fit, it's
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  Speaker 2: about coaching changes, and that's why you're seeing players move on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, you take a look at what Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 1: the quality of depth of free agent. We don't even
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  Speaker 1: know how much money. I mean, we know how much money,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't know how big of a player they
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  Speaker 1: could be in free agency. They don't have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of cap space here, but if they wanted to dip
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  Speaker 1: their toe in the pool, let's start on offense. What
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  Speaker 1: are some of the deepest positions that they could take
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  Speaker 1: a look at on offense?
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  Speaker 2: Am I just a word on what you were just
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  Speaker 2: talking about. So in terms of cash ben, their cash
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  Speaker 2: ben is going to be similar to last year. It's
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  Speaker 2: mostly going to be devoted to extensions and then their
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  Speaker 2: free agent dollars or if it happens and they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to happen, Jalen Phillips is a pretty civilic priority for
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  Speaker 2: them to resign. That's where his money is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's turn into to your question on what's the
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  Speaker 2: deepest busiousness on offense. Tight end's got pretty good depth.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Goddard is out there. It's I mean, we don't
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  Speaker 2: two percentages, but it would not surprise us if he
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  Speaker 2: plays elsewhere this coming season, and the position for the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles is totally barren without him if he does not resign. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: but in free agency, you've got Travis Kelcey. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: feel confident they're going to resign him. David and Joko's
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  Speaker 2: out there. Gottar, he mentioned Taysom Hill, Tyler Higbee, he
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  Speaker 2: goes down to him pretty well. Zach Ertz wants to play.
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  Speaker 2: They're good. There's some decent backups, like Austin Hooper who
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  Speaker 2: was with the Patriots on a Super Bowl run. Foster
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  Speaker 2: Moreau is a good backup. Adam Troutman who Sean Payton
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  Speaker 2: brought over to the Broncos. Tyler Conkline is not a
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  Speaker 2: be a backup, pretty athletic Noah fan from her first
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  Speaker 2: round tight end. There's enough out there. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: it's not so much about quantity, Mike, It's about quality.
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  Speaker 2: But it's deep enough that you can get yourself a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good backup, at least in free agency.
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  Speaker 1: It would be interesting to see, you know, ERT's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's been here. Maybe you get him to kind
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  Speaker 1: of groom somebody that you draft. We all thought they
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  Speaker 1: were gonna draft someone last year. That did not happen,
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  Speaker 1: so they definitely need to address tight and good to
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  Speaker 1: see that position. Do you think they would be a
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  Speaker 1: player in free agency? On the offensive line for depth purposes, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just help people understand this. Free agency
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stop next week. It goes on through the fall.
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  Speaker 2: But by the time the season starts, Yes, we expect
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  Speaker 2: them to add a couple of them. It could be
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  Speaker 2: someone who's released, who's released in March. It could be
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  Speaker 2: someone who's released after the draft, but again, the season
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  Speaker 2: does not start till September. They're definitely offensive line was poor.
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  Speaker 2: Now part of that that addressing the offensive line, Mike
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  Speaker 2: and free agency could be resigning Brett Toath, who in
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  Speaker 2: one of his starts was phenomenal and Jeff Moscher and
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  Speaker 2: I talked about this last week. He'd be a good
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  Speaker 2: fit for the offensive line scheme. The offense of line
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  Speaker 2: is going to completely change, which we told you when
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  Speaker 2: Sean Mannu was hired. It's going to look completely different.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just going to be different. That's just
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  Speaker 2: the scheme is nothing like Sirianni's which they've run until
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  Speaker 2: this season. And this is this is intentional. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to change it up. It's going to be tough, but
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have to get players who fit what
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  Speaker 2: Sean Manyon needs and.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, remember last year they did go out
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  Speaker 1: in free agency and brought in two tight ends. Kailan
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  Speaker 1: Grantson was one in Island Granton, yes, yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't even remember the other guy, but I would imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Rson Bryant who got cut. But they signed eleven players
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  Speaker 2: to one year deals. Most of them did not work. Right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's look at the defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They need help on defense. Obviously, depending on
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  Speaker 1: what happens with Phillips, what happens at corner, what happens
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  Speaker 1: with Red Blankenship, you're most likely going to lose to
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  Speaker 1: Kobe d But you think you can fill that in house.
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  Speaker 1: What's the deepest positions on defense?
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  Speaker 2: All right? So the deepest positions, Mike, So, the subject
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  Speaker 2: of our show, which dropped Tuesday morning on Inside the
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  Speaker 2: Birds was the Rush group. Mike, It's actually very deep.
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  Speaker 2: It's by far the deepest position for free agency. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the problem. It's top heavy. After Trey Hendrickson, who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna should get a monster deal, it really really drops off.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're guys like Clil mac asn Reddick. Uh, Mike
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  Speaker 2: Dana was just cut by the Chiefs last week, He's
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  Speaker 2: probably a third edge. There are a lot of second,
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  Speaker 2: third and fourth edge type guys. Cloil Mack is out there,
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  Speaker 2: but he's near the end of his great career at
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  Speaker 2: thirty five years old. It's mostly guys who are third edges,
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  Speaker 2: who are the first guy off the bench. Those don't
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  Speaker 2: cost much. Now when it comes to the Eagles, well,
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  Speaker 2: if they resigned Jalen Phillips, Nolan smithe's your third edge.
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  Speaker 2: Jalkxn is clearly going to start now. They need a
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  Speaker 2: fourth guy. But Fangio doesn't play for you need it,
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  Speaker 2: you have to have for but Lo Nolan. If they
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  Speaker 2: get Phillips, Mike Edges not a priority at all. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a matter of getting some death late that could
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  Speaker 2: come in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, all right, and they are positions the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles do need, and possibly edge safety, corner. What about
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  Speaker 1: the lightest positions. Let's go back to offense here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the Eagles have their whole offense signed except for
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  Speaker 1: tight end. So what are some of the lightest positions
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  Speaker 1: on offense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, QB bad, it's worse that've scene and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how long receivers bad. If they trade a J. Brown.
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  Speaker 2: We keep warning people they're not getting that guy off
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  Speaker 2: the street to replace him and have to come into
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  Speaker 2: trade or the draft. Tackle is really bad and free agency.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's left and right tackle. The other positions that
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  Speaker 2: are deep are guard and center. The Egles don't need
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  Speaker 2: a center. They could use a center slash guard veteran,
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  Speaker 2: that type of guy that they like Drew Kennell, but
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  Speaker 2: right now he's really only a center who could play guard.
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  Speaker 2: He's a little bit too small. And on defense, you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it in passing. Not that Eagles need an inside backer,
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  Speaker 2: they don't need any, but safety is a position they
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  Speaker 2: they really need to address. They're very weak on depth
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  Speaker 2: at Blanketship leaves, which is very realistic. Not even who
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  Speaker 2: their starter would be opposite him they need If blanket
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  Speaker 2: Ship leaves, they'll need two safeties. Sitting Brown only plays
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  Speaker 2: on defense. They clearly don't trust them to play on defense.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a special teams player, Sitney Brown. And then
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  Speaker 2: at corner, Mike that's that's I mean, even if a
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  Speaker 2: Dory Jackson came back, you can't count him to be
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  Speaker 2: a starter. And where's Cooper dejene gonna line up? That's
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  Speaker 2: our early feeling is that right now it would be Nickel,
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  Speaker 2: And we know he could play corner because he plays
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  Speaker 2: it on base down. So they really need to make
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  Speaker 2: that decision where he's going to play full time because
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  Speaker 2: that ultimately decide what their plan is for free agency
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  Speaker 2: in the draft. But corner right now, opposite Quinia Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: is a major question mark.
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  Speaker 1: Sure is. And obviously they you know, you mentioned Dory
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  Speaker 1: Jackson last year kind of you know, I guess did
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  Speaker 1: an okay job, but I would imagine they want to
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  Speaker 1: get an upgrade over what he did last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: And what about the lightest positions on defense and free agency?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, Mike is defensive tackle. It's real. I
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  Speaker 2: was actually talking to an agent yesterday who has got
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  Speaker 2: a decent d tackle for free agency. He goes, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: should be good because he doesn't have a lot of competition,
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  Speaker 2: and that's not a position right now the Eagles really
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  Speaker 2: need any help in They're very young, they have their
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  Speaker 2: three starters, they got their key backup of Byron Young.
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  Speaker 2: They could use one more guy, but they don't. They
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  Speaker 2: could just draft somebody and just develop. But if you're
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  Speaker 2: a team that needs a d tackle, good luck to you.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of guys that are out there, Mike are
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  Speaker 2: David Onyamina, who's a run defender, big guy, really good
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  Speaker 2: story development, DJ Reader who's been a journeyman as thirty
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  Speaker 2: two years old. Deakwon Johns, who might remember from Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: who's a run defender who's played for the Bills. Larrio
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  Speaker 2: Gunjovi is a pass rushing d tackle. Did not play
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  Speaker 2: well for the Bills this past season. Sebastian Joseph Day
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  Speaker 2: had a Rutgers good football player. My understanding is the
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  Speaker 2: Titans would like to have him back. Julias kalais Campbell,
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  Speaker 2: he turns forty, Mike Crazy. He I played Gobble of
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  Speaker 2: the Ones. He is a big dude man, great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Sheldon Rankins, Tierre Tart came back to the Chargers. But
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Bilongs is out there. There's really Mike. It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's very light. It's just very light. But the good
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  Speaker 2: thing for the Eagles is that they're loaded there like
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  Speaker 2: they they see. Eagles have become really since the pandemic
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  Speaker 2: really starting in twenty one, since how he turned his
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  Speaker 2: career around in terms of the draft, a draft and
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  Speaker 2: developed team and suppleant through free agency, and yet they'll
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  Speaker 2: make an occasional trade where they're weak at a position
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  Speaker 2: when they've kind of missed, like they how he addressed
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  Speaker 2: the receiver position he had to. They didn't do well
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  Speaker 2: before it started with DeVante Smith turning it around. Then
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  Speaker 2: they traded for a G. Brown and the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: was turned around. But I liked the Eagles approach now
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  Speaker 2: because when Howie first got the job in twenty ten,
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  Speaker 2: though he didn't have personnel control, he was just Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go heavy and free agency and supple into the draft.
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  Speaker 2: That's the wrong way to do it. No, he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of flipped and done very well.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you mentioned Byron Young. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: seen this story about the Raiders calling and drafting the
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  Speaker 1: wrong Byron Young?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well there's two of them. There's the one the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles have with the Raiders drafted. Then there's the one
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  Speaker 2: that the Rams have yees. Yeah, and who's older by
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  Speaker 2: the way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a story we talked about this earlier.
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  Speaker 1: There was a story. I just saw it yesterday. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: the Raider now the two Byron youngs are in the
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  Speaker 1: same draft. They got picked seven picks apart. The Raiders
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  Speaker 1: texted the wrong Byron Young and called the wrong one
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  Speaker 1: and drafted the wrong one. They drafted Byron Young from Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: but they meant to take the Tennessee Byron Young. They
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  Speaker 1: then cut him, and it makes more sense because he
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  Speaker 1: was a third round pick. You're like, why they cut
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  Speaker 1: a third round pick? They picked the wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, you know it. And the guy who was with
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  Speaker 2: the Rams who went to Tennessee is actually two and
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  Speaker 2: a half years older than the Yer Young. Legles Happenedyn
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  Speaker 2: Young that the Eagles have right who they claimed off
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  Speaker 2: waivers in August of twenty four. For the less of me,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot believe the Raiders cut him after one season.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a good story development. Sometimes guys come in
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  Speaker 2: they don't perform, and he was drafted by another general manager,
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  Speaker 2: but he with the Raiders. But he's done a really
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  Speaker 2: good job and that was a really good waiver claim
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  Speaker 2: by the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, so, but it now makes a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more sense because so the article is suggesting that at
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  Speaker 1: the time they drafted the wrong Byron Young, and people
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  Speaker 1: were saying he doesn't really have a third round projection
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  Speaker 1: on him, And now we know why they took the
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  Speaker 1: wrong guy. They took the wrong guy, like the position.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Byron Young. The Eagles guy is a
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  Speaker 2: d tackle. The Rams guy Byron Young is usher. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's that's it's kind of funny. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of funny, Like, yeah, I didn't realize
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  Speaker 2: that that's actually Laris that apps.
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  Speaker 1: There's a video of the I don't know who the
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  Speaker 1: guy was, but he's on the phone and I guess
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  Speaker 1: apparently he sent a text message to the agent of
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  Speaker 1: the other Byron Young saying we're about to draft you
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  Speaker 1: right now, and they never got the call. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine this? This is an.
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  Speaker 2: Embarrassing believe that's an a. The one my favorite one,
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  Speaker 2: and I was at that draft is when the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: u they let the time expire for their pick in
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  Speaker 2: the first round, obviously a couple of weeks ago. It
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  Speaker 2: might have been a Kevin Williams one. I forget, but
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  Speaker 2: I just remember, like this didn't happen, like Mike Tice,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, was the head coach of the Vikings at
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  Speaker 2: that time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we get you out of here this
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  Speaker 1: morning on on sportsmanlike Adam Schefter did say the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: have turned down offers for AJ Brown already, but they're
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  Speaker 1: still listening. So Jeff yesterday, you know he thinks that
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles would be interested to move him if they
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  Speaker 1: got the right deal. Is it only if they get
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  Speaker 1: their socks like they knock their socks off, or do
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  Speaker 1: they hope that they can make this move?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me address because I did hear your your
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  Speaker 2: your segment with Jeff on Monday. My understanding can come
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  Speaker 2: out of the combine was that the Goes really don't
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  Speaker 2: want to trade Brown. And on your point, Mike, they'd
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  Speaker 2: have to be blown away to trade them. Here's the reasoning.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you my reason. This is just what I've gathered.
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  Speaker 2: They think he clearly has a lot of talent left
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  Speaker 2: in him. The belief around the league is he's got
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  Speaker 2: at least two good years left in him. Now, Mike
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  Speaker 2: saying that you also don't want to wait till it's
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  Speaker 2: too late. Remember when the Eagles restructured and extended alshon
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey's contract the last time. Yep, all this like he
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  Speaker 2: just kind of lost it, Like you don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: know that AJ Brown's always been a better football player
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  Speaker 2: more explosive. But Brown turns twenty nine in June, which
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  Speaker 2: means he's twenty nine in NFL years. Typically when you
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  Speaker 2: get in your thirties, you receivers have told me they
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  Speaker 2: kind of lose it in their lower body, So you
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  Speaker 2: want to be careful. You want to be careful. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the last year fully guaranteed money for him.
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  Speaker 2: If he's still here, I would say that the chance
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  Speaker 2: is very strong that this will be his last year
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  Speaker 2: if he's not traded. But you always have to look
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  Speaker 2: at Okay, well, if we're going to trade this player,
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  Speaker 2: what's our recourse. Okay, it's not freezency. There's no one
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  Speaker 2: you could sign who could fill in for him. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what team is going to trade me a starting quality receiver?
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: And by the way, I'd want a younger receiver. I
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: don't want an older guy. I don't want Stefan Diggs,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: who's thirty two to thirty three's got a legal issue
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: off the field, who's much older than Brown. I don't
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: want him. We've reported this a bunch of times over
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: the years, and inside the Birds the Patriots called multiple
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: times for a j Brown and Eagles were nine is
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: because they were trying to extend his contract the last time,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: which they did. I would want a younger receiver, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I want a first round pick. And that is the
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: belief that they want at least a first rounder, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: they should. The guy's still a really good football player.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Now the question is before we get out of here, Yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: was there a drop off? Now? Greg Cosell, who works
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: for us on Inside the Birds, said that the tape
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: was not quite as good as other years, So just
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: keep that in mind. It's all about what the tape
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: looks like. Just keep that in mind because you never
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: want to see any drop major drop off, a major
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: drop off.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: But there was a little And that's what I was
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: saying is they would know more than all of us
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to say whether or not they think the decline is coming.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: And we mentioned you know, you get guys like Julio Jones,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they go from fifteen hundred yard guy to four hundred
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: yard guy. You get all these guys that you know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: you get did Vonte Adams and DeAndre Hopkins who are studs,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and then what is happened is they get hurt because
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: their age and then they never get it back.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup is near the end. Yeah, Now, these guys
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: are much older than AJ Brown, But yeah, it's Hopkins
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: kind of lost it and he was never explosive, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: he was a great football player. Laty Adams still played well,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: but you never went to wait till it's too late,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and that's how he's battling here. So that's why I
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: think it. We don't do percentages ever, but it's going
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: to take a significant offer for Howie to move them.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: And then if they do, I would love to see
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: who they would get who can make up for it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And they're not in a rebuild, no right. I know
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: some people think if you trade AJ Brown you're in
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: a rebuild. No you're not. You're just it's a step back.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: But then you got to see who they have to
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: replace them before you start.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I look at Seattle. They had Jackson Smith Injigba and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: not much else at wide receiver there. Yeah, well an
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: older Cooper Cup and then a one trick pony in
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed. I mean, so it can be done, all right,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Adam kaplan good stuff today, free agency a week from tomorrow.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: The legal tampering opens on Monday. We'll have it for
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you right here on Football for thanks, Adam, thank you,