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The DiCecco Daily: Some Predictions, Outlooks For Eagles Training Camp · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome in everyone to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: check O Deli. It's Andrew di Checo, Eagles beat reporter
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  Speaker 1: for insidethebirds dot Com, here with you. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you're probably thinking to yourself at this stage of the game,
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  Speaker 1: those inside the Birds guys have to be out of
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  Speaker 1: ideas with training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Not until the end of July. Well, I was racking
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  Speaker 2: my brain.
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  Speaker 1: I know that can be a frightening concept, but I
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  Speaker 1: was sort of kicking around certain training camp storylines that
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  Speaker 1: I feel pretty strongly about. And I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: through some predictions and outlooks things I feel strongly about,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm almost gonna call my shot here in certain cases.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start at my first point. On the offensive side,
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  Speaker 1: running back Tank Bigsby is going to be a training
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  Speaker 1: camp star, and as long as Saquon Barkley's here, his
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  Speaker 1: usage is always going to be capped and it should be.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not here today suggesting that Saquon Barkley should
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  Speaker 1: concede touches to Tank Bigsby. But when I watched Tank
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  Speaker 1: play last season, and remember, we never had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to see Tank Bigsby in training camp because he was
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  Speaker 1: still in Jacksonville at that time. But when you watch
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  Speaker 1: him play, there is an urgency. There's a desperation to
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  Speaker 1: the way that he approaches every touch, whereas he almost
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  Speaker 1: refuses to take a loss. That to me, in of
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  Speaker 1: itself will really translate into a fascinating watch. In training camp,
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  Speaker 1: he had fifty eight carries for three hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: four yards last year, but he was really sporadically utilized.
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  Speaker 1: I think this year will have a much more clearly
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  Speaker 1: defined role. Wouldn't surprise me if he pushes for five
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  Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards. He had three forty four last year
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  Speaker 1: in a role that wasn't very consistent. And I look
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  Speaker 1: at the way that he plays with the urgency and
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  Speaker 1: just his his physicality, trying to find a whole if
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  Speaker 1: one's not there and create his own. It's very unorthodox
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  Speaker 1: his running style. I admit that, and it piqued my
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  Speaker 1: interest enough that I talked to Tank Bigsby last season
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  Speaker 1: late in the year for two separate locker room sessions.
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  Speaker 1: I think it combined for about twenty minutes. But I
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  Speaker 1: wrote a story about him, and you could still read
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  Speaker 1: that on Inside the Birds dot com. It's called Adversity
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  Speaker 1: adversity adversity, and those were in his words talking about
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  Speaker 1: how he established his running style and how that was
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  Speaker 1: derived from his upbringing. And there's a really good quote
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  Speaker 1: in there from Saquon Barkley about how he doesn't view
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  Speaker 1: it as a one to two punch, more as a
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  Speaker 1: one to one, and that to me under Sean Manny
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's going to have a much more
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  Speaker 1: clearly defined role.
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  Speaker 2: But also in training camp, I'm expecting a lot of volume.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not forget that sa Kwon Barkley is a player
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  Speaker 1: that's clearly established, and even last summer there were days
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  Speaker 1: where the Eagles eased off in terms of his workload.
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  Speaker 1: Will Shipley got a lot of run and I'm expecting
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  Speaker 1: more of the same.
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  Speaker 2: But it's hard to.
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  Speaker 1: Quantify the added size that Tank Bigsby has. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like he spent some time in the gym and the explosiveness.
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  Speaker 1: I'm basing that purely off of watching him run after
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  Speaker 1: the catch in individual drills and things like that. But
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  Speaker 1: in a spring setting, those are hard to quantify because
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  Speaker 1: they're not running the football. It's a passing camp and
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  Speaker 1: there's no pads of course, so you can't really see
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  Speaker 1: his ability to pack a punch as a runner and
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  Speaker 1: how he will translate into these new run concepts and
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  Speaker 1: things of that nature. But I think Tank is going
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  Speaker 1: to have a pretty big year. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: starting player in this league and he's twenty five years old,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of tread on the tire, and so
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  Speaker 1: this is the final year of his rookie deal. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: surprise me at all if teams court him in free
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  Speaker 1: agency next year because of what he's going to do
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  Speaker 1: this year and view him through the lens of a
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  Speaker 1: starting NFL running back. I just think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a training camp star. The energy that he brings
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  Speaker 1: snap to snap, and the size that he brings, the
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  Speaker 1: complimentary aspect working in tandem with Saquon Barkley. Saquon and
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  Speaker 1: then I feel the need to reiterate this will take
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  Speaker 1: the lion's share of the carries, and he has been
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  Speaker 1: very durable during his time with the Eagles, But when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the amount of times he's touched the
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  Speaker 1: football over the last two years at twenty nine years old,
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  Speaker 1: it's conceivable to think that the Eagles may look to
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  Speaker 1: work in Tank a little bit more and get him
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  Speaker 1: some work, and I think that's going to start in
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  Speaker 1: training camp. Now. He's not someone that's going to catch
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  Speaker 1: the football with regularity. He's not exactly as f in
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  Speaker 1: that department. Neither a Saquon if we're being fair. That's
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  Speaker 1: more Will Shipley's realm and previously Kenny Gamewell.
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  Speaker 2: But he's proven, if you go back to.
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  Speaker 1: The season finale last year, he can catch the football,
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  Speaker 1: he can make something happen. He used some really good
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  Speaker 1: body control and balance and really good spatial awareness to
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  Speaker 1: create some yards. He ducked and he was able to
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  Speaker 1: rumble for some more yards and it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a highlight, real worthy play. I think you're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: more of those in camp this summer, and I am
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  Speaker 1: expecting I'm calling this right now. I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: once those of you read and listen to the reports
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  Speaker 1: coming out of camp, there's probably gonna be some clamoring
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  Speaker 1: for more bigsby this season. But let's not lose sight
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that Saquon Barkley has been and I
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  Speaker 1: believe will continue to still be a elite running back.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that while there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talk about the passing game this summer and what that's
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  Speaker 1: ultimately gonna look like.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna revolve excol exclusively.
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  Speaker 1: But primarily around the running game and what they can
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  Speaker 1: do off of that to make them a much more
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  Speaker 1: dynamic offense.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my first thought. I went a little long
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  Speaker 2: on that one, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Really like the player in Tank Bigsby. I've enjoyed my conversations,
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  Speaker 1: and the more I think about it, it's not hard
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 2: To envision Tank having a banner summer.
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  Speaker 1: The next one is something that I'm also very passionate about,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the right guard situation. And every now
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll see some post about why or why
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles should sign McKai Beckton, or that he would be.
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  Speaker 2: An upgrade for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the case, certainly, at least in my view,
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  Speaker 1: in this offense, where offensive linemen need to be even
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  Speaker 1: more athletic to be able to execute some of the
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  Speaker 1: different blocking schemes that they're going to have to do
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  Speaker 1: in this offense. Also, let's not forget that McKay Beckton
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  Speaker 1: was bench last season. He was very inconsistent and up
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  Speaker 1: and down. You could make the argument that putting him
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  Speaker 1: in an offensive in an offense that he would be
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  Speaker 1: playing between Cam Jurgens and Lane Johnson would ultimately uplift
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  Speaker 1: him and alleviate some of those concerns that you might
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  Speaker 1: have where he was with the Chargers, and he was
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  Speaker 1: exploited a little bit. But I just don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there was that big of a drop off in play
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  Speaker 1: or much at all from Beckton to Steen last year.
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  Speaker 1: Steen as a solid player, I think because the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line didn't perform the expectations, injuries being the primary reason
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  Speaker 1: why you're more inclined to look at the new piece,
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  Speaker 1: the new component to that group, and Tyler Stein being
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  Speaker 1: that player I think got a little bit of unfair scrutiny,
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  Speaker 1: and the Eagles like him certainly enough to not bring
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  Speaker 1: in anyone else this offseason. He's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: right guard, and from an athletics standpoint, I think that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to suit this the these run designs better
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  Speaker 1: than Becton ever could. And this is all hypothetical, but
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  Speaker 1: why swap out a player who might not be a fit,
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  Speaker 1: was bench last season and has historically had injury concerns.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about Lane Johnson coming off an injury, Landon
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  Speaker 1: Dickerson and Cam Jurgen's battling through an abundance of injuries,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're gonna want to hope that lightning strikes
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  Speaker 1: twice by bringing in Mackai Beckton. I just don't understand that,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you already have a capable right guard in
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  Speaker 1: the wings. And I think for last summer, Moro Jomo
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  Speaker 1: got the best of a lot of interior alignment, Landon
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  Speaker 1: Dickerson included. So when you hear those reports and you
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  Speaker 1: see those reports, you might be a little skeptical, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's some recency bias there, But I mean, Moro
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  Speaker 1: Jomo is a really special player who wins in a
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  Speaker 1: variety of ways and very unique in that he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have the length of a Jordan Davis or a Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Carter and he wins in other ways. So it makes
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit more awkward, as Landon Dickerson said
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  Speaker 1: to Block, So I don't think that should be viewed
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  Speaker 1: at all as an indictment on Tyler Steen. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that the run game woes last season should
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  Speaker 1: be primarily shouldered by, you know, by looking at Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Steen and saying he was the reason why they weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to move forward. That that's a simplistic view, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying my best to encourage folks to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: think a you know, look at all angles of this situation.
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  Speaker 1: It does not make any sense. Mackai Beckton is a
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  Speaker 1: household name. But I think Tyler Steen is going to
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  Speaker 1: check off some boxes this summer and leave no doubt
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  Speaker 1: that he is the right player to be the right guard,
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  Speaker 1: the right guy to be the right guard, and also
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  Speaker 1: that the Eagles are He's going to prove the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: wise for believing in him. Another shot I'm calling Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Wilson is going to make the football team as one of,
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  Speaker 1: if not the final, receiver on the depth chart. They
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  Speaker 1: sorely missed his ability as a blocker and willingness to
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  Speaker 1: do the dirty work that doesn't reveal itself in box scores,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes that can be taken for granted. But when
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  Speaker 1: you don't have that player, which the Eagles didn't, Darius
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  Speaker 1: Cooper did a nice job, will you know, mixing it
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  Speaker 1: up and doing some of those things that Wilson was doing.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have a.
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  Speaker 1: Six foot six receiver who offers some uniqueness and differentiates
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  Speaker 1: himself from that group, he can also help on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm looking at Johnny Wilson and I have a
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  Speaker 1: hard time separating what he was able to do last summer,
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  Speaker 1: the final two weeks of camp before he suffered the
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  Speaker 1: season ending injury, and just look past it and just
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  Speaker 1: say this is a clean slad. He has to prove
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  Speaker 1: himself again, because this is a player that was using
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  Speaker 1: his frame to his advantage. He was using his six
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  Speaker 1: foot six frame to shield defenders and coming up with
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  Speaker 1: back shoulder receptions and contested catches and establishing more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: a rapport with Jalen Hurtz that I think will carry over.
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  Speaker 1: And even in the spring, he was winning on those
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  Speaker 1: in breakers where you can see him attack the catch
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  Speaker 1: point and when you offer something that's atypical and you
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  Speaker 1: can help on special teams, and you're now healthy, which
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  Speaker 1: was the big question that I had. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see him moving around out there and how he was
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  Speaker 1: going to fare. Were there any limitations. He seems to
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  Speaker 1: be picking up right where he left off. So I
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  Speaker 1: think Johnny Wilson makes this team. And again, all of
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  Speaker 1: these predictions are clearly before training camp. But I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to kind of call my shot here. He makes it.
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  Speaker 1: The second safety spot is something that we've talked a
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  Speaker 1: lot about on this podcast. I've written quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: about it, and there's going to be questions throughout training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus EPs is going to be the clear favorite. He
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  Speaker 1: started a number of games, including for the Eagles. He
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  Speaker 1: started for last year. He was the immediate replacement to
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  Speaker 1: Drew mccooba. He's a veteran, he's steady. Vic Fangio trust them,
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  Speaker 1: But I have a hard time moving past what Joe Casper,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles defensive backs coach, and I wrote about this
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  Speaker 1: on Inside the Birds dot Com when he mentions that
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  Speaker 1: he always viewed Michael Carter as a potentially moving to safety.
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  Speaker 1: That tells you that he has this skill set. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at how the position is evolving in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, you need your safeties to be multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Not one dimensional.
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  Speaker 1: And while Marcus EPs has experience working in his favor,
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  Speaker 1: he is a limited athlete. He doesn't cover a ton
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  Speaker 1: of ground. There are certain things that he can't do
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  Speaker 1: that Michael Carter ken. Now the big question is going
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  Speaker 1: to be, of course, how does Michael Carter translate to safety?
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  Speaker 1: Can he do it at a competent enough level where
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles feel confident in using him in a larger capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, he's the underdog and if you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: size up those position battles, and I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Why, but.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the way that Michael Carter plays,
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  Speaker 1: the short area of quickness, the football IQ ball skills
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  Speaker 1: and the range that is so necessary to play this position, now,
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  Speaker 1: it just would, at least in theory, give Fick vangiol
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  Speaker 1: a lot more optionality to maximize his personnel and get
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  Speaker 1: a little creative. And so I know he's not being
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  Speaker 1: talked about a lot now, but the Eagles are moving
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  Speaker 1: him there for a reason. All signs and everything that
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  Speaker 1: I've gathered suggests that Michael Carter is a quick learner,
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  Speaker 1: a student of the game. His history with Joe Casper
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  Speaker 1: extends well passed his time with the Eagles, it goes
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  Speaker 1: into their time at Duke. So I have to imagine
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  Speaker 1: that Joe knows how to tap into Michael Carter and
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  Speaker 1: knows exactly what he can bring. I don't think this
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  Speaker 1: is an experiment. I think this is more of a
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  Speaker 1: we see the vision with this guy, and now after
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  Speaker 1: sort of onboarding him in a larger capacity in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what he can do when we toss him
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  Speaker 1: in the deep end in training camp, where pads are
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  Speaker 1: coming on and every mistake that you make is magnified.
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  Speaker 1: I think Michael Carter the Second will emerge as the starter.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not forget Cooper Degen is going to be
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  Speaker 1: playing safety and bass. But I think for when the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are in Nickel, I think Michael Carter the second
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  Speaker 1: wind up overtaking Marcus EPs in training camp. The athleticism
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  Speaker 1: and just the versatility that he brings might be too
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  Speaker 1: appealing when you're trying to determine who warrants the starting
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  Speaker 1: spot opposite Drew mcouba. Another defensive back that I think
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  Speaker 1: is going to be an absolute star this summer is
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: so reeke Onohan and I feel like I've talked about
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: this and really driven the point home quite a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but it bears repeating. He was a summer spring standout
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  Speaker 1: that I think will eventually morph into a summer standout
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  Speaker 1: and graduate in there when the pads come on. But
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  Speaker 1: you see the size and the athleticism, But when you
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  Speaker 1: get beyond that, I see a player who's motivated and
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  Speaker 1: in an optimal position to take advantage of what I'm
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: expecting to be a ton of targets in his direction. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, making plays on the football. He has
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  Speaker 1: the length to narrow those throwing windows. He can break
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  Speaker 1: up passes. But I also saw him be able to
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  Speaker 1: take the football away. I saw it as a rookie
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  Speaker 1: when he was in Seattle, and I also saw it
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  Speaker 1: on the final practice of mandatory mini camp where he
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  Speaker 1: read it perfectly, jumped in front of Dallas Goddard and
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  Speaker 1: secured the interception.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect there will be a flurry of big.
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  Speaker 1: Plays from Greek Wollan, And again, there's a lot that
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  Speaker 1: he's playing for this year, so he's going into it
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  Speaker 1: already motivated. He got the one year deal for a
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven year old with that kind of upside and
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  Speaker 1: those measurables.
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  Speaker 2: There's more than meets the eye there.
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  Speaker 1: But I have the sense that he's going to take
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  Speaker 1: his game to another level here in Philadelphia. It's a
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  Speaker 1: clean slate, it's a new defense, and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of action this summer. So expect a
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: fluria big plays and expect Rieke Wohan to show up frequently.
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  Speaker 1: In my training camp observations. The final note that I
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  Speaker 1: have here is something that I was tossing around for
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  Speaker 1: about a month now, because there's a lot of directions
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  Speaker 1: I could have went. There's an under the radar player
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  Speaker 1: that to me, his situation really sets up well and
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  Speaker 1: I think because of that he could end up being
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a training camp standout. Now, to be clear, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: forecasting this player to make the Eagles roster. He's played
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: in a handful of games over the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: He spent a couple of years on the practice squad,
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  Speaker 1: and that is third year safety Andre sam Hey.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you maybe expect you, maybe we're expecting Maximus
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  Speaker 1: Pulley a Kapina gushikin. Those players are unproven until they
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: get into camp and then you have more information to
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  Speaker 1: go off of. I'm picking Andre Sam because he's entering
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: his third year in the defense, his third year with
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  Speaker 1: Vick Fangio, his third year working with Joe Casper. Now
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  Speaker 1: Joe Casper was his position coach for two years now.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Casper, of course is the defensive passing game coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: but that familiarity there I think could yield some positive results.
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  Speaker 1: You also factor in that Andre is a student of
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  Speaker 1: the game. I mentioned Michael Carter in that way. Andre
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  Speaker 1: is a student of the game who pushes himself in
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  Speaker 1: different ways in practice, is challenging himself individually to keep
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  Speaker 1: him motivated, keep that fire burning. He's a feisty player,
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  Speaker 1: and the past two summers, really last summer, more so
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  Speaker 1: than his rookie training camp, he made enough plays, especially
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  Speaker 1: on special teams, that I was convinced that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to make the Eagles fifty three man roster. That
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  Speaker 1: eventually went to Tristan McCollum, who was then waived and
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  Speaker 1: claimed by the Raiders, but Andre Sam was the better
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  Speaker 1: special teams player. He's an older player though he's entering
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  Speaker 1: his third season and he's twenty seven years old. So
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  Speaker 1: do the Eagles view him as anything more than a
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  Speaker 1: dependable practice squad player who they can elevate at the
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  Speaker 1: drop of a hat to step in and you know
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to get. Or do they view him
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  Speaker 1: as we have a clear cut roll for this guy.
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  Speaker 1: He can be a fourth safety and a special teamer.
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  Speaker 1: This feels like it's the last run for Andre I'm
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  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent on that, clearly. But if he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make the team, if you're Andre Sam, and you've
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  Speaker 1: presumably done all that you can to convince the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff that you deserve a spot on the roster, would
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  Speaker 1: you be more inclined to entertain other opportunities that maybe
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  Speaker 1: when you get some fresh eyes on you in a
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  Speaker 1: different perspective, all of a sudden you have a better
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  Speaker 1: opportunity in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to see. But last year I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought he did enough to earn a roster spot. He
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  Speaker 1: played in a few games, including the postseason game. But
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  Speaker 1: I look at his understanding of the defense, which should
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  Speaker 1: lend itself to him playing faster and more free, and
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  Speaker 1: the competitive nature that he has. He's been running largely
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: over the past couple of years as the second team safety,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a trust and a familiarity there that I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't think can be quantified. I like his intangibles, and
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  Speaker 1: because of all that, I think he's going to make
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  Speaker 1: some plays and you might hear his name a few.
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  Speaker 2: Times this summer.
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  Speaker 1: So those are just some random thoughts that I had
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  Speaker 1: with training camp on the horizon. I feel strongly about
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  Speaker 1: each of those, and I'm sure you all have your
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: own thoughts as well.
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  Speaker 2: Would love to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Them, and that's kind of where we have. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of where we're at right now. But for now, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. For this episode of The Checho Daily,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Dicheco and I'll catch you all on the
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  Speaker 1: next one.