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The DiCecco Daily: Looking At State Of Eagles OC Search As "List Is Shrinking" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Czech o'delle.
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  Speaker 2: It's Andrew Dechecko, Eagles beat reporter for Inside the Birds
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. The ongoing search for the Eagles offensive coordator
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  Speaker 2: continues going into NFC NAFC Championship Game Sunday, and the
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  Speaker 2: latest name to be crossed off the list will be
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Slowick, who, of course was with the Miami Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: and previously the Houston Texans. Obviously he'd he had some
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  Speaker 2: success there with C. J. Stroud in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of a tail off there. Comes
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  Speaker 2: from the Kyle Shanahan background, which I've outlined, and so
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  Speaker 2: there's some appeal there.
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  Speaker 1: But he won't be coming to the foot off Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: He will be appointed to offensive coordator for the Miami Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: So that leaves.
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  Speaker 2: A number of candidates, obviously, but the list is shrinking.
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  Speaker 2: There's Declan Doyle who's interesting from the Chicago Bears. He
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  Speaker 2: was the OC under Ben Johnson. Obviously Ben Johnson ran
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  Speaker 2: the show he called the Place. Declan Doyle is about
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, thirty years old. So here's the conundrum, because
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of folks who criticized and chastised
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles about appointing a first time play caller in
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Patullo, sort of presiding over an offense with so
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  Speaker 2: much talent, and there's obviously a lot of startup costs
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  Speaker 2: that you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to take into account when you have a first
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  Speaker 1: time play call.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Declan Doyle is very highly thought of and he
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  Speaker 2: comes from the Sean Payton tree, so some intrigue there.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, again, first time play call.
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  Speaker 2: But I think what that shows is that the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: are willing to expand their search to coaches who aren't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily you know, they don't have that decorated experience calling.
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  Speaker 2: So that's an interesting name want to keep an eye on,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, And you have to wonder if there'll be
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  Speaker 2: any other names perhaps down the line, whether it's Thomas
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  Speaker 2: Brown with the Patriots or Nathan Shieldhouse, who the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago had some interest in. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. Both of those coaches haven't called plays before either.
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  Speaker 2: But I think if we're calling it down the line,
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  Speaker 2: and there is a lot of folks who are really
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  Speaker 2: vocal about Kevin Patullo not calling plays, Brian Johnson not
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  Speaker 2: calling plays and that was sort of a mark, if
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  Speaker 2: you will, against them when they took the job. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course revision is history. Looking back, I think you
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  Speaker 2: have to look at it and have some questions. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Eagles are in a position right now where
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  Speaker 2: you would ideally like a play caller, experienced play caller,
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  Speaker 2: and when you're taking over that kind of an offense
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  Speaker 2: now a question you can ask yourself, is this a
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  Speaker 2: desirable job?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's two ways of looking at it. Right it's
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  Speaker 1: a high profile job.
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  Speaker 2: They play in a ton of primetime games, so a
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  Speaker 2: lot of eyes on you and the team. And you
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  Speaker 2: have an owner in Jeffrey Lourie who will do whatever
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  Speaker 2: it takes to make sure that the roster is as
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  Speaker 2: solidified as possible and make them a viable contender.
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  Speaker 1: Year in and year out. And there's a lot of resources.
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  Speaker 1: There's a number of draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: And you have Howie Roseman, who is the best in
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  Speaker 2: the business of what he does, and there's just a
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  Speaker 2: storage success with the Philadelphia Eagles. You also have a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in jaywhen Hurts who has a winning DNA.
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  Speaker 1: He's cerebral and he's won at the highest level.
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  Speaker 2: So there are a lot of intriguing, you know, elements
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  Speaker 2: to taking that job. But there's the other side of things,
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  Speaker 2: and I think if you're an offensive cordator, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: want to know first and foremost, what's the health status
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  Speaker 2: of the offensive line, meaning Lane Johnson, Jordan my lot
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  Speaker 2: at Cam Jurgens landon Dickerson, Is Lane Johnson coming back?
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  Speaker 2: What's the status with AJ Brown as he can remain
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  Speaker 2: a Philadelphia Eagle or will he be going elsewhere? It's
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  Speaker 2: probably hard right now for the Eagles even answer that,
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  Speaker 2: But when you look at the Eagles offense, you can
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  Speaker 2: make an argument that two of the most important players
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  Speaker 2: on it are Lane Johnson and AJ Brown, and to
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  Speaker 2: not know the status of either player, well, that could
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  Speaker 2: cloud your decision making. I imagine, you know, there's for
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  Speaker 2: as high octane as that offense is and could be,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of questions there. You look at
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line, which played at a historic level in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, There's the AJ Brown thing, There's the
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson scenario. There's also the reality that Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 2: has grown accustomed to playing a certain style under Nick Sirianni.
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  Speaker 2: The offense is crafted to what we believe is to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of what the quarterback is exceptional at any
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  Speaker 2: good play calls going.
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  Speaker 1: To do that. And you could look at it and
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  Speaker 1: say it's a Nick Sirianne offense, and it is.
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  Speaker 2: But you go back to his first handful of games
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  Speaker 2: calling plays, and they tried to open things up and
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  Speaker 2: become this pass happy offense, and he was running some
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  Speaker 2: of the things that he was doing from his previous
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  Speaker 2: stop and it didn't work. So they became a run
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  Speaker 2: center team. I go back to Halloween twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Jordan Howard and Boston Scott Show against
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  Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions, and that's really where I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: They sort of took on that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of of a personality in a DNA and then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously it became even more so once the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles signed Saquon Barkley. There was a lot of turnovers
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  Speaker 2: early in Kellen Moore's tenure in that one year that.
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  Speaker 1: He was the OC.
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  Speaker 2: The first four weeks, they tried to do some Kellen
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  Speaker 2: Moore type of things.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to bring his.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of his spin to the offense. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't work. Out and credit to Kellen Moore.
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  Speaker 3: And the Eagles for being able to make the offense
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  Speaker 3: what it was and lean heavily on the running attack.
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  Speaker 3: And the question becomes, how good can this offense be
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  Speaker 3: and what are they going to be able to realistically
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  Speaker 3: do with the personnel that they have. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the big questions when we look at
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  Speaker 3: the pros and cons if you're being objective about those
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  Speaker 3: looking to take that job that comes with it.
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  Speaker 2: that if you're a coordinator and you're wanting and you're
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  Speaker 2: looking to take this job, yeah, I mean you're going
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  Speaker 2: to wonder about whether or not that's going to be viable,
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  Speaker 2: whether or not you're going to have to make concessions,
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  Speaker 2: or will you be able to run the offense through
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  Speaker 2: through your vision, through your eyes. I think those are
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  Speaker 2: all fair questions. But when you look at that, I
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  Speaker 2: still think that that's an appealing job with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of playmakers, and you look at the track record, there's
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  Speaker 2: two coordinators who became head coaches and were able to
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  Speaker 2: advance their careers. Now, there were two others who were
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  Speaker 2: fired after one year, including Brian Johnson, who had a
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  Speaker 2: top ten offense.
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  Speaker 1: I believe they were seventh in.
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  Speaker 2: Seventh in points per game or tick over twenty five
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  Speaker 2: points and eighth in yards per game, which was three
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  Speaker 2: tick over three hundred and fifty four. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: high pressure job. The demands are high, the expectations are high.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have any competitive spirit, if you have
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  Speaker 2: any competitive bone in your body, you really want to
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  Speaker 2: push your career to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: It is an appealing job, and I think you have
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  Speaker 1: to go into it with that.
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  Speaker 2: Mindset, and I believe the right coordinator will surface. But
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles have proven that they're not in a rush
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  Speaker 2: just to simply fill the role, and they're looking for
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  Speaker 2: the right candidate. The search continues, and we'll have it
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  Speaker 2: all covered right here on inside the Birds and of
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  Speaker 2: course on to Checho Daily. I am Andrew Dicheco, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you all on the next one