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The DiCecco Daily: Interesting Developments On Day Seven of Eagles Camp · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome into another episode of The check Odaily.
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  Speaker 1: It's Andrew Dichecko, Eagles beat reporter for insidethebirds dot Com,
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  Speaker 1: and Friday's practice was probably the steamiest of all of
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles training camp practices. It was day seven if
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  Speaker 1: you're keeping count with me, and they covered about ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They got a lot of work in. It was fast paced.
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  Speaker 1: They were fully padded.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: They had the walkthrough Thursday, which was close to the media.
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  Speaker 1: Back on the practice field Friday and Saturday, and then
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  Speaker 1: Sunday it will there's no practice.
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  Speaker 2: And so with that, let's get to the.
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  Speaker 1: Practice report from Friday, because there are some names on
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  Speaker 1: there that you're sure to recognize not practicing. Wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Britton Covey with a hamstring, outside linebacker Keyshawn James, Newby,
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver mackay Lemon hamstring, Wide receiver DeVante Smith hamstring,
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  Speaker 1: safety Cole was Nesky hamstring, limited linebacker Chance Campbell groin,
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  Speaker 1: right tackle Lane Johnson, he's progressing his workload, and guard
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  Speaker 1: Michael Morris's shoulder. New Sixers star Jalen Brown was in
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  Speaker 1: attendance and he was making his rounds and look to
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  Speaker 1: be chopping it up with some of the Eagles after practice.
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  Speaker 1: Today was Jalen Hurts' birthday, and at the end of
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  Speaker 1: practice during that post practice breakdown afterwards, the team was
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  Speaker 1: singing Happy Birthday to him. So Jalen Hurts his birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and with that, we're going to get into the observations now.
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  Speaker 1: The first team offensive line once again included rookie tackle
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  Speaker 1: Markel Bell.
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  Speaker 2: At right tackle.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the offensive line Jordan Mylott and Landon Dickerson,
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jurgens, and Tyler This is interesting now because this
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  Speaker 1: is the third day, third consecutive practice, I should say
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  Speaker 1: that Mark hel Bell has worked with the first unit
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Clearly, he's showcasing something that intrigues
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mannion, Chris Cooper, Nick Sirianni, and he's making the
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  Speaker 1: strides that you want to see from a young player,
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  Speaker 1: taking those steps in the right direction. He's moves pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's especially noticeable in pass protection. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the area of his game right now. That's probably a
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  Speaker 1: little bit further ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Than run blocking.
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  Speaker 1: But when you watch the way that he moves out there,
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  Speaker 1: it is something that catches your eye because he is
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  Speaker 1: a mountainous offensive lineman, and you don't often see players
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  Speaker 1: of that size be able to move the way that
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  Speaker 1: he can. So that's great news for Mark hel Bell
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Eagles have to be thrilled with
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  Speaker 1: where he is right now in terms of his development.
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  Speaker 1: Also working in with the first team on occasion was
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  Speaker 1: Drew Kendall, the Eagles second year offensive lineman. He mixed
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  Speaker 1: in at left guard a little bit whenever Landon Dickerson
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  Speaker 1: needed a blow or they just wanted to give him
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  Speaker 1: some snaps off. And then at one point in practice,
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  Speaker 1: center Cam Jurgens went to the medical tent.
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  Speaker 2: Then he didn't return to practice. It didn't appear to
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  Speaker 2: be anything serious.
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  Speaker 1: You never know, so I'm not going to speculate on
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  Speaker 1: what it could be, but I think if you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at it from an optimistic point of view, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: appear to be anything of significance based off of how
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  Speaker 1: he was walking off. But nevertheless, replacing him with the
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  Speaker 1: first team probably about halfway through practice and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of it was second year offensive lineman Jake Majors.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Majors is a player that.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about with Adam and I've talked about him
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  Speaker 1: this offseason as someone that I was kind of interested
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  Speaker 1: in seeing more and learning more about, because I've really
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  Speaker 1: liked his tape at Texas. He was one of my
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  Speaker 1: Day three sleepers last draft cycle, and I was surprised
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  Speaker 1: a little bit that he didn't make the Buccaneers, but
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles sign him to the practice squad after Week
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  Speaker 1: one last year. He was on the practice squad the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year. This is someone who set a
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  Speaker 1: Texas record with career starts. I think it's fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: might come out to fifty seven if you're including a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: But he.
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  Speaker 1: Is a little undersized, at least in terms of height
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the center position, so you might
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  Speaker 1: be taken aback a second when you watch him now.
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  Speaker 2: He's taller than Willie Lampkin. He moves well.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember talking to Drew Kendall and Brett Toath
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  Speaker 1: last year and in conversations with both players because I
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  Speaker 1: wrote a story about Brett Toath and his development, and
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  Speaker 1: I should say his mentoring of the young offensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: because after a while I started to see him working
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  Speaker 1: with Drew Kendall and Jake Majors and Luke Felix Fulwalu,
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  Speaker 1: who was the IPP player I believe last year. He
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  Speaker 1: just seemed to be a Willie Lampkin as well. So
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  Speaker 1: Brett just was sort of taking them under their wing.
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  Speaker 1: And when I was talking to bretteth about Drew Kendall
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  Speaker 1: because that was the objective of my story to learn
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  Speaker 1: more about how he's helping a rookie offensive lineman along
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and in conversation he brought up Jake
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  Speaker 1: Majors and how his selflessness kind of like Drew Kendall
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  Speaker 1: and serving a role in practice, holding the bags, doing
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  Speaker 1: whatever it takes like. It's not something that you often
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  Speaker 1: think about, and it certainly isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Something that is front of mine on game day.
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  Speaker 1: But players like that that aren't maybe factoring in on
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  Speaker 1: game days. They're doing things on the practice field that's
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  Speaker 1: helping prepare the starters. And I know that both Brett
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  Speaker 1: and Drew made mention of Jake and Willie and some
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  Speaker 1: of those other guys, so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Something to keep an eye on. Now. I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: that Jake did.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think he did too bad when he stepped
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  Speaker 1: in there at center. And you may ask yourself, why
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  Speaker 1: not put Drew Kendall in at center because he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the top interior backup for the Eagles this year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: early on, Drew Kendall was repping at guard, and the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles traditionally haven't been a team that likes to mix
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  Speaker 1: and match.
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  Speaker 2: On the fly.
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  Speaker 1: Drew Kendall has had days where he's repping at center,
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  Speaker 1: Jake Majors has had days where he's repping at guard,
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  Speaker 1: and so early on in the day it was apparent
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  Speaker 1: that today was a day that Drew Kendall was working
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  Speaker 1: at guard and Jake Majors was working at center. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe for continuity purposes they didn't want to switch that up.
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  Speaker 2: That's just my guess. I don't know that, but.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is interesting because you have two interior
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  Speaker 1: alignemen who can play guard and center.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Kendall's a player that they're really high on. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to be their.
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  Speaker 1: Top interior backup on game day. Major's on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: is going to have to fight to make the roster.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of an uphill battle, but just maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are at least they want to see more of
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  Speaker 1: him in certain scenarios, and so that was something to note,
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  Speaker 1: But we'll keep an eye on what that all means
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  Speaker 1: for Cam Jurgens. As I mentioned, it didn't look to
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  Speaker 1: be anything of significance.
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  Speaker 2: But of course I'm not going to speculate. We'll learn
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  Speaker 2: more on Saturday's practice.
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  Speaker 1: Now the key here will be if Cam Jurgens doesn't
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  Speaker 1: practice tomorrow, do the Eagles roll it back with the
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  Speaker 1: same lineup that they did today, That will be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more telling. This could just be a spur
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  Speaker 1: of the moment or just a Friday plan because that's
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  Speaker 1: the way that they had it mapped out.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's something that they they.
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  Speaker 1: Revert back to tomorrow and they have that same configuration
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  Speaker 1: of the offensive line, well then that's something that's probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more notable. On the second
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  Speaker 1: team offensive line, at left tackle was Fred Johnson, At
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  Speaker 1: left guard, Drew Kendall at center.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is starting the day. At center was Jake
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  Speaker 2: Major's at.
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  Speaker 1: Right guard was Willie Lampkin, and at right tackle was
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  Speaker 1: John Ajukwu. Now, when Jake started playing with the first team,
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  Speaker 1: they put Willy Lampkin at second team center, and he
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  Speaker 1: was the third team center as well. They just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to lighten the load there a little bit, but on
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  Speaker 1: the back end they opened with Marcus Epps and Drew
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  Speaker 1: mccooba as the safeties. Cooper Degen was in nickel and
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  Speaker 1: the receivers were Hollywood Brown, Don Tavian Wicks, and Elijah Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that the Eagles were without mkay Lemon,
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  Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, and Britton Couvey, so that is going to
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  Speaker 1: kind of alter things a little bit in terms of planning.
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  Speaker 1: But Elijah Moore got involved early on a shallow crosser.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Gotter was in the mix early on sort of
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  Speaker 1: a stop route with Rieke Wollen and coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Carter the Second mixed in a little bit with
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Aps early on. Michael Carter the Second has had
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  Speaker 1: a nice week and he plays three different positions for
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles. He's their dime defensive back, their six defensive back,
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  Speaker 1: he can play nickelback, and of course he's really been
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  Speaker 1: leaning into safety this summer. But he's an interesting player
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  Speaker 1: because while he does have a lot of versatility, this week,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done some really good things in coverage.
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  Speaker 1: He seems to be playing with really good anticipation, good
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  Speaker 1: recovery speed, and he just is playing a lot faster
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  Speaker 1: than he was maybe in the spring and earlier in
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  Speaker 1: training camp.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a player that I'll absolutely be keeping an
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  Speaker 2: eye on.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, if you think back to any of
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  Speaker 1: the other podcasts that I've done, whether it be in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason or even in the early stages of training camp,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that I thought that Michael Carter the Second
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  Speaker 1: was an interesting player to keep an eye on in
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  Speaker 1: this safety race because of the traits that he has,
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  Speaker 1: the short area of quickness, a lot of those things
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  Speaker 1: that make an exceptional nickelback where you have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see things fast, you have to be almost
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  Speaker 1: a hybrid, get involved in the run game, and understand
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  Speaker 1: the responsibilities of all three levels of the defense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That that's fully appreciated, but that kind of is all
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  Speaker 1: baked into why I believe that nickelback is the most
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  Speaker 1: challenging position to play on defense. You can make the
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  Speaker 1: case that it off all linebacker in a Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: defense as well, but.
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  Speaker 2: The point remains.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Carter the second he had a nice day again
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, and earlier in the week he had the
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  Speaker 1: inner exception. He's just he's been pretty active. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a good way to put it. Wide receiver Darius
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  Speaker 1: Cooper has had another he had another nice practice. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a good summer Jalen Hurts hit him with a
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  Speaker 1: bullet over the middle with Quinya Mitchell in coverage, strong
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  Speaker 1: hands from Darius Cooper, and he does a really nice
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  Speaker 1: job of being able to attack the football. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: he's not a body catcher. He gets his hands in
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  Speaker 1: there and he's able to snatch it away if there
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  Speaker 1: were a fifty to fifty scenario. He's someone that you
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  Speaker 1: feel pretty comfortable coming away with it because he does
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  Speaker 1: showcase strong hands and really good concentration looking it in.
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  Speaker 2: That was another example of that.
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee was first up with the second team, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought that he had probably probably his best day
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  Speaker 1: throwing the football this summer. And that's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: high bar to clear because he hasn't been overly exceptional
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  Speaker 1: this summer. But I thought that he was getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of the football a little bit quicker, pushing the ball
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  Speaker 1: downfield a little bit more. His receivers also helped him
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  Speaker 1: out in certain cases where sometimes he's delivered it and
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  Speaker 1: the passes have been dropped. But I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: putting the ball in good spots. He liked the ball placement.
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  Speaker 2: I like the pace in which he was getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of the football.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't patting it as much, and that's something that
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  Speaker 1: you want to see.
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  Speaker 2: With the second team defense.
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  Speaker 1: When they were out there, it was Jacory and Bennett
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  Speaker 1: and Turie castro Fields were outside. They were mixing and
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  Speaker 1: matching a lot, so that's important to note. Andbrey Thomas
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  Speaker 1: also got in there. Mac McWilliams got in there. But
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting that Turic castro Fields gets an early
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  Speaker 1: nod in practice after having a nice showing.
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  Speaker 2: On what day was it.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday where he had the interception and a pass breakup.
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  Speaker 2: Look.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, again, he's a long shot one would expect
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  Speaker 1: to make the team, but it's notable that he's been
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  Speaker 1: in camp with the Eagles for three years now. He's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of an older player relative to some
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  Speaker 1: of the others in the room.
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  Speaker 2: He's twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: He's bounced around, but I think that he's quietly put
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  Speaker 1: together a couple of good days.
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  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, that was the scenario there.
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  Speaker 1: The safety pairing was Andre sam and Maximus Pulley. Linebackers
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Trotter Junior and Smile Mandan junior.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Trotter Junior with another nice day.
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  Speaker 1: Reactive player, very instinctual he knows how to read his keys,
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  Speaker 1: and he just has a really good feel for the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and he plays with such timing, especially it's really noticeable
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  Speaker 1: in the run game or he's able to diagnose things and.
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  Speaker 2: Pursue the running back and sort of get a jump
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  Speaker 2: on things. He makes up for a lot of the the.
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  Speaker 1: Shortcomings athletically and the ranginess and the twitchiness at that
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  Speaker 1: position with really high end football IQ and just a
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  Speaker 1: great understanding of his responsibilities in Vic Fangio's defense, Jayalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurtz threw a pass over to EJ Jenkins over the middle.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he had it, but Kapina Gushigin, who
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  Speaker 1: also got some safety reps, he hit him at the end.
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  Speaker 1: The ball came out, he got to hold onto it.
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  Speaker 1: That's been the one thing that I've noticed with EJ.
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins.
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  Speaker 1: He has made tremendous strides as a blocker, a really
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  Speaker 1: imposing blocker. That's something that he takes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in. He's worked a lot at it, and that
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  Speaker 1: was really apparent to me when I watched the special
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  Speaker 1: teams drills a couple days ago on kick return where
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  Speaker 1: he was sealing off the edge and he just has
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  Speaker 1: his hands and feet are in constant unison, and he
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  Speaker 1: just seems to have.
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  Speaker 2: A really good grip and power at the point of attack.
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  Speaker 1: He's just got to be more consistent catching the football,
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  Speaker 1: and that dates back really to last summer, but that
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  Speaker 1: was another case in that one as well. Ty Robinson
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  Speaker 1: got some second team work at defensive tackle, working with
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  Speaker 1: Byron Young. That's really the first I particularly noticed Ty
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  Speaker 1: Robinson in any meaningful way. He's been kind of buried
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  Speaker 1: there in the on the depth chart, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: notice really anything one way or the other. Byron Young
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  Speaker 1: is just a good football player who makes plays, whether
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  Speaker 1: they're subtle or a little bit more pronounced. He I
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  Speaker 1: think he's just a steady player. And nothing particular, nothing
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  Speaker 1: in particular really stood out from either one of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton had a nice completion to
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Wilson deep down the field to.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe about the five yard line. Mac McWilliams was in coverage.
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  Speaker 2: It was just shorter the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Carter got some more work today at nickelback in
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  Speaker 1: addition to safety. He's just been bouncing around all over,
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  Speaker 1: which again really speaks to his versatility and value to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Eagles. On the back end, Andy
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  Speaker 1: Dalton tried sort of a deep over to Samari Torre
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  Speaker 1: and Michael Carter shut it down.
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  Speaker 2: He had the receiver blanketed.
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  Speaker 1: That's another example of his coverage acumen that I think
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  Speaker 1: could really factor into this safety conversation. Andy Dalton also
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  Speaker 1: hit Cameron Lotu over the middle as the horn sound ending.
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  Speaker 2: That particular period.
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  Speaker 1: In a red zone scenario, Jayalen Carter got his hand
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  Speaker 1: up to bat away a pass.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Carter has had a really nice training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Vic Vango alluded to him being in better shape,
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  Speaker 1: probably contributing to it, but he's just been a wrecking crew,
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  Speaker 1: one man wreck crew in some cases throughout the first
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  Speaker 1: seven practices, and I think that's really going to bode
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  Speaker 1: well for this season ahead for him now that he's healthy,
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  Speaker 1: he's in.
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  Speaker 2: Good shape and well, he just got paid as well.
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  Speaker 1: So Willie Lampkin working as the second team right guard
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  Speaker 1: is interesting, and I understand that I get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions about Willy Lampkin and a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: want updates on him. That's kind of notable because he'd
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  Speaker 1: really predominantly been repping as a third team center. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of it just has to do with
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  Speaker 1: mixing and matching. Again, if it repeats itself on Saturday's practice.
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  Speaker 2: Then maybe there's a little bit more to it.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that it is interesting that they
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: were cross trending a mcguard a little bit because to me,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of fits.
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  Speaker 2: The bill of a guard.
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  Speaker 1: He moves well, he has good strength, plays with good leverage.
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  Speaker 1: He has the wrestling background, So I'll be certainly keeping
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  Speaker 1: an eye on that for Saturday's practice. Once Jake Majors
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  Speaker 1: was bumped to the first team, that second unit was
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  Speaker 1: Fred Johnson at left tackle, Drew Kendall at left guard,
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  Speaker 1: Willie Lampkin at center, Micah Morris at right guard, and
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  Speaker 1: John Ujuku at right tackle. Darius Cooper had a nice
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  Speaker 1: reception on a corner route with Michael Carter the nearest
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  Speaker 1: defender on the play.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good ball from Tanner McKee. He also.
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  Speaker 1: Hits he wanted to go for the back shoulder throw
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  Speaker 1: in one case, I think it was Johnny Wilson. Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Jones was in coverage on that play. Jonathan Jones was
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  Speaker 1: a step too slow on that one, and that was
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  Speaker 1: another really good ball from Tanner McKee that was in
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  Speaker 1: the back corn owner of the end zone. Andy Dalton
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  Speaker 1: hit Eric azukanma on an out route to the left
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  Speaker 1: with Ambry Thomas in coverage, and then they pick on
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  Speaker 1: Ambrey once again and go to this.
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  Speaker 2: Time Brandon Hayes.
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  Speaker 1: It was an identical route and Ambry Thomas was again
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  Speaker 1: in coverage.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that that was the practice.
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  Speaker 1: I think something that really stood out to me was
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  Speaker 1: the consistency of Darius Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I don't want to make too much of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got a really good shot at sticking
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, But in terms of having a season
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  Speaker 1: in which he has a sizeable role in the offense, well,
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  Speaker 1: when you have DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard, Saquon Barkley, dn
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  Speaker 1: Tavian Wicks, who's had a really nice camp, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mackay Lemon, the Eagles rookie wide out, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: only so many opportunities. But I think Darius Cooper has
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  Speaker 1: proven that whatever role he's a sound, he's going to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: go out there and he's going to embrace it and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do whatever the Eagles need from him,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't really worry about targets, he doesn't worry
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  Speaker 1: about the players in front of him on the depth chart.
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  Speaker 1: He just goes out there and makes plays. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I would say that he's been the third most productive
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  Speaker 1: wide out for the Eagles in training camp, behind Devonte
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Dontavian Wicks. He's had a hell of a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: training camp and he continued to deliver with some big
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: time receptions on Friday's practice. And I think in the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: preseason you're going to see him open things up even more.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It just seems like whatever quarterback he's working with, they seem.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: To have a lot of trust in him.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So we'll see if that's able to progress in the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: coming weeks. But Darius Cooper, again, it wasn't a mirage
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: last summer, certainly not because he's going back for an encore.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He's coming out there and he's putting on a show.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And I think that as a young player where there's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: pressure and it would be easy to kind of get
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: overly infatuated and obsessive over the players in front of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you on the on the depth chart, what your situation
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be. He just goes out there and plays man.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: He just goes out there and does whatever the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: need him to do, and he delivers whenever the ball
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  Speaker 1: comes his way. So hopefully you get to check out
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  Speaker 1: my story that's came up yesterday morning on insidethebirds dot com,
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  Speaker 1: so make sure you check that out.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles are.
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  Speaker 1: Back on the practice field Saturday morning. We'll have all
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  Speaker 1: the coverage for you on insidethebirds dot com on the
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  Speaker 1: inside the Birds platform, and that includes the Checkodaily.
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  Speaker 2: And with that, that's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Do it for this episode of the Checkodaily. I'm Andrew
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  Speaker 1: de Checko. I'll catch you all on the next one.
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