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The DiCecco Daily Emergency Pod: Discussing Impact Of Jeff Stoutland's Decision To Step Away From Coaching Eagles OL · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of to Check Odily Andrew decheco
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  Speaker 2: here Eagles beat reporter for insidethebirds dot Com. I know
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  Speaker 2: I did a podcast earlier in the day, but based
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  Speaker 2: on the news that came down Wednesday evening, it warranted
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  Speaker 2: an emergency podcast and a major shakeup with the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: Eagles as renowned offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland announces that
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  Speaker 2: he will no longer be the Eagles offensive line coach
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  Speaker 2: moving forward. He released a statement shortly after six point
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  Speaker 2: thirty Wednesday evening that said, Philadelphia, I've decided my time
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  Speaker 2: coaching with the Eagles has come to an end. When
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  Speaker 2: I arrived here in twenty thirteen, I did not know
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  Speaker 2: what I was signing up for. I quickly learned what
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  Speaker 2: this city demands, but more importantly, what it gives back.
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  Speaker 2: The past thirteen years had been the great privilege of
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  Speaker 2: my coaching career. I didn't just work here, I became
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  Speaker 2: one of you. Stout out So that was from Jeff Stotland,
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  Speaker 2: and that came out Wednesday evening. So obviously a major
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  Speaker 2: shakeup and there's a lot to unpack here. This is
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stotlin's decision. But and there's reports out there that
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles have, you know, welcome him, welcome him to
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  Speaker 2: remain a part of the team in some capacity, but
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like Jeff Stotlin will take some time to
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  Speaker 2: weigh options and consider his future. I imagine that there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be teams lining up to get Jeff Stoutlin
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  Speaker 2: on board, whatever team is.
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  Speaker 1: In need of an offensive line coach.
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  Speaker 2: That is, it's a little late in the process, but
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  Speaker 2: somebody with that kind of resume commands a lot of
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  Speaker 2: attention when they shake free, and this is something that
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  Speaker 2: it is unforeseen. I know, Sean Mannion at thirty three
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  Speaker 2: years old, is coming in and he's now going to
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  Speaker 2: have some say with his coaches and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But someone like Jeff Stoutland is a coach that his
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  Speaker 2: resume speaks for itself. He's one of the most respected
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  Speaker 2: position coaches in the NFL, arguably the most important position
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  Speaker 2: coach in the NFL, with a track record that screams
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. So you obviously want to try to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to keep that coach on staff. But
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stoutland obviously decided that he wanted to step away.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's a lot of questions that come from
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  Speaker 2: this because for the Eagles, they've played a certain style
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  Speaker 2: and Jeff Outen was obviously the run game coordinator as well. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Jeff McClain reported last week that his run game responsibility
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  Speaker 2: shifted last season, and I think you saw a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a difference later in the season based on
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  Speaker 2: the run game. But this is someone who had been
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line coach and the run game coordinator with
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  Speaker 2: the responsibilities shifting last season. And then you have to
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  Speaker 2: look at what Sean Mannion and his vision for the
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  Speaker 2: running game this year is going to be to kind
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  Speaker 2: of reimagine the offense, and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: stark contrast from what the Eagles have done under Jeff Stoutland.
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  Speaker 2: So you're shaking things up from that perspective. It's a
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  Speaker 2: philosophy that is sort of derived in the Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay style, and the Eagles haven't done that before
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  Speaker 2: and it's a whole different concept to what they've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think you take all those things into consideration.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of things here because what the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles were doing, I thought was sufficient enough. Jeff Stotlin's
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  Speaker 2: track record being the run game coordinator speaks enough for itself.
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  Speaker 2: They had a two thousand yard rusher in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: Miles Sanders has done well, DeAndre Swift has done well.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of go down the list, Lashawan McCoy. There's
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  Speaker 2: been a number of players who have had great success
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  Speaker 2: running behind the league's top offensive line and sort of
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  Speaker 2: choreographed by Jeff Stoutlin. So last season was a blip
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  Speaker 2: on the radar, but to shift in philosophy is something
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  Speaker 2: that I think is going to be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more significant than can be fully appreciated on the surface,
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  Speaker 2: right because you're now doing There's always so many different
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  Speaker 2: things you can do in the run game, obviously, but
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that whether it was the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers or the Rams, what they do with their
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  Speaker 2: their run design. When you have the kind of personnel
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles have landon Dickerson and Jordan Mylotta and those
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  Speaker 2: type of players, I'm not so sure that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to thrive moving latterly as much as they would powering
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  Speaker 2: forward on those inside zone type of runs. I don't
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  Speaker 2: view the run game in of itself as an issue
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  Speaker 2: last season. As much as I view the health of
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line with Cam Jurgens, Landon Dickerson, Jordan Mylotta,
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson, the only healthy one was Tyler Steen, and
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  Speaker 2: so that greatly impacted the run game effectiveness. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that I would totally abandon this style, But
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  Speaker 2: when you're bringing in a new coach who has his
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  Speaker 2: own vision of what he wants it to look like,
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  Speaker 2: that's some of the things that come with it. Quarterback
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  Speaker 2: coach is another one that you may see. You're likely
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  Speaker 2: to see a difference there, But this one is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty big loss for the photoph Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Normally, I'm always very.
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  Speaker 2: Measured in how I approach things, but knowing his track
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  Speaker 2: record of success, development, demonstrated performance, I think that this
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  Speaker 2: is something that shouldn't be taken lightly. And then you
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  Speaker 2: have to wonder who will be the next coach that
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  Speaker 2: can do that. Yes, it's a little late in the process,
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  Speaker 2: but they can find someone that's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more well versed in the schematic point of view,
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  Speaker 2: that is in alignment with Sean Mannion and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But make no mistake, this is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: dress different looking offense next season. All signs point to
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  Speaker 2: that based off of the hiring of Sean Mannion and
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  Speaker 2: his background, his limited background in Green Bay, Josh Grizzard,
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  Speaker 2: and some of the passing game concepts that he was
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  Speaker 2: implementing in Tampa Bay when he was the pass game coordinator,
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  Speaker 2: even when he was offensive coordinator last season. And if
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  Speaker 2: you get a different quarterback coach in there, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a different vision than
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  Speaker 2: Scott Leffler, and they're going to be more aligned with
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  Speaker 2: the way that Sean Mannion wants the quarterback to play.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to have a different offensive line coach
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  Speaker 2: and a different run game coordinator. So I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: Leagles are ripping out the foundation offensively and completely scrapping
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  Speaker 2: what they've done in the past, because we simply have
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  Speaker 2: no way of knowing until you get to the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: But based off of some of the tinkering that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen thus far as far as the coaching staff goes,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest one obviously being right the one we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about right now with Jeff Stoutland, Yeah, this offense is
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  Speaker 2: gonna look a lot different than it has in the
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  Speaker 2: past it needs to, but certainly not at the expense
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  Speaker 2: of Jeff of Jeff Stoutland because you know, and it's
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  Speaker 2: important to reiterate that it was his decision and the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles wanted to retain him. But it is when you
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  Speaker 2: have to completely reimagine and get on, you know, be
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  Speaker 2: in alignment with the same vision of how the run
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  Speaker 2: game's supposed to look, and you have someone that has
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  Speaker 2: that idea of how it's supposed to be, and you're
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  Speaker 2: sort of used to doing it a certain style and
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  Speaker 2: you have a successful.
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  Speaker 1: Track record of playing a certain style. I mean, that's difficult.
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  Speaker 2: And Jeff Stoutland is sixty four sixty four years old,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and he's you know, he's getting up there.
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  Speaker 2: He has the right to make these type of decisions.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, we just went through this last week
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  Speaker 2: with Vic Vangio and him contemplating retirement. Lane Johnson his
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  Speaker 2: future is potentially up in the air. Though it's hard
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  Speaker 2: for me to envision someone like Lane wanting to bow
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  Speaker 2: out after missing the final nine games of the season,
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  Speaker 2: if you're including the postseason, but sometimes health dictates that.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the thought process of having to excuse me prepare
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  Speaker 2: yourself for another season impacts the way that you're approaching
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  Speaker 2: the decision making process. So there's a lot of questions
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  Speaker 2: surrounding the personnel and the coaching staff and the offensive vision.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to look different, which I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you have been asking for, But as I like
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  Speaker 2: to always say, be careful what you wish for and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if they're able to kind of shape this thing.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about Jeff Stotlin the coach, because he
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  Speaker 2: arrived in Philadelphia in twenty thirteen. He was part of
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  Speaker 2: the Chip Kelly staff. He went through three different coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: which is really rare, but I think it really accents the.
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  Speaker 1: Value that he brings.
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  Speaker 2: And I keep going back to his demonstrated performance. No
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  Speaker 2: matter who he was working with, he found a way
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  Speaker 2: to maximize their potential. And I look at whether it
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: was Jordan Milatta, which is perhaps the best story of
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  Speaker 2: development that you can even think of, not even just
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  Speaker 2: through the lens of the Eagles, but in recent memory,
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  Speaker 2: someone who played rugby and hadn't played football before. Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Stotlin molded Jordan Milotta into one of the better left
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  Speaker 2: tackles in the game, and Jason Kelcey being an undersize
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  Speaker 2: six round pick out of Cincinnati. Look at the job
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  Speaker 2: that Jeff STALTLND did with him. Jason Kelsey's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a Hall of Famer, and Jason Peters, he took
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  Speaker 2: his game to another level when he started working with him.
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  Speaker 2: Then it was Brandon Brooks, Nate Herbig Stefan Wisnouski who
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  Speaker 2: stepped in and did a yeoman's job on their Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl run. Halapulavati Vatai same thing on that Super Bowl run.
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  Speaker 2: They probably don't win a Super Bowl without the performance
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  Speaker 2: of those two players having to step in in key spots.
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  Speaker 2: And I attribute that to Jeff Staltland's coaching and preparation.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think you look at whether it's Fred Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Brett Toth, there has just been a track
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  Speaker 2: record of player development and maximizing those at his disposal.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most valuable position coaches and impactful coaches
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  Speaker 2: point blank to be in that building highly respect and
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  Speaker 2: this is a pretty big loss when you look at it.
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  Speaker 2: You're not often going to find a coach who comes
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  Speaker 2: down the pike who was versed in teaching and he
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  Speaker 2: coached hard or is as a depth at molding the
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  Speaker 2: talent that he has, whether it be Day three undrafted players,
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  Speaker 2: whether like Nate Herbig or Sua Opetta. There's just such
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  Speaker 2: a vast pool of offensive linemen that Jeff Stotlins has
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  Speaker 2: had his fingerprints on and taken their game to another level.
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  Speaker 2: And then you also have to look at the other
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  Speaker 2: layer of things. How will that impact the style of
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen that they look for, whether it be the draft,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be in free agency, whether it be retaining
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  Speaker 2: a couple of their own free agents in Fred Johnson
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  Speaker 2: and Brett Toth, Brett Tooth who had a huge fan.
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  Speaker 1: In Jeff Stotlin. How does that impact. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different branches that.
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  Speaker 2: Are sort of coming off of this, this whole, this
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  Speaker 2: whole news story that came out on Wednesday night. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different branches and things that now trickle
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  Speaker 2: down and more questions I would say that come from it,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to learn more in the coming days.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the news that came down. I want
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  Speaker 2: to give you my immediate thoughts on it. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: where the Eagles go from here. But it's sort of
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  Speaker 2: out as the world turns in the life of covering
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  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles. But this has just been a quick
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  Speaker 2: reaction emergency podcast to get it to you guys, and
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  Speaker 2: that's going to do it for this edition of.
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  Speaker 1: The Czecho Daily. I'm Andrew to checko and
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you all on the next one.