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The DiCecco Daily: Can The Philadelphia Eagles Get Back To Generating Pressure On QBs? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happened? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: check Odaily. It's Andrew to Checko here, Eagles beat reporter
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  Speaker 1: On yesterday yesterday's show, I talked about my biggest perceived
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of well, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: but there are some items that you can point to
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  Speaker 1: the I guess the fluid nature of the second cornerback position,
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  Speaker 1: and that's sort of been in flux this season, though
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  Speaker 1: A Dori Jackson seems to have put his stamp on
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  Speaker 1: that role. I think you can look at the run
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  Speaker 1: defense if you're looking at the current state based off
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  Speaker 1: of the Friday afternoon game where they were gashed for
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty one rushing yards with DeAndre Swift
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  Speaker 1: and rookie Kyle Manungai. But for me, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: look at a certain area that I think has been
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say problematic, but I guess I
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  Speaker 1: will say the right word for that would be something
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  Speaker 1: that has been a prevailing theme throughout the season, and
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  Speaker 1: that has been sporadic production off the edge in terms
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  Speaker 1: of generating pressure. And the Eagles added Jalen Phillips at
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. They also brought Brandon Graham out of retirement,
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  Speaker 1: and earlier in the season they tried to rectify it
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  Speaker 1: by getting Zadarius Smith in. He has a sack and
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  Speaker 1: a half in the limited time that he played for
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  Speaker 1: the team. He retired. Obo Okoronquell suffered a triceps injury
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  Speaker 1: playing four snaps in the Buccaneers game. He's done for
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  Speaker 1: the season, and so the Eagles had to get creative
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  Speaker 1: and at the trade deadline. I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: really good job Eagles general manager Harry Roseman, to be specific,
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  Speaker 1: in getting Jalen Phillips from the Miami Dolphins in here
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  Speaker 1: to bolster the pass rush group. They also that no
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  Speaker 1: One Smith back from injury reserve, and Nolan Smith seems
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  Speaker 1: to be recently seeing an uptick in his snaps as
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles continue to up his snapshare and get him
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  Speaker 1: more integrated in the defense. Remember, he had a triceps
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  Speaker 1: injury that put him on the shelf. So now they
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  Speaker 1: have a number of different guys that they can throw
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  Speaker 1: in there and send waves of pass rushers at opposing quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: And so coming out of that bye week, the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: played the Green Bay Packers, and you saw the impact
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  Speaker 1: that jaywhen Phillips had he was physical, setting the edge,
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  Speaker 1: the length, and it complemented what the Eagles already had.
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  Speaker 1: Jay looks Hunt settling into a role. I think that
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  Speaker 1: probably suits him more. He's been playing more snaps to
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Smith, but I think having a rotation keeps him fresh.
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  Speaker 1: He's been generating a ton of pressure. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: playing an extremely high level. To be clear, whenever your
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  Speaker 1: defense gives up two hundred and eighty one rushing yards,
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  Speaker 1: which the Eagles did in their most recent game, you
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  Speaker 1: can look at everybody and say that they're at fault.
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  Speaker 1: But by and large, from a pass rush standpoint, I
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  Speaker 1: think Jay loox Hunt has been playing and performing like
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles best right now, generating pressure. He had the
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  Speaker 1: interception against the Bears. He had another interception that went
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown against the Vikings. But the pressures have
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  Speaker 1: been there. He's recently got home with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: sacks of late.
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  Speaker 1: No when Smith is starting to make some plays, Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Phillips didn't have as much of an impact against the
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  Speaker 1: Bears as he's had since joining the Eagles in the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay game, the Detroit Lions game. There were moments
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  Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys, but it's still the Eagles still
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  Speaker 1: don't have the consistent pressure to bear down on quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: and it's allowing them to sit back there and try
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  Speaker 1: to find spots and opportunities in the secondary, and the
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  Speaker 1: teams have yet to really exploit that second quarnerback spot
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  Speaker 1: because legles have been able to get some pressure, especially
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  Speaker 1: from the interior with Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, Moro Jomo
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  Speaker 1: has been playing fantastic football this season. But I think
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking at the defense and you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: find an area of opportunity, they've been really effective in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone. But Vick Vanjo for the better part
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  Speaker 1: of this season has had to deploy or implement a
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  Speaker 1: lot more pressure than he ordinarily does because the edge
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  Speaker 1: rushers weren't getting home with regularity, and that's what was
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  Speaker 1: needed in order to try and alter the pressure. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think when you look at the season, and
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  Speaker 1: I try not to look at just the last two
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  Speaker 1: weeks or the last three weeks, You try to look
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  Speaker 1: at common themes that have been prevalent in mostly every week,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the Eagles have done a really good
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  Speaker 1: job by and large and stopping the run. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: the game against the Chicago Bears was the outlier. Will
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  Speaker 1: learn more in the coming weeks, as early as Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that the back end has been fine
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  Speaker 1: all things considered. They lost Drew Macouba for the season,
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  Speaker 1: they now have Sidney Brown there. Marcus EPs had his
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day practice window opened on Tuesday, so perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he factors into the safety equation there starting next to
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  Speaker 1: red blanket ship. Again, we're going to learn more when
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  Speaker 1: we hear from the coordinators, and as the week progresses,
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  Speaker 1: we'll probably get a better sense of where he is.
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  Speaker 1: But all things considered, I think the secondary has has
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  Speaker 1: held up well based on relative to the first couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks of the season. So I think if I had
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  Speaker 1: to identify one area that I perceived to be an issue,
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  Speaker 1: be just providing pressure off the edge. And I think
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you look at the stats and they're too often
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  Speaker 1: measured solely on sacks, but you also have to look
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  Speaker 1: at pressures as well. So in certain moments in those
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  Speaker 1: I thought that Dak Prescott settled in later in that
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  Speaker 1: game and was able to stand back there and deliver
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  Speaker 1: the football to his receivers. I thought that there were
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  Speaker 1: times that Caleb Williams was able to do just enough
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball out. And I think when you
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  Speaker 1: look at this defense where it is right now, I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence because of the talent that
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  Speaker 1: they have, the assistant coaches that they have, and Vic
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  Speaker 1: Vango presiding over it, that they're going to round back
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  Speaker 1: into shape. But if there's just one area, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that would be the one issue. But if you even
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  Speaker 1: want to call it an issue, because they have bolstered
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  Speaker 1: it with Jalen Phillips and he's playing a ton of snaps.
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  Speaker 1: He gives them a physical tone setter who can set
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  Speaker 1: the edge. Nolan Smith I mentioned he's playing more now,
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  Speaker 1: jay loox Hunt's playing good football. But you would like
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  Speaker 1: to see them be able to dial up that pressure
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  Speaker 1: off the edge in certain moments and put quarterbacks in flux.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas I look at some of those games in which
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  Speaker 1: they lost against the Broncos, they didn't have Jalen Thillips then,
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  Speaker 1: but namely the one against the Dallas Cowboys, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought that that was a game that you were hoping
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  Speaker 1: to see a little bit more from that group in particular,
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  Speaker 1: and for the Eagles defense to really rebound in a
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  Speaker 1: big way and sort of be playing at their best
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch here, that's something that I would like
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  Speaker 1: to see transpire a little bit more. And then you're
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  Speaker 1: not sort of you're not sort of causing Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: to send more pressure and that takes away players and
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  Speaker 1: coverage and things like that. So if I had to
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  Speaker 1: look at one area, that would be it. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more to sort of parse through when you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at the offense than there is with the defense,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see. But that's kind of where I'm
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  Speaker 1: at right now with it. That's where I land on it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's going to do it for this edition of
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  Speaker 1: the check Odely, I'm Andrew to checko from Inside the
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  Speaker 1: Birds dot Com. On Wednesday, we'll hear from Eagles coordinators.
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  Speaker 1: Remember everything gets pushed up a day or back a day,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I should say, because they play on Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be back on the practice field Thursday, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: have another podcast for you tomorrow where I outline some
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  Speaker 1: of the takeaways what Vic Vangio, Kevin Patullo, and Michael
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  Speaker 1: Clay had to say. But for now, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it for this edition. I will catch you on
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  Speaker 1: the next one.