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ITB Special: Greg Cosell Breaks Down Several Eagles' Preseason Tape · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome to a special Inside the Tape preseason edition.
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  Jeff Mosher, Adam Kaplan and of course when we're talking
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  Inside the Tape, you know we're bringing back our tape
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  breakdown guru, Greg Cosel Craig. I know you've been busy
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  as always with your nose inside the Tape, both college
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  and pro at this time of the year, but we
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  are turning the page to the NFL season, and I'll
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  just take this moment to announce now to our our
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  you know, mainstream podcast and YouTube listeners, you're back for
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  another season on Inside the Burns Inside the Tape every
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  week throughout the NFL season, So you ready, you got
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  the gloves on.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait. I just can't wait for the regular
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  season to begin. Jeff. You know it's I mean, now
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  the college big weekend of college football. I'm actually looking
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  forward to that, but I can't wait for the NFL
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  season to begin.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, let me relaiel our listeners know, we took
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  this is metaphorical. We took Greg's arm and twisted around
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  us back and said can you please watch Eagles preseason?
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  And he was like, oh, man, do I have to watch?
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  And we said yeah, for the show, he said, Okay,
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  we're gonna do it. So we're gonna throw a bunch
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  of preseason footage questions at Greg. But also our Patreon
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  members just want to let them know ask Greg Cosel.
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  We'll be back each week as well in the NFL season.
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  They'll get to ask your questions personally to Greg. Football
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  related questions, we hope to Greg. Let's start getting like
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  life therapy type questions Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's right, right.
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  Speaker 1: Greg's good enough to take all of me.
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny because we sometimes you go over the
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  time and you're like, no, it's okay, I'll keep asking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I love it. There's guys, you know, I
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  imagine we'll get a lot of the same guys, but
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  they're great. They asked great ones. We have no one
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  they know what I do, so they don't ask me
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  questions that you know. They know that like for people
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  like you, guys you know they know what I do.
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  You don't ask me about things like character to leadership,
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  things that you know there's no way I can know about.
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  And I'll be the first to admit that. You know.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's move into some Eagles preseason tape. Greg
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  the Story of the Eagles preseason, and I'd be fascinated
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  to know if you had even watched tape of this
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  guy coming out of college, I know that'd be a
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  very long shot. Is Darius Cooper, the wide receiver from
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  Tarlton State who from day one to the last day
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  was just very, very consistent in his approach and his
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  performance at camp. He was not a training camp darling,
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  so to speak, because those guys are usually guys who
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  don't make it and can't play right. Anything that jump
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  out when you watch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's what I did. So I watched all Tanner
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  McKee's dropbacks in the you know, when he played that
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  first game, you know, and then through a lot of passes,
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  and obviously I'm watching Cooper, you know, because he was
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  a factor, and I'm like, who is this guy? Believe
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  it or not. After I watched that, I went back
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  and I watched Cooper at Tarlton State. You did oh,
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  I figured it would okay, all right, good Now. He
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  was much thinner by the way attain State, and he
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  was explosive. I I came away impressed with the player
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  watching him at Tarleton State. He he had an explosive
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  element to his game. Now then, I you know, I
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  just thought to myself, God, he's he's bigger. You know,
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  he almost looks body type like AJ Brown. And you
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  know he still looked pretty quick though, I mean it
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  didn't it didn't look like he was slower. So again,
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  all I have, because I was in a training camp,
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  all I have is the game and then seeing his
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  college tape. But body type, he's kind of like AJ Brown.
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  I mean, just seeing what I saw, I mean I
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  would say that he's got linear speed and outstanding body control.
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  Like those were two things that stood out to me.
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  Linear speed and outstanding body control. The impressed me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know if it was Tarlton's state tape
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  show it because you know he came there as a quarterback,
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  I know, receiver, but the way he taxed the football, yes,
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  that was incredibly really from the very first practice, kind
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  of like you see a number forty one undrafted free agent.
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  You see him have a good first day, you make
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  a note of it, but you don't think much of it.
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  But when you see him dominate every practice. He went
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  from the threes the twos, and then when Brown or
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  Smith was out, they moved him up with the ones.
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  You're like, okay, now we're taking it seriously. This kid's
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  got a real shot. And look they they're probably still
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  going to be a heavy twelve personnel. But remember he's
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  got a three year deal. Dots is on the final years,
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  so is Mechi. So it's fascinating. I'm so glad you
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  went back as chartan state was remembered. Greg No combin invite,
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  no All Star.
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  Speaker 1: Game, right, nothing, absolutely nothing no.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't watch him through the draft process, but
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  then I watched him, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
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  after that first preseason game, after I watched the key,
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  you know when he caught that touchdown down the right sideline,
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  you know where he went up and got it. You know,
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  good hand, extended body control, worked over the middle of
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  the field. You know, you don't compare guys to you know, like,
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  I'm not gonna sit here and say, g you look
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  like a J. Brown, But stylistically with the way he gained,
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  the body type is similar that, you know, that's kind
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  of what he looks like.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great I was standing next to Andrew de
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  Checo during camp practice one day. We were watching him.
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  Adrian Brown was out, and I think another receiver, DeVante
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  might have been out. And he was standing next to
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  to John Dotson and I said, Andrew and I were like,
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  you know what, you can't Sometimes you can tell when
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  a rookie free agent wide receiver looks like they're usually
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  rookie free agents for undrafted free agents for a reason.
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  Underside like Taylor Moore, very undersized slot guy. You can
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  tell it look like the starting guy. He was standing
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  right next to John Dottson and I said, you know what,
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  if these guys were wearing the same number, I don't
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  know if I in the helmet on know who's who.
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  Because that's the first thing that stuck out to me, Greg,
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  is that he had the body type of an NFL
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  wide receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you guys said, I mean, I've heard from
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  people as well that he's pretty much been good every day.
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  He's not like a flash in the pan as far
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  as training camps.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's let's go to the defense. That's
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  where most of the questions were. You've got you. Well,
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  last we spoke to you, you said about Joshua that
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  there's something in him right, that there's a reason why
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  he was drafted where he was and had that one
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  year in New England that was a breakout year. There's
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  something in his body. I believe I did after watching
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  the preseason tape.
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  Speaker 2: What did you say? You know, he's got natural quickness,
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  he's got change direction, he can redirect, he's got traits.
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  It's very hard for me when guys don't, you know,
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  get moved around. I mean, I remember that year in
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  New England a couple of years ago. You know, he
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  looked like an up and coming player. I mean he
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  looked like a really good player. You know, they used
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  him as a pass rusher. They had a lot of
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  stunt concepts that year, and he was very good at
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  that because he's got body flexibility, he can bend. He's
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  a really good athlete. So that showed up on tape.
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  I mean, you know, I'm not looking to see if
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  a guy gets sacks. You know what, you know that
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  guy's I don't look you know, I look for the
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  way a guy moves, how he uses his hands, is
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  he how does he go about trying to beat a
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  guy when he's rushing the quarterback. You know, it's it's there,
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  you know, I don't beyond that I can't tell you anymore.
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  It's it's there. I mean, look, right now, if they
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  start the season, I assume that Hunt and Smith would
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  be the outside backers. But they're not each going to
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  play seventy snaps a game. We know that that's not
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  gonna happen. So there's going to be guys. So it's
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  oushe they kept Azolera. Yeah, and he's there another guy
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  that has trades, and they kept one more guy. Who's
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  the other guy? You know what, he's another guy. I
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  believe he came in Oklahoma, right.
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  Speaker 1: Forget the school. He's been with a couple of teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's another guy that has trades. When I rem
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  I remember watching him coming out of college and I
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  thought this, and he had moments in Cleveland. By the way,
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  it's not like this guy hasn't played in the league
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  and hasn't shown up. You know, He's played meaningful snaps
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  in the league. So it's it's going to be really interesting.
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  I mean, you know, based on what he did over
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  the last half of last season, one could think that
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  Nolan Smith is really on the way to becoming a
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  really good football player, you know, I mean, he really
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  had a good second half of the season. I mean,
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  you know, you could see that. However, they're coaching and
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  he'd take, well, he's supposed to be an incredibly smart
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  kid and and you know, really a good kid. You
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  could see that he took to coaching. He started to
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  use his hands, he started to understand how to playoff contact.
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  I mean, he could be an as sending player this year.
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  Speaker 3: So Greg, let's stay on the defensive line, the front
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  and talk about Ty Robinson, the rookie, Gabe Hall. What
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  do you see from them?
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Hall is a fascinating guy to me because gab
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  Hal is an excellent athlete for a defensive tackle. What
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  he needs to do is to develop more strength and
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  become more of a power player. But he's a really
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  good athlete. There were I watched every one of his snaps.
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  There were examples where he used his hands effectively, where
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  he understood where to place his hands and then to
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  work off that. There were snaps where he did show
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  some strength in you know, almost a two gap type
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  player where he played off the contact. I remember one
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  in particular where he showed knock back power, you know,
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  with great arm extension to immediately control the blocker. There
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  was one where he did that against the tight end,
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  which is still really good, but you have to you know,
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  it's against a tight end. But I think that, you know,
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  if he can become more powerful, more consistently, I think
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  he has a chance to be a really solid rotational
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  player in this D line.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly the scouting report on him. Greg. Even still today,
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  I was talking with someone from a different team saying, hey,
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  Cabe Hall looks good in training camp. He's doing well.
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  And this person says to me, well, he's always been
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  a great athlete, but is he playing strong? That was
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  exactly that was the question, because that was, well.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the tape showed. You know, That's that's exactly
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  what the tape showed. But you know, so that's what
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  he has to work on. And you know, sometimes strength
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  is not just like you know, how much he can
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  bench press. It's it's how you use your hands, you know,
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  because if you can place your hands in the right spot.
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  I mean, you know, so many times with what defensive
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  lineman study is offensive linemen how they set, you know.
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  In other words, I'm just gonna use this as an example,
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  and I don't want people to think, oh, you're you're
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  making comparison to this guy. This guy was one of
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  the greatest of all time. That's not the point of
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  what I'm going to say. Think of Reggie White's hump move. Okay,
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  everybody just, oh my god, he's so strong. Well, what
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  he did was is he studied offensive line that particularly tackles.
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  And you might remember Max Lane when they beat, yeah,
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  beat New England in the Super Bowl. What he would
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  do is study when an offensive tackle when he was
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  playing d n in his Kickslide would lift his outside
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  foot off the ground. Because no matter how strong you are,
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  or no matter how much you weigh, if you're playing
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  with one foot, it doesn't matter, you know. So Reggie
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  White was a master. As soon as that guy lifted
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  the foot off the ground, he clubbed them. Okay, and
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  the guy had no balance flying. Yeah, the guy went flying.
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  I mean that's the way the kinds of things offensive
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  linemen look at. So it's not a matter of g
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  can can Gabe haul go in the weight room and
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  bench press five hundred pounds. That's not what we're talking about.
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  It's how do you use your hands? Do you place
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  them right? You know? What they teach a lot of
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  guys is to put their hands and I know people
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  can see me, you know, good hands like right in
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  this area. Because no one's natural reaction is to go
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  like this. That's not a natural athletic reaction. No one
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  does this. So they teach guys to try to hit
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  your hand right in here, and then guys get off
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  balanced because it's just one of those spots. So and
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  then you can play off that and do any number
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  of other things.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you know that one guy in the group chat
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  who hit a five leg parlay week one and he
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  wouldn't shut up about it for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like kaplan, right, Yeah, yeah, it.
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  Speaker 2: Could be him.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, Greg, the other well, the other guy halts a
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  secondar player. But the other guy that fans are fascinated
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  with number ninety four, Ty Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: What are you now? He's the exact opposite of Haul.
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  Ty Robinson is a power player at this point in
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  his career. His game's built on power and strength. He's
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  a straight line power player. He's got to improve his
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  lateral quickness. He does have a tendency, in my opinion,
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  to play a little high and upright. You know, so,
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  I think I think he's one of those hard nosed,
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  tough guys that probably needs work, you know, Like i'd
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  be surprised. You know, you never know, and I've learned
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  over the years you don't make definitive statements. But I'd
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  be surprised if he's a major contributor this year in
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  terms of number of snaps. It doesn't mean he's never
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  gonna play, but I can't see him being truly a
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  part of the rotation already plays twenty twenty five snaps
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  a game, certainly early in the season. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. It makes you wonder from two standpoints. Let's
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  say more Joe Will gets hurt, has the miss three.
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  Speaker 2: Games and by the way, you guys would know, I've
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  heard he's had a really good camp.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Yes, yes, yeah, So if Moro Joe Will were
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  to get hurt, that hurts their five man front and
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  their fore man front. I would think that Gabe Hall
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  would be next man up in there in front. But
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  in their four man pass rush front, I would wonder
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  if they would just kick a defensive end inside instead
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  of trying to go with Ty Robinson for your as
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  your man up, because you've got four or five edge
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  rushers now, I would wonder if maybe you'd kick at
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  Jlex on inside with Jayleen Carter and then have Ojilari
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  and Uche on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, and again, Uce was a guy that
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  when he was in New England moved around. I mean,
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  you know, depending on how they feel about him, you know,
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  he could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Is big enough.
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  Speaker 2: He looks you know, maybe not. You know, I don't
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  know the answer to that. Yeah, I don't know the
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  answer to that, but Robinson is not at this point
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  an inside pass rusher.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I thought awesome, Greg just against the run
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  because you know, in a lot of rookies to this,
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  there were a couple of those zone runs where he
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  kind of shot the gap and let the bubble open
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  spread running back. I think that was just you know,
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  they tell rookies to make a mistake at one hundred
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  miles per hour, and I felt like maybe he just knew.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, he's he's he's got some
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  knock back power. You know, that's his game. You know,
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  I just think he's he's got all the work to
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  do overall, and you know, don't forget what was he
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  a fourth or fifth round pick? Tie? Fourth? Yeah, I
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  mean you know, look, you'd obviously love for him to
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  be part of their rotation. But it's not as if
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  he was a first or second round pick, you know.
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  I mean, he needs I guarantee they knew, they knew
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  he needed work. I mean, but he's just a I
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  had a chance at the combine because he was there
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  to talk to Matt Ruhle, who have known, you know,
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  for years since he was a Temple and obviously Matt
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  Real coach him, and he said, the kid is all football.
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  The kid loves it. He works his tail off. You know,
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  he'll do anything you ask him to do, you know.
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  And you know the Eagles go for those guys, you know,
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  because they can coach them, they build them up. Well,
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  I mean, look at a Jomo. I mean I thought
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  of Jomo it was worthy of a third or fourth
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  round pick personally based on his college tape. It didn't
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  play out that way. But look where you know how
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  he's progressed. You know, the Eagles like those kinds of kids.
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  Speaker 3: Well, speaking of a guy who should have gone high,
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  I mean he did is Shahad Campbell? Greg, what were
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  your faults of his heath?
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  Speaker 2: I've been really impressed, really impressed. Okay, they have really
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  clearly worked with him, and I talked to someone in
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  the building on being more physical and it's starting to
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  show up on tape because that's what he was not
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  in college. The guy is a freakish athlete. I mean
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  that showed up on tape in college and you saw
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  bits and pieces of it watching the preseason again, I
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  watched all his snaps as well. You know, I said
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  that there's a natural quickness to Campbell. He's an active
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  player with a looseness and ease to his movement. But
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  there were snaps of stack and shed physicality in the
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  run game, playing downhill, and I was really happy to
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  see that because he didn't really do that at Alabama,
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  you know, because don't forget, you know, we haven't talked
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  in a while. We'll just remind people that he went
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  to Alabama as a pass rusher and they had Dallas
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  Turner and Will Anderson, so they moved him to stack backer.
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  But you know, I wonder if the Eagles would consider,
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  depending on you know, maybe he can become a guy
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  who can rush the quarterback, you know, depending on on
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  how the season plays out. You know, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, his first sack came from a creeper press semtype pressure.
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  Speaker 2: There's lot as I recall, though I think he was
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  unblocked though, correct.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I think that's the the sim worked. It broke
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  down the protection skill.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, right right. But no, he can do that.
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  But I've been really impressed. I mean, he's you know,
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  and the just the athleticism just jumps off the film.
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  I Mean, this guy, you know, I'm not one who
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  makes predictions, but I'd be hard pressed to think n
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  Kobe Dean's getting his job. But that's just me. I mean,
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  this kid's six three to forty, you know, and he
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  freaking moves. I mean, he just this kid's a superior athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Let's finish it off on the back end the
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  two corners. We wanted you to look at Greg with
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  a newcomer Jaccrean Bennett and the rookie Mac McWilliams, who
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  played the slot end the outside. Vic seems to have
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  taken a liking to mac mwa.
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  Speaker 2: I like him a lot. I liked his tape in college,
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  you know, I I yeah, he played inside, he played outside.
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  You know, he can play man coverage and he can
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  recover when he's initially beaten. I think ultimately he might
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  be bitter equipped to play in the slot. You know,
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  he does have idea. He doesn't have the ideal length
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  you like, but he can play outside. He's competitively tough.
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  There's a swagger to his game. He's got balance, he's
• 18:47
  got body control. He's laterally explosive. He can change direction
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  in tight spaces. I like this kid. I mean, I
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  liked his college tape and I thought that you saw that,
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  you know, and because he played a lot of snaps
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  in the preseason. I think he played every snap in
• 18:59
  the final game. So, believe it or not, I watched
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  the entire final game, but he played every snap in
• 19:05
  the final game. And uh, you know there's something there
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  with that kid. I like him. I mean, you know,
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  I don't know. Look, it's a long season. Okay, it's
• 19:15
  just starting, you know, in a week. You know, at
• 19:18
  this point, from what I gathered, Dorri Jackson's going to
• 19:22
  start opposite Junia and Mitchell. But it's a long season.
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  Guys get hurt. You know, has Dorri Jackson played a
• 19:28
  full season in a number of years? I don't think
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  he has. Has he I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think so he only played. He didn't play the
• 19:33
  whole year with the Giants last year.
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  Speaker 4: I know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean, you know, we're going to see
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  how all this maps out. I mean, you know, because
• 19:40
  because Williams McWilliams can play on the outside. Maybe it's
• 19:44
  not ideal, but he can play on the outside.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't practice. They did prustrate him. Yeah, yeah, so
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  we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: For oruse. Now you're gonna ask me about your Coryan
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  Bennett and Cordyan Bennet was a guy who I just
• 19:57
  last year for whatever reason, I saw a lot of
• 20:00
  the Raiders defense. It's just what you know, It's one
• 20:02
  of those It's just one of those things. You know.
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  It depends on who they're playing, you know. And I
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  tell you what I liked. I liked him coming out
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  too of Maryland to Corey and Bennett is another feisty kid.
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  I saw games in which he matched up to Courtland Sutton.
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  I saw games in which he matched up to Jamar Chase.
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  He matches up to these guys. I mean, you know,
• 20:21
  I like him. I mean, you know when they made
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  that trade. Because I'm not a training camp, so I
• 20:28
  don't know how you know, how everything's going. But I
• 20:30
  thought to myself it would surprise me if down the
• 20:33
  road he becomes the Starughter opposite Mitchell, because I think he.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Can do that interesting well does he? He was described
• 20:41
  to me as a little bit of uh similar traits
• 20:45
  or similar to Killy Ringo and that he's a very
• 20:47
  good athlete, but just a little stiff hip. Does that
• 20:49
  show up?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's a stiff as Ringo Ringo to
• 20:52
  me and and I hate to say it, he's just
• 20:56
  on the high level of stiff, like he just can't
• 20:58
  stop and change direct And.
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  Speaker 1: There were preseason snaps that showed that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, look, think about what teams
• 21:07
  do in the preseason. Okay, think about the Jamar Chase
• 21:10
  touchdown against Ringo that was zero coverage. Vic Fangiel publicly
• 21:14
  came out and said he would never call that coverage
• 21:17
  in that situation. But it's preseason. He wants to see
• 21:20
  how guys react, you know. I mean, that's what teams do.
• 21:23
  That's why you can't get caught up in preseason football
• 21:25
  as far as a lot of things, you know, because teams,
• 21:28
  you know, work on specific things. Okay, and look, Ringo
• 21:33
  is not the only guy. Jamar Chase has done that too,
• 21:35
  but you know, you saw that he struggles to stop
• 21:38
  and then he has to change direction and redirect. That's
• 21:41
  not his game. And the Eagles play a lot of
• 21:44
  off coverage on the outside. Yeah they can you press
• 21:47
  in quarters, of course you can, and they do, but
• 21:50
  you know, they probably play more off coverage with their
• 21:53
  corners than true press. And when you're playing an off coverage,
• 21:57
  you have to be able to transition, change direction, redirect.
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  You know, Ringo with his physical traits is much better
• 22:06
  suited to be a press man corner. But that's not
• 22:09
  what the Eagles defense is as a foundation, right.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: All right, great stuff that is a look at. So
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  we didn't give Greg everybody. We just wanted to ask
• 22:18
  him about certain guys preseason snaps. The next time we
• 22:22
  hear from Greg and US three are doing this show
• 22:25
  is going to be Inside the Tape breaking down that
• 22:28
  Eagles Cowboys Week one season opener Thursday night. We'll do
• 22:32
  offensive defense. We'll do it like we do every year.
• 22:35
  And then we got Greg for nineteen at least more
• 22:37
  weeks after that. So Greg always good to get a
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  little our appetites went early. Here a little appetizer of
• 22:44
  what's to come. And thank you for that preseason breakdown.
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  So for Greg Cosell and Adam Kaplan, I'm Jeff Mosher.
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  You've been watching a special edition of Inside the Tape
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