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NFL Free Agent Primer: Ultra Thin DT Class Validates Philadelphia Eagles Emphasis On IDL · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back.
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Speaker 2: What's going on? Everybody?
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Speaker 1: It's Jeff Mosher and Adam Kaplan. You've been hearing our
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Speaker 1: voice a lot. We're doing an NFL free agency primer.
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Speaker 1: We're going inside all the positions. We've done all the offense.
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Speaker 1: We've started defense and this one is interesting. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: go through defensive tackles here in free agency. And you
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Speaker 1: look at the list at him, and I know, my
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Speaker 1: first thought is two people who spend most of their time,
0:35
Speaker 1: a lot of their time covering the Eagles is Boy,
0:37
Speaker 1: if you're an Eagles fan, you're thankful that not only
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Speaker 1: do you have great starters, and Jordan Davis, Jill and
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Speaker 1: Carter good depth and Moro Jomo. They drafted a kid
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Speaker 1: in the fourth round last year, Ty Robinson. Because this
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Speaker 1: if you need a defensive tackle and you're looking at
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Speaker 1: the list of free agents, you're probably not crazy about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the quality of it. It's just not good
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Speaker 3: untive tackles. So the Eagles look, see, Eagles are in
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Speaker 3: great ship. They have the three starters, but Drome is
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Speaker 3: a starter, Davis is the starter, and Carter starter, and
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Speaker 3: then Byron Youngster top backup and as you mentioned ty Robinson.
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Speaker 2: Ty Robson was a little bit raw, unrefined. He needed he.
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Speaker 3: Needs a full off season. That's what he needs. That's
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Speaker 3: what he's explained to me, and he'll get that. So
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Speaker 3: they're good there now in the division. The Commanders have
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Speaker 3: made a clearer they're keeping dron Pain. I know there
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Speaker 3: are some fans, some Commando fans figure they should just
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Speaker 3: move on from They're not. They have Kin law He's
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Speaker 3: not a big free agent deal last year, had a
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Speaker 3: good year with the Jets. Johnny Newton is not really
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Speaker 3: he's not been that guy yet that they thought he
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Speaker 3: would be. Nowers his third year all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: you know, he needs to be more of a factor.
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Speaker 3: So they're they're the Commanders are very light at that position.
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Speaker 3: The Giants they're top heavy with Lawrence and Roy Robertson.
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Speaker 3: Harris's kind of a journeyman. Goltsan Chounsey. Golson is just
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Speaker 3: sort of like an ant rusher. They could use a
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Speaker 3: little depth. And the Cowboys made the big trade for
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Speaker 3: Quinn Williams as we know, so he's a starter with
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Speaker 3: Kenny Clark, they may restructure his contract with a big
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Speaker 3: zua so and by the way they're gonna go, They're
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Speaker 3: changing their scheme. They're gonna go to a thirty four
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Speaker 3: with Christian Parker with two overhangs, so they're gonna get
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Speaker 3: a little bit of depth at the tackle. Quite frankly,
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Speaker 3: the egoser I think of the four teams that division
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Speaker 3: the best at the tackle right now, trim to death.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I would think so absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's part of their identity. They're always going
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Speaker 1: to replace. I mean, remember how many years ago is
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Speaker 1: it where they had seven defensive tackles before they wound
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Speaker 1: up trading. Yeah, yeah, it was just two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Who is it that they traded. I can't even remember it.
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Speaker 1: It was, uh, somebody they traded in the Falcons. What
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Speaker 1: was his name?
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Speaker 2: It it is? I could see the guy in front
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Speaker 2: of me. I just cannot ye. I hate when that happens.
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Speaker 2: I got it, I got it, I got it. Contavious Street.
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Speaker 2: Yeahavious Street, thank you.
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Speaker 1: You know there's somebody listening to the podcast right now
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Speaker 1: that is screaming out Contavious Street Street.
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Speaker 2: It always happens, I know, it always does.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so the depth of egles have now some
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Speaker 1: of these guys, Adam, some of these guys are good
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Speaker 1: depth pieces. I don't want to completely crap on this
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle class. It's just that it's short on impact
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Speaker 1: game starters, you know. I think like a guy like
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Speaker 1: Franklin Myers is a pretty good defensive tackle. He played
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Speaker 1: for the Broncos, but he only played fifty percent of
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Speaker 1: less than fifty percent of the snaps the last few years,
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Speaker 1: and he he serves a role. Some of them are
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Speaker 1: run stoppers, some of them give you interior rush, but
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Speaker 1: there's not a three down DT. I don't think in
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Speaker 1: this group unless there's someone that sticks out to you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, David Anyamano is probably going to be the top
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Speaker 3: paid guy, but he's a run guy. He's a two
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Speaker 3: down guy for John. Franklin Myers is a tweeter rushed
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Speaker 3: the past. DJ Reader has been around a long time,
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Speaker 3: a lot of injuries. Sebastian Joseph Day out of out
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Speaker 3: of Rutgers is a player and what I've heard, Tennessee
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Speaker 3: would like to have him back. Sheldon Rankin's another journeyman.
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Speaker 3: Sean Han another journeyman. Did you go out to another
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Speaker 3: journeyman now? Logan Hall is a thirty four five technique
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Speaker 3: He like he's an end in a thirty four front.
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Speaker 2: Like he's he's he's tall, good player, but I like
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Speaker 2: he is, he's.
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Speaker 3: Not He's not a pass rusher. Larry Ungnjobi's signed a
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Speaker 3: decent free agent deal and wound up being benched.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he's a little long in the tooth down.
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Speaker 3: Also, and he's getting older right. Shelby Harris has been around.
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Speaker 3: Lass Campbell's forty years old.
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Speaker 1: My god, Kallais Campbell at forty years old still might
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Speaker 1: be crazy. One of the best names on this list.
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Speaker 2: If you think about it, it's it's uh fully thought of.
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Speaker 2: Cassi's out there.
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Speaker 3: Nacho his nicknames Notcho rakeem new new as roaches. Nacho's
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Speaker 3: out there. Uh, you know, he's a good player. Tonga,
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Speaker 3: who the Patriots had. Tongo is actually a good player.
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Speaker 2: He is. He's kind of a sleeper for free agency.
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Speaker 2: But man, it's like you said, I think you said
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Speaker 2: it best.
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Speaker 3: You better be that you've got your starting group, because
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Speaker 3: if you're looking for a high impact guy, there is
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Speaker 3: not one guy on the list, honestly, Like John Ward's
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Speaker 3: a journeyman. Ta Kwan Lows has had a ton of
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Speaker 3: injury for the Colts. Who's a decent backup Dark Natty's out,
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Speaker 3: there's a decent backup. Tim Settle's been around a long time.
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Speaker 3: Might remember from the Commandos. But that's it, man, that's
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Speaker 3: a small list.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just to show you how fast life
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Speaker 1: moves in the NFL, right, it was only it was
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, which is quite a bit now. But to me,
5:30
Speaker 1: it feels like yesterday that we reported that the Eagles
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Speaker 1: liked both david On Yamada and Javon Hargrave as free agents,
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Speaker 1: and they wound up signing Javon Hargrave to a like
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Speaker 1: I believe a market resetting deal at the time for
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Speaker 1: defensive tackles, and then Anyamada wound up re signing with
5:51
Speaker 1: the Saints. He was already with them. He signed a
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Speaker 1: pretty big deal with them, and he played a couple
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Speaker 1: of years more for New Orleans, about three or four.
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Speaker 1: And Hargrave obviously had some really good years with the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: had some big sack numbers, then went over to San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: But now he's just recently been told by the Vikings, right,
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Speaker 1: he's either going to be traded or released, most likely released.
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Speaker 1: Yea and so so Now, all these years later, a
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Speaker 1: couple of teams later, both these guys are free agents again,
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Speaker 1: and they're quite different players now than they were back
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Speaker 1: when the Eagles were interested.
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Speaker 3: In When Hargraves signed a three year deal in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty in March of twenty twenty three years thirty nine million,
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Speaker 3: and they more or less guaranteed the first two seasons.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean he he did a good job.
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Speaker 3: That was a really good signing. It funny, Yeah, I'm
6:41
Speaker 3: looking at their their their roster in twenty twenty one.
6:45
Speaker 3: Sun Ridgeway was on their offseason roster. Nice Marlin Twoey
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Speaker 3: Polo two was on the roster. Yeah, they Fletch Beiji,
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Speaker 3: of course, Josh Schweat, Derrek Barnett, Ryan Kurgan, remember they
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Speaker 3: they brought him in.
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Speaker 2: They brought him in late in.
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Speaker 3: His career because they were so lighted edge at his
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Speaker 3: name and training camp.
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Speaker 2: Tron Jackson and the legendary at Rusher, Joe.
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Speaker 1: The Immortal Jo who you know, every like five years
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Speaker 1: the Eagles have this guy that you think, oh man,
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Speaker 1: this guy might really met you know, was Travis Long
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Speaker 1: during the Tip Kelly era. But he was like fast
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Speaker 1: off the Edges had some moves, but he couldn't stay healthy.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, so so there you go. I mean
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Speaker 1: Anyamada good player, but you know, plays a role. Same
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Speaker 1: thing with Franklin Myers, reader, Shelton Rankins. Interesting guy at
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Speaker 1: one point. Now you mentioned Tonga, the defensive tackle from
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, right, yeah, good doesn't Also, yeah, he plays
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Speaker 1: fullback for them in the goal line, right, He's the
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Speaker 1: one that moves over and lines up as a fullback
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Speaker 1: I think when they're in goal line, which.
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Speaker 3: Might be he he's an older player, but he played
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Speaker 3: in less than third of the defensive snats, but did
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Speaker 3: a good job and what they asked him to do.
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Speaker 3: I'm looking for like like gods like Neville Gallamoory might
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Speaker 3: remember him from the Rams and the Cowboys. There are
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Speaker 3: a lot of them out there, but they're just journeymen. Honestly,
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Speaker 3: it's Andrew Bellens is out there as a journeyman. It's
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Speaker 3: it's a territory diary sign of the Chargers. Yeah, day
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Speaker 3: Kwon Jones is from Penn State. Is actually a good
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Speaker 3: run stopper. He had a CAF injury last year. Draymond
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Speaker 3: Jones really is not a He's he he Will. He
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Speaker 3: could line up inside a nickel, but he's more of
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Speaker 3: an edge rusher, so I wouldn't put him on there.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not a great class. The Eagles clearly don't have
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Speaker 1: a need some teams do. I think some of these
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Speaker 1: guys are most likely most of these guys are not
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Speaker 1: going to be the top within the first three days
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Speaker 1: of free agency.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it a buyer's market at all. But
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Speaker 1: I also don't think NFL teams will be in a
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Speaker 1: hurry to sign too many of those guys. It's just
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Speaker 1: that kind of a class.
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Speaker 2: I disagree. I think it's a buyer's market.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean again, I guess because there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of names, but there's just not a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys that I think that people are going to
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Speaker 1: fall in love with.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: No, But what I'm saying is seller's market would mean
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Speaker 3: the players got leverage, the clubs have leverage here other
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Speaker 3: than Ajmana maybe Franklin Myers.
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Speaker 2: Right, you can wait, you know that's what you meant.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what you meant.
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I guess I meant that there's not
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Speaker 1: going to be a huge spree don't want to sign
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Speaker 1: any of these.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, only a couple of guys. Yeah that's you guys.
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Speaker 2: See Okay, you and I see that the same way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's now could a guy like Logan Hall get paid,
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Speaker 3: you know, because he's got ideal length for playing the
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Speaker 3: five or seven technique, He's got really good length, relatively
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Speaker 3: young player man. The rest of its journeymen, guys who
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Speaker 3: have had a lot of injuries, Guys that are well
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Speaker 3: into their thirties.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's what's that.
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Speaker 1: It's the one year deal club.
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Speaker 2: It is a lot of them look like that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I would agree with that. Yeah, yeah, all right.
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Speaker 1: So let's like take a little bit of a micro
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Speaker 1: focus then on the Eagles defensive tackle situation. We talked
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Speaker 1: about their depth. We talked about what they have in Carter,
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Speaker 1: Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, and Moro Jomo as their top
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Speaker 1: three guys. Davis and Ajomo are eligible technically for extensions. Yep,
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Speaker 1: they're both three years in to Oh yeah, I keep
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Speaker 1: thinking Carter's two years and now he's three years in
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Speaker 1: as well, so all of them are eligible for extensions.
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Speaker 1: Pretty interesting situation. It's not often you have three players
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Speaker 1: at one position that are all up for an extension
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Speaker 1: at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I expect too to get to get an extension.
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Speaker 2: I don't put a time leving on these.
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Speaker 3: It could be in June, to be in August, but
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Speaker 3: I would expect this to happen anytime from now until
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Speaker 3: the start of the season. I would expect two guys
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Speaker 3: to get done. Yeah, they like they know they're gonna
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Speaker 3: have The Eagles are going to do what they did
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Speaker 3: last year. It's gonna it's gonna be a light free agency.
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Speaker 3: A lot of their cash is going to be spent on.
11:08
Speaker 3: It's a black cash man. It's not about cap, It's
11:11
Speaker 3: about cash. Try to warn people. We're obsessed with the cap.
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Speaker 2: I used to be.
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Speaker 3: I'm no longer obsessed with it. It's kind of comical.
11:17
Speaker 3: Teams will literally do anything they can when they shouldn't have.
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Speaker 3: With a credit card, spend and keep restruction, keep restructuring.
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Speaker 2: Yep. And Joe Banner once told me, like the players
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Speaker 2: a lot of times are not called the club's bluff.
11:31
Speaker 3: They would they take the pay cut when they really shouldn't,
11:35
Speaker 3: Like they should sometimes stand up to the club say
11:36
Speaker 3: well you know what, then cut me then because you know,
11:39
Speaker 3: if you're if you're a general manager. Look, if someone
11:43
Speaker 3: refuses to pay cut, you gotta be willing to cut
11:45
Speaker 3: the guy. It's sort of a game of chicken, so
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Speaker 3: to speak. Who's going to make the first move?
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Speaker 2: Yep, you know.
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Speaker 3: But in the Eagles case, yeah, they don't have cap casuals.
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Speaker 3: It's that they haven't had any. It's got to be
11:57
Speaker 3: at least a decade. Yeah, and I can't think of
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Speaker 3: what we call as you came up with. I love
12:02
Speaker 3: that term cash casualty.
12:03
Speaker 2: Right.
12:04
Speaker 3: There are some isolated cases around the league where yeah,
12:08
Speaker 3: you could make a point to both. Yeah, the guy's
12:09
Speaker 3: making way too much money, but they also have a
12:12
Speaker 3: cap problem, so the club use a convenient excuse.
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Speaker 2: It's a cap problem, you know. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But getting back to the Eagles, it's just a matter
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Speaker 3: and sometimes it priority comes down to who could we
12:23
Speaker 3: get done first.
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Speaker 2: That's the way the Cowboys have done it.
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Speaker 3: Why Unfortunately they wait, they look for what are the
12:29
Speaker 3: ones that we know we can get done now, they
12:31
Speaker 3: get that done, and then they wait and they wait
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Speaker 3: and they wait, and then the money becomes too rich,
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Speaker 3: Like because all these other guys at the position sign
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Speaker 3: and Jerry Jones is too late.
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Speaker 2: Yep, you know you would.
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Speaker 1: You would think a Joemo could be done without a
12:47
Speaker 1: whole lot of consternation because three years in he's only
12:52
Speaker 1: been a kind of a starting type player. For a year,
12:55
Speaker 1: he had a nice year. I mean, I could understand
12:58
Speaker 1: if you wanted to give it one more year and
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Speaker 1: then try to do the Milton Williams thing. But I
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Speaker 1: can also understand. You know, when you're playing behind Carter
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Speaker 1: and Davis, if you get a pretty decent extension, you
13:08
Speaker 1: know you're not going to reset the market. But you're
13:10
Speaker 1: here for a long He has said, he personally told
13:12
Speaker 1: me this one day in the locker room that he
13:14
Speaker 1: is not he does not want to ever play for
13:17
Speaker 1: another defensive coordinator than Vic Fangio.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's awesome.
13:20
Speaker 1: When he said that, I wanted to turn the microphone
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Speaker 1: off and say, hey man, your agent's really gonna be
13:24
Speaker 1: upset with you for way.
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Speaker 2: He did change agencies. So did Jordan Davis over the
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Speaker 2: last couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Good point, good point.
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Speaker 2: Oby Deane change agencies. Blanket Ship did right. Yeah. But
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Speaker 2: when you do that, yeah, you're doing it for a reason.
13:39
Speaker 2: You want to get paid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but we but He was basically saying he
13:43
Speaker 1: really likes playing for VIC. He likes playing in this defense,
13:45
Speaker 1: although with VIC slongin the coach one year, maybe he won't.
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Speaker 1: But I mean my point is, when you're trying to
13:50
Speaker 1: work out an extension, that's the kind of player that
13:52
Speaker 1: you could think you can meet and both sides be
13:55
Speaker 1: happy with. Because he's far away from a paiday and
13:58
Speaker 1: he can't even guarantee he's not John Carter. We knows
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Speaker 1: no matter what, he's going to get a huge contract, right,
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16:24
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Speaker 3: That's where structure is very important, and we know the
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Speaker 3: got to do with their structure. This is how they
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Speaker 3: do cash over cap. Every year they're a major cap
17:16
Speaker 3: over cash the cash over cap team. They's spend well
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Speaker 3: over it every year. It's just it's great accounting that's
17:23
Speaker 3: understanding what what what it is and you know that
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Speaker 3: they're what they're going to do here is they're gonna
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Speaker 3: this is what Joe Banner started decades ago, signing guys early.
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Speaker 3: How he's done it, learned from Joe and he hasn't changed.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: Now, Joe didn't do the option bonus. He wasn't doing
17:39
Speaker 3: that stuff. This is a way to keep the band together.
17:43
Speaker 3: But you know what they're there, gambles On players have
17:47
Speaker 3: been so good other than the Jeffrey extension. Yeah, he
17:50
Speaker 3: has how he doesn't miss all these extensions. When you miss, man,
17:53
Speaker 3: it's very costly when you got to get out of
17:55
Speaker 3: it early for dead money that stuff matters.
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Speaker 2: Under the cap, right, that's when you don't wanted the
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Speaker 2: guy to leave.
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Speaker 1: Really you know, ye, there's one other guy that we
18:05
Speaker 1: got to throw in that category, and that's Bradbury. I
18:08
Speaker 1: mean that that happens. He had this all pro year.
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Speaker 2: It was yeah, not what everybody realized. We also got
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Speaker 2: hurty towards Achilles, but that was after.
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Speaker 1: That was after the year after.
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Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is, boy it The funny thing
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Speaker 3: was I remember talking to the Giants, someone with the Giants.
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Speaker 3: Then it said, oh man, if we could protect, if
18:27
Speaker 3: we could have protected, we want to go after Bradbury,
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Speaker 3: iron athlete, this former team.
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Speaker 2: I know the Niners wanted to do it.
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Speaker 3: Well, if you can't protect, it's the relevant. Yeah, but
18:37
Speaker 3: then Bradbury got exposed. But you want to talk about
18:39
Speaker 3: a drop off, and and you know, as I tell
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Speaker 3: people with A J. Brown, sure the Eagles are much
18:45
Speaker 3: better team with him.
18:46
Speaker 2: Than without him.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to wait. He's twenty nine in June,
18:50
Speaker 3: which means he's twenty nine NFL years. That's the way
18:52
Speaker 3: it's looked at. Sure, twenty nine in the off season,
18:54
Speaker 3: that's what you are. There's a belief as So when
18:58
Speaker 3: I trust with another team told me, I think he's
18:59
Speaker 3: got who's great a taper ready for free agency because
19:02
Speaker 3: they know he's available.
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Speaker 2: He's probably got two good years left in him.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can win with him now if they keep Brown,
19:09
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean they can't draft his replacement this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how he's like, I'll tell you.
19:17
Speaker 3: I was surprised when they when Earth so I think
19:19
Speaker 3: was twenty seven years old, they drafted Dallas Goddard. I
19:21
Speaker 3: was like, Wow, second round tight end is going to
19:25
Speaker 3: be a start of this guy's is still like we
19:27
Speaker 3: had heard. It was our first year of doing the show.
19:30
Speaker 3: We started in that spring, and we had heard like
19:31
Speaker 3: this guy almost went in the first round to a
19:34
Speaker 3: team in the AFC South, very close to it as
19:37
Speaker 3: we were told. Then so wow, and then so that
19:40
Speaker 3: goes to show you, now how he isn't playing around.
19:43
Speaker 2: He's no sacred cows man. You know what?
19:47
Speaker 3: And now AJ turns twenty nine. Have you got the
19:49
Speaker 3: Lane Johnson situation of thirty six? They got a lot
19:53
Speaker 3: of draft picks, and and how he's not missing on
19:56
Speaker 3: early picks. Man, he's just since twenty one he turned around.
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Speaker 3: I guess it's a good problem to have when you
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Speaker 3: start getting it right and guys actually play really, really well,
20:07
Speaker 3: it's a good.
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Speaker 2: Problem to have.
20:08
Speaker 3: But it would be funny if, like, if he keeps
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Speaker 3: hitting on these first round picks and second round picks,
20:14
Speaker 3: when they all hit, you can't keep everybody. But that's
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Speaker 3: another uts and off season show. We'll talk about it
20:20
Speaker 3: in June with to think look like over the next
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Speaker 3: three years. But the defense could look super special if
20:27
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys develop, because we know the
20:29
Speaker 3: two dbs Mitchell and Jean are developing. And if Campbell
20:35
Speaker 3: develops so Dean doesn't come back, we know about the
20:38
Speaker 3: d line. This defense, folks, could be really really good
20:41
Speaker 3: for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, good stuff. And again, you look at
20:46
Speaker 1: this list that we just went through of defensive tackles
20:48
Speaker 1: and you think, thank god the Eagles prioritize that position
20:51
Speaker 1: and have depth. And don't you need to get a
20:53
Speaker 1: guy on the free agent market, especially an impactful guy,
20:57
Speaker 1: because that guy might not exist to do it. For
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