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Greg Cosell Gives Comprehensive Tape Breakdown on Parsons with Packers and More · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Let's just talk about Michael Parsons, who you know very
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  well from State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Packers.
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  Speaker 3: How will fit Kenny Clark, who's a pretty good football player,
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  how he fits in with Dallas?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Michael Parsons fits in anywhere because he's you know,
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  arguably one of the what would you say, maybe one of.
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  Speaker 2: The three best four best pass rushers in the league.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you start naming those names, you know,
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  you think of the Garretts, the Watts, the nick Boss.
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  Who am I leaving out? I know, I'm leaving out
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  somebody covering most of them? Yeah what I mean? And
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  he's younger than all those guys. He's twenty six, I believe,
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  you know. And he went to a team that predominantly
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  plays a four man front. You know, they're not a
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  five man front defense. They're a four man front defense.
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  And by the way, they had the highest percentage of
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  stunting in the league last year on third down, which
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  which kind of plays to what Parsons is because he's
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  a move around guy. So now you move him around,
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  you stunt. You know, he's so flexible and explosive that
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  he can be part of any stunt concept. It's a
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  really good fit for Michael Parsons. You know, I'm not
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  going to get caught up in what Dallas could have gotten.
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  That's who knows the answer to that. You know, maybe
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  you guys. You guys have more of those conversations with
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  people I don't, so I'm not going to go there.
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  But Kenny Clark, you know, he's thirty years old. He's
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  a good player. I think he's probably starting a slight decline.
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  My sense was he wasn't quite as dominant a player
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  this past year as he was in previous years when
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  he was an overlooked great player. But you know, he's
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  he's a good player, he's solid. They you know, I
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  think in some ways this speaks to the fact that
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  and I'm surprised by this, but you know, sometimes you
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  get guys wrong, or you know, you don't know. But
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  I think this speaks to the fact that Mazie Smith
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  has not become what they hoped he would become.
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  Speaker 3: That's somebody whose tape we all liked coming out of Michigan.
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  Very surprising it hasn't developed yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sticking with the.
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  Speaker 3: Packers there, their four man rush obviously now becomes Parsons
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  or Sean Gary is part of that. Van that's who
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  they drafted pretty high a couple of years ago, who.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I always thought would be better inside.
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  And maybe that's a move they will make now that
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  they have Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and who else would be? Is Devonte Wyatt part
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  of it?
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  Speaker 2: Do they use it? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: And he came on last year, which is why I'm
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  sure they thought that Clark was expendable because DeVante Wyatt
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  started to play, was a first round pick obviously out
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  of Georgia, and it took him a little bit to
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  get acclimated to the NFL game. His first year he
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  was a non factor. But he's improved each and every
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  year and he has I wouldn't call him a dominant
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  inside pass rusher, but he has passed rush trades.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing to keep in mind.
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  Speaker 4: Is Edrian Cooper, the linebacker, who's an explode explosive athlete.
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  He was a big time blitzer at Texas A and M.
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  He's a really good pass rusher. So I'm sure that
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  Jeff Hafley now is going to be doing a lot
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  of tinkering and he has. He has a lot of
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  tools in the toolbox. Now, remember with Fan outes. He
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  was drafted for the thirty four I remember it was
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  the last year of Joe Barry and then forty three,
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  and that he's just been a non factor. So the
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  hohope is I think ultimately he's a better When I
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  watched him coming out, and I actually had this conversation
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  with Matt Bowen, who's obviously an Iowa guy, you know,
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  and and and Matt's really close to the program, and
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  we both agreed, you know, and Matt certainly is closer
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  than I am, that he's really best suited to probably
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  be an inside pass rusher, you know, as opposed to
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  an edge player. So again, I don't know if that's
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  their plan, but there's no question in pure past situations,
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  the edge players are going to be Michael Parsons and
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  Rashaun Garry.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be Van Ness. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Does the addition of Kenny Clark in your mind? You know,
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  Dallas has struggled in two areas, one being stopping the
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  run even before they get into their pass rush. Greg
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  Does Clark next to uh Digizua improve them from an
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  interior line?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: And Clark's a solid pro. I mean, like I said,
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  he may not be dominant or Diggi Zu is a
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  nice player. You know, he's a good athlete. He can
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  rush the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That that makes them solid.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, and we'll get into this more, you know,
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  next week obviously, but that makes them solid, you know
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  in the interior. You know, Kenny Clark's just he's just
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  a really good pro. I mean he may not be
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  the exact same player, but he's just a really good pro.
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  And Adgi Zoo is still a young player and he's
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  a good player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, obviously the Cowboys have used some high
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  second round picks on pass rushers Marshall and that's.
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  Speaker 2: That's the next question.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, and and you know, a role can
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  as there was the Boston college kid. I always I
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  don't want to mispronounce, you know, yeah, that's right, that's right.
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  You know, obviously they would count on him, you know,
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  to maybe not play sixty STAPs a game, but to
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  be in a situation where we could rush the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Did they bring back Fowler, Yes, yes, they did.
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  Speaker 4: It's you Yeah, there's there's a number of D linemen
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  who wherever they go kind of play well maybe not superstars.
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  Valer sort of fits into that category. Like you know,
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  Mario Edwards fits into that category. Jehad Ward fits into
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  that category. There are guys like that that for whatever reason,
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  they're always with there were like a different.
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  Speaker 2: Team every year, but they play well. You know.
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  Speaker 4: So Fowler is certainly not, you know, a dominant edge player,
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  but you can line him up on the edge and
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  he can rush the quarterback right.
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  Speaker 3: And of course Sam Williams another second rounder from a
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  year a couple got hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very intriguing player coming out of college I remember.
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  And Adam MILLI remember this too. He had some character issues,
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  but he really got He's got talent.