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Going Inside First Wave Of Eagles Cuts, Transactions · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back. What's going on? Everybody? It
• 0:15
  is Jeff Moser and Adam Kaplan and the Eagles are
• 0:18
  in the midst of trimming their roster down to fifty three.
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  They have to be at fifty three today at four o'clock.
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  In fact, while you're listening to this podcast, depending on
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  what time you listen to it, you could they could be,
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  you know, trimming GoF guys that we don't discuss. But
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  they did make a bunch of cuts over the weekend
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  into Monday as they got the process started at him
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  and we're going to discuss a few of the significant ones.
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  And I have to raise my hand. I have to
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  say I'm guilty. We had our fifty three man roster
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  projection pod with you, myself and Andrew. I kept Kyle
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  McCord on. I didn't think Howie was going to waive
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  a quarterback that he drafted in the sixth round. I
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  was wrong, but credit to him. He didn't keep a
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  player on the roster just because he drafted him, which
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  we have seen him and other gms do in the past.
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  But he is no longer with the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's it. I mean, it was one of
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  those did he deserve to be on the roster of
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  The answer was no, he just didn't perform like he
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  did some good things in OTAs. Then he saw the
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  lack of arm strength. It really showed up in training camp.
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  There were a number of throws where wow, that it
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  did come out well, and you know, if he doesn't
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  see it quickly and get out of his hands quickly
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  because he's a timing based quarterback, it just doesn't look right.
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  And not only training camp, but the preseason it just
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  didn't go well for him. Now we'll see. If he's
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  not claimed, you would think that at least they'd want
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  him back in the practice squad work with him. But
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  let's put it this way, if he's not claiming, he's
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  not back in the practice squad, it tells you that
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  they really didn't want him back. So we'll see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. One thing that made me think that that might
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  not happen is because I would think they would also
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  want dtr during Rompson Robinson, who is also waived. I
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  would think that they want him on the practice squad
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  because generally you would like a third quarterback, one that's
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  on your practice squad to run your scout team. When
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  you have to play against guys like Jane Daniels or
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  Kyler Murray or Josh Allen, guys who could run around
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  and have good athleticism and throw the ball. And DTR
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  has a good arm. I mean they didn't have a
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  great preseason either, but he can obviously move around the
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  pocket and he can throw the ball. So if they
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  want that for their scout team, that means they would
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  have to have DTR and Kyle McCord back. And as
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  we've talked about this before, yeah, you have enough spots
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  on your scout team, but it's hard to have four
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  quarterbacks because it means somebody's not getting a lot of reps.
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  I mean, they're just basically in your building getting mental
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  reps because you don't have enough. You barely have enough
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  of your backup quarterback to have.
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  Speaker 2: Remember though, they did trade for Sam how So samhow
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  in a sense can handle that because.
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  Speaker 1: You've got and I didn't think of him that way,
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  but he does move around.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's prett good. Yeh, he's pretty good athletes.
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  So he got hurts. He got the mkey issue with
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  this finger. They're questioned about whether it would be week
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  two as we understand a week three, week four, no
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  plan says of now to put him an IR, So
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  they're going to be holding for now. Three spots for
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  quarterbacks hurts McKee and hell, but still I could certainly
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  see them having a fourth quarterback in the practice squad.
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  They don't need five, but fourth, you could see a fourth.
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  Do you like to have a developmental guy? That's what
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  that would be all about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think every situation, to your point, is
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  on the table. Now. With Howell being a guy who
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  can run around and simulate, you could have just three quarterbacks,
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  all of them being the three that they're gonna have
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  on the active for Also, you could have four bringing
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  one of them back to the practice squad that you waved,
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  or you could have five, which would be I think
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  the least likely of the scenario. But yeah, well if
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  they want both back. But yeah, I think every single
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  scenario was on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Four, Yeah, I don't five won't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Four?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So yeah, dtr Man, you'd see it every once
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  in a while. Boy the ball would come out much
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  better than the cord, but he'd be in decisive in
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  ac accuracy issues. So yeah, it just didn't work. It
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  wouldn't surprise me if the Raiders claimed him, you know,
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  just because of the Chip Kelly situation where Chip coached
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  him in college. So we'll see what happens. But boy,
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  that boy Kenny Pickett being traded. Kenny Pickett is former
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  EGO quarterbacks. He continues to move on. Now he's with
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  the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Go West, young man going West and West. Yeah, what
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  a career for him. So I'm just gonna put a
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  ball in the quarterback situation like this. I don't know
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  that this any of this happens if Tanner McKee had
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  been completely healthy. As far as the Owl trade, I
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  think it's it's it's it's a weird timing, but we'll see.
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  It's not that McKee is expected to be out very long,
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  but you they obviously felt that they needed somebody to
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  be available week one and maybe week two if Jalen
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  Hurts were to get hurt, and that somebody could not
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  be McCord or dtru. So the question I'll always have
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  is if McKee had stayed healthy, would McCord have made
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  it as the number three quarterback onto the role over
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  they have traded for Sam Howell. Anyway, I don't know
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  it's hard to imagine. Again, Howell only has one year
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  left on his deal, so it's not like he gets
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  to slide into that number two job next year if
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  they trade Tanner McKee. So it's just an interesting question
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  that I'll always wonder. But it does give the Eagles
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  some death. But actually, you know, pretending, I guess, depending
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  on how the season goes at him, this is an
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  unlikely scenario. But if Howell has to play and plays
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  decently for a little bit, I mean, maybe he's a
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  trade chip at the deadline. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh gets hurt. Mckey's unavailable. Hey, look remember what
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  happened with A. J. Feeley. Yeah it was a third
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  string quarterback and you just never know. But no, the
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  big thing here, though, the real story here is that
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  they get him into the building. He'll sees how things
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  are done. Leagles could trade McKee in March. That's realistic
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  if the team's will to pay big and he's really
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  liked by a lot of people in the league. So
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  before you get to free agency in March, you let
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  him know, Hey, we'd like to have you back. If
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  we move Tanner, there's an opportunity to keep you as
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  our back up before you decide where you want to go.
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  You let him know that he's liked, and now you
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  have him in the building, you see how he is,
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  his approach, and you see what his performance is like
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  in practice.
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  Speaker 1: That's definitely fair, definitely all right. So that's the quarterback situation.
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  member though Patreon dot com Slash Inside the Birds. So
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  the offensive line is seemingly taking shape at least as
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  far as the game day active offensive lives, and the
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  Eagles trade to bring back Fred Johnson. He is now
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  going to be your swing tackle. They trade Darien Canard,
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  who have been practicing at guard and can play some tackle,
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  but that obviously leaves Matt Pryor for that spot first
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  man up at guard. But again, Adam, I think that
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  this is a position that right now you would say
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  the top three off the bench of Fred Johnson, Matt Pryor,
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  and Drew Kendall. But this is a position that by
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  the time we do our next podcast wouldn't be surprised
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  if there was another name or a move how he
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  made there. I like Drew Kendall. I don't know that
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  he wants a rookie guard center to be active on
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  game day as opposed to somebody who might have some
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  experience a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Time pack here. So yeah, a couple of things. So
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  Prior will be the backup right tackle and the backup
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  right guard, and then Fred Johnson, who can play right
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  tackles better off the left, will be the left backup
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  left tackle. So right now, and look, let's face it,
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  Matt Prior did not get very much work at left guard.
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  They did it late in camp. Other teams have told
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  us that they're looking for a backup interior lineman, not
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  a lot I mean you're talking. It could be by
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  the way, it could be someone who's cut a veteran.
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  They're not looking to spend money. It's just depth. But
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  the issue then becomes though, and this is something to
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  watch once Dickerson going to be ready. The first injury
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  report is out this coming Monday for the game on
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  Thursday against Dallas. He's going to work or not work?
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  Will he be ready? His breath Toast's still going to
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  be the roster, His breath Toath's going to be the
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  backup there. There are a lot of questions to be
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  answered and all revolves around landon Dickerson, his availability and
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  who's going to be back up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, I mean, even if there's not a
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  move made, I think the same rule applies from Kendall.
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  To Tooth has not played a whole lot in the NFL,
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  and in his NFL experience, I believe he's played tackle,
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  not guard. Remember he came in against the Ravens for
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  his first his debut a couple of years ago, was
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  in twenty twenty, and he started it right. He played
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  at right tackle. I'd have to go back and check,
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  but he just doesn't. I don't, I can't imagine Howie
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  and just Outlin feel comfortable with Tooth being that number
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  three guy or Drew Kendall. I think they would just
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  want another Like last year, the headicates they never used him,
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  but it's almost like they had him just in case.
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  All right. Sure now they can still slide Dickerson over
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  to center if there's an injury to Jurgens, but I'm
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  not sure they want to do that again. I think
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  they'll have to at this point as long as Dickerson
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  is healthy. They're right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know Trevor Kagan is still in the roster. He's
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  got he's a ways away, he's a left guard, he's
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  he's I don't see that being possible even if they
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  even if they keep him, this is kind of obvious
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  that they have to. If Brett Hoff is on the
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  roster and we'll be the backup left guard, you'd like
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  to have more experience at left guard. That which is
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  what you're saying here. You really want someone who's done it,
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  been there, done before. That's why when we look at
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  the veterans were cut coming up later today and Wednesday also,
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  there'll be some more cuts on Wednesday. That's not yes,
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  you have to be at fifty three and more than
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  fifty three, but there'll be some more maneuverability, as Chip
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  Kelly used to talk about the roster maneuvers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why we called it the initial fifty three.
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  Speaker 2: Not yeah, yeah, fifty three. It's never said other than
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  at four pm initially. Then Wednesday will be more moved,
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  all right.
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  Speaker 1: The last position that I'm really curious to see for
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  this podcast how it develops his tight end because the
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  Eagles waived e J Jenkins. I did. I did not
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  have e J. Jenkins on my fifty three, either you
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  or Andrew Andrew did.
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  Speaker 2: I think Andrew did. Yes, he was actually the one
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  who reported it that it was released.
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  Speaker 1: I know it must have been like darn, but I
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  fell all along. And we'll see what happens that. If
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  you're not going to keep EJ. Jenkins, you're probably just
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  going to keep two tight ends because there's a redundancy
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  with Kylin grants into what cal Katara gives you as
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  far as being a pass catcher not a blocker. So
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  as as as of the time of us recording this,
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  he has not been uh waived yet.
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  Speaker 2: Kylin grantson have contract terminate just real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's he's a vet.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah's when you're doing he's vested.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So so for that, say regard,
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  it wouldn't surprise me if both guys were back in
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  the practice squad. I guess there's still a shot that
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  Grantson Sticks is the number three, but they clearly don't
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  have a blocking tight end outside of great cal Katara.
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  Speaker 2: Even if he's not, Yeah, god, it would is the
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  would be the y Yeah, so uh calculter the f
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  feet So yeah, that's a problem. So basically, yeah, I agree,
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  like they're going to have to if jackins, I'd be
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  shocked if Jenkins, if he clears Waivers, is not back
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  on the Eagles. The only way wouldn't be is another team,
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  so them, because what happens is good agents will find out, Okay,
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  is there a bigger role in mind for my guy
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  potential with another team?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only reason why I wouldn't. I mean, you
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  have Nick Muse and Cameron Lattu also for the practice squad,
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  assuming they're not on the team. That'd be shocking if
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  they were on the team. But Kylin Grantson one way
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  or the other on the sixty nine man roster fifty
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  three plus sixteen and then it's seventy with the international player.
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  I don't I'd be very surprised Ifkylin Granson isn't on
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  this team for one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one way the other. I agree. I just think
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  it makes more sense to keep too and try to
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  get them on your practice slog.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I hear what. Yeah, they need a they
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  need a back, They need a block and Teddy in
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  the worst way that that's that's again where you maybe
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  you find a veteran if they don't get Jenkins back
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  because you don't have the three elevations one way or
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  the other, they gotta find they got to get someone
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  who can block.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, yeah, I gotta find out what happened
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  to our their old friend Jack Stole he was with
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  the Saints right still as far as all right, well,
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  you know that's a name that they've used in the past.
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  But yeah, we'll see. I do agree with you. I
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  think after the cutdowns there might be some names that
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  we have to take a look at. All right, what
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  any other moves that you think, you know, we talked
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  about the offensive line. Definitely have to have your alert
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  up for a move there. How about Edge, I would
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  think edge has still got to be a position.
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  Speaker 2: Oh big big again. Death has nothing to do with
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  how many players you have. It's how the quality of
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  the player that the performance is just not good enough there,
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  o Ja Luri. Other than the second preseason game where
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  he showed up a little bit, just haven't seen it
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  from him. I know he's making a lot of money.
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  Usha quickness, He's got the quickness that you look for.
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  It's just yeah, I expect him on the roster. Pow Ryland, Yeah,
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  he showed up a little bit in the last preseason game,
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  but he's not good enough yet. And Patrick Johnson mister
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  training camp, but he's the fourth or fifth edge. And
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  Obo Concer would be good for the practice squad outside
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  chance he makes it. They're just not good enough there.
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  And you Hunt has not developed yet. I know much.
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  They love him. He's been a good story. He's not
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  there yet as a pass rusher. There's a good pass rusher,
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  but he's kind of like the one that that again,
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  they you can have twenty guys. If you only have
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  one of two guy who could rush the pastor you're
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  not good enough now. Campbell obviously at some point could
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  help you with on the edge, but he's an inside backer.
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  Right now, Let's do.
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  Speaker 1: A hypothetical here, just to see how the numbers game
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  would work. I know Chip Kelly would hate this because
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  it's a hypothetical.
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  Speaker 2: Hypothetically hate that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's hypothetically say the Eagles listen to this
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  podcast and they're like, you're right, we don't have enough
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  of the edge. Let's go sign to Davian Clowney. Okay,
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  he's out there. He's a good situational pass rusher. He
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  could come in do what we ask him to do.
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  If they did that, who would go? Because, as you mentioned,
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  Ojelari is making a pretty good coin to just all
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  of a sudden discard, right it was a he signed
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  for more than Newstay did, so.
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  Speaker 2: He did much more. He's the guarant the full guarantee
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  on his contract of the total cash of three million. Yeah,
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  I know it's not a lot. Know it's not a lot.
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  But how he doesn't typically walk away from guys he
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  I mean he has. He did show hit some left,
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  but he wasn't. Clearly he was not nearly as good
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  as probably people thought he should be. But Clowney see
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  the thing we mentioned this one Clowney in the spring.
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  Eagle's gonna want Hunt up to to to play. Now,
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  Greco sells totals repeatedly. He's not. He's really his deal
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  size and versatility. You could play him inside nickel, you
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  could line him up as an edge rusher as well.
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  But he's not a high end pass rusher. He's just not.
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  He's never has been. That's that's the real story. It's
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  apite all the hype. Now he did the Panthers wanted.
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  They want to go with younger players, and their past
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  rusher is not very good. That's a little it's a
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  little bit. You gotta have your radar up when when
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  a team like that releases a guy like Clowney. But
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  it'd be a fine signing, but you have to understand
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  he's really not going to solve your past rush issue.
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  That's the reality of it. There's a lot of he
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  supposed to but hasn't done it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I just wonder who would it mean an
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  unemployment for because it feels like is locked in just
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  on the salary alone.
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  Speaker 2: Based on history, how he keeps these guys. But I
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  see ushi on the roster. Patrick Johnson could be a
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  practice squad maneuver. You know, you just you talk to
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  the agent. You say, here's where we're at, Powell Ryland.
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  If somehow he survives here, he's just not going to play.
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  He just there's no room for him. O. Shawn Matthews
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  is there, but it'd be more of a practical guys,
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  so you could you could take your pick. I mean,
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  it's none of them really have shown that they're ready
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  at to be that guy who could give him the
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  explosives off the bench that like teams watch his tape
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  and thought there was still something left, no question about it. Uh.
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  Mynors thing was that the Panthers were in on him
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  and addiction to the Eagles if there was another team.
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  But the bottom line is, uh that we didn't see
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  it in train camp. That's the reality of it.
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  Speaker 1: I do think I could be wrong about this, but
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  he strikes me as sort of the I told you
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  listen a text the other day. I'm back in the
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  baseball card type guy where by the end of the
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  year he's gonna wind up having his typical numbers. You know,
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  he's gonna wind up up having his seven sacks to
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  eight nine sacks. Pressures he's gonna miss a few games
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  from injury. I'm still sort of skeptical on what OUCH
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  can do, to be honest with you. So that's why
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  it's kind of interesting to see if they do decide
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  to upgrade at the edge, which guy, if any of
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  them did they just keep all, you know, a five
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  man rotation with another one added in. I don't know.
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  It'll be really interesting to say, but I wouldn't be
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  surprised if there's a move there made.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be stunned if they don't add somebody by week two,
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  if not this week. The reason I say week two
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  is because you for guys, for veterans who have not
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  who have not got termination pay, you know, they you'd
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  have to you have to guarantee the salary week one
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  if they're on it right now. We see that for
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  decades now that club's wait. So they don't want to
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  guarantee salary. See that. But I'd be stunned. And with
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  the next couple of weeks at an edge now, one
• 17:58
  thing I would add cornerback is all watch for me personally,
• 18:01
  I don't see them being done, but it always depends
• 18:06
  who's available at what cost? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? It would be dry Jackson starting week one
• 18:15
  right now, he would be the week one starter opposite Mitchell.
• 18:18
  But they're not. They're just not good enough there. How
• 18:20
  he's won and what makes him great at his job.
• 18:22
  He's tireless, he's he's a he doesn't really maybe four
• 18:28
  or five years ago he'd be unrealistic with Okay, let's
• 18:31
  just wait this thing out. I don't see that if
• 18:33
  the right opportunity happens now. Also, from what other teams
• 18:36
  are telling us, they're not looking to take on big salary.
• 18:38
  That's been very clear from other clubs. Yep, which is
• 18:41
  what we reported in March. They're they're on a cash
• 18:44
  budget organizationally, and that's still held true. Now, you never
• 18:48
  sayed ever with Howie whatever, you can't it totally eminate
• 18:53
  a big Sally coming in. It would be certainly surprising
• 18:56
  based on what we've been told for several months.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is absolutely true. I can double confirm that
• 19:01
  with you. But it's just based on conversations I've had
• 19:03
  this week. They're not spending you were telling me that, Yeah,
• 19:06
  you're here at about the clubs now, they're not looking
• 19:08
  to take sally on. So no, it's funny because you know,
• 19:11
  the joke is how we will ask about every single
• 19:14
  player that a team has, even guys of starting caliber.
• 19:18
  They'll be like, what do you Why would you even
• 19:20
  ask for that guy? And you know that's just Howie's nature.
• 19:22
  But it's been made clear to other teams that they're
• 19:24
  not trying to take on a whole lot of salary,
• 19:26
  which you know, hey, if you look at I wrote
• 19:29
  a story on Philly Voice dot com examining every off
• 19:33
  season signing and trade that how he made this year,
• 19:36
  and they all it reminded me of two years ago.
• 19:38
  Remember we were joking where there was that baseline number
• 19:41
  of it was like everybody was signing one year deals
• 19:43
  with six hundred thousand dollars guarantee. Yeah, it was like
• 19:46
  Greedy Williams, it was this guy, It was that everybody.
• 19:49
  Yeah yeah, Well this year it was sort of similar.
• 19:52
  It felt like the one year, one point two two
• 19:55
  million contract for like, you know, a third stringer was
• 19:59
  was the main was the contract ajour for the year.
• 20:02
  So but it is interesting, this is gonna be it's
• 20:06
  gonna be very interesting for fans, right because this has
• 20:08
  been a very different type of free agency than last year,
• 20:11
  not a whole lot of star power like Sae Kwon Barkley,
• 20:14
  and you're probably not gonna get a player who just
• 20:17
  becomes an overnight success like Zach Bond became, or even
• 20:21
  a Mackai Becton so far. In fact, a lot of
• 20:24
  the deals that Howie signed this offseason, a bunch of
• 20:28
  them already not made the team. So it's gonna be
• 20:31
  pretty interesting to kind of look back on it when
• 20:33
  it's all said and done and see what kind of
• 20:35
  freegency period this was. Knowing that the Eagles cut their
• 20:39
  they're spending considerably from years before.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the cash ben is I mean, they're not the
• 20:44
  only team is doing this, just to be clear, but
• 20:47
  this one was something we had heard from around the
• 20:49
  league going back to maybe the first or second week
• 20:52
  of March, like the they're gonna be way down a
• 20:53
  cash ben. I just thought it was odd. I know
• 20:55
  it's not how he's called. It's an ownership decision or
• 20:58
  or whoever sets the cash budget, but it's just odd.
• 21:01
  You win a Super Bowl and you're you're spending less.
• 21:04
  It's just, yeah, I don't know how it have to
• 21:06
  do to get be able to spend more money, but
• 21:07
  it is what it is, and now, yes they have
• 21:09
  to there there. They've got a bunch of young players
• 21:11
  who are up potentially for extensions next year. That certainly
• 21:14
  plays into it, but that's not the only reason. That's
• 21:16
  just part of it, absolutely all right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna do this again after the uh, you know,
• 21:21
  after all said, well, after the initial fifty three comes
• 21:24
  out later today, we'll have another podcast Wednesday morning to
• 21:27
  wrap it all up. That's gonna do it for this
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