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The DiCecco Daily: Comprehensive Look At Eagles RB Room Headed Into Free Agency, Draft · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: What's up, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew diiceco here with another episode of The Checko Daily.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: You may remember I talked about the quarterback room. I
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: talked about the tight end room. Today we're going to
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: talk about the running back room. This is a group
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: that I really like. Going into this season. I'm curious
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: to see, as I've mentioned many times on this podcast,
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: how the running game is ultimately going to look as
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: I expect them to move away from a heavy dose
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: of the inside zone that was so prominent under Jeff Stotland,
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  Speaker 2: who was the run game coordinator and of course the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line coach, but under Sean Mannion, the new offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 2: under Ryan Mahaffy, the run game coordinator and the tight
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: ends coach, I'm expecting to see some tweaks here and
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  Speaker 2: there to reimagine this run game and modernize it and
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: bring it more up to speed with some of the
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: other upper echelon offenses across the NFL. But all that aside,
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  Speaker 2: I want to look at the running back room itself,
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  Speaker 2: the pieces that are in its currently and a couple
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: of prospects that.
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  Speaker 1: I really like.
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  Speaker 2: If the Eagles were to take a swing on Day three,
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley needs no introduction. Even on a down season,
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: he had about twelve hundred yards. I thought that he
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: did some good things later in the year. Tough, physical runner.
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  Speaker 2: When he gets to the second level, he's really decisive,
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  Speaker 2: and I think on some of those outside runs he thrived.
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  Speaker 2: But more often than not, you would like to see
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  Speaker 2: him maybe exercise a little bit more patients, allow creases
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: to develop and then be able to explode and try
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: to hit the home run there. But I think that
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of times last season that maybe
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: he was pressing a little bit when the offense was
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: sort of stuck in neutral.
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  Speaker 1: And trying to hit that home run that came so
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  Speaker 1: easily for him.
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  Speaker 2: The season before that, he was stuck behind an offensive
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  Speaker 2: line that was ravaged by injuries, and I feel like
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley was trying to get things going and be
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: that engine that the Eagles really built the offense around
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  Speaker 2: last season and of course the season before, really after
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  Speaker 2: four weeks once Kellen Moore's system needed to get scaled
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit when it wasn't necessarily working, especially
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the pass game. But Sakwon Barkley is
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  Speaker 2: the same guy Landon Dickerson and some offensive lineman has
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  Speaker 2: said that you can watch the games for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't look like someone who has lost a step. Not.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles give him a heavy dose in terms of volume,
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: so you have to be mindful of that when you're
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: projecting it out over the next year or two that
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: the offense is going to continue, at least in my estimation,
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  Speaker 2: to revolve around Saquon Barkley as long as the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: have a healthy offensive line, and he hasn't really shown
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  Speaker 2: any signs of slowing down, which is promising. He is
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  Speaker 2: on top of what he can do on the field.
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  Speaker 2: He is a team leader, someone who is always going
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  Speaker 2: to stand in front and speak win or loss. He's
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  Speaker 2: the consummate professional and one of the many things that
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  Speaker 2: were among the positives of bringing in someone like Saquon
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  Speaker 2: Barkley excuse me, is that he's a culture guy.
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  Speaker 1: He is a.
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  Speaker 2: Positive influence and a lot of folks grew up maybe
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  Speaker 2: not idolizing him, but looking at him as an example,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's done a really good job of
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  Speaker 2: living up to the expectations and then some since arriving
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  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. I think if you're looking at it in
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: terms of things you'd like to see him do better
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  Speaker 2: catching the football with more consistency. He's not a natural
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  Speaker 2: pass catcher. That's not his area of expertise, and there
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  Speaker 2: are areas of opportunity and pass protection he didn't There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of moments this season and the year prior
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  Speaker 2: where he didn't acquit himself as well as you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to see from a technical aspect, and those are a
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  Speaker 2: couple areas of his game that could stand to be
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  Speaker 2: improved upon. Then you have well, they thought they were
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  Speaker 2: getting this player to be the backup and have that
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  Speaker 2: thunder and lightning, if you will, approach, and that was
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  Speaker 2: aj Dillon. He's going to be a free agent. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't work out for him. He had twelve carries for
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  Speaker 2: sixty yards on the year. I think he played in
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  Speaker 2: Week eighteen. He did play in Week eighteen, but I
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  Speaker 2: think he may have only had one.
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  Speaker 1: Catch for a few yards.
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  Speaker 2: He fell out of favor in that first Giants game
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  Speaker 2: when he misjudged the kickoff fielded it at the five,
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  Speaker 2: stepped out of bounds, and then he fumbled on that
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  Speaker 2: same drive. You didn't really hear from him the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the year. But I know when he was signed
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of intrigue that maybe he could
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  Speaker 2: be that between the tackles, battering ram as at a
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  Speaker 2: cost effective price, and maybe spell Saquon Barkley if Saquon
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  Speaker 2: needed to miss a game or two. You probably felt
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  Speaker 2: pretty comfortable if Aj Dillon had to start. But I
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  Speaker 2: was never of the belief that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: a serp will Shipley because the Eagles drafted him and
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  Speaker 2: he offered a different mention to the offense, a different
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  Speaker 2: play style that was complimentary, I would say, of what
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  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley could provide.
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  Speaker 1: But as it.
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  Speaker 2: Were, AJ Dillon played very sparingly this year. You were
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  Speaker 2: encouraged with the fact that he's healthy. He missed the
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  Speaker 2: whole twenty twenty four season with a neck injury. That's
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  Speaker 2: not something to play with, obviously, and I think there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of concern whether Aj would would be
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  Speaker 2: able to recover from that. He answered all those questions
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  Speaker 2: in training camp. He was able to withstand contact and
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  Speaker 2: he had a solid training camp. He caught a flurry
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  Speaker 2: of passes. He was effective in the preseason operating behind
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  Speaker 2: the reserve offensive line, which is not easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: But in the regular season there weren't Saquon Barkley's shouldered
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  Speaker 2: the Lion's share of the carries as he should. But
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  Speaker 2: aj Dillon, after those miscues, it just never he never
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  Speaker 2: found his way back into the picture. They added Tank
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  Speaker 2: Bigsby of course via trade, and and Will Shipley was
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  Speaker 2: active on game day as a kick returner, a special
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  Speaker 2: teams core player. There wasn't really a room. There wasn't
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  Speaker 2: room for four running backs, and AJ Dillon didn't really
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  Speaker 2: didn't really provide anything in terms of game day value
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  Speaker 2: from that standpoint. And you look, I think when you
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: look at all the roster turnover last season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the tinkering with some of the players on the fringes
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  Speaker 2: of the roster and things like that, you probably scratched
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  Speaker 2: your head and wondered why AJ Dillon was on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a veteran player. Maybe there was an understanding
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  Speaker 2: that he was gonna be on the roster and for
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  Speaker 2: the entirety of the season. You never know, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: that was part of the understanding when he signed, if
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  Speaker 2: he made the team and things like that. He's an
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  Speaker 2: experienced player. You like the insurance there. The Eagles have
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: sort of kept other players of that mold on the
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  Speaker 2: back end of the roster even if they weren't playing,
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  Speaker 2: because those guys, you're not gonna find them on the
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  Speaker 2: free agent market late in the season should an injury.
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  Speaker 1: Arise or things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of reasons why it makes sense
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  Speaker 2: to keep to have kept him around if it was
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  Speaker 2: if you were able to do so, and they were
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  Speaker 2: able to maneuver around it. He was a really positive
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  Speaker 2: influence in the locker room. I talk about Saquon Barkley,
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  Speaker 2: he caught himself a vibes guy that he wasn't always
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  Speaker 2: like that when he was with Green Bay earlier in
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  Speaker 2: his career. He was so used to being the guy
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  Speaker 2: at Boston College wherever he was high school, and he
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  Speaker 2: had to learn to balance carries with Aaron Jones who
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  Speaker 2: was there, and I think that kind of allowed it
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  Speaker 2: shaped his mindset from the standpoint of, Okay, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: always going to be the bell cow at this level
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  Speaker 2: or at least in this spot, so you have to
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  Speaker 2: find other ways to get you through the day. Be
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  Speaker 2: a positive, upbeat guy that everyone wants to be around.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly was. I know his claim the fame and
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  Speaker 2: his one season with the Eagles is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the positivity bunny. But yeah, I mean that didn't obviously
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  Speaker 2: didn't work out. But aj Dillon I always really enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: my conversation with him, learned a lot, very insightful guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I you know, and you hope for the best
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  Speaker 2: wherever he lands in the off season, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Now, then you have Will Shipley and will Shipley is.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously going into his third season now, had a really
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: strong training camp and caught a flurry of passes, whether
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: it be in the flat from Jalen Hurtz.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: He was a very popular target when they would on.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Wheel routs, and you got the sense that, Okay, there's
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: a defining role for willship we going into the season
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  Speaker 2: because they're really utilizing him with the first team and
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: the second team, and they're getting him involved more than
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: they were the prior year. And that just never manifested
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  Speaker 2: in the regular season. In the Dallas game, he had
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: a couple of nice runs, he got hurt and he
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: never really factored back into the offensive mix. Then coming
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: out of the bye week, he was inserted in the
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: first drive of that Packers game, and you started to
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: get the sense, Okay, maybe that was part of the
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: bye week tweak, that you're going to try and get
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: some other players involved as you're trying to find answers.
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  Speaker 2: But that just that never came to fruition either. I
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: just thought that he offered a lot, not in terms
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: of running the inside zone. I don't think that that
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: really caters to his strength. I do think that if
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: they do more outside zone stretch play type of runs,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: that could play into his favor a little bit. But
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised that when the offense is
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: struggling like that and you don't have many cards to
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: play at a certain point, you have somebody there who
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: can run routes, he can catch the football, get him
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: in space a little bit, maybe you're able to kind
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: of provide some kind of instant spark. But that just
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: never it never came to fruition. So this is going
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: to be obviously a big year for Will. He's a
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: core special teams player, can return kicks. We'll see if
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: the Eagles at a player at the skill position that
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: can double as a returner and maybe give you a
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: little bit more of a dynamic presence there. And I
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: just think that maybe with Sean Mannion and you know,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: they're able to to sort of carve out more of
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: a role for Will as a change of pace, complimentary
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: action type of running back. He's not a physical runner.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: He doesn't run with a ton of power between the tackles,
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: that's for certain. When he's had his opportunities, he hasn't
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: necessarily run with it. And look, I look at the
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: late game of the season, he barely got any run,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: which I thought was a little curious.
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  Speaker 1: It was the tank Bigsby show.
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  Speaker 2: Thought they might do a little bit more of a
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  Speaker 2: one to two tandem. So yeah, that's kind of the
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: outlook going into twenty twenty six with Will, who those
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: listening know that I know very well, got to know
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: him over the past couple of years. Another player that
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: I would talk to once a week, just catching up,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: even if it had nothing to do with football. We
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: would talk about, you know, life, We talk about different restaurants,
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: different things we watched and exchange things that were that
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: were in our queue and put each other onto some
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: of that type of stuff, and you know, I really
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: value those conversations. So all that being said, that is
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: the outlook going into twenty twenty six. Then you have
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby. Tank Bigsby is a very interesting player this year.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: Later in the year, you saw the value he adds
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  Speaker 2: a spark. He runs with a lot of toughness and
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: tenacity and can viction. He is not necessarily a patient
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  Speaker 2: runner by any means, but he will see the hole
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: and he'll hit it, and if and one's not there,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to create it. I do believe that you'll
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: see a little bit more opportunities for him this season
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: as they maybe try to lighten the load for off
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley, who has just been a belcow for two years.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: He's getting a little bit older, late twenties there, and
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby. I asked Sakwon Barkway about this late in
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: the year, he said, I don't even view him as
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: a change of pace complementary guy. I view him, as
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: you know, on the same level. So that's high praise
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  Speaker 2: there obviously, But I think you saw what Tank can
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  Speaker 2: do in a minimal sample size.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a really good change of pace.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, I think there should be a world
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  Speaker 2: in which he gets six to eight carries a game
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  Speaker 2: and can give you a different type of skill set
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  Speaker 2: when you and defenses have to play and maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more differently than they ordinarily would with Saquon
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: back there, and I think he's going to have some
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: upside in this offense going into next season. I'm really
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing what he can do now that
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: we'll get to see him for training camp, which we
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: didn't get to see last year. He gets the full
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: off season with the Eagles, another year with Jamal Singleton
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: as position coach, which I should also mention is coming back,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: as I'm sure you've already gleaned by this point. I
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: mentioned it on this podcast. So you like the continuity
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: there from that standpoint, and the room will be together.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: That's a very tight knit room, by the way, and
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: they're all very close. They talk, Their lockers are all
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: right beside each other, except for Tanks. Tanks was on
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: the other side next to Fred Johnson. But you had
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: aj Dillon, you had Will Shipley, and then you had
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley left to right, and then on the other
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: side of that was tank, so I imagine they'll be
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: closer together this season. Then I look at the draft
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: because whether or not the Eagles draft are running back
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: or they sign one a as an undrafted free agent.
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  Speaker 2: Last year they brought in Shanderrik Powell and Montreal Johnson Junior.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: And Montreal Johnson Junior did some really good things, got
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: hurt in training camp and spent a little bit of
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: time on the practice squad, But he's sort of had
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of different tryouts last year. I'm not exactly
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: sure if he's landed with the team yet, But whether
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: or not they draft one or not, I think you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see one or two more added to the
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  Speaker 2: roster here.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a couple in the draft that I like.
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  Speaker 1: I look at k Tron Allen.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Penn State fan, which I know Jeff Mosher,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Penn State alum, proud Penn State alum, will like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm mentioning him here, but I really liked the body
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  Speaker 2: of work that I saw from him in college. He
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: rushed rover thirteen hundred yards last season, fifteen touchdowns. Was
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: in a backfield committee with Nicholas Singleton, who really took.
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  Speaker 1: The lead there.
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  Speaker 2: But kay Tron Allen at five eleven, two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventeen pounds, he's more of a between the two tackles
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  Speaker 2: grinder can help you in the short yardage game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that he offers a lot of home run
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  Speaker 2: hitting explosiveness or pass catching ability. But if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: for a cost effective thumper between the tackles who has
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of college experience, Kitron Allen would be an
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: intriguing guy. Probably gonna go early day three, and then
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I go to Jamari Taylor from University of Virginia if
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  Speaker 2: So those are the running backs. And I even gave
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you a couple guys who I really like. By the way,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Jamari Tower will probably be mid to late day three
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: guy because of his diminutive stature, but and because he's
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: not going to be a volume runner, He's going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: be in a committee, change of pace type of guy
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: that I think any team would really like. I think
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of a team like the Kansas City Chiefs that would
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: love to have a player like that, or the San
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers and the Rams. So the Eagles
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: need a player like that. I happen to think that
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Will Shipley can do that, can catch the football and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you know, factor in sporadically and give you that different
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: type of look. But if they want to add some competition,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: if they want to add another player, yeah, Jamari Taylor
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: is one that I would.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Take a hard look at.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And look, I'm under no impression given all the other
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: needs and the Eagles are well set at running back
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: in my estimation anyway, that they would draft a player
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: on Day two. This would be purely for Day three
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: if there's a player that they like and want to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: add to the room. I wanted to give you guys,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: at least a couple of names that would be realistic.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know that they need to even go that route.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: They could probably go the undrafted free agent route, sign
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a player or two and allow them to kind of
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: compete for a roster spot if they can play on
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: special teams or even a practice squad spot. But I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: think the running back situation right now is pretty well set.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: But I kind of wanted to just give you an
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: overview as I kind of see it. Right now, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: we'll see where it goes from here. There's going to
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: be a lot of time between now and Mini camps, obviously,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: so a lot can change, But for now, that's the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: way I see it, that's going to do it for
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: this edition of the Czech Odily. I'm Andrew Dechecko. We'll
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