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The DiCecco Daily: Looking At Some Free Agent WRs Left Who Make Sense For Eagles · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into another episode of The Checko Daily. It's Andrew
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  Speaker 2: de Checko here, Eagles beat reporter for insidethebirds dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: Not a whole lot going on in Eagles Land, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: with free agency going on right now. It's important to
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  Speaker 2: note that the Eagles and tight end Dallas Goddard have
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  Speaker 2: pushed back the void date on his contract to Monday,
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  Speaker 2: as first reported by The Athletic Zach Berman. I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that on Friday's podcast, but it's worth reiterating, and we
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  Speaker 2: will look at three free agent wide receivers who will
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  Speaker 2: make sense for the Eagles and kind of break down
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  Speaker 2: their backgrounds and what they could potentially provide if they
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  Speaker 2: were signed. It's a really like group in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the free agent crop this year, and I think right now,
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  Speaker 2: of the players available, the one that I'm most intrigued
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  Speaker 2: with and have been most intrigued with is Juwan Jennings
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  Speaker 2: of the San Francisco forty nine Ers. So he went
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  Speaker 2: to Tennessee University of Tennessee was drafted by the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers in the seventh round of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: NFL Draft. Big body wide receiver, physical six foot three
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and twelve pounds doesn't typically see a ton
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  Speaker 2: of volume, except over the past couple of years he has.
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  Speaker 2: But his first three years thirty eight targets, fifty six
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  Speaker 2: thirty three. Then he jumps in twenty twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirteen targets. In twenty twenty five he
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  Speaker 2: had ninety targets. So let's back things up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: He's played in the seventy five games, started, thirty two,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and ten career catches for two thy five
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty one yards and twenty two touchdowns. I
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  Speaker 2: think he would be a solid two, definitely a really
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  Speaker 2: strong number three, and I really look at his blocking ability,
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  Speaker 2: his willingness to do the dirty work. Now, he is
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  Speaker 2: someone who's gonna want the football, so there has to
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  Speaker 2: be for this to make sense. There has to be
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  Speaker 2: a plan in which to involve him in the offense
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  Speaker 2: or it could blow up. He could very easily not
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  Speaker 2: be pleased with his role. And I think that it
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  Speaker 2: would be pure fireworks to see Juwan Jennings match up
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  Speaker 2: against Tarik Women or Rik Wohen and see how that goes,
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  Speaker 2: because both guys are not afraid to let the other
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  Speaker 2: one know that they're there and talk trash and chirp
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. So I for training camp purposes, I
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  Speaker 2: would absolutely love the signing. But I think for to
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  Speaker 2: a larger point, Juwan Jennings would fit well with at
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  Speaker 2: least what the Eagles used to do because you look
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  Speaker 2: at Zach Pascal, you look at alamode z A kias
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  Speaker 2: those type of receivers who are selfless, willing to do.
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  Speaker 1: The blocking and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have to think that Juwan Jennings is going
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  Speaker 2: to command a little bit more money and probably more
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  Speaker 2: than the Eagles would want to spend. But when you
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  Speaker 2: look at their wide receiving corps, you have Aj Brown,
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  Speaker 2: you have DeVante Smith, you have Darius Cooper, Britton Covey,
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Wilson, Quswatkins, Danny Gray. So they need bodies there,
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  Speaker 2: and I think to go into the draft and get one.
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  Speaker 2: Yet you could do that, and they very well may
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  Speaker 2: do that, but you could also stand to add one
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  Speaker 2: and free agency, and that's where I think Juwan Jennings
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  Speaker 2: would make some sense there and he would be my
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  Speaker 2: top option of the three players. I'm going to mention
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  Speaker 2: the other player, Christian Kirk. Remember Christian Kirk began his
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  Speaker 2: career with the Arizona Cardinals cashed in in a major
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  Speaker 2: way with the Jacksonville Jaguars in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: But let's kind of go through it.
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  Speaker 2: Because Christian Kirk's five eleven, two hundred pounds was drafted
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  Speaker 2: by the Cardinals in the second round in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: He is twenty nine years old, and it feels like
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  Speaker 2: he's been around forever. But I look at his career
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  Speaker 2: and he's played in one hundred and six games, started
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  Speaker 2: eighty four hundred and thirty two receptions for five thy
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and fifteen yards, and thirty touchdowns. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of on the down side. He played in
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  Speaker 2: just eight games in twenty twenty four and thirteen games
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  Speaker 2: last season for the Houston Texans, and so and twelve
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  Speaker 2: the year before that, so he's banged up an awful lot,
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  Speaker 2: and I think his best football is probably behind him.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're asking him to be a third wide receiver,
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  Speaker 2: looking at some of the options who are out there
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  Speaker 2: on the free agent market, you could it's it's slim pickings,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't necessarily have your druthers. I think he
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  Speaker 2: can give you a little bit more of a dynamic
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  Speaker 2: quality than a Juwan Jennings can. But last season twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight catches, two thirty nine, one touchdown, and the year
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  Speaker 2: before that with the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: catches for three seventy nine and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: That you can expect anyway from the third receiver in
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  Speaker 2: this offense. And if he's healthy, and that's a major
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  Speaker 2: question mark because he's been banged up so often the
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  Speaker 2: last few seasons, I would give him a look and
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  Speaker 2: he's probably not going to cost a ton And it's
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  Speaker 2: really a stark contrast to what he commanded on the
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  Speaker 2: open market back in the twenty twenty two offseason. But
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  Speaker 2: Christian Kirk's a player who has made some had some
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  Speaker 2: big seasons. He had a seven hundred and nine yard
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  Speaker 2: season in twenty nineteen, he had a nine hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty two yard season in twenty twenty one, a eleven
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  Speaker 2: hundred yard season in twenty twenty two, so he made
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  Speaker 2: good on that. That was a career career year for him,
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  Speaker 2: eighty four catches and eight yards, eight touchdowns. But I
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  Speaker 2: think more, you know, I think you have to look
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  Speaker 2: at his the embodiment of his career and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of tells you the player that you would be getting.
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  Speaker 2: He's also a little bit older now, so I think
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  Speaker 2: as a third receiver he would fit well. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am expecting the Eagles to draft the receivers as well,
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  Speaker 2: just to add more dynamic qualities to the group.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to start getting younger on that side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. You can't pay everybody.
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  Speaker 2: There's one more player I wanted to get to and
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  Speaker 2: that is Marquise Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Brown five to nine, one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And eighty pounds was a first round pick of the
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens in twenty nineteen. And this is a speedster,
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  Speaker 2: someone who I think would really fit well as a
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  Speaker 2: vertical threat for this offense. And last season he played
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  Speaker 2: in sixteen games, start at six forty nine catches, five
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty seven yards and five touchdowns for the
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: The year before that, he was injured. He played in
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  Speaker 1: just two games for the Chiefs. He spent his career
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  Speaker 1: with the Ravens.
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  Speaker 2: That's where he started his career, spent three years there,
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  Speaker 2: two years with the Cardinals, and then the last.
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  Speaker 1: Two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs. His best season.
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  Speaker 2: Came in twenty twenty one, where he caught ninety one
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  Speaker 2: balls for one thousand eight yards and six touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: For his career, he has a career long.
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  Speaker 2: Of eighty three and yards per reception is eleven point six,
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  Speaker 2: which is really low considering his ability, his speed and
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  Speaker 2: his vertical his ability to open things up and put
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  Speaker 2: a unique stress on a defense. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting that his yards per receptions is as low
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  Speaker 2: as it is. But I think he would compliment what
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles also have there in aj Brown and Devonte
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  Speaker 2: Smith and give you a different type of player, but
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  Speaker 2: one that I think would really help in terms of
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  Speaker 2: opening things up, and defenses have to respect that kind
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  Speaker 2: of speed, and when you have a player like that,
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  Speaker 2: you have to atone for. And then you have the draft,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of players who I really like.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at Chris Bell from Louisville, I like
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  Speaker 2: him a lot. He's probably a second round guy, kind
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  Speaker 2: of getting lost in the mix here a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but six foot two, two hundred and twenty two pounds
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  Speaker 2: has a body type and a skill set that.
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  Speaker 1: Really reminds me of AJ Brown. I like him a bit.
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  Speaker 1: K C. Concepcion from Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you, as I learned this week from
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  Speaker 2: a source that he had a formal interview with the
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles at the NFL Scouting Combine.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a player who I really like.
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  Speaker 2: Gives you one He gives you speed and the ability
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  Speaker 2: to stretch the field, but he can also serve as
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  Speaker 2: a return specialist. And I believe that he would be
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  Speaker 2: somebody you talk about late round one.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about pick fifty four.
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  Speaker 2: I mean though, that's kind of where he's gonna slot into.
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  Speaker 2: Omar Cooper Junior, the wide receiver from Indiana, is a
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  Speaker 2: player who I've talked about on this podcast. I like
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  Speaker 2: him quite a bit. He most of his yards came
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  Speaker 2: after the catch last season, and he attacks the catch point.
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  Speaker 2: He's physical, he has the ability to align in multiple positions,
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  Speaker 2: and I look at what this offense lacks and they
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  Speaker 2: don't really have a manufactured touch player. I think Omar
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  Speaker 2: Cooper can do that. And I think that was reported.
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  Speaker 2: It was reported earlier in the week that or last
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  Speaker 2: week that Omar Cooper Junior had a thirty visit schedule
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  Speaker 2: with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Not really a surprise there.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a perfect fit at twenty three. You
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  Speaker 2: could probably trade down a little bit in all honesty
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  Speaker 2: to get them if that was their guy, and then
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned a couple of other players also, Chris Brazil
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  Speaker 2: of Tennessee and a number of other players that I've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned at different points. But if you're looking for a
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  Speaker 2: Day one or a Day two guy, the players that
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned would be the ones who classify as such.
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  Speaker 2: But the Eagles certainly need to add to the wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver room. They're really lean there, and I would expect
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  Speaker 2: them to. I think the best path would be to
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  Speaker 2: add someone in free agency, so you're having a veteran there,
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  Speaker 2: and then identify someone in the draft that you view
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  Speaker 2: as a piece for the future, develop them and have
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  Speaker 2: him grow and learn under aj and Davante in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, and then start to shape that wide receiving
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  Speaker 2: corps and that tight end room and the running back
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  Speaker 2: and offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get younger there.
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  Speaker 2: You have to start doing it, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be gradual, but I am expecting certain pieces to
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  Speaker 2: be added so that when that pendulum does swing and
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles have to pay a lot of their defensive guys,
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  Speaker 2: there's not a scramble to, you know, sort of patch
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  Speaker 2: things together offensively to atone for the allocation of resources.
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  Speaker 2: If that makes sense, that's gonna do it. For this
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  Speaker 2: edition of the Czech O Daily. I'm Andrew Ducheco and
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you all on the next one.