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The DiCecco Daily: My Thoughts On The Eagles' Trade For CB Jakorian Bennett · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's happened everybody? How you feeling out there? Welcome into
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  another edition of the Checko Daily. Andrew Dchecko here obviously
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  giving you all of the news and notes for the
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  Eagles and today in this case, it's an update because
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  Howie Roseman never sleeps.
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  Speaker 2: You have your August trade.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there writing my story Ondrew Kennel, which if
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  you're listening to this Tuesday morning, it's on Inside the
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  Birds dot Com. And now I'm going for a nice
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  stroll here on this beautiful Monday evening. But I didn't
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  want to leave you hanging. The Eagles pull off a trade.
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  They send defensive tackle Thomas Booker the fourth to the
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  Las Vegas Raiders for cornerback Jacory and Bennett, who I
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  really like coming out of the twenty twenty three draft,
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  fourth round pick. Obviously, if you followed my work, you
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  know that I follow the Maryland program pretty closely.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a twitchy, athletic corner that the.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are getting, and he has really good ball skills.
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  Eleven pass breakups's played in two seasons, twenty four games,
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  eleven starts, five ft eleven one hundred and ninety five
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  pounds fast. This is a fast corner and he's an
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  outside corner, which makes this addition interesting. So obviously the
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  first question is how does he fit and will he
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  be involved in the two man cornerback competition with Keithy
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  Ringo and veteran of Dori Jackson. My answer is I
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  would assume so, because when you add a player of
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  that quality who has started games in the NFL, I
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  think that it lends itself to adding another name into
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  the mix. Which is also interesting because Eli Rix, the
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  Eagles third year corner, is also put together a nice camp.
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  But I never got this sense that vic Fangio was
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  overwhelmed by the cornerback play that he was receiving from
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  Ringo and Jackson, and at every turn he sort of
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  offered a relatively lukewarm response. And even today he had
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  a response that you can kind of poke in pride,
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  interpret it any way that you like. But when I
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  asked about the competition how it's going, he said, it's close.
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  I think that both of them are having a good camp,
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  but it's close. And been happy with both of them,
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  and we'll see. Now if you've been keeping score at
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  home or reading my training camp, observations which I post
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  daily and inside the birds dot Com. You know that
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  leading up to today, it had been a Dori Jackson
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  opening with the first team for five practices, Kiei Ringo
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  for three. Well, on day nine, Kilei Ringo opened with
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  the first team, So now you have five and four.
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  That's a balanced display how they're sort of handling the
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  first team reps. Now, both players have certainly worked in
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  but the fact that nine days in a camp and
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  it is early, I want to emphasize that the fact
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  that they're still toggling between the two and neither one
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  has really done enough to separate themselves from the pack,
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  and it's it's still something I'm expecting to really play
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  out in the preseason. The fact that you're adding another name,
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  another young corner, Jacoreyan Bennett is twenty four years old,
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  suggests that you're trying to add more competition. And it
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  struck me listening to Vic Vangio on Monday morning that
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  the fact that he's sort of still trying to figure
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  out what he has in those two corners suggested to
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  me that the Eagles would possibly look to add another
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  name to that room just because you want to continue
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  to promote competition and see if you were able to
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  get the best player of that group. So I'm expecting
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  Jacorey and Bennett to start, or I should say I'm
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  expecting him to enter the cornerback competition for a chance
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  to start along with Ringo and along with a Dori Jackson.
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  He obviously has to get to Philadelphia and start to
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  learn a pretty complex playbook in terms of Vic Fangio's defense,
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  but he's going to have an opportunity and that's an
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  interesting addition for the Eagles. Now.
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  Speaker 2: It was a player for player trade.
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  Speaker 1: So I should also mention that Thomas Booker the fourth
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  he was putting together a pretty nice training camp for
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  the second consecutive year. In fact, he had a couple
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  of pass breakups today, getting his hand up at the
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  line of scrimmage, and just a really disrupting player who
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  also saw a ton of reps throughout camp. So it
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  means a lot of things obviously the Raiders, and there
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  are some Eagles ties there of course, probably that which
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  probably played into it, But the Raiders are looking at
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  Thomas Booker as a player who can add a developmental
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  piece or some depth to their defensive line and Booker
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  was really the fifth defensive tackle here. Ty Robinson was
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  the fourth, and therefore he wasn't going to play a
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  ton here.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't play a ton last year.
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  Speaker 1: But what always struck me with Thomas Booker was relentless
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  effort and the ability to use leverage to his advantage
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  to be disruptive along the interior. I saw that in
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  camp last year, I saw it in camp this year,
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  and you also saw it play out in the regular
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  season and at times in the regular season, because there's
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  a play in which I can remember him tracking down
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  a screen pass against the Falcons that I think really
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  embodies the effort and the just the determination and pursuit
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  to the football that Thomas Booker has always displayed.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever we've been able to see him on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And it could also mean a number of different things,
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  and you never want to get too carried away. But
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  earlier in training camp, Vic Vangio spoke highly of two
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  young defensive tackles, or at least seemed intrigued about two
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  young defensive tackles, and that was Byron Young, who the
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  Eagles acquired via waivers prior to last season. He didn't
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  not end up playing any game for the Eagles, but
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  he was around for the offseason and now he had
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  some nice moments in training camp, but he was sidelined
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  Monday with a groin injury.
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  Speaker 2: So that's something to keep an eye on. But in
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  my opinion, in.
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  Speaker 1: My estimation based on what I've seen and when I
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  I've been able to observe through nine practices. And this
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  is a name that if you follow my work and
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  you should leading up the training camp, one of my
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  six players under the radar that I told you to
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  keep an eye on. He was on my pre camp
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  fifty three man roster and he's had a nice start
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  to camp and that is second year defensive tackle Gabe
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  Hall from Baylor. Gabe Hall entered my notebook. I should
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  say I wrote down number ninety six in my notebook
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  multiple times. Today he stormed or on Monday, he stormed
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  into the backfield on multiple occasions, probably picks up a
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  sack if it was a game situation in one of
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  those instances. And he didn't do a whole lot last
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  training camp, but he was on the practice squad last
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  year and I think that that afforded him the opportunity
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  to be a part of it and grow and develop
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  under defensive lineman Clint Hurt.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to my.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the Locker Room podcast, I spoke to Gabe Hall
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  on one occasion last year, and I talked to him
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  a couple of different times, and I was just checking
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  in on his development, how things were going, because I
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  did really like his tape at Baylor, and he has
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  one of those coveted locker stalls for practice squad players
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  where it was on the it was a wall locker.
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  It was on the perimeter, so was Andre SAMs, but
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  it kind of, you know, it's one of those little
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  subtleties that you can kind of pick at and maybe
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  use that to color the way that you believe the
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  team views him. And that was somebody who has active
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  roster potential. Now, he was never elevated last season at
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  any point, but he was able to be around and
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  grow and be a part of those those meetings and
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  all of that. And I think what you're seeing now
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  is a player who has increased confidence. And that's something
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  that I've said about a lot of these young players
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  that you're seeing now a merge a year two. They're
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  playing faster, they're playing with refined technique and for Gabe Hall,
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  who can play every defensive every position on the defensive line,
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  and ways about two ninety five, he spoke to me
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  about going against Landon Dickerson every day in practice and
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  that he whooped his ass how much that that helped
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  him become better, become a better player.
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  Speaker 2: And you're you're seeing some.
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  Speaker 1: Of the results play out on the on the practice fields.
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  And that's somebody that you guys should be keeping an
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  eye on in the preseason because the Eagles, perhaps better
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  than any team at least over the past couple of years,
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  have done a remarkable job in player development, and it
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  could be Gabe Hall, who's the next example. Also Byron Young,
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  But we have to see again on the injury list
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  with a groin injury, so we don't know if that's
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  going to be something that lingers or if he'll be
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  able to get back to action relatively soon. But this
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  Eagles defensive line is already loaded. Thomas Booker wouldn't have
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  played a ton had some value to another team. The
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  Eagles have a young player who has made some plays
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  in camp and is making a case for the fifty
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  three man roster. Now, the second phase of this is
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  translating what you saw on the practice field into game situations.
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  Speaker 2: So those are my initial thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a stock up for Gabe Hall right now,
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  and I think Jacoreyan Bennett has an opportunity here to
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  enter the fray in terms of this starting cornerback position,
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  but he does have to get up the speed relatively quickly.
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  Well that's going to do it for this edition of
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  the check Odaily. Just the quick thoughts on this trade
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  that I wanted to give you guys because somebody reached
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  out to me on X and I want to make
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  sure that I got that to you guys before the
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  day got away from me. It's another busy day, the
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  final practice before there's the walk through Wednesday and then
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  the game on Thursday. But you should be excited about
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  that trade, or at least intrigued, because Jacoreyan Bennett can
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  absolutely play, and he's somebody that I evaluated in the
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  pre draft process.
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  Speaker 2: So I really liked his tape.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought he was an intriguing Day two or
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  Day three prospect, and he sort of developed and was
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  able to find his footing a little bit there at
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  the Raiders. Active gets his hand on the football quite
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  a bit, and I think working with defensive backs coach
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  Christian Parker is going to help him a great deal
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  really tap into that skill set that he has and
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  really build on some of the flashes that we've seen
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  through his first two seasons. Now, I'm not going to
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  get into you, going to get into stats or anything
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  like that, because he played in ten games last season,
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  so sometimes those stats out there don't have a lot
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  of context. I wouldn't do that to you, guys, But
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  what I can tell you is is that he can play.
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  And this is coming from somebody who evaluated him coming
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  out of the twenty twenty three draft class. I'm gonna
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  put a bow on this one. That's it for to
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  check Odally. I'm Andrew Tochecko, and I'll catch you on
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  the next one.