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The DiCecco Daily: Inside Jaire Alexander's Decision To "Press Pause And Step Away" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of the Czech O'deli.
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  Speaker 1: It's Andrew to Checko here from Inside.
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  Speaker 2: The Birds dot com and some of my immediate thoughts
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  Speaker 2: after the game. That's the podcast that are on the
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  Speaker 2: Inside the Birds platform. I do have something that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get into real quick about news that came
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  Speaker 2: out from Jay Glazier. And this is Tuesday evening. Former
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl cornerback JR. Alexander has decided to step away
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  Speaker 2: from football to try to focus on getting himself right
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  Speaker 2: physically and mentally before deciding on his future. Alexander informed
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles of his decision today at NFL on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Has learned this is from Jay Glazier. So, Jay R.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander did not travel with.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles, and he was sort of acclimating to the
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  Speaker 2: defense and recovering his knee back in Philadelphia, and that was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was kind of to be a course
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  Speaker 2: of action similar to Brandon Graham, a ramp up of
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  Speaker 2: sorts to ensure that he was going to be ready
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  Speaker 2: to help the team down the stretch. But obviously, and
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  Speaker 2: there'll be I'm sure more to come from this.
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  Speaker 2: You have to prioritize your mental health above all, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, kudos to Jay or Alexander for knowing
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  Speaker 2: that he wanted to do that and prioritizing his mental
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  Speaker 2: health and that's most important right now, and healing up
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  Speaker 2: with the knee injury that he's had that's sort of
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  Speaker 2: been plaguing him and it's taking a toll on him
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  Speaker 2: and getting yourself right from that and then maybe reassessing
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  Speaker 2: from there what avenue you want to explore in terms
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  Speaker 2: of playing again, and if not, maybe you walk away
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  Speaker 2: on your own terms.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the case is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just happy that day Er has you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: able to recognize, you know that he needs to press
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  Speaker 2: pause and step away.
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  Speaker 1: So what that means for.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles right now, Well, they have until Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day Wednesday to activate cornerback Ja Coryan
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  Speaker 2: Bennett from.
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  Speaker 1: Ir and you know he's twenty one day.
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  Speaker 2: Practice went to open October twenty second, and so there's
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  Speaker 2: a clear need now for another corner to enter the mix.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Numbers wise, the Eagles have plenty Quinn, Mitchell, Cooper, Dejen,
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  Speaker 2: Keey Ringo, Dori Jackson, Michael Carter, mac McWilliams. You have
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  Speaker 2: six there, but Ja Cory and Bennett gives you another
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  Speaker 2: option who could start on the outside so that you
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  Speaker 2: don't become overly reliant on someone like a Dory Jackson
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  Speaker 2: who at thirty years old, he's missed some time this
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  Speaker 2: year growin injury, concussion, and Keighley's been in his assistant
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  Speaker 2: Jakoorian think Leafs gives you a third option there, so
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  Speaker 2: that you have you can either play matchups or you
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  Speaker 2: can maybe you know, if one player is not performing
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  Speaker 2: particularly well, you can plug him in perhaps or even
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  Speaker 2: give him a look and see what you have there.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's only played twenty four snaps this season. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's something that the Eagles will consider. But time sticking
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  Speaker 2: and they have to make that decision relatively soon and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see where that goes.
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  Speaker 1: But the cornerback situation is.
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  Speaker 2: I thought of Dororiy Jackson did some nice things against
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  Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers, grant that he wasn't tested all
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  Speaker 2: that much, and I was a little bit surprising to
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  Speaker 2: me in fact, whenever Petey Ringott was there aside from
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  Speaker 2: the two point conversion against the Broncos and Week six
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  Speaker 2: against the Giants, he hasn't been overly targeted as much
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  Speaker 2: as I certainly expected him to.
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  Speaker 1: And at Dori Jackson either.
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  Speaker 2: And now with the new look pass rush, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's going to help serve the secondary well. Because now
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  Speaker 2: you're forcing quarterbacks to process things faster, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be more prone to having happy fee and maybe you
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  Speaker 2: force me into a hazy decision or two down the
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  Speaker 2: stretch here. But we'll see how the cornerback landscape ultimately
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  Speaker 2: shakes out.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the immediate news right now.
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  Speaker 2: The other part that I wanted to get into very
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  Speaker 2: quickly is the running back situation and how I noticed
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  Speaker 2: on the first drive that the Eagles incorporated all three
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  Speaker 2: running backs into the rotation. Into the mix, obviously, Saquon
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  Speaker 2: Barkley is going to be the bell cow and Tank
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  Speaker 2: Bigsby's going to be, in all likelihood the number two
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  Speaker 2: because I think he brings a unique skill set.
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  Speaker 1: He has a unique running style, he.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes creates his own holes, and I think that he
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  Speaker 2: also adds some juice and physicality and power and would
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  Speaker 2: be the ideal spell when Saquon Barkley needs a breather.
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  Speaker 2: But I did notice that Will Shipley entered this game
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  Speaker 2: having touched the ball only nine times all season. He
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  Speaker 2: touched the ball six times against the Green Bay Packers,
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  Speaker 2: twice on the first series. One was the third and
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  Speaker 2: ten eleven yard reception, and then he had a four
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  Speaker 2: yard run on a second and three. So Will is
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  Speaker 2: a player that I thought was underutilized. And I understand
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  Speaker 2: that when you have an embarrassment of riches offensively, there's
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  Speaker 2: always so many mouths that you can feed and you
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  Speaker 2: can't overly fixate on complimentary pieces when you're having enough
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  Speaker 2: trouble facilitating the football to your pre eminent weapons like
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  Speaker 2: AJ Brown and Avonte Smith, Dallas Goddard. He's flashed, but
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't been a volume receiver this year. But I
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  Speaker 2: think when you look at it into totality, there should
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  Speaker 2: be a role for Shipley as a third down option,
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  Speaker 2: and at least to me, it looked like the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: are looking at that as a potential option. That was
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  Speaker 2: something that going into the season, I thought that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to be more heavily featured as because he
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  Speaker 2: can catch the football better than any of the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: running back. I might even argue that he's the best
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  Speaker 2: pass protecting running back that the Eagles have. Because you
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  Speaker 2: saw it and it's been in short spurts. I saw
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  Speaker 2: that in the Buccaneers game. I saw that again. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was against the Vikings, getting my games all
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  Speaker 2: mixed up here, but against the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that I think Will can do. He
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  Speaker 2: works at it, and he's smart. He processes things, he's
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  Speaker 2: able to scan and sort, and it's a it's been
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  Speaker 2: a word progress, but it seems to me. And again,
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  Speaker 2: this is just one game. You never want to make
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  Speaker 2: too much off of it. That maybe the Eagles are
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  Speaker 2: intrigued with what he can bring from that standpoint, kind
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  Speaker 2: of like what Kenny Gamwell is able to do. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're not the biggest players at the position in the world,
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  Speaker 2: but they make up for with intangibles. And Will Shipley
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  Speaker 2: is a highly intelligent football player. And Saquon Barkley going
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  Speaker 2: back to the summer, mentioned that he's probably the smart
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  Speaker 2: he is the smartest running back.
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  Speaker 1: In the room and how it pisses him off.
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  Speaker 2: Said that jokingly, of course, because of how smart that
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  Speaker 2: he is.
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  Speaker 1: But that was one of my takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm curious to see whether or not the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: look to sort of carve out defining roles for these players,
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  Speaker 2: because you have three running backs and aj Dillon was inactive,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, who can do different things and compliment
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  Speaker 2: each other pretty well, And that could be a different wrinkle.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing drastic, but maybe it has to do with personnel utilization.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're getting.
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  Speaker 2: Someone like a Camlato more involved and maybe less of
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  Speaker 2: maybe a grand Calkatara and a Kaylin Granson. That sixth,
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  Speaker 2: that offensive lineman is gonna be featured, and that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be something that in jumbo packages they're gonna look to
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  Speaker 2: tap into.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a Those are just.
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  Speaker 2: Some of my thoughts here on a on A on
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday evening. I hope you enjoyed the podcast Eagles
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  Speaker 2: We're back at it tomorrow Wednesday. Nick Sirianni talks at
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  Speaker 2: twelve twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's locker room.
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  Speaker 2: And There will be a Wednesday walkthrough, so we'll have
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  Speaker 2: updates for you later in the day.
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  Speaker 1: This has been to CHECKO daily.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew to CHECKO and I will catch you on
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  Speaker 2: the next one.