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The DiCecco Daily: Major Reinforcements Could Return In RT Lane Johnson, DT Jalen Carter; What's Reasonable To Expect From Them? · 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 Odaily. It's Andrew
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  Speaker 2: dcheco here, Eagles beat reporter for insidethbirds dot com and
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned on yesterday's podcast, I attended Nikobe Dean's
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  Speaker 2: holiday tailgate toy drive in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and I wrote a story about it on Inside
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  Speaker 2: the Birds dot com. Want to really highlight some of
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  Speaker 2: the great things that some of these Eagles are doing
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  Speaker 2: in the community. And I went to to Kobe's toy
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  Speaker 2: drive last year. That was the first one that he
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  Speaker 2: did with his kind Hearts for Life foundation. Nakobe does
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  Speaker 2: so much off the field. He's a tremendous guy. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: a very good football player, but there's so much that
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  Speaker 2: he does beyond the football field for the Philadelphia community
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  Speaker 2: and surrounding areas that I wanted to shed some light on.
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  Speaker 2: And there were just so many toys and so many
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  Speaker 2: happy kids there just enjoying the moment. There was a
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  Speaker 2: soundtrack that had a heavy Christmas flare to it. People
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  Speaker 2: were dancing, and there was a lot of Eagles fans
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  Speaker 2: that were posed, you know, that were in line ready
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  Speaker 2: to pose for photos with the Kobe, and I had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to speak to him when it died down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and hear his perspective on the event,
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  Speaker 2: why that means so much to him.
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  Speaker 1: And I even spoke to his mother, who was there.
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  Speaker 2: And if you listen to to Kobe, he often cites
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  Speaker 2: his mother as his primary influence in shaping him as
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  Speaker 2: the person that he is right now. And so I
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  Speaker 2: had a chance to talk to her briefly, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a I enjoyed the experience, and I always enjoy whenever
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  Speaker 2: I'm able to do some of those things and bring
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  Speaker 2: that to the surface. But anyway, the Eagles should be
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  Speaker 2: or could be returning a couple of key figures on
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  Speaker 2: one on each side of the ball this week, and
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  Speaker 2: that is defensive tackle Jalen Carter and right tackle Lane Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Now we'll have to wait and see. It seemed like
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson has been trending in the right direction. Jalen Carter,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really sure about. He was listed as week
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  Speaker 2: to week for a while. I guess it was a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago now, and to me, at least, my
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  Speaker 2: gut suggested that he was a tick for further off
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  Speaker 2: in terms of returning to the fold. Remember, Lane got
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  Speaker 2: hurt in the Detroit Lions game and missed several games thereafter,
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  Speaker 2: but there was a report Sunday that both players should
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  Speaker 2: be returning to practice. Now, the Eagles hold their first
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  Speaker 2: practice of the week because it's Christmas, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a truncated schedule once again. That'll be Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a walk through around three fifteen
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  Speaker 2: ish and we'll get our first injury estimation at least
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  Speaker 2: of the week, so that'll be a really big telltale. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this game coming up against the Buffalo Bills is meaningful,
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  Speaker 2: and you can make the argument that if Jalen Carter
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  Speaker 2: and Lane Johnson are healthy enough that you would like
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  Speaker 2: to see them get some snaps in the last meaningful
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  Speaker 2: regular season game of the season, especially against this type
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  Speaker 2: of opponent.
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  Speaker 1: I should clarify, but.
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  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson has played a lot of football and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you would want to maybe put him
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  Speaker 2: out there. Jalen Carter would be an interesting story, interesting
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  Speaker 2: case here because let's not forget earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 2: Fick Fangio mentioned that Carter had to round into football
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  Speaker 2: shape and now he's been sidelined for a little bit now,
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  Speaker 2: so you maybe want to see him get some snaps
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  Speaker 2: and start to say that you can ramp that up
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  Speaker 2: when the postseason occurs. So promising news from the Eagles,
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  Speaker 2: who are getting super impactful players on each side of
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  Speaker 2: the ball lane. Johnson the best in the business of
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  Speaker 2: what he does. Jalen Carter among the best at what
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  Speaker 2: he does. And I think in this case with Carter,
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  Speaker 2: we don't quite know the you know, the extent and
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  Speaker 2: what he's dealing with with those shoulders, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be something in all likelihood that I would imagine
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  Speaker 2: lingers throughout the season and has to get addressed. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's something that I'll certainly be keeping an eye on.
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  Speaker 2: But I also wanted to shed a spotlight on the
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackles who have, in my estimation, done a very
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  Speaker 2: nice job filling in and a sort of atoning for
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  Speaker 2: those snaps that Jay when Carter plays. And Moro Jomo
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  Speaker 2: has been playing lights out this season five sacks on
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  Speaker 2: the year. He's had some really key sacks in the
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  Speaker 2: latter stages of some of those games, whether it was
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings game, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game against Baker
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  Speaker 2: Mayfield on that last drive really sticks out, sort of
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  Speaker 2: coming into his own with the more snaps that he's
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  Speaker 2: playing very quick. I think he has a good understanding
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  Speaker 2: of how to use leverage. He plays with extreme violence,
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  Speaker 2: and that really showcases if you zoom in, if you
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  Speaker 2: watch and hone in on the trenches, as I do
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  Speaker 2: when I have to watch, I watch the game at
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  Speaker 2: least a few different times. Watching Moro Joma work is
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  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of just marvel at it. He's
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  Speaker 2: a technician and he's very difficult for interior linemen to block.
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  Speaker 2: You also have to highlight brand Graham, who at one
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  Speaker 2: point he collected three sacks and nine snaps. He played
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  Speaker 2: just a handful of snaps in each of the past
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  Speaker 2: two weeks three sacks. His career totals at seventy nine
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  Speaker 2: and a half. Now he's not playing a large, large
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  Speaker 2: group of the snaps or anything like that, but I
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  Speaker 2: think you check off a ton of boxes there when
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  Speaker 2: you look at his effectiveness and he's sort of moonlighting
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  Speaker 2: in there and one of the players who had to
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  Speaker 2: make a sacrifice and just try to get in where
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  Speaker 2: he fits in, find a role that's going to benefit
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  Speaker 2: the team, and try to execute that to the best
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  Speaker 2: of your ability. And I think the returns have been
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  Speaker 2: nothing showed a spectacular you look.
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  Speaker 1: At Jordan Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Davis perhaps had his best game of the season
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  Speaker 2: against the Washington Commanders, all over the defensive line, just
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  Speaker 2: pushing lineman back. There's so many times where he's meeting
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  Speaker 2: running backs in the backfield and stopping them for no gain.
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  Speaker 2: He's very quick and powerful, and you can see that
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  Speaker 2: he still has the same energy at least that's the
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  Speaker 2: way that it you know, it does the way that
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  Speaker 2: it looks when you're watching the games, as he did
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the season. So I think that Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 2: should be a pro bowler now, you know how the
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl works a lot of times. It's a popularity
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  Speaker 2: contest more often than not, and you tend to look
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  Speaker 2: at the stats. I think if you're someone who looks
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  Speaker 2: at the Pro Bowl voting, and Jordan Davis maybe doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the sack total of a lot of the players
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  Speaker 2: at his position who would be making the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And that's unfortunate because if you watch Philadelphia Eagles football,
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  Speaker 2: you see the impact that he's having controlling the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage and really coming into his own going into
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  Speaker 2: the season. If you guys, remember one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I said was when the conversation presides, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when it had to do with Jordan Davis, when it
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  Speaker 2: centered around him, I said, I need to see it
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  Speaker 2: before I believe it, because every offseason we hear really
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  Speaker 2: good things from Jordan Davis about diet and conditioning and
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  Speaker 2: all that. But this summer, I wanted to see it
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  Speaker 2: in action before I truly bought it.
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  Speaker 1: I really like the player.
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  Speaker 2: I've sort of supported him and I've noted a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the strides that he's made, but he is just
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  Speaker 2: having a Pro Bowl caliber season and is embracing his
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  Speaker 2: role as a leader on this football team. He's a
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  Speaker 2: natural leader, and I think that seeing him every day
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  Speaker 2: throughout the season, he is a just an array of
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  Speaker 2: positive energy. Every single day. He uplifts others around him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big presence, and he's just naturally fit in
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  Speaker 2: as one of those locker room pillars. So just a
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  Speaker 2: really breakthrough season for Jordan Davis all round. But then
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  Speaker 2: the final player that I wanted to highlight is someone
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  Speaker 2: who kind of gets lost in the shuffle a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and that's Byron Young. I wrote about this on my
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  Speaker 2: x account that when you look at what he's been
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  Speaker 2: able to do over the last three weeks, seventy four snaps,
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  Speaker 2: two and a half sacks, three quarterback hits. I think
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  Speaker 2: he has two tackles for loss. He's really established a
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  Speaker 2: meaningful role in the rotation, more so than Brandon Graham.
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  Speaker 1: Though Brandon Graham, when you look at his.
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  Speaker 2: Efficiency with three sacks and just a limited amount of time,
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  Speaker 2: you look at Byron Young. He played twenty six snaps
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  Speaker 2: against the Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: He had a sizeable role.
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  Speaker 2: In the Chargers game, didn't have to play a ton
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  Speaker 2: against the Raiders. The Eagles defense, I think, oh we
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  Speaker 2: had thirty nine snaps in that game anyway. But when
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  Speaker 2: you look at this roster and different players who have
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  Speaker 2: had to have their number called upon at different points
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  Speaker 2: because of injury, Byron Young is someone that I think
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  Speaker 2: you're going to look back on this season and have
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  Speaker 2: sort of an appreciation for a role player stepping up,
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  Speaker 2: providing quality snaps and sort of navigating the fort. And
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  Speaker 2: he's had players around him like Jordan Davis and Moro
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  Speaker 2: Jomo and Brandon Graham of course, but I think Byron
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  Speaker 2: Young over the last three weeks has been sort of
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  Speaker 2: an unsung hero, So I wanted to give him a
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  Speaker 2: mention here as we sort of look at some of
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  Speaker 2: those players who filled in in the absence for Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Carter at least had to take on an elevated workload.
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  Speaker 1: Just some of my thoughts here.
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  Speaker 2: As the week gets going, the Eagles haves Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and there will be the first walk through, which
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  Speaker 2: is the first practice of the week, which is a
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  Speaker 2: walk through, and then locker room later. And for now,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to do it for this edition of a
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  Speaker 2: Czech O Daily. I am Andrew Deiceco and I will
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  Speaker 2: catch you on the next one.