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The DiCecco Daily: Intel From Eagles First Training Camp Practice · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome into another episode of
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Speaker 1: to Checho Daily. It's Andrew de Checko, Eagles beat reporter
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Speaker 1: for Inside the Birds dot Com, and we have football
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Speaker 1: to talk about, because on Wednesday, the Eagles returned to
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Speaker 1: the practice field for the first time since mandatory Mini Camp.
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Speaker 1: And while mandatory Mini Camp very much felt like, at
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Speaker 1: least on the last day of mandatory Mini camp, the
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Speaker 1: last day of school, today very much felt like the
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Speaker 1: first day of school for the Philadelphia Eagles and for
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Speaker 1: those of us who cover the team, and the vibes
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Speaker 1: were high. There was a lot of excitement to get
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Speaker 1: back to football. The seasons right around the corner. But
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Speaker 1: of course the groundwork is laid right now during training camp.
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Speaker 2: And we got some news before practice.
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Grenard, the Eagles veteran edge rusher who is their
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Speaker 1: top pass rusher, has been placed on the or will
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Speaker 1: be placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list the
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Speaker 1: PUP list, with a PEX strain that he sustained while
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Speaker 1: lifting prior to training camp.
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Speaker 2: So I should also.
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Speaker 1: Add that it's not expected to be a long term concern,
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Speaker 1: and he is a veteran, and he is someone who
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Speaker 1: has played a lot of football and it doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like the team has a lot of concern there. And
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Speaker 1: I think it was probably underscored by Howie Roseman's comments
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Speaker 1: prior to practice where he says, one of the things
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Speaker 1: we know about Grenard is he's going to be ready
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Speaker 1: to play. Training camp is so important, practice is so important.
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Speaker 1: But when you have a guy that prepares the way
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Speaker 1: he does, who has the experience in the NFL the
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Speaker 1: way he does, you know he's going to be ready
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Speaker 1: to play when we start the season. So it is
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Speaker 1: something that you want to keep an eye on. Of course,
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Speaker 1: because Jonathan Grenard did not participate in team drills during
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Speaker 1: the spring and that was all part of the plan.
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Speaker 1: But then now he's placed on the pup list. But
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Speaker 1: you know why the injury sustained while lifting prior to
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Speaker 1: training camp.
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Speaker 2: But you can't help.
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Speaker 1: But wonder he did have the shoulder injury last season
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Speaker 1: with the Vikings. It was the right shoulder injury and
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Speaker 1: he had a procedure on it. Who knows, but the
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Speaker 1: shoulder and the pack are pretty close. Maybe I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but it is something to keep an eye on. But
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Speaker 1: if there were a player that could withstand or that
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Speaker 1: you would feel okay with not practicing. It's probably Jonathan Garnard,
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Speaker 1: who is a true pro. He's played for two different teams,
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Speaker 1: two different systems, and it now gives Jay Looks Hunt
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Speaker 1: and Nolan Smith increased opportunities to go out there, make
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Speaker 1: play and continue to hone their craft. So there's the
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Speaker 1: peck strain for Jonathan Grenard, and other than that, the
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Speaker 1: Eagles had a healthy roster. They were all practicing. Of course,
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Speaker 1: that's the first day, so largely to be expected. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into the practices because the practice notes because
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Speaker 1: the Eagles continue to rotate the backup quarterbacks in Tanner
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Speaker 1: McKee and Andy Dalton, and Nick Sirianni indicated that that
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Speaker 1: was going to be part of the plan still moving
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Speaker 1: forward when he spoke prior to practice, and first up
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Speaker 1: with the twos was Tanner McKee. Then Andy Dalton got
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Speaker 1: some run, but Tanner McKee got the initial nod there
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Speaker 1: and before practice even began, when they're going through just
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Speaker 1: the warm up, Droelser throwing routes on air, Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: and Tanner.
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Speaker 2: McKee were on the field. Was split.
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Speaker 1: So try to bear with me here Tanner McKee and
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts were standing apart from one another, but they
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Speaker 1: were throwing to different players. And then behind them they
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Speaker 1: had Cole Peyton and Andy Dalton and some of the
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Speaker 1: players who were there with Andy Dalton and Cole Peyton,
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Speaker 1: Samari Torre, Danny gray Stone, Smart, Johnny Wilson, Britton Covey,
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Speaker 1: Eli Stowers, Qus Watkins, Da Kwon Wright, and Eric Azukanma.
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Speaker 1: But one thing that I noticed when they were running
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Speaker 1: routes on air is how securely both Elijah Moore and
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Speaker 1: Darius Cooper catch the football.
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Speaker 2: They're really reliable.
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Speaker 1: They don't have the twitchiness or the explosiveness, but they
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Speaker 1: get in and out of breaks and they catch nearly
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Speaker 1: everything that comes their direction.
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Speaker 2: And we'll get to Darius Cooper a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: But when the Eagles opened in eleven on eleven, and
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Speaker 1: this is something that's going to be a talking point
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Speaker 1: throughout the summer, they opened in base so your safeties
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Speaker 1: were Drew mccouba and Cooper Degene and Marcus EPs came in.
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Speaker 1: When the Eagles went to nickel where Cooper Degen came down,
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Speaker 1: that's to be expected. Jalox Hunt got off to a
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Speaker 1: really fast start in the eleven on eleven period, and he,
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Speaker 1: to me, was my.
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Speaker 2: Player of the day. He got what it looked like.
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Speaker 1: He looked like he got Jordani Alatta to Jordan a
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Speaker 1: lotta flinched, which drew jalox Hunt offsides. As the anticipation
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Speaker 1: was building, they had thunderstruck that was blaring through the speakers,
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Speaker 1: and I just saw jox Hunt clapping, So presumably was
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Speaker 1: that one was on my lotta But jalox Hunt was
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Speaker 1: really factoring into the backfield.
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Speaker 2: He was turning the corner well.
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Speaker 1: And there was another play where he met Tank Bigsby
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Speaker 1: to the spot.
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Speaker 2: It was a short pass into the flat.
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Speaker 1: Jalox Hunt was right. There would have been a big
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Speaker 1: hit had it been, you know.
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Speaker 2: A game situation.
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Speaker 1: But I just think that Jay looks Hunt, and it
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Speaker 1: goes back to everything that I was saying in the
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Speaker 1: off season. The athleticism and the innate ability that he
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Speaker 1: has is now sort of the knowledge that comes with
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Speaker 1: playing in playing snaps and playing a couple of seasons
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Speaker 1: is now sort of meeting the athleticism and the traits
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Speaker 1: that he has, and it's kind of really been fun
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Speaker 1: to watch him progress over the past couple of years, and.
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Speaker 2: He again he's filled out his frame.
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Speaker 1: He's someone that I think has a more refined approach
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Speaker 1: when it comes to his pass rush. He's not locked
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Speaker 1: in any one particular method. He's able to have some
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Speaker 1: counter moves, and his attention to detail.
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Speaker 2: Is very apparent.
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Speaker 1: But now he has such a good understanding of his
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Speaker 1: role within this defense, at least seemingly that he's now
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Speaker 1: able to lean into his athleticism and and when he's
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Speaker 1: turned loose.
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Speaker 2: It is a sight to behold.
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Speaker 1: So I thought that without going too overboard here for
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Speaker 1: one practice that Jay looks Hunt looked looked pretty good
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Speaker 1: to start.
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts had a solid practice.
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Speaker 1: I thought that he delivered the ball with touch and accuracy.
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Speaker 2: The there was a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of under center play action at play today, and that's
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Speaker 1: really going to be a hallmark of this Shawn Manny
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Speaker 1: and offense. But I thought by and Lauris, Jayalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: got the ball out quickly and on time. He delivered
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Speaker 1: it with with with accuracy, put receivers in position where
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Speaker 1: only they could catch it. Now, there were there were
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Speaker 1: a handful of throws that I'm sure he'd like to
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Speaker 1: have back. But for day one, where all eyes are
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Speaker 1: on you and this Eagles offense, that's the prominent storyline
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Speaker 1: going into training camp, and it will be really bleeding
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Speaker 1: into the fall. Here. I thought that Jaylen checked off
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Speaker 1: some boxes and handled things pretty well. There was a
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Speaker 1: lot of middle of the field throws in today's practice. Now,
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Speaker 1: early in the session, Quinya Mitchell deflected a mid range
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Speaker 1: throw that Jaywin tried to rifle in there to don Tavian.
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Speaker 1: Wicks might have been a tad behind Dantavian, but I
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Speaker 1: would more so put the onus on the receiver to
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Speaker 1: make those catches, especially one who's gonna have a pretty
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Speaker 1: sizable role in the offense. That one stuck out to
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Speaker 1: me right there, Dallas Goddard dropped a short throw on
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Speaker 1: and he was wide open. So I don't necessarily fault those.
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Speaker 1: I don't fault Jaywen Hurts there. You got to make
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Speaker 1: those plays.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me. He threw Jaywin threw a really.
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Speaker 1: Nice touch pass in the intermediary levels of the field.
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Speaker 1: Was a deep middle shot to Darius Cooper, who laid
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Speaker 1: out for the pass.
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Speaker 2: I didn't have to lay out.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to do anything too extraordinary, but it
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Speaker 1: was a good adjustment to get to the football selling
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Speaker 1: out for it. It looked like Cooper Degen may have
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Speaker 1: been in coverage on the play. There's no replay in
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Speaker 1: training camp, so you're you're going off of memory, and
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Speaker 1: I quickly jot things down as we get ready to
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Speaker 1: move on to the next play.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think that Tanner McKee was overly sharp.
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Speaker 1: Now he always threw a handful of passes in today's practice.
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Speaker 1: But I am very fascinated with this number two quarterback
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Speaker 1: spot and how they go about rotating and allocating snaps
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Speaker 1: because even as the as the second quarterback, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: see a decent amount of reps.
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Speaker 1: They sort of tap into the you know, the veteran
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Speaker 1: prowess of someone like an Andy Dalton and get him
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Speaker 1: some of those reps and if that sort of persists
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Speaker 1: throughout the summer. But I thought that Cole Payton had
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Speaker 1: some nice throws in this There was one where he
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Speaker 1: showed some fearlessness pushing it down the field through a
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Speaker 1: deep shot to Ques Watkins who extended for the ball.
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Speaker 1: He sort of he didn't necessarily have to climb the ladder,
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Speaker 1: but he extended for it. Keithley Ringo was in coverage
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Speaker 1: and then he had another nice one at the end
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Speaker 1: of practice to Britain Covey where he just sort of
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Speaker 1: dropped it in there.
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Speaker 2: Britain got it, and it.
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Speaker 1: Underscored the fearlessness and maybe the cun slinger's mentality that
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Speaker 1: a Cole Peyton might have. But you don't often see
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Speaker 1: that from young quarterbacks, and certainly not Day three quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: who are trying to find their footing early on. Reps
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Speaker 1: are extremely scarce when you're the fourth quarterback.
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Speaker 2: But I thought that the fact that I can.
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Speaker 1: Already recall two throws vividly that he had that were
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Speaker 1: notable to me tells you that, you know, he's.
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Speaker 2: The moment's not too big for him.
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Speaker 1: Now we'll have to see if he can build off
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Speaker 1: of that, and he's still is gonna have some you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how mechanically he's able to.
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Speaker 2: Develop this summer in time.
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Speaker 1: And when you don't get those reps during the team drills,
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Speaker 1: that's something that that's kind of difficult. That's why the
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Speaker 1: developmental periods at the end of practice are so paramount
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Speaker 1: for not only Cole Payton but younger players like Eli
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Speaker 1: Stowers and others. So that right there was something and
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Speaker 1: I'm scanning my notes here, you guys are getting me
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Speaker 1: right off the practice field essentially, And I haven't had
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Speaker 1: a chance to really log all my thoughts, you know,
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Speaker 1: in a pullet point or anything like that. But Jalen
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Speaker 1: Carter I thought, you know, had a nice practice. He
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Speaker 1: was out there, he moves well. He looks to be
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Speaker 1: in great shape. I thought that before practice. It was
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Speaker 1: you know, you hear Nick Sirianni talking about the talking
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Speaker 1: about how he's in Phenomenal was the word that he
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Speaker 1: used and talked about his weight and how he did
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Speaker 1: in the conditioning test. It showed out there and it's
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Speaker 1: away won practice, So we're gonna put everything in the
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Speaker 1: context here.
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Speaker 2: But he moved well. He there was one play where he.
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Speaker 1: Shed the block, shed one of the guards and met
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Speaker 1: Sakuon Barkley in the hole, which would have been for
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Speaker 1: a loss.
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Speaker 2: That was durding eleven on eleven's.
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Speaker 1: And then for those wondering that, the second team offensive
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Speaker 1: line was Fred Johnson at left tackle, Michael Jordan at
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Speaker 1: left guard, Jake Major's at center, Drew Kendall at right guard.
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Speaker 2: Right tackle was rookie Mark hil Bell, and.
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Speaker 1: There was a good situational throw from Andy Dalton who
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Speaker 1: rifled won in the middle of the field to Johnny Wilson.
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Speaker 1: Was an inbreaking route which Andy Dalton threw pretty flawlessly
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Speaker 1: in the spring to Johnny Wilson. So they're starting to
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Speaker 1: get a little bit of a chemistry there, it seems.
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Speaker 2: But he threw it.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was between cornerback Ambrey Thomas and might
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Speaker 1: have been Jeremiah Trotter Junior. But it was a nice
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Speaker 1: throw there by Andy Dalton, sort of rifling one in there.
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Speaker 2: The third team defensive line.
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Speaker 1: Among those players you're seeing, you know, Gabe hall u
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Speaker 1: r Bernard.
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Speaker 2: Ty Robinson and Ty Robinson.
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Speaker 1: For those wondering, because I got a lot of ty
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Speaker 1: Robinson questions last summer. He didn't do a ton in practice.
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Speaker 1: It didn't really There's nothing that he did that made
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Speaker 1: the notebook or anything like that other than where he
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Speaker 1: was in terms of the pecking order, and he got
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Speaker 1: some work on the developmental team as well. That backup
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Speaker 1: yet that some of the players who were on at
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Speaker 1: the Linebackers were Deontay Lawson and Chance Campbell.
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Speaker 2: Safeties were Cole Wiznski and j. T. Gray.
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Speaker 1: The corners in that situation were Jackry and Bennett and
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Speaker 1: Ambry Thomas. Also during that session, Andy in that particular
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Speaker 1: segment of practice, Andy Dalton hit Samouri Torre on a
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Speaker 1: nice throw along the sideline. It was a mid range
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Speaker 1: throat looked like a crossing route. But I also paid
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Speaker 1: attention to some of the special.
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Speaker 2: Teams and the punt returner.
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Speaker 1: The punt returners in particular, and the three players who
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Speaker 1: were back there were Britain Covey, McKay lemon, and Elijah Moore.
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Speaker 1: All three players are interesting, but I want to talk
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Speaker 1: a second about McKay lemon. That would make some sense
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Speaker 1: because the other two players are on the roster fringes.
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Speaker 1: But with McKay lemon, you could see the short area
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Speaker 1: bursts that he has tracking the football and ball security
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Speaker 1: is going to be hugely important obviously when it comes
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Speaker 1: to returning punts and putting your team in good field position.
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Speaker 2: There, I could see it. I could see it as
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Speaker 2: a rookie.
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Speaker 1: Especially depending on how much you're going to lean on
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Speaker 1: him early in the season. I imagine that's going to
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Speaker 1: be a lot of uh DeVante Smith and Dan Tavian Wicks.
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Speaker 1: So maybe it would make some sense to get mackay
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Speaker 1: lemon back there, especially since there's no obvious candidate to
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Speaker 1: take on that role. Elijah Moore is interesting because you
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Speaker 1: can see his ability as a receiver and he's not
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Speaker 1: twitched up. He's not explosive or especially dynamic, but he's reliable.
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Speaker 2: He catches everything, and.
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Speaker 1: As amid fifth or sixth receiver, if you're able to
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Speaker 1: demonstrate added value as a punt returner, maybe he could
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Speaker 1: elbow his way into the roster conversation.
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Speaker 2: It's something that's really interesting.
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Speaker 1: I was also paying attention to long snapper Rocco Underwood
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Speaker 1: during this special team's portion of practice, where you're you're
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Speaker 1: watching the timing and the timeliness of his snaps.
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Speaker 2: And I thought that for the.
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Speaker 1: Small amount of that I that I keyed in on
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Speaker 1: him before pivot to the punt returners. I thought he
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Speaker 1: delivered the ball, you know, pretty quickly and timely, and
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Speaker 1: there was and it was on target, another important facet
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Speaker 1: of being a long snapper. But the personal protectors for
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Speaker 1: those curious in this order, Will Shipley, Marcus Epps, Cole Wiznewsky,
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Speaker 1: and Maximus Pulley. I think that it's important to know
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Speaker 1: that Will Shipley is the Eagle's personal protector on punts,
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Speaker 1: but it is notable that some of those other names
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Speaker 1: that were repping back there, Rocco would snap it and
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Speaker 1: the personal protector would sort of simulate like they were
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Speaker 1: shedding a block and then.
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Speaker 2: Try to, you know, get upfield.
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Speaker 1: Eleven on eleven's Later in the session, Jalen Hurts threw
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Speaker 1: a really nice pass over the middle to Dantavian Wicks
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Speaker 1: who It was a low pass but he was able.
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Speaker 2: To grab that.
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Speaker 1: There was a deep dig that Jalen threw to DeVante
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Speaker 1: Smith on the right side of the field. He got
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Speaker 1: the best of Quinna Mitchell on that. That might have
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Speaker 1: been Jalen Hurts's best throw of the day, the one
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Speaker 1: that he had late in practice too to DeVante Smith.
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Speaker 1: But there's there's a lot of the there should be
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Speaker 1: a lot of optimism moving forward. You could you could
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Speaker 1: see the vision of the offense. They're doing some different things.
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Speaker 1: Nothing overly dramatic for day one, but I did notice
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Speaker 1: a lot of under center play action. There were weren't
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Speaker 1: as many tight splitz is there at as I saw
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Speaker 1: during the spring. But again it's the first day of
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Speaker 1: training camp. Things sort of develop, grow and evolve as
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Speaker 1: the days progress. Here but I thought that Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: was was. He had a good practice and a couple
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Speaker 1: of those throws were drops. He's not be getting a
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Speaker 1: new offense just like everyone is. And then on the
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Speaker 1: defensive side, I thought Jay looks Hunt really shined and
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Speaker 1: in the practice aj Panessa got a decent amount of
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Speaker 1: work with the second team. And again everybody is bumped
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Speaker 1: up a little bit in the pecking order because of
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Grenard's absence. But I thought Epanessa he looked like
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Speaker 1: a player who's played a little bit, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he he was moving around. Well, he's a big guy,
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Speaker 1: but I thought he moved a little bit more fluidly.
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Speaker 2: Than I expected. But that's something that I'll be keeping
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Speaker 2: an eye on.
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Speaker 1: Is he someone that maybe all of a sudden factors
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Speaker 1: in as a potential fourth edge rusher and maybe is
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Speaker 1: able to leap m a Katie in that pecking order.
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Speaker 1: Trotter Junior another practice where you can see the instincts
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Speaker 1: on display. Everything he does is very detailed, and those
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Speaker 1: are the things that you like if you're Vic Vangil
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Speaker 1: Whicheremiah Trotter, the instincts, the detail I'm running through, the
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Speaker 1: different positions. In my mind, here Michael Carter got some.
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Speaker 1: You know, he was on the field quite a bit
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Speaker 1: in this practice. Michael Carter the second and I've said
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Speaker 1: this before, but having seen him now moving around and
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Speaker 1: getting getting in the mix a little bit, I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is this is the way that this position, the
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Speaker 1: safety position is evolving in the NFL. He moves well,
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Speaker 1: he has good short area quickness, and he's an intelligent
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Speaker 1: football player. I understand why Marcus EPs is entering as
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Speaker 1: the favorite, and he should be. He has a lot
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Speaker 1: of games under his belt, I think ninety four. But
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Speaker 1: Michael Carter brings you a different dimension to that position,
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Speaker 1: built similarly to Macouba, who also is in a big safety,
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Speaker 1: a traditional sized safety. But there's something to be said
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Speaker 1: for the versatility that they both pose and their coverage acumen.
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Speaker 1: And I think when you look at the way that
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Speaker 1: this position is headed in the NFL and what you
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Speaker 1: need to be able to do and not necessarily lean
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Speaker 1: into being a one dimensional player, that's something that I'm
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Speaker 1: really curious to see how it develops, because this is
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Speaker 1: this is.
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Speaker 2: All new really to Michael Carter. Certainly, this sort.
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Speaker 1: Of expanded capacity, but I think that he has the
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Speaker 1: qualities two to earn it, to earn a spot, to
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Speaker 1: earn a spot as a potential as a safety opposite
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Speaker 1: Makooba when the Eagles are a nickel.
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Speaker 2: I think he has that ability.
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Speaker 1: But there there's a lot to unpack, and that's kind
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Speaker 1: of my immediate thoughts coming off the first practice.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the a lot of players spoke afterwards.
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Speaker 1: Uh Jalen Carter, Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, DeVante Smith spoke,
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Speaker 1: Lane Johnson spoke, Zach Blond spoke, Jordan Davis spoke. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of quotes there that I still have
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Speaker 1: yet on, you know, transcribe and work through. But it
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Speaker 1: was great to see Jaylen Carter smiling. He talked about
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Speaker 1: the story. Uh.
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts said that he.
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Speaker 1: Put a you know, he had a five dollar bill
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Speaker 1: in his bag and he patted it on, you know,
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Speaker 1: he patted it on Jalen Carter's chest and said, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to put five on top of that, and it
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Speaker 1: was sort of a lighthearted moment there.
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Speaker 2: Jaywen Hurts also talked about just the.
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Speaker 1: You know, the togetherness, the close knit nature of this
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Speaker 1: Eagles team, and I think something that was palpable to
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Speaker 1: me was it felt like it felt loose. It felt
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Speaker 1: like they were focused, but they also felt like it
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Speaker 1: was a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: Of of a looser bunch who were out there. They
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Speaker 2: were enjoying the moment.
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Speaker 1: They were coming together as a team, and that's so
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Speaker 1: important and that's something that Nick Sirianni talks a lot about.
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Speaker 1: In fact, jaywhen Hurts discussed this in his press conference
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Speaker 1: that the when he if you remember, I talked about
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Speaker 1: him having the you know, the organized workout in Florida
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Speaker 1: with some of the skilled players, and he talked about
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Speaker 1: the importance of bringing everybody together and he said one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent alignment and zero entitlement. And I think that
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Speaker 1: maybe best encapsulates what I'm trying to illustrate here, that
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Speaker 1: that's kind of what it felt like on day one.
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Speaker 1: And it's a new era of Eagles football with a
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Speaker 1: new offense, no Aj Brown and there it just has
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Speaker 1: a feeling of a new era that that's working towards
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Speaker 1: doing something. I'm not quite ready to say they're ready
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Speaker 1: to do something special yet because it's way too premature
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Speaker 1: for that, but I can see the vision and I
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Speaker 1: think the vibes are where you would expect them, You
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Speaker 1: would hope, if you're a fan listening, that they would
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Speaker 1: be at this stage of the game.
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Speaker 2: And I think that that should ultimately.
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Speaker 1: Relate to I mean, I think ultimately that's going to
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Speaker 1: be reflected in the on field performance.
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Speaker 2: So with that, that's going to do it for this
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Speaker 2: episode of The Check o'delli.
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Speaker 4: I'm Andrew Decheco and I'll catch you all on the
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Speaker 4: next one.
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