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The DiCecco Daily: Eagles TE Cam Latu Set For NFL Debut; What to Expect · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening everybody? Welcome into this edition of the
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  check O Daily. It's Andrew Decheco Eagles Chiefs tomorrow, but
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  as promised, the final podcast of the week, and it
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  centers around the roster moves that the Eagles made Saturday
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  at four o'clock. To no surprise if you've been listening
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  to the podcast, but tight end Cameron Lattu the Eagles
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  still listen him as a tight end. He was elevated
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  from the practice squad to the active roster, and so
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  was safety Marcus Epps from the practice squad to the
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  active roster. Those were the eagles two elevations this week.
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  I mentioned EJ. Jenkins potentially as another one, but those
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  were the three players that I discussed yesterday as logical
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  elevations for this game. Reminder, each player gets it's three
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  elevations this season before the team has to make a
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  decision to sign them to the active roster or leave
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  them on the practice squad. This is Marcus Eeps's second elevation,
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  the first for Cam lat two. First NFL game for
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  Cameron lat two, and he was a twenty twenty three
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  third round pick of the San Francisco forty nine ers.
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  He had a meniscus injury in preseason of his rookie year,
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  was put on ir then he was waived the following summer.
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  Spent a time with the Cleveland Browns practice squad last season,
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  and then signed a reserve futures deal with the Eagles
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  in late January and was with the Eagles through training camp.
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  What I can tell you is really more or less
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  what I've been saying over the past few podcasts, and
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  that is that he is a physical player. He moves
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  pretty well for the position. And when I watched him
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  in training camp, and granted the reps were pretty infrequent,
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  and that's the case when you're that far down to
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  the pecking order, there weren't many tight ends that could
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  ward off Johad Campbell when he's attacking downhill. But there
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  were a couple instances where I noticed that cam Lattu
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  stonewalled or at least gave Campbell a fit at the
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  point of attack. So he's going to bring some physicality
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  on Sunday. I'm expecting him to take a big role
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  on special teams. Maybe you'll even see him at full back. Remember,
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  Wednesday was the first day that he even moonlighted at
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  full back, So that's kind of what I'm expecting from
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  his role. And then for Marcus Epps, again, the Eagles
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  just have three safeties on the fifty three man roster
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  currently and that could also change, but I think, you know,
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  knowing that they have Cooper Degene, they can do it.
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  If you listen to Vic Vango, they like to keep
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  him at nickel if they can not move him the
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  outside corner, not move him to safety. They want to
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  keep him right there at that nickel role, knowing how
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  vital it is to the overall functionality of the defense
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  and how effective Coup is in that role already among
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  the best nickel corners in the NFL, and that certainly
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  is not hyperbole. So Marcus Epps will probably take on
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  a big special teams role as well, who knows, maybe
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  even see the field in sub packages, but I think
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  his primary role on game day is going to be
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  on special teams. He may be a player that the
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  Eagles look to eventually sign. We talk about the elevations
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  as this being his second but then there is also
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  another move and rookie offensive tackle Cameron Williams went to Texas,
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  Leagles drafted him in the sixth round. Well, today the
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  team put him on injured reserve, where he joins fellow
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  rookie offensive tackle Miles Hinton, who went to Michigan. I
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  thought Hinton was the more polished of the two, and
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  I don't believe it was even close. But it's also
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  important to mention that Cameron Williams started just sixteen games
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  in college, still really new to the position. Like the size,
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  he has a lot of athletic traits that are worth developing, certainly,
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  and the Eagles believed that had he stayed at Texas
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  for another year, he probably would have been a Day
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  two pick. So you got good value there, and then
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  you leave it to Jeff Stoutlind to continue to work
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  with him, or at least I guess at this point,
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  have him in the meeting rooms and really develop the
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  mental side of things, and then he'll have an opportunity
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  to earn a roster spot next offseason when Ohta's roll on.
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  But not really a surprise, he goes on ir with
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  the shoulder injury. He was a limited participant Thursday Friday,
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  he didn't practice at all, and for a developmental player
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  like Cameron Williams, it just makes a lot of sense.
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  It made a lot of sense, but then you have
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  the shoulder that factored into it. And now the Eagles
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  have an open roster spot on the fifty three. They're
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  going to carry fifty two players into tomorrow's game, and
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  I guess it begs the question if they didn't just
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  outright sign Marcus Epps to the roster, or they didn't
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  make another move to fulfill that roster spot with another
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  player that was already in house from the practice squad
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  and sign them. Maybe the Eagles are looking from for
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  an outside candidate or have their eye on an outside
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  candidate that they wish to sign early next week. We'll
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  have to keep an eye on how that all shakes out,
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  but as it is, the Eagles are carrying fifty two
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  players in those are the three roster moves again, Eagles
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  elevating safety Marcus Epps, tight end Cameron Latsu, and placing
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  rookie offensive tackle Cameron Williams on injured reserve, where he
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  now joins fellow rookie offensive tackle Miles Hinton. That's just
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  a quick podcast today, just a quick recap of the
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  Saturday transactions, and there's gonna be plenty to dissect plenty
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  to digest. Tomorrow, after the game, I'll do another podcast
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  and we're gonna keep this thing rolling. This has been
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  to check O daily. I'm Andrew to Checko and I'll
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  talk to you tomorrow