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The DiCecco Daily: Going Inside Eagles Options For Week 18 Vs. Commanders · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome into another edition of the check
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  Speaker 1: O' Deli. It's Andrew de Checko, Eagles beat reporter from
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  Speaker 1: on Roosevelt Boulevard. It was myself and Adam Kaplan. Great
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  Speaker 1: conversation there. You can grab that on the Inside the
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  Speaker 1: Burds podcast platform and on our YouTube channel. And so,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles brought back long snapper Charlie Hewitt to the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad. They released defensive end Titus Leo, who has
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  Speaker 1: now been a part of six transactions this season from
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles. And now it's important to note that there
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  Speaker 1: are two players on the practice squad, that being safety
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  Speaker 1: Andre Samon outside linebacker Patrick Johnson who are out of elevations.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to note that because it could play
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  Speaker 1: into how they approach Week eighteen and bringing in one
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  Speaker 1: of those players, because they still have to elevate Charlie Hewett,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and that's one of the possibilities and one
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  Speaker 1: of the directions they could potentially go with that, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see how that goes Eagles
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  Speaker 1: practice Wednesday. They have will walk through in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: they have a locker room in the afternoon after that,
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  Speaker 1: and then they have Nick Sirianni speaking at about eleven twenty.
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  Speaker 1: That kicks off Eagles Commanders Week. So a lot to
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  Speaker 1: sort of go through tomorrow. That's that kicks off the week.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to.
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  Speaker 2: Look at week eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: And if you listen to Nick Siriani and his press
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  Speaker 1: conference on Monday in the day after the game, he
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  Speaker 1: sort of intimated how they may approach this game. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't quite know whether or not who's going to play,
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  Speaker 1: who's not going to play. How I would approach it.
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  Speaker 1: I would do a sort of a combination in which
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  Speaker 1: I would play. I mean, you have to play some starters.
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  Speaker 1: You only have so many players. You don't have the
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  Speaker 1: ninety man roster that you have in training camp and
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  Speaker 1: you can you don't have that luxury of doing what
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  Speaker 1: you do in the preseason. But there are players that
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  Speaker 1: could play, like Fred Johnson and Tyler Steen and maybe
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  Speaker 1: Johan Dotson. But I'm expecting to see, you know, Tanner McKee,
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  Speaker 1: Darius Cooper, Grant Calcata, Will Shipley, aj Dillon, those type
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  Speaker 1: of guys on the offense, Brett Toth at center, Matt Pryor,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Kendall and those type of players. Because let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget back in twenty twenty three when the Eagles did
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  Speaker 1: play a lot of their starters, they hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Aj Brown got hurt in that game. It was in
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  Speaker 2: MetLife Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Brown got hurt later in that game, So you
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  Speaker 1: always want to guard against that. And again I'm sort
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  Speaker 1: of reading into what Nick Sirianni had to say. And
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  Speaker 1: you also have to look at the two seed because
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  Speaker 1: that is incredibly valuable. Both the Eagles and the Bears
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  Speaker 1: played four twenty five, So the NFL sets it up
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  Speaker 1: in a way where you can't go into it knowing
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  Speaker 1: what your approach is going to be. So that could
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  Speaker 1: play into it as well, knowing how successful the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: were with that number two seed, how vital it is
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  Speaker 1: to have playoff football at Lincoln Financial Field, of the
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  Speaker 1: crowd is a decided advantage over any opponent, and that
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  Speaker 1: would make the path through the NFL playoffs all the
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  Speaker 1: more favorable for the Philadelphia Eagles. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: at play here. I don't quite know which way the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are going to go. I would expect them the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the pre eminent players, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Mylotta. That's just my gut and knowing how important
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  Speaker 1: it is, especially for some of those offensive linemen, whether
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  Speaker 1: it be Cam Jurgens, Landon Dickerson, Jordan Malatta, Saquon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: you want to protect those players. And if you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to play some starting offensive lineman, well you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: want to have your quarterback out there and expose him
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  Speaker 1: to potential injury, knowing that you're going against the commander's team,
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  Speaker 1: where let's not forget Dan Campbell a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago said we still have to play the Week eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: there was that chippiness at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles commanders have been a pretty chippy affair in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know that you want to put team
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  Speaker 1: out there, put important pieces to your team out there
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  Speaker 1: against another team that has nothing to really gain. There's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be presumably a lot of younger players in that
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  Speaker 1: commander's game that are going to be trying to prove
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  Speaker 1: themselves and put some positive tape out there.
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  Speaker 1: And defensively, it could be a really good opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: players like josh Usha who's been inactive for a number
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  Speaker 1: of weeks now, for a Sydney Brown who hasn't had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities to play safety this year outside
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  Speaker 1: of the Black Friday Game and earlier in the season.
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  Speaker 2: You look at your Corey and Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: Another player that was traded for in August and had
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  Speaker 1: hasn't played a ton of corner for this football team,
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  Speaker 1: Keey Ringo. It's important that he gets reps at corner.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at Smile Manden and Jeremiah Trotter junior
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  Speaker 1: at linebacker. Trotter Junior, let's not forget, had a really
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  Speaker 1: good training camp, So maybe getting him out there and
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  Speaker 1: getting him those live reps at linebacker in a meaningful
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  Speaker 1: regular season game would be beneficial to him in his development.
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  Speaker 1: Smile Manden hasn't played virtually at all on defense, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not at all. I haven't checked the snap counts, but
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  Speaker 1: that's another player that could benefit from that. I would
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  Speaker 1: not put Zach Bonner to Kobe Dean out there if
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  Speaker 1: it were me making the decisions. N Kobe Dean certainly
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  Speaker 1: not with the hamstring injury. Johan Campbell, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: played very well in the Buffalo Bills game. I thought
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  Speaker 1: in the absence of Nakcobe Dean. And then defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of Byron Young. You may
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  Speaker 1: see some more Brandon Graham than you have in recent weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you have I mentioned josh Usha, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of young defensive linemen, including Ty Robinson
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't played a lot of football that this could
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  Speaker 1: be another big opportunity for him. And then I look offensively,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that I'm highlighting and I think is going
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  Speaker 1: to have a really big game just given the amount
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  Speaker 1: of numbers and his rapport with Tanner McKee is Darius Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver. I think he should see a healthy
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  Speaker 1: amount of targets and be able to kind of showcase
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  Speaker 1: what we saw in training camp in the preseason. As
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, he has a really good rapport there with
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee, Cameron Latsu.
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  Speaker 2: You know he plays fullback.
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  Speaker 1: So that's only five to seven snaps a game that
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  Speaker 1: he's seeing on offense. I'm curious to see if he
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  Speaker 1: gets a look at tight end because if he does,
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  Speaker 1: I think that that would be something that would be
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  Speaker 1: really intriguing to see where he is in terms of
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  Speaker 1: his development at tight end, because he hasn't really played
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  Speaker 1: tight end. He hasn't caught a pass this season, So
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a big opportunity for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those players, if you can tell. I get
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  Speaker 1: really excited about seeing younger players in these type of
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  Speaker 1: games because they work really hard behind the scenes and
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  Speaker 1: most wouldn't know that because you don't get to see
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  Speaker 1: them much on game day. They're either inactive or relegated
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  Speaker 1: to special teams. And this could be a really good
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for them to not only put good things out
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  Speaker 1: there on tape, but get those reps and opportunities because
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  Speaker 1: you never know when the Eagles are gonna need them.
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  Speaker 2: So just some of my thoughts here on this Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Vic Vangio spoke today, Michael Clay spoke, and Kevin Patulo spoke.
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  Speaker 1: I won't get into the quotes there today, but I
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  Speaker 1: kind of just had some thoughts here as the week
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  Speaker 1: starts to kick off at the Novacare Complex New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Eve tomorrow, of course, and then New Year's Day. But
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles have their schedule and they will be there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and the game will be at four twenty five Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Commanders at Lincoln Financial Field. That's all for me.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Czech Odaily. I'm Andrew Tochecko and I'll catch you on
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  Speaker 1: the next one.