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The DiCecco Daily: Which Eagles Will Start To Separate As Pads Come Out? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's happened?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into this edition of the Checko Daily. I
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  am your host, Andrew Dicheco, And if you can hear
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  the excitement in my voice, it is because tomorrow, Tuesday,
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  will be the first day of fully padded practices at
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  Eagles training camp. It is by far my favorite day
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  on the NFL calendar, and you're really able to evaluate more.
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  You're able to gauge more in terms of where certain
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  players lie in the pecking order, who is going to
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  be able to rise above and ratchet it up a notch.
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  And this is really where the intensity ratchets up a notch.
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  Tomorrow is going to be a absolute scorcher out there, and
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  that's where players tend to separate themselves. Obviously when the
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  pads come on, I personally enjoy it because there's a
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  noticeable rise and intensity and you want to see who's
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  able to.
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  Speaker 1: Get after it because it's it's very challenging.
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  Speaker 2: Training camp is already a grind, but when you factor
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  in the pads and the sweltering temperatures out there, that's
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  really where you're able to kind of gauge a little
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  bit more. So let's take a step back for a
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  moment and observe, or at least let me articulate what
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  it is that I'm looking for tomorrow. Because it's one
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  thing to say this player is out performing this one,
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  this player has shined in this particular role or in
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  this instance, or in this you know, in this team drill.
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  But it's so hard to evaluate without the pads because
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  and that's always been my disclaimer whenever I talk about
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  training camp, I say, we'll have to wait until the
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  pads come on. That's where you're able to tell, for example,
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  where tight ends are in terms off they're blocking. It's
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  one thing to be able to run around in shorts
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  and shells and catch everything that's thrown your way, but
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  how are you going to acquit yourself in the running
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  game as an inline blocker. We already know that Dallas
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  Goddard is the most well rounded tight end in terms
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  of blocking, receiving all of that. But who's next on
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  that list? In my opinion, it's EJ. Jenkins, And I think,
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  for example, someone like EJ. Jenkins at six foot six,
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  two hundred and sixty pounds. Padded practices are tailor made
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  for someone of that skill set where you can really
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  gauge his blocking prowess, and I think that that that
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  kind of separates himself from other players.
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  Speaker 1: That's just for an example. The other thing lineman.
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  Speaker 2: Today was one on ones and that's my favorite drill
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  throughout the summer. But it makes it so much more
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  intriguing when you have pads on and you're able to
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  get your hands on there, and the physicality and all
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  of these different intricacies play into who wins these drills,
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  and I think you have a much better picture and
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  a better assessment as to who's really starting to rise.
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  So offensive line, I'm looking at how is Tyler Steen
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  going to fair going against Moro Jomo? For example, Morojomo
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  has thrived throughout the first four practices providing pressure up
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  the middle, but when the pads come on, that's where
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  you're able to kind of engage in more physicality. And
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  for Stein this is a huge step for him. This
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  is a huge practice upcoming because I think that he
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  can be more physical and you're able to see was
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  Jomo really being able to give those offensive lineman fits
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  because they weren't able to do much in terms of
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  physicality in terms of leaning into a defender, or is
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  Morojomo just a player who tends to wreak havoc. I'll
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  also be looking at, you know, the defensive line. How
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  is someone like a Ty Robinson who I didn't think
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  had a particularly great practice on day four.
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  Speaker 1: That's where someone like him.
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  Speaker 2: Who maybe was sort of having a nondescript few days.
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  When you put the pads on and you're able to
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  get your leverage and hand usage and all that, and
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  maybe you can factor into the backfield and put some
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  pressure on lineman. And sometimes that provides some unique challenges
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  for interior linemen such as that Jordan mylatt, Elaine Johnson,
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  jayalox Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk.
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  Speaker 2: About jay loox Hunt, and you know, Jordan Malatta has
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  given him a lot of praise. But you'll also have
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  to see what jay oax Hunt's able to do when
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  Jordan Mylotta is able to engage in more physical one
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  on one battles when the pads come on. And sometimes
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  that's where you don't hear from certain players who were
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  flashing the first few days of practice. So I'll be
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  particularly looking at the tight ends because there has been yet,
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  there has been no one who has really stepped up
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  and separated themselves in terms of the top two players.
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  Obviously you have Dallas Goddard, you have Grant kal Katara.
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  Kylon Granson has made some nice catches. We think he
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  can block, but is he a better blocker than some
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  like an E. J. Jenkins, for example, Harrison Bryant. He
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  doesn't give you much as a blocker. How physical, how
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  willing is he to stick in there and and you know,
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  stick his nose in there and play a physical brand
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  of football. These are certain elements that are going to
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  go a long way in determining where these players factor
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  into the roster consideration. How about a corner like a
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  ki Lee Ringo and a Dori Jackson. Those are two
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  players who are sort of neck and neck right now.
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  You can make the argument that Dori Jackson is sort
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  of taking the lead there as he's been working with
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  the first team to start practice for the third consecutive day.
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  But when you have to get your hands on a
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  receiver like an AJ Brown and you know you're sort
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  of you know, colliding, you know, colliding with the pads
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  and things like that. A Dorri Jackson's a smaller player
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  than Kielee Ringo. Pads would tend to skew in the
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  favor of someone like Ringo, who is a bigger body defender.
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  Speaker 1: He is physical, he is handsy.
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  Speaker 2: This is where you're able to kind of get a
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  better sense of who who's really winning this battle. And
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  that's why you never want to make too much over
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  the first few days of that acclamation period because it's
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  not always a true gauge of where certain players are. Now,
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  my expectation tomorrow it's going to be really hot. I
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  don't know how long they're gonna go, but today very
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  much felt like a ramp up where you had shorts
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  and shells.
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  Speaker 1: It was hot out.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow they're going to hit the ground running and that's
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  where you see this and I go back to this,
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  the intensity ratches up. It's my favorite day because this
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  is where players tend to separate. There is a palpable
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  sense of urgency and physicality that accompanies the pads coming
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  on and again, this is where players tend to separate.
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  This is where you're able to get a better read
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  on some of these position battles. So I don't know
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  quite how long they're going to go, but my expectation
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  is is that you're going to see the pads popping,
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  and sometimes when the weather gets like this and the
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  pads come on and there's jobs on the line, this
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  is where you start to see some scrappiness, some feisty play,
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  some physicality, some training camp scuffles. Although there haven't been much,
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  haven't been many under Nick Sirianni, but I cannot wait.
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  You can hear the excitement in my voice. Tomorrow, first
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  day at pads at Eagles training Camp. I will have
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  all of the updates as I always do on Inside
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  the Birds dot com, and I will bring you a
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  fresh edition of the Czech O Daily.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for me for now. Talk to everybody
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  tomorrow