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The DiCecco Daily: Comprehensive Look At Eagles WR Room Headed Into Free Agency, Draft · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's going on.
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Speaker 2: This is the check Odally Andrew de Cheko, Eagles beat
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Speaker 2: reporter Friendsidethebirds dot Com, and our positional preview continues on.
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Speaker 2: I've discussed quarterbacks, running backs, tight end, and today I'm
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Speaker 2: going to take a look at the wide receiver room
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Speaker 2: where there are a lot of questions and I'm expecting
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Speaker 2: it to have a new look going into the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty sixth season. Well, I guess we'll naturally start with
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Speaker 2: AJ Brown. There's been a ton of chatter for the
0:41
Speaker 2: better part of a year now as to whether or
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Speaker 2: not AJ Brown will be traded or whether he's going
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Speaker 2: to stay in Philadelphia and play out the rest of
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Speaker 2: his deal. There's been so much discourse surrounding the AJ
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Speaker 2: Brown saga, and it would be disingenuous for me to
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Speaker 2: sit here and tell you that I'm leaning towards one
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Speaker 2: way or the other. I've teetered between different on different
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Speaker 2: sides of the fence there based off of information that
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Speaker 2: I've gathered this offseason. Look, the NFL scouting Combine is
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Speaker 2: approaching next week. That's where a lot of conversations take place.
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Speaker 2: The Eagles certainly aren't going to give away AJ Brown
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Speaker 2: for a song, it's going to take something pretty substantial
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Speaker 2: to blow them away.
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Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it.
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Speaker 2: And this feels like it goes without saying, but the
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Speaker 2: Eagles are a much better football team with AJ.
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Speaker 1: Brown on it.
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Speaker 2: Look at the levels of success that they've had with
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Speaker 2: him in the mix.
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Speaker 1: They've been to.
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Speaker 2: Two Super Bowls with AJ Brown as the top receiving
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Speaker 2: option on this offense. But I guess the root of
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Speaker 2: all this is derived from what does AJ want? Because
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Speaker 2: if AJ wants to go somewhere else, if he won't
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Speaker 2: be happy, or if he has questions about whether or
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Speaker 2: not he's going to see the kind of volume that
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Speaker 2: he likes week in and week out, they'll be games
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Speaker 2: where he would see nine ten targets a game. But
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Speaker 2: that's not going to be something on a consistent basis.
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Speaker 2: Not with what we've seen, it's been a low volume
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Speaker 2: passing attack. AJ has talked about his willingness and his
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Speaker 2: infatuation with having an impact on a game and dominating
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Speaker 2: the player in front of him, and this offense isn't that.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't present those kind of opportunities on a week
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Speaker 2: to week basis, And so it ultimately comes down to
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Speaker 2: if you'r aj is this where you want to be?
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Speaker 2: He's set, He said all the right things, and there's
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Speaker 2: going to be so much poking and prodding and discourse
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Speaker 2: that's going to continue through the offseason because this isn't
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Speaker 2: going to quiet down any at any point. But if
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Speaker 2: you're going to implement this style of offense where you're
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Speaker 2: not going to throw the football at a heavy clip,
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Speaker 2: maybe on an average of twenty five times a game,
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Speaker 2: I think that feels reasonable. I would make the argument
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Speaker 2: to pre eminent wide receivers in Devonte Smith and AJ Brown,
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Speaker 2: you can make an argument that you wouldn't and I
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Speaker 2: think you could in theory, get by with a DeVante
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Speaker 2: Smith and a rookie wide receiver. And let's say I
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Speaker 2: don't know Romeo Dops, who's a free agent and has
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Speaker 2: familiarity with Sean Mannion and Ryan Mahaffey, probably falls right
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Speaker 2: within a price range that isn't going to be prohibitive
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Speaker 2: for the Eagles as they look to retool, or they
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Speaker 2: have a lot of questions and a lot of pieces
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Speaker 2: that they're going to try to look to keep in house.
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Speaker 2: But Aj Brown had over one thousand yards last season
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Speaker 2: just to tick over one thousand and seven touchdowns seventy
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Speaker 2: eight catches, So it was considered a down year for him,
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Speaker 2: and he clearly wasn't happy with the offense. But make
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Speaker 2: no mistake about it. AJ Brown is and was a
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Speaker 2: Kevin Patullo support. He was vocal in that, so was
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Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley, so was a lot of the offensive linemen.
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Speaker 2: So I look at it more through the lens of
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Speaker 2: Aja being frustrated with the offensive and efficiencies, and I again,
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Speaker 2: I go back to so many different layers factoring into
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Speaker 2: that Patulo's no longer here. But you know, I keep
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Speaker 2: reverting back to twenty twenty four where we were expecting
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Speaker 2: to see so much change under Kellen Moore. You saw
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Speaker 2: it a little bit and then they had to scale
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Speaker 2: it back. And that's something I keep reiterating because we're
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Speaker 2: expecting to see pretty considerable changes across the board on
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Speaker 2: the offense in terms of how it functions, and it's
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Speaker 2: expected to be modernized. That all sounds good and well
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Speaker 2: in February, but come training camp or early in the
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Speaker 2: regular season, if it's not going well, any good coach
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Speaker 2: is going to play the strengths of their players and
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Speaker 2: find ways to accentuate that that right there, I mean
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Speaker 2: that it's going to cause frustrations for AJ Brown. You
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Speaker 2: don't want those frustrations boiling over into another season. It
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Speaker 2: presents awkwardness tension that you just don't need. And for
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Speaker 2: as talented as he is, he wants to be among
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Speaker 2: the greats. He wants to be a Hall of Fame
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Speaker 2: caliber player, and for a while there he was in
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Speaker 2: twenty two and twenty three. He's on a Hall of
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Speaker 2: Fame trajectory. But knowing that the volume is going to
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Speaker 2: be sporadic in this offense with this quarterback, if you're
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Speaker 2: AJ Brown, You're going to have to make a decision.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to leave it all cost Do you
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Speaker 2: want to go somewhere else? Do you think the grass
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Speaker 2: is greener somewhere else? But what I will say is this,
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Speaker 2: AJ Brown is a good positive locker room influence. He's
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Speaker 2: beloved by teammates, He's loved inside that building. You'd be
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Speaker 2: hard pressed to find someone who would say anything negative
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Speaker 2: about AJ Brown.
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Speaker 1: Not going to happen.
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Speaker 2: So for all of the outside perception, trust me, he
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Speaker 2: is valued and beloved inside that building.
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Speaker 1: So keep that in.
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Speaker 2: Mind when you maybe form or your opinion of AJ
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Speaker 2: Brown maybe shifts a little bit. He's a great guy,
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Speaker 2: and everybody is driven by something different. Everyone is fueled
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Speaker 2: by different types of motivations and it's not a one
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Speaker 2: size fits all thing. And I think what I've learned
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Speaker 2: covering aj is that he's very misunderstood in this city.
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Speaker 2: And it's not that he's not appreciated, because I think
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Speaker 2: the fan base is very well aware of his contributions
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Speaker 2: and what this team would be without AJ Brown. Just
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Speaker 2: look at the twenty twenty one season when there was
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Speaker 2: Jalen Rager, Greg Ward, jj Arthega Whiteside I think was
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Speaker 2: still around at that point. They're not too far removed
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Speaker 2: from those years, those lean years, and I think it
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Speaker 2: gives you a new found appreciation for AJ Brown. Best
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Speaker 2: case scenario, they're obviously able to work something out and
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Speaker 2: keep him here, but it's going to be a.
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Speaker 1: Huge talking point.
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Speaker 2: I hope to learn more about this next week when
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Speaker 2: I'm in Indianapolis, but.
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Speaker 1: That's where it stands right now.
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Speaker 2: With the Eagles and their top wide receiver, Davonte Smith,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, is probably one of the more
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Speaker 2: underappreciated wide receivers in the NFL. I think he could
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Speaker 2: be a number one. You saw the year where he
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Speaker 2: had to be a number one in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 2: and he was going up there and taking the football
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Speaker 2: away from Patrick Certain against the Denver Broncos coming down
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Speaker 2: with that contested catch. He doesn't have the prototypical size
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Speaker 2: that would lead one to suggest that he could be
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Speaker 2: that number one, But I think he is positioned right
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Speaker 2: now to benefit from this offense, perhaps more than anyone,
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Speaker 2: because I think you're going to see them take advantage
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Speaker 2: of his three level of ability, but more importantly the
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Speaker 2: short to intermediate routes and things like that lining him
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Speaker 2: up around formations. Devonte Smith should thrive in theory in
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Speaker 2: this Seawan Manney in offense, but he doesn't talk nearly
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Speaker 2: as much. He's quiet, but he was frustrated as well
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Speaker 2: with the offense. He just conveys it differently.
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Speaker 1: There weren't. I mean, trust me, if you're a competitor
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Speaker 1: and you.
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Speaker 2: Know the amount of you know the ability that that
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Speaker 2: offense can really perform to, and they weren't.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's not just aj Brown who wasn't happy
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Speaker 1: with it.
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Speaker 2: Davante had seventy seven catches just over a thousand yards
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Speaker 2: four touchdowns, and I do believe that he is sort
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Speaker 2: of underutilized in this offense, and there's so much more
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Speaker 2: damage he could do if you put him in position
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Speaker 2: to run after the catch. Probably one of the better
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Speaker 2: route runners in the NFL. I've watched Davante quite a
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Speaker 2: bit over the years and training camp and of course
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Speaker 2: in the regular season, and it's like poetry in motion
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Speaker 2: watching him run routes, and I think his best football
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Speaker 2: is still ahead of him. He gets overshadowed by Aj.
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Speaker 2: They compliment each other quite well, and him being the
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Speaker 2: slim reaper who as tough as they come, by the way,
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Speaker 2: tougher than his build would would lead you to believe.
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Speaker 2: He takes a lot of big time hits, gets back
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Speaker 2: up and keeps on ticking. And then you have AJ
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Speaker 2: who's the prototypical alpha wide receiver Chisel.
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Speaker 1: He he's going to bully corners.
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Speaker 2: And then you have Davante, who can win with speed
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Speaker 2: and finesse and route running prowess and he has really
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Speaker 2: strong hands. They compliment each other well, and I think
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Speaker 2: if you're the Eagles, you want to find a way
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Speaker 2: to keep that duo intact for at least one more season,
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Speaker 2: because I think that they could really do some damage
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Speaker 2: Adding Josh Grizzard, the pass game cordator who comes over
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Speaker 2: from Tampa Bay, who was their offensive cordator last.
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Speaker 1: Year, is going to do.
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Speaker 2: Is going to be able to implement certain concepts in
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Speaker 2: terms of route running that should create more spacing and
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Speaker 2: I think you're going to see a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: I know you're going to see more diversity and things
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Speaker 2: like that. So with those two wide receivers in the fold,
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Speaker 2: the future of the Eagles passing game looks quite bright.
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Speaker 2: Then you have Johan Dotson, who, believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: all we had in the combined seasons. He was here
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Speaker 2: for two years, but thirty seven catches for four hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy eight yards and one touchdown in the regular season,
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Speaker 2: that's all we had. If you combine his two years
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Speaker 2: here in Philadelphia. Now he had some big moments in
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Speaker 2: the postseason, the twenty seven yard down the sideline in
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl that his focus on ball security. He
13:05
Speaker 2: had Nick Sirianni in his ear pretty much, don't stretch
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Speaker 2: the ball over the pylon, don't run the risk of
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Speaker 2: losing the football.
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Speaker 1: That probably cost him a Super Bowl touchdown. I think
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Speaker 1: he admitted as much.
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Speaker 2: He also had the first touchdown on the Eagles postseason
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Speaker 2: after orn Burk's forces the fumble on the opening kickoff
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Speaker 2: against the Packers in that wildcard game. Johan Dotson catches
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Speaker 2: a touchdown, and there's been moments here and there where
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Speaker 2: he's made some highlight reel worthy catches. I think in
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Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars game in twenty twenty four where Nikobe
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Speaker 2: Dean intercepted the ball to end the game and seal
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Speaker 2: it was another example, but just not a volume guy,
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Speaker 2: and certainly not in an offense that already struggles getting
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Speaker 2: the football to aj Brown, Devonte Smith and Dallas Goddard,
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Speaker 2: whom the passing game runs through. All three of those players,
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Speaker 2: then you have Saquon Barkley. So Johan Dotson's a little
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Speaker 2: bit further down the list, and he never quite was
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Speaker 2: able to put his stamp on a defined role, which
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Speaker 2: is something that when he was traded for ahead of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, about a week before the Eagles left
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Speaker 2: for Brazil, I was under the impression that that was
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Speaker 2: going to be a positive because Kellen Moore has been
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Speaker 2: known historically to utilize that third wide receiver as he
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Speaker 2: did at previous stops, and that just never manifested. But
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Speaker 2: I will say that Johan Dotson had a tremendous training
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Speaker 2: camp last year. He was the go to guy Johan
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Speaker 2: Dotson and Dallas Goddard. I think he can play and
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Speaker 2: be a number two for another team, not here in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: He did get bumped off his routes a little bit
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Speaker 2: more than he'd like to see. Doesn't play with great physicality,
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Speaker 2: but when the ball is in the air, he has
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Speaker 2: really good body control and strong hands to bring it down.
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Speaker 2: But I think talking to him at locker clean out
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Speaker 2: kind of gave me all the answers that I needed.
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Speaker 2: He was grateful for his time here, talked about having
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Speaker 2: to really tap into the patient aspect of his demeanor,
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Speaker 2: and he said, I've always had patients, but I had
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Speaker 2: to really learn how to be patient here in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: talked about learning from aj and Davante and wide receivers
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Speaker 2: coach Aaron Moorehead and that he came into Philadelphia thinking
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Speaker 2: he knew everything, but he learned how to practice. He
15:19
Speaker 2: learned how to conduct himself in a different manner than
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Speaker 2: he had in his previous stop with the Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 1: And he also said.
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Speaker 2: That I believe that I can help a team win
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Speaker 2: football games, and my best football is in front of me,
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Speaker 2: which I agree with. It's not going to be here
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Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, And so that kind of closes the book
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Speaker 2: on the Jahan Dotson conversation here.
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Speaker 1: I mean, well, I'm sure.
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Speaker 2: We'll whenever he signed somewhere else, I'll talk about it.
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Speaker 2: But as we're running through the wide receiver room going
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Speaker 2: into twenty twenty six, that's the update on him. Johnny
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Speaker 2: Wilson will be for all intents and purposes coming back.
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Speaker 2: We'll see how he returns from the knee ankle in
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Speaker 2: injury that he sustained in training camp that ended his
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Speaker 2: season prematurely. Brett Toth I remember rolled up on him
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Speaker 2: during a team period and they lost a big bodied
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Speaker 2: wide receiver who helped immensely in the running game, did
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Speaker 2: a lot of the dirty work to free up teammates,
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Speaker 2: and he was having a solid training camp. It looked
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Speaker 2: like he was making notable improvements from the previous season.
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Speaker 2: And I think it was an understated absence for the
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Speaker 2: Eagles to not have Johnny Wilson, who provided value, as
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Speaker 2: I mentioned, doing some of those things that aren't going
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Speaker 2: to show up on the box score. So Holby added
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Speaker 2: to the mix this year. I imagine he's going to
16:37
Speaker 2: have still have to battle to make the team. Then
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Speaker 2: you have Darius Cooper. Darius Cooper is a great story
16:43
Speaker 2: made the team as an undrafted free agent out of
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Speaker 2: Tarlatan State, and I think Aaron Moorehead, for all of
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Speaker 2: the criticism that he seems to get from the fan base,
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Speaker 2: that's somebody that should get credit for developing under Aaron
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Speaker 2: Moorehead's tutelage. Cooper was a He was a standout obviously
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Speaker 2: a Tarlatan State, but he had to learn to establish
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Speaker 2: a different type of role knowing that you have so
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Speaker 2: many playmakers here. That's not going to be your ticket
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Speaker 2: to the roster. It's going to be on special teams.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be returning kicks and doing dirty work
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Speaker 2: as a blocker, which.
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Speaker 1: Is really where he found his footing.
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Speaker 2: He was actually blocking the perimeter on the push plays,
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Speaker 2: and I thought later in the season his snapshare increased
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Speaker 2: while he didn't see a ton of targets. I think
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Speaker 2: he caught nine balls last season. He really made his
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Speaker 2: presence fout as a blocker, strong, compactly built, kind of
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Speaker 2: built similar to aj Brown. I would say this year,
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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have more of a role in
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Speaker 2: the passing game. But to what extent we thought we
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Speaker 2: were gonna see Johan Dotson catch a plethora of footballs,
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Speaker 2: certainly after the training camp that we saw, and by
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Speaker 2: a plethora, it's all in context. He caught just eighteen
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Speaker 2: or whatever it was his first year. I thought any
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Speaker 2: twenty eight to thirty would have been considered a breakout
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Speaker 2: year or having a more prominent role in the offense.
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Speaker 2: But Darius Cooper right now will be the three. I
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Speaker 2: imagine the Eagles are going to draft the receiver, which
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Speaker 2: I'll do a whole podcast on that.
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Speaker 1: Whether or not they draft one early.
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Speaker 2: I think they still should to kind of fulfill the
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Speaker 2: Johann Dotson role and eventually overtake a starting role.
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Speaker 1: But Darius Cooper.
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Speaker 2: He has a decent footing to make the team. Once again,
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Speaker 2: he's certainly not a shoe and he has to show up.
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Speaker 2: He has to He has to show that he made
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Speaker 2: strides and provide value in different ways. But I think
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Speaker 2: that he has proven enough at this point to give
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Speaker 2: you confidence moving forward that he can at least be
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Speaker 2: a number four receiver for this football team. Britain Covey
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Speaker 2: is still around. Britain Covey, if you remember, signed with
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Speaker 2: the Rams in the twenty twenty four offseason in after
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Speaker 2: winning a Super Bowl with the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: He was injured for the Super.
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Speaker 2: Bowl, couldn't play, had a lot of nerve, had nerve
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Speaker 2: issues that stemmed from his shoulder, and he couldn't grip
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Speaker 2: a football. He didn't have a lot of strength in
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Speaker 2: his and his arm at all, and so that that's
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Speaker 2: sidelining for the remainder of the season. Signs with the Rams.
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Speaker 2: Felt like himself around the spring, he said, and he
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Speaker 2: believed that up until the final moment, that he was
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Speaker 2: going to make the team as a depth wide receiver
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Speaker 2: as a return specialist. It didn't happen, and he said
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Speaker 2: that he had options. But if everything being were being equal.
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Speaker 2: He wanted to return to Philadelphia. He loves Philadelphia. He
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Speaker 2: It took shockingly, a shocking amount of time for him
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Speaker 2: to be able to get to the active roster given
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Speaker 2: the Eagles struggles there at returner, whether it was Johan
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Speaker 2: Dotson who really just fair caught it or Xavier Gibson
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Speaker 2: who had a couple gaffes. Then eventually they moved on
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Speaker 2: from him and then it was Britain Covey's turn. But
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Speaker 2: I thought he did a nice job settling it down,
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Speaker 2: stabilizing the return role. I do think that he has
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Speaker 2: something to offer as a receiver, if nothing else, a
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Speaker 2: manufactured touch player which the Eagles don't have.
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Speaker 1: He'll have to battle to make the roster.
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Speaker 2: Because there's a lot of wide receivers in this draft
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Speaker 2: class who double as return specialists, so that could add
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Speaker 2: some more competition there. But Britain Covey is such.
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Speaker 1: A good guy.
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Speaker 2: It's easy to see why he's beloved by teammates. He's
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Speaker 2: one of the more popular guys there, easy to talk to,
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Speaker 2: always in a good mood, works really hard, takes a
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Speaker 2: lot of hits and keeps getting up, and he has
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Speaker 2: provided some juice and stability to the punt return game.
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Speaker 2: But he will have to battle for a roster spot
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Speaker 2: as well. You have Ques Watkins who signed a reserve
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Speaker 2: futures deal.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be backed for training camp.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because when you think back to twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 2: he was getting snaps in the Super Bowl and he
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Speaker 2: then he goes to the Steelers and his career never
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Speaker 2: quite never quite caught on from there. He was never
23:27
Speaker 2: able to build off of that. And I know that
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Speaker 2: his name here has been toxic in the city of Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: which I don't think is fair by any means. And
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Speaker 2: I do think he's obviously a long shot to make
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Speaker 2: the team, but you're getting a player who's going to
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Speaker 2: give you quality reps in practice. He's played in a
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Speaker 2: number of games and gives you some experience there. So
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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do in camp.
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Speaker 2: But no, I don't factor him into the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: sixth equation at all as we sit here on February
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Speaker 2: twenty second. They also have Danny Gray and those who
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Speaker 2: will follow with my Draft cuver Bridge. You can grab
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Speaker 2: the interview back in twenty twenty two or I interviewed
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Speaker 2: Danny for the Draft Dreams podcast when he was coming
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Speaker 2: out of the draft out of SMU gets drafted by.
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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers in the third round. Struggle with injuries.
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Speaker 2: Is on the Eagles practice squad last year, got hurt
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Speaker 2: in training camp. When he last summer, I thought he
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Speaker 2: was going to make a strong push for the for
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Speaker 2: the roster. He's someone who he talked to starters, whether
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Speaker 2: it's Cooper dejen or Quinnon Mitchell, and they laud Danny
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Speaker 2: Gray for his ability to just shape free, get win deep,
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Speaker 2: come up with some contested catches.
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Speaker 1: He's just a.
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Speaker 2: Tough guy to cover and he really made his mark
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Speaker 2: on the practice field, which I would imagine open the
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Speaker 2: eyes of the coaching staff.
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Speaker 1: They he hurt him. He got hurt in training camp.
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Speaker 1: He was waived.
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Speaker 2: He was out of football for a little bit while
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Speaker 2: he recovered from I think it was a thumb or
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Speaker 2: a finger.
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Speaker 1: He got a procedure on it.
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Speaker 2: When he was good to come back, the Eagles brought
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Speaker 2: him back on the practice squad.
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Speaker 1: He finished the season there.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think he's going to be someone that will
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Speaker 2: open some eyes if he can stay healthy. With his
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Speaker 2: speed and just his ability to separate. He's a hungry guy.
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Speaker 2: He's very confident and I think that could be a
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Speaker 2: dark horse, one in a very early dark horse, without
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Speaker 2: knowing what the Eagles do in free agency, the draft
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Speaker 2: or undrafted free agency.
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Speaker 1: But that's kind of the.
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Speaker 2: Synopsis there of the Eagles wide receivers going into twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six. And we'll take a look at the offensive
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Speaker 2: line the next time I talk to you all, But
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Speaker 2: for now, that's gonna do it for this edition of
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Speaker 2: the Czech Odaily. I'm Andrew Decheco and I'll catch you
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Speaker 2: all in the next one.