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The DiCecco Daily: Zack Baun's Concussion Headlines List Of Injury Concerns · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome in to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Checo Daily. It's Andrew DiCecco, Eagles beat reporter for InsideTheBirds.com.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles held a walkthrough on Wednesday and this injury
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  Speaker 1: report is an estimation. Not practicing linebacker Zach Bond, concussion,
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver, Hollywood Brown ankle, tight end Dallas Goddard knee,
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  Speaker 1: tackle Fred Johnson knee, running back Will Shipley foot, wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Devontae Smith hamstring. Limited. Linebacker, Jahad Campbell, knee. Defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Davis, calf. Defensive tackle, Mauro Jomo, calf, elbow. Full.
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  Speaker 1: Running back, Tank Bigsby, abdomen. Defensive tackle, Jalen Carter, wrist.
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  Speaker 1: Wide receiver, Darius Cooper, knee. Outside linebacker, Jonathan Grenard, pectoral.
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  Speaker 1: And defensive tackle, Byron Young, toe. The big one here
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  Speaker 1: is linebacker, Zach Bond. because this whole list is an
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  Speaker 1: estimation had the Eagles practiced. And the concussion is something
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  Speaker 1: that on a shortened week, first of all, it's a
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  Speaker 1: head injury. So you worry about the health of the
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  Speaker 1: player because that's certainly nothing to mess around with. But
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  Speaker 1: the other side of that is that the Eagles are
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  Speaker 1: on a shortened week. And so it complicates things when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to clearing the protocol. Now, You saw Tyson
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  Speaker 1: Bajan of the Chicago Bears clear it in time. He
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  Speaker 1: had more time to work with. It's not out of
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  Speaker 1: the realm of possibility, but it is something that's worth
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  Speaker 1: bringing up. And you have to wait and see how
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  Speaker 1: the week plays out and how everything sort of shakes out.
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  Speaker 1: It's also complicated by the fact that Jihad Campbell, I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't say they're separate, but the linebacker position is sort
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  Speaker 1: of in flux at the moment. And again, this is
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday that I'm recording this. Because Jihad Campbell has... He
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  Speaker 1: was listed as limited with the knee. So if one
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  Speaker 1: of those players, Bond or Campbell, can't go, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see Jeremiah Trotter Jr. get the start there. So again,
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  Speaker 1: it's way early in the week. We have to let
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  Speaker 1: things play out. We'll be actually out on the practice
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  Speaker 1: field Thursday. That's where we get to see about... Probably
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  Speaker 1: about a half hour of warm-ups and individuals. So you're
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  Speaker 1: able to... be thorough when you're taking attendance and get
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  Speaker 1: a better, get a better picture as to how some
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  Speaker 1: of these, uh, how some of these injuries are affecting, uh, or,
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  Speaker 1: or if, if there's lingering, um, for some players, if,
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  Speaker 1: if there's lingering aspects to it, but you get more
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  Speaker 1: clarity when you get to get out there and see it.
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  Speaker 1: But again, Wednesday was a walkthrough. So don't sound the
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  Speaker 1: alarms just yet. I think also encouraging is that, Jonathan Grenard,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, was listed as full. And that's the second
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  Speaker 1: consecutive practice that he was listed as such. So he
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  Speaker 1: played 18 snaps against the Bears. I thought he did
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  Speaker 1: some good things as a pass rusher, especially going back
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  Speaker 1: and watching that two or three times. And Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: pretty much said that was about what he expected. He
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  Speaker 1: said he did some good things, had some other things
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  Speaker 1: that he could have probably cleaned up. But let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget that Grenard hasn't played in a game since December.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he did some really good things, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to be held necessarily to a snap
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  Speaker 1: count in Sunday's game, Vic Fangio. But he mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the 30 range, and he said, that's a ballpark figure,
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  Speaker 1: don't hold me to it. But that's a sign that
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  Speaker 1: he's progressing the way the Eagles like. He's not having
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  Speaker 1: any setbacks, so... Got the first game under his belt,
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  Speaker 1: his Eagles debut, and I think there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to. When they are able to fully turn
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  Speaker 1: Grenard loose, I do believe that he will open things
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  Speaker 1: up for J. Lux Hunt and Nolan Smith. And the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles' pass rush really needs to get things going because
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  Speaker 1: you always hear about marrying the coverage and the pass rush. Rush, cover, cover, rush.
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  Speaker 1: And the Eagles haven't done a great job of generating pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And they haven't done a great job, well, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to one position in particular, the safety position, in
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  Speaker 1: holding up their end in coverage. So I think Renard
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a big piece of the puzzle here.
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  Speaker 1: So when he is able to get the full complement
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  Speaker 1: of snaps and not have any sort of restrictions or
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  Speaker 1: pitch counts, if you will, that's where you're really going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see the difference in what he's
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  Speaker 1: able to provide. But even at 30-ish snaps, that should
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  Speaker 1: be enough there to really make a noticeable impact, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how it affects the coverage. Now, the safety
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  Speaker 1: position is one that we are going to probably continue
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  Speaker 1: to talk about for the next couple of weeks. And
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  Speaker 1: let me just say this right now, because going into
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  Speaker 1: the season, I thought the Eagles had enough there to
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  Speaker 1: be a competent and adequate group based off of everything
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  Speaker 1: that I saw in training camp. And I was also
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  Speaker 1: banking on the fact that Drew Makuba was going to
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  Speaker 1: get off to a faster start, doing enough to maybe offset,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was Marcus Epps or Michael Carter. But that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been the case. And the Eagles need better play
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  Speaker 1: from the safety position. There's been missed tackles. There's been...
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  Speaker 1: seemingly some communication breakdown. And when you see Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: rotate Marcus Epps and Michael Carter, and he said that
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  Speaker 1: that was all part of the plan. They worked on
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  Speaker 1: that last week. But when you see it happen in
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  Speaker 1: a game, you don't often see teams rotate safeties. That's
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  Speaker 1: just not what they do. You want to settle on one.
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  Speaker 1: And Vic said that that's always the goal. But until
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  Speaker 1: one player emerges, that's the route that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to take. And this is the situation that the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles find themselves in because they didn't add to the position.
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  Speaker 1: I do like Michael Carter, but how will he fare
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  Speaker 1: as an every-down starter at safety, a position he's relatively
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  Speaker 1: new to at the pro level? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: can't answer that. Marcus Epstein, you kind of have an
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  Speaker 1: idea of who he is. He's a steady veteran, limited athletically,
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  Speaker 1: highly intelligent, assignment sound. He's going to be often in
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  Speaker 1: the right place, but he's probably best suited to be
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  Speaker 1: at third safety. Had Makuba really taken his game to
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  Speaker 1: another level to start the season, you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: mask the other player a little bit more. They're not
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  Speaker 1: as under the spotlight. Their deficiencies aren't as pronounced, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not getting good play from any of those three.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Michael Carter is someone that I'm more
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  Speaker 1: intrigued to see what he can offer. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of options to turn to right here. And
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  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio mentioned Wednesday that He has no intention of
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  Speaker 1: moving Cooper to Jean from nickel to safety full time.
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  Speaker 1: He's maintained that. We'll see if down the road circumstances
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  Speaker 1: dictate otherwise, if they're not able to find a solution
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  Speaker 1: there with any of the in-house options and they are
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  Speaker 1: looking to, to try something different. There's, there's, there's always
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  Speaker 1: so many cars that they can play and there's another
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  Speaker 1: potential option. He may have one more and that is
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  Speaker 1: defensive back Kenny Moore who, who the Eagles signed from
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  Speaker 1: the practice squad to the 53. Now, that's not always
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  Speaker 1: an indicator that they signed him with the intention of playing.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, it could be a scenario in which
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  Speaker 1: a team out there was maybe poking around a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and maybe wanted to poach him off of the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad. And maybe the Eagles acted to get him
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  Speaker 1: on the 53. Because if you listen to what Vic
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  Speaker 1: Fangio had to say, it doesn't quite, if you're reading
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  Speaker 1: between the lines, sound like he's able to jump in
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  Speaker 1: and help him right away. Mentioned that, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: could be, you know, some heavy lifting for him to
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  Speaker 1: really acclimate to safety. He's never really played safety all
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  Speaker 1: that much. But I had a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Moore. I talked to him for a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good one-on-one conversation. And he had some
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  Speaker 1: really interesting things to say. And I really enjoyed my conversation.
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  Speaker 1: He's very introspective, very thoughtful, and I will try to
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  Speaker 1: get you guys some of the things that he had
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  Speaker 1: to say. And he mentioned that the last week or
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  Speaker 1: so has been a whirlwind. He said, practicing and trying
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  Speaker 1: to get my bearings, trying to figure out where I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to live and what car am I going to
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  Speaker 1: drive and all these different things. But like, who's my teammates?
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  Speaker 1: Who am I working with? What's my room like? What
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  Speaker 1: are the notes like? What is the defense like? You
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  Speaker 1: try to literally process everything from a professional standpoint. But
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  Speaker 1: then again, whenever you go back home, you try to
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  Speaker 1: process things from a personal standpoint. So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different changes. And the question really is, how can I
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  Speaker 1: be the best teammate that I can be? How can
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  Speaker 1: I be the best for the role that I have?
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  Speaker 1: How can I be the best at it? And just
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  Speaker 1: want to be intentional as possible with making sure that
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  Speaker 1: I'm attacking every single day with grace first. Because everything
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  Speaker 1: won't be right. Everything won't be the same as what
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  Speaker 1: I've kind of dealt with in Indy. And just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of processing but trying to maximize the process and
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  Speaker 1: the time that I have to do that. To making
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  Speaker 1: sure that I'm on the right side of that process.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned to him, I said, I think a
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  Speaker 1: forgotten aspect about moving to a new city is what
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  Speaker 1: he just outlined. The changes in address and trying to
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  Speaker 1: acclimate to your surroundings. And he mentioned, you know, being,
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, you were in one place for
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  Speaker 1: nine years. How did you go about attacking this process
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  Speaker 1: and just adjusting to all the newness around them. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, I just try to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: grace every single day, just from the standpoint of things
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  Speaker 1: are different, but that is okay. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And change is crazy, but change is also necessary for
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  Speaker 1: you to grow and for you to get the best
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  Speaker 1: out of yourself, for you to reset and figure out
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  Speaker 1: who you actually are and how you respond from it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I'm coming from a space where I'm
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  Speaker 1: less judging We're less trying to figure out what's the
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis of everything and more so all of this is fine.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're okay. You're good enough. You'll get it at
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  Speaker 1: some point. You'll understand the defense at some point. It's
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  Speaker 1: more so sitting in that uncomfortable setting where you're just like,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know it all. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to know it all right now. And so just trying
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  Speaker 1: to take every day with grace and just work with
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  Speaker 1: my coaches and teammates as best as possible. He said
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  Speaker 1: every single day he feels better and better. Every single
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  Speaker 1: day I get more comfortable with teammates. When I asked
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  Speaker 1: him about adjusting to the playbook and the comfortability level there,
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  Speaker 1: he said you have better conversations. You have better conversation
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  Speaker 1: with yourself. And you just start to feel better and
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  Speaker 1: better as things go. And then things start to feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're supposed to be here. Nothing was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: when I asked him about what he likes about this defense,
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  Speaker 1: he said the moving parts, there's a lot of moving parts.
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  Speaker 1: It's versatile. There's a lot of things going on. It
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  Speaker 1: stresses your mental capacity to, to run different things every
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  Speaker 1: single play. I think that that's what makes football fun
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  Speaker 1: is whenever you can mix it up for the offense
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  Speaker 1: and they got to figure it out. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plays to be made too. And then lastly
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  Speaker 1: on this subject, I talked about the similarities between nickel
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  Speaker 1: and safety, that there are some similarities. And what does
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  Speaker 1: he like about the safety position? And has he believed
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  Speaker 1: that that would potentially fit his skill set? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm built for it. I wrote my notes today.
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  Speaker 1: Your ability is enough. And that's what Coach Sirianni talked
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  Speaker 1: about a lot in the meeting. And that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down that actually stuck with me. So just
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  Speaker 1: knowing that you can and you're able... and you're capable
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  Speaker 1: is the most important part for me. Just knowing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever the circumstance or situation that I'm in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm built for it and I can endure it. And
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: I also said, this is kind of neat, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: add this in. Is that something that you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: doing daily, writing something down in your notebook, whether it's
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: a motivational quote or something just to kind of reinforce things?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, I wouldn't say I'm a validation guy,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm more so just a, I value reminders and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like life is about a lot of reminders
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  Speaker 1: and for you to get to a certain place in
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  Speaker 1: your life, whether it's personally or professionally, any type of
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  Speaker 1: success that you want for yourself, I think it takes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reminders of you actually getting there and
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  Speaker 1: getting to a new space. I mean, that's a new
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  Speaker 1: space of whatever success that you have for yourself or
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  Speaker 1: whatever you accomplish, there has to be something else that
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to go to. And for you to go
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  Speaker 1: to that, I feel like you have to have reminders
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  Speaker 1: on what keeps you accountable, what keeps you in the
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  Speaker 1: right space of accomplishing that next space. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: I love quotes. I love songs. I love art. Like
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  Speaker 1: all those different things that kind of put me in
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  Speaker 1: a different place of like, it gives me perspective. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's very important. And I think we all
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  Speaker 1: should have that because if not, then nothing is really
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  Speaker 1: shaping our intuition or our thinking. I think we kind
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: of just on a treadmill at a point. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm big on quotes too. I think my favorite one
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  Speaker 1: might be the man in the arena by Theodore Roosevelt.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, it's a longer quote, but what are
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  Speaker 1: some of your go-tos that you find to be helpful?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, oh, that's a really good one. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, even lyrics. He mentions, I just said one
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  Speaker 1: on the field, man. What was that? I just said
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  Speaker 1: one the other, uh, a couple of moments ago, I said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you never got it. And that's short and sweet, but
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  Speaker 1: Gus Bradley told me that his first year in Indy
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  Speaker 1: in 22, 23, 24. Like he always said that like
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  Speaker 1: if you're a rookie or a veteran, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: because every day you've got to strive to learn something.
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  Speaker 1: And every single meeting I take notes in every single meeting.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen Tom Brady do it. I've seen Andrew Luck
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  Speaker 1: do it. I've seen a lot of other great teammates
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  Speaker 1: do it. because you got to learn like it's your
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  Speaker 1: first day learning it. And that's the only way that
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  Speaker 1: you can go out there on the field in front
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  Speaker 1: of 70,000. And the speed is going really fast. And
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  Speaker 1: no matter if it's a simple coverage or a blended coverage,
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  Speaker 1: you got to do it like you got to do
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  Speaker 1: it to the standard. So just having that humility of
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  Speaker 1: you never got it, it goes a long way. So
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  Speaker 1: that was just part of my conversation with Kenny Moore.
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  Speaker 1: And I really enjoyed it. I think that when he
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  Speaker 1: does get into the defensive mix, he's going to become
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  Speaker 1: a fan favorite. He has a really affable personality, really
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  Speaker 1: good with names. And I think that just his, his
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  Speaker 1: football intellect, but also perspective on not only on the field,
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  Speaker 1: but off the field was really interesting to hear. And
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to continuing to talk to him throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. So that is really just the synopsis of
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  Speaker 1: the safety room and the, I'll actually try to get
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  Speaker 1: to something that some of the things that Nick Sirianni
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go with the backup quarterback position
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: here because he does give an answer that kind of
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: leaves things open-ended depending on how you interpret it. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. It was kind of a non-answer,
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  Speaker 1: but if you can read between the lines, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: might have a different interpretation. Do you still like Andy
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  Speaker 1: Dalton as your backup quarterback? Nick Sirianni says, I have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of faith in both of those guys. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: what happened in the game, we don't want turnovers by anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it was that one, whether it was Jalen's interception,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was Tank's fumble, that's not been our winning formula.
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  Speaker 1: We can't turn the ball over, and we did in
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  Speaker 1: this situation, and lost points from it. I still have
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  Speaker 1: faith in Tanner. I still have faith in Andy. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: still like the way that Cole is developing. I still
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  Speaker 1: love that room. So that was Nick Sirianni's answer. And look,
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  Speaker 1: this is just my thought here. on a Wednesday that
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  Speaker 1: was a horrific throw in that moment as a veteran
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  Speaker 1: to be staring down a receiver you just can't do
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  Speaker 1: that needless to say but I also was sort of
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  Speaker 1: taken aback by the decision to throw the football there
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  Speaker 1: rather than I don't know, maybe hand it off to
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  Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, who was running well and just kind of,
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  Speaker 1: if you go down, you want to go down swinging
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  Speaker 1: with something that has been a successful formula for you
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  Speaker 1: churning out yards in that game. And that's Saquon Barkley.
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  Speaker 1: I know Andy Dalton's a veteran. He started 169 games,
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  Speaker 1: but he's coming in cold. He said that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the job. He didn't make any excuses about that. But
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  Speaker 1: I think in the flow of the game, I was
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  Speaker 1: a little surprised that Saquon didn't get the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: try and punch it in on his own. But taking
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: all that into the equation, and this probably isn't popular,
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  Speaker 1: I would still probably roll with Andy Dalton for... I mean,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to say for another week because
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks aren't going to get on the field unless
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: something like that happens. But I don't know. I... Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just me prioritizing the veteran savvy and being someone
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  Speaker 1: who has seen it before. He's done it before. He
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  Speaker 1: knows this offense. I think he gets the ball out
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  Speaker 1: a little quicker than Tanner. But I will also say
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  Speaker 1: that Tanner finished the summer stronger than Andy Dalton, though
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think either player really differentiated themselves in a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: meaningful way, in any measurable way. But Tanner kind of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: pulled away really in the second half of training camp.
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  Speaker 1: But it seemed like the Eagles showed deference to Andy.
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  Speaker 1: And I think with that kind of knowledge and experience
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  Speaker 1: and someone that you know that if you're throwing him
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: into the fire, I probably wouldn't have him throw it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Certainly not right away. Maybe do some handoffs if need be.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that he's seen a lot of different defenses,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he knows this system, it probably gives you a little
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: bit more comfortability although Tanner gives you theoretically more upside.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a tough call. It's a tough call,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: but that was the quote. I wanted to read that
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: for you, and you can interpret that however you like,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and we're going to find out one way or another
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: when the inactives come out on Sunday if they are
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: continuing to roll with Andy Dalton as the quarterback, too,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: or if they pivot to Tanner McKee, but I just
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: thought that that was an interesting answer, and it was
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a pretty big talking point for Andy Dalton just getting
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: on the field and just, you know, very, very, very briefly,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that was a turning point in that game. And as
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback, you can't make that mistake. He knows that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: He was wholly accountable. And he mentioned apologizing to Jalen
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Hurts on the sideline. He said, I put him in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a bad spot. I put the team in a bad spot.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And I can't do that. So, We don't need to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: keep rehashing that, but the point is that was Nick
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Sirianni's response about the backup quarterback spot. That's going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the Checo Daily. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Andrew DiCecco, and I'll catch you all on the next one.