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What Were Eagles Looking For In Waiver Claim, Practice Squad Signings? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? Everybody?
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  Speaker 1: It's Jeff Mosher Adam Kaplan. And this feels like I
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  the Birds of the new NFL season, Adam, because we
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  Speaker 2: No question, that's the that's the big thing here. So
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  this week, the supposed bye week or off week, they're
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  practicing egles practice Wednesday. Of the practice Thursday, I assume
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  not awkward, but just different than it used to be. Like, say,
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  I'm sure he still does something for the players, but
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  for the guys who made the fifty three. And then
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  they would start practicing like the following day or two
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  later and get ready for the Sunday opener usually, but
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  now it's the Thursday opener because the Eagles are the
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  defending champs. And as you mentioned, they were out on
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  the practice field when and it's funny because as they
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  were practicing, there were still some moves going on that
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  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, So let's get into some
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  of the transactions. The nightmare of having no long snapper
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  just lasted less than twenty four hours, as clearly. The
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  Eagles now have their long snapper back, so they make
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  a couple of moves. They claim off waivers and I
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  believe you and I have been alluding to this on
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  the podcast, you know, not a specific name, but just
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  the fact that if they're gonna get a player from
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  somewhere else, one position to look for is that guard
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  center position, someone who can snap the ball. They claim
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  Willie Lampkin off waivers from the Rams, and then of
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  course they signed Charlie Hewlett to the fifty three as well.
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  So to clear the room, they waive Trevor Keegan and
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  safety Tristan McCollum. Your thoughts on those moves at him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the first guy we thought would go would
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  be Keegan. That happened McCollum makes sense now realistically, neither
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  should be claimed off waivers. By the way, he gos
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  wave twenty nine players on Tuesday, none were claimed off waivers.
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  That surprised me, anam about you. I've been like, not
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  one or two people, one or two players of the
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  clubs Like nope, although some of those guys who were
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  who passed through waivers are gonna be signing with other
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  teams by the end of the week and already have.
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  But yeah, so theoretically Keegan and McCom could fill out
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  that the least one of the spots on the practice squad.
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  But Willie Lampkin, to me, this is really interesting. You
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  know the Eagles. Most teams like size. Eagles really like
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  size on their offensive line. But he's technically shorter than
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  six feet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's crazy. He played tackle in college
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  at him Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was. Well, so here the question for
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  me would be, and I don't know if you realize this,
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  he was waved injured. So first of all, he has
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  to pass the physical to be able to be on
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  the fifty three man roster, where they just I've seen
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  this before and the guy comes to the bill, they
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  just wave him again. If they don't, they would wave
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  him injured. If he doesn't pass, he passes, he's on
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  their fifty three man roster. Yeah, he's got me and
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  echo Isshues. Now, from my understanding, wasn't it wasn't going
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  to be long term. Don't know how long he's going
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  to be down, but he's he's a I don't think
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  they're done at guard Center in terms of whether it's
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  a practice squad or fifty three man roster. There were
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  other players they've been looking at here who've gone elsewhere,
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  so we'll see what happens. But they really need somebody
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  with experience, quite frankly, and this guy has no experience.
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  The didn't playing in a regular season game, and he's
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  coming off an injury.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and it feels like, you know, and you know,
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  we'll have to wait a little bit more get some intel,
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  but it feels like this is probably a guy that
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  may have liked and just didn't get a chance to draft,
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  and then when he became available, they brought him in.
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  I've seen a little bit of footage from him from
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  the preseason before he got hurt. There's against the Cowboys
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  they played where he had some pretty impressive blocks, and
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  he plays with great leverage. Apparently he was a great
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  wrestler in high school. I believe it was. I thought
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  I saw that. So the fact that he at that
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  height was able to play some tackle in college shows
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  you that he's probably an overachiever and really good with
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  his leverage and his hands. And this is a perfect
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  kind of guy that just Staltwin probably can work with
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  and be a developmental center, slash backup center guard, whatever
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  it is. But we knew that was a position they
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  were looking at. To your point on it is rare
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  that you would a guy and Adams your roster when
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  he's got an injury. I think didn't they do this
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  last year in camp with Kayden Sterns, the safety didn't. Yeah,
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  they have been knowing he wasn't ready yet.
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  Speaker 2: They knew it right in fact, he's out of football.
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  Yeah he never he wound up not playing. So yeah,
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  now they knew that. They knew Stern's played for VIC,
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  so they knew he's had major injury problems, and they
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  try to give him time. It kept coming off the roster,
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  on and off the roster. Then the tangle was over.
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  They stopped playing the tangle with him it was it. Yeah,
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  he I don't see.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Lampton was out the combine because I'm
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  looking for the numbers and I'm not finding them, you
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  know what. I wonder because remember with Punaford, who was
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  under six feet at incredibly long arms, he must have
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  good measurables. Yes, yes, we'll look, We'll see, we could
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  find them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good stuff there. We'll get into the practice
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  squad the Eagle. At the time of US recording this,
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  the Eagles had two spots open, I believe, on the
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  practice squad, and they also did not use their international
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  exemption on the offensive lineman who was with him all
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  through camp. Now, I think some people might assume, well,
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  the two practice spots are open for Trevor Keegan and
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  Tristan McCollum, who they just waved. I'm not so sure
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  about that, because as we go through and look at
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  the team, they only have one running back, which is
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  an interesting guy. We'll talk about that. Usually they have
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  more than one on the practice gud squad. But we'll
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  see what they do. But obviously, let's start with the quarterback,
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  columc cord. He comes back on the practice cud. We
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  had a feeling that that was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly what we thought would happen for those people.
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  I know if some people were spectling, Oh well they
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  caught him, so they must not like him. That's he
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  just wasn't ready, right. If he was ready, he would
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  have been a third quarterback and Sam Howe and obviously
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  they're not gonna keep four quarterbacks, but the court didn't
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  work and he goes wanted to have three quarterbacks on
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  the roster though, which I found interesting. So yeah, how
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  is the third quarterback? And there's so just always explain
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  to me his clubs have a minimum and maximum like
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  they have at a position per team on their sixty
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  nine man roster fifty three plus sixteen seventies. The international
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  player Vaha Laki would be the guy. Well done right,
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  Lake and Kalai would be that guy international guy if
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  they won him back. So McCord, yes, there are a
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  bunch of reports out there. Aldric Estime is signed to
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  the ghost practice squad. What is with the Eagles on
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  and I don't know if this is a Kevin and
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  Patullo thing, okay or Jamal Singleton thing. What do they
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  want to corner the league and plus tour pound backs.
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  My god, wow, I thought the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Jamal himself is a pretty big I mean, Jamal is
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  a guy, you know, like upper body.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's built well yeah coach Chad Hall at air Force.
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  But estimate is now, I don't know what he went
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  in a training camp, but he is a big dude.
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  And in fact, I'll get you his measurables from the
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  combine from a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Notre Dame?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he's summer TWI thirty is his area. But
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  he's a big dude. I mean, he's the guy was like,
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  he's just not explosive. But what's interesting though, I say that,
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  but he had He didn't. He didn't run well, but
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  other parts, like his vertical is good. Other things were good. U.
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  But I don't see. This is not an analytics and
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  this is not an RS score thing. I don't see
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  that he did. They liked his tape he had like
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  for those of us who thought Montreal Johnson would be
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  coming back. It's real simple drafted player versus non drafted player.
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  They clearly think es To May is a better football
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  player that you don't have to guess. That's why they
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  did it. That's right. Transactions always tell you a story. No,
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  I don't agree with that. I think Montreal Johnson was
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  a guy that they were on that maybe, by the way,
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  he could always come back, can't come back, and and
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  as of as of late Wednesday, he still hadn't had
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  a job. But we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they've had two running backs on their
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  practice squad before, so they can certainly bring him back.
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  And plus, let's not let's remind everybody about the roster,
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  the practice squad tango that you see take place throughout
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  the year, where guys are on it for a week
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  or two, then they're off it, then they're on it.
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  How he's done does a good job of making it
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  almost like a seventy four man roster by just you know,
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  entertained guys in and out. By the way, if Audrick
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  Estimate were to play a snap for the Eagles this year,
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  he would be the first Notre Dame running back to
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  do that since who.
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  Speaker 2: Oh other than Ricky Waters.
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  Speaker 1: T I can catch you for a little bit. I
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  think guy, I think this guy actually led the Eagles
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  in rushing yards.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, the guy that he went to the Jets
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  tall guy, tall running back. You got it, you got it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember his name.
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  Speaker 2: What was his name, Josh Adams, Yes, Josh Adams.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to estimate was two twenty one the combine, but
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  just talking to someone in scouting he's playing weights. Who
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  knows if he lost weight to the comment could be
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  anywhere from two twenty five to two thirty. Here's his
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  combine numbers five eleven and a half three a's two
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  twenty one, thirty two and three as arms which is
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  good for running back. Hands are big ten in the
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  quarter bench he did bench good for him twenty three,
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  which is higher than the hours for running back. Did
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  not run well at all, uh at four seven two
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  officials for seven, Yeah he had. It's weird. He had
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  he two at four to seven two, but of officials
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  one four seven one. Burt was good at fourth at
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  thirty eight, which is actually very good for a guy
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  his size. Yes, broad jump is ten to five, which
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  is not which is not terrible for running back. So yeah,
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  he's the guy they liked. And I just think Kyron
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  Johnson offers some just a different style, but again it's drafted.
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  Speaker 1: It's Montreal Johnson, just like Montreal did yeah, Iron who
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  is the former rusher from Kansas?
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, Montreal Johnson. Yeah, man, he looked
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  good again. He could come back. But one thing I
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  would tell you remember AJ Dillon's contracts up after the season.
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  We know that Barkley will be a long time Shipley
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  will be here. This is his what second year yep,
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  but they'll need a third back next year. If estimate
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  he fits his size profile. They love these guys who've
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  got good Sizeley's not small, just lower body is not
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  as big as you'd like. But the bottom line is
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  they the days of Donnelle, Pumphrey and smaller backs. That's over.
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  They're not doing It's almost like they've done this on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, listen, given the recent injury history of
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  of AJ Dillon and then the overall injury history of
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  Saquon Barkley, would not shock me if Aldrig Estimated was
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  on the fifty three at some point because of injuries
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  at that position. So we'll have to just see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah real quick. Guy just texted me. I would just ask,
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  what do you know? A guy in enoun scouting. He
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  said that he didn't play two thirty. He said, till
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  where two twenty five. Okay, Okay's got good shots, but
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  Montre Johnson's got more juice.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I think Montreal Johnson, like I mentioned,
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  I thought he really functioned well in the Eagles. You know,
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  shotgun zones scheme as a straight line runner. He had
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  that good one cut. Other than that, I didn't see
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  a whole lot of I thought juice or wiggle or
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  tackle Brant and then he came up. I credited it.
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  He got hurt in the game and went back in,
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  and I wonder if they just I don't know. We'll say,
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  we'll see if they bring him back that to practice squad.
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  They're like you said, there's always the opportunity. I like
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  the wide receivers. You got to like Elijah Cooks and
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  Terrence Marshall because you have a veteran in terrace and
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  then you have the kid who was making plays for
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  early part of camp and Elijah Cooks. Then he got hurt.
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  Then when he came back, it wasn't wasn't the same.
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  But you give a kid a chance to develop more.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Taylor morn for now, because I know people asking
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  who the hell is gonna be the pump returner. I
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  mean it could be Dots and he's done it. Yeah,
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  he did it in camp as I noticed that. I
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  know Vic doesn't want it. It's not Vic's call. For
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  those of you older than like fifty, you might remember
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  Bill Bradley, the All Pro safety for the Eagles, who
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  was a good special teams returner. It's not imprecedent to
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  have a safety slash Nicol Starter who's a stud returned punts.
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  But we'll see what happens. It's kind of weird. We'll
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  see if Taylor Moring comes back. You can't keep everyone,
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  that's the thing. You only have sixteen roster spots. So
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  it's Cooks and Marshall boy again liking size. Marshall Cooks
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  have really good size. And it is interesting both ironically
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  got hurt and that's just what happens sometimes. And Darius
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  Cooper took advantage of his opportunity and never looked back.
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  And those guys had really had no chance to beat
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  him out, to be honest with you, after they came back,
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  Cooper sur passed them and they couldn't make up for
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  lost time. So can't help the club. In the table. Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, tight ends you mentioned they
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  like size. I mean EJ. Jenkins. We know he's a
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  big tight end, big two hundred and sixty pound guy.
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  They bring him back, they bring camera. It's funny that
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  so many tight ends, you know, those those fringe tight ends.
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  And Cameron Lattu was the one that they decided to
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  bring back to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was yeah. So you have to have a
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  minimum of three on your your sixty nine men rosters.
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  They actually have five, so that's that's a little much,
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  but they have done that before. Yep, need to have
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  at least six on your sixty nine men roster. That
• 18:28
  the Eagles have seven, so they're good there. Guard. They
• 18:31
  brought one back, Kenyan Green, so they're going to give
• 18:34
  him a chance to develop on the practice squad. You know,
• 18:36
  he had he had the shoulder injury and he just
• 18:38
  didn't do well. Hollan Pierce, he's a left tackle who
• 18:41
  also moved over to Garden training camp. We saw the
• 18:44
  same line up there. Undirected free agent. He just got
• 18:47
  to get a better physical shape to get an NFL
• 18:49
  body man. You can't teach size. He's a giant human being.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I thought I paid attention to him, and I thought
• 18:54
  he had some decent reps. At times, I think that
• 18:57
  this thing could maybe work out for them. I mean,
• 18:59
  you know, when I say work out, you hope that
• 19:01
  he can start off as he can become a backup
• 19:04
  so and then you'll see from there. But you're right,
• 19:07
  you can't teach size. And even if his footwork wasn't great,
• 19:10
  and go back to Mackai Becton, there were times his
• 19:13
  footwork wasn't great, but he was so massive he could
• 19:15
  just make the block that he was asked to make.
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  I think that there's something there with this kid. I
• 19:20
  think with if as long as I don't know what
• 19:22
  he's like as being coachable, I'll try to figure out that.
• 19:25
  But as far as just having some traits to work with,
• 19:28
  I think they're there.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Listen, this is some of the best traits I've ever seen.
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  Not that you want a guy over six eight, but
• 19:36
  six eight and three a's three for one. But look
• 19:43
  bigger than that. Arm length ridiculously long, and this is
• 19:45
  crazy thirty six inch arms. My god, yeah, wingspan, this
• 19:51
  is I don't know if this is a record eighty
• 19:54
  eight in a quarter.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Is a massive human being. And now here's the funny thing.
• 19:59
  I remember talking about this. His hands are smaller than
• 20:02
  ten nine and seven A's that that's weird, Yeah, like
• 20:06
  eleven or something. But he's long. Man. You got to
• 20:09
  keep this guy. You can't like that's a guy. If
• 20:13
  he passes through, which he did, you got to bring
• 20:15
  back because this is worth I mean honestly, if he
• 20:20
  if he does well enough, bring him back next year
• 20:21
  in the practice obviously to your program. Signed signed to
• 20:25
  an off season contract, and this dude.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'll be looking forward to talking about him
• 20:31
  next year after a year development, just to see where
• 20:33
  he is a year from now.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: But he's built like a tackle.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You can't be serious a guard.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, man, we thought that about McKay.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Beck to no, when you had that note, I was like,
• 20:43
  come on, there's no one really believes he could play guard.
• 20:45
  And he did. He did pretty well, got a nice
• 20:47
  free agent contract. But man, this dude's even bigger than mackay.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I know, it is hard to believe. All right, on defense,
• 20:53
  they bring back the guy that we thought they signed
• 20:56
  just to play in the game, Chance Campbell. You know
• 20:58
  he had some familiar already had played under Bobby King
• 21:01
  before he makes it onto the practice squad, and that
• 21:04
  makes sense because they did need they needed a linebacker
• 21:08
  and they went with him though over the guy who
• 21:10
  was in camp with them, which was Lance Dixon.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the other kid that they had who was
• 21:17
  with him last year also out of Toledo. So Campbell
• 21:20
  hightweight sped player some significant injury history. I mean, he
• 21:23
  just could not stay healthy with the Titans. He was
• 21:25
  a drafted player for the Titans. Big time athleticism, aris
• 21:29
  score everything you want from athleticism stand but as a
• 21:32
  matter of fact, looking into it, he had a very
• 21:34
  good chance to start then. I think it was the
• 21:36
  yearie towards ACL so edges. No surprise, Patrick Johnson, as
• 21:40
  we expect, was back. Yep. I'm a little surprised Pal
• 21:44
  Royland wasn't claimed because he is an intrusher. I know
• 21:48
  his tape wasn't great from the preseason. He didn't do
• 21:50
  he did next to nothing in training camp. But man,
• 21:53
  I know that he's not a great athlete or anything
• 21:55
  like that, but man, what it shows you that tape's
• 21:58
  way more important than numbers because he just went by
• 22:00
  the numbers production you'd get claim. But clubs clearly didn't
• 22:05
  think he would he they don't think they tape match
• 22:07
  the numbers. That's that's that's the point.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Clearly clearly that that would be the case, because as
• 22:12
  an edge rusher, if it did a little bit, then
• 22:14
  he probably You're right, you could see somebody claiming him,
• 22:18
  all right. And then Nicol Brandon Johnson, now he's I
• 22:20
  wonder if he's still hurt. We have to find out
• 22:23
  what his deal is because he was supposed to be
• 22:24
  out for a little bit. But this is a kid
• 22:26
  I think who had had some decent reps at Nickel
• 22:29
  for more if I believe. Yeah, so it's nice to
• 22:31
  bring him back. Parry Nickerson very good veteran to have
• 22:35
  on the practice. Yeah, I'm happy for it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, if you listen to him talk,
• 22:40
  I feel like he said, it sounds to me like
• 22:42
  he enjoys being in Philadelphia. Of course he'd love to
• 22:44
  be on a fifty three, but I think he likes
• 22:46
  playing in Dick's defense and being here. So good for
• 22:49
  him to be back. And then of course Eli Rix
• 22:52
  and Andre Sam not surprising. There two guys who you know.
• 22:57
  I don't know if they'll get elevated throughout the year.
• 22:58
  I guess if there are some injuries mm hmm, if
• 23:01
  you if you need some special teams out of Sam.
• 23:04
  Certainly could Rix will get here in the develop Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Look, they know Rix real well. He definitely deserved to
• 23:11
  be part of the sixty nine man roster and that
• 23:13
  it makes total sense. Sam has been another guy they've
• 23:16
  tried to develop. It was it was close. Uh you
• 23:19
  know McCollum who made it originally. As we told you before,
• 23:23
  don't just assume a guy who's on the roster Tuesday
• 23:25
  will beat their Wednesday. That's unfortunately what happened. Sam could
• 23:28
  come up this year. He's been there, he knows the defense.
• 23:30
  He's a pretty pretty sharp guy. He's not the greatest
• 23:32
  athlete in the world, but he's done a good job
• 23:35
  for them. The more in one though that again, I
• 23:38
  know it's early in the week. We'll see what happens
• 23:40
  if he comes back. But that's a guy you would
• 23:43
  think they'd want to continue to develop. And now I
• 23:44
  know he's a slot receiver. Cooks and Marshall. Marshall, you
• 23:47
  can like he did line up inside some with Panthers.
• 23:50
  But he's not a true slot rightually a next receiver,
• 23:53
  and Cooks is an ex he's not, he doesn't play inside.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the two guys who I thought would be
• 23:58
  back and are not are more.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And I thought Max.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And Hook had probably deserved himself a shot. Now, maybe
• 24:05
  because it's the numbers thing you've already got under Sam,
• 24:07
  you might bring back McCollum to it. I don't know,
• 24:09
  do you need like a sixth safety? Probably not, But
• 24:12
  from what I saw at camp, I mean, a real
• 24:14
  guy was around the ball, had a hard hitter, seemed alert, instinctive.
• 24:18
  So I just thought there was an opportunity to develop
• 24:21
  a guy.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But say it wasn't meant to be correct, all right?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Injury updates, This is great news for the Eagles. Great
• 24:29
  news to see Landon Dickerson out there on the practice
• 24:33
  field Thursday. That's a great arrow trajectoring up trajecting is
• 24:37
  that a word projecting up for him for Wednesday?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, yeah, on Wednesday? Yes, yes, yeah, I'm sorry Wednesday.
• 24:43
  That's right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so great, that's great.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I think that's huge. Yeah, I was. I was pleasantly
• 24:48
  surprised for Eagles fans. That he was there just because
• 24:53
  you were in that timeline. Sometimes it's four weeks when
• 24:57
  you come back. I've seen guys come back in two weeks.
• 24:58
  You and I've actually talked about it. Who was the
• 25:00
  player who told us that story with that Herriman's yes, Herrimons.
• 25:03
  He had the trim and he came back in the
• 25:05
  two weeks.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a game a bye week and I
• 25:07
  think yeah, so I think he missed one game, then
• 25:09
  the bye week, and then he was starting the following
• 25:11
  game after that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: It's impressive. So looking good for Dickerson. They baby ag
• 25:16
  Brown's hamstring. He got some work in on Wednesday as well,
• 25:18
  good for him, but Koba didn't work on Wednesday. We'll
• 25:22
  see what happens. He's just behind man. He vic is
• 25:26
  like any old school coach. You can't make up time.
• 25:30
  You just can't. It's really hard, man. It's about practice
• 25:33
  and performance. He just got hurt again. This is his
• 25:37
  second injury, so we'll see what happens. On the reserve list. Currently,
• 25:40
  Johnny Wilson's out for the season. He's on season ending
• 25:43
  a season ending ir with Indian ankel Miles Hinton, who
• 25:47
  got hurt in the preseason game. He's on IR with
• 25:49
  designation for return, so he'll be backs at some point
• 25:51
  this season. He's a missed minimum of four weeks. It
• 25:53
  could be a much longer. Na Kobe Dean, now just
• 25:56
  understand something. When Nakobe said he'll be back week five,
• 25:59
  Well stand something. He's a practice since last season. Yeah,
• 26:03
  they could designate him for return so he could start
• 26:06
  the twenty one day windows starting week five. He's playing
• 26:08
  in week five. But I've never seen I mean, maybe
• 26:11
  it's happen in NFL history. The guy's out for nine
• 26:14
  months and he comes back the first week he practices.
• 26:16
  Maybe there's a story I don't know about, but he's
• 26:20
  I'm just glad. I'm glad he's saying he's doing well
• 26:23
  and he's going to be back. As you noted months
• 26:25
  ago that you'd heard October that that at least he'll
• 26:28
  be on the at least will be practicing bar and
• 26:30
  a step back in October. What exactly he plays and
• 26:32
  what role he'll have will be determined later.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I will just add to that. And I
• 26:37
  think you would co sign in your years of doing this,
• 26:40
  especially with all the injury stuff early in your career,
• 26:43
  when you were in an injury website. Sometimes sometimes you
• 26:46
  shouldn't listen to the player when the player says he'll
• 26:49
  be back, because sometimes the player tends to be a
• 26:53
  little bit more what's the word optimistic and ahead of
• 26:55
  it than the actual training staff, medical staff, and coaching staff.
• 26:59
  So I'm I mean, I hope macooting Nkobe's back by then,
• 27:01
  because that would be great. It would be fantastic. And
• 27:03
  if he's saying week five and getting that input, that's great,
• 27:07
  But we don't know that he is. Could you know,
• 27:09
  he just could be him, happy to be him, just
• 27:12
  assuming Hey, I'm off the list then and I'll be
• 27:14
  on ready to go.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: That's a lot because he again he you have to
• 27:17
  have a ramp up period. Yep. I was talking to
• 27:20
  Kerry Rhodes about that, uh, the former Jets and Cardinal safety.
• 27:23
  He was just so we were He and I were
• 27:24
  talking about on Fox Sports Radio about whether Parsons could
• 27:30
  play next week if he signs over the weekend. He goes, Man,
• 27:32
  I don't see, because you have to forget your body
• 27:34
  needs to build up the callous. He has to learn
• 27:37
  how to adjust to practice, and that's how you have
• 27:40
  a hamsterring injury or or muscle pool because you haven't
• 27:43
  been practicing right. And we'll talk more about this early
• 27:46
  next week. If Parsons does sign, he's he's on a contract.
• 27:50
  If if he actually decides Okay, I'm gonna play or
• 27:52
  whatever whatever he's going to do. What a circus And
• 27:55
  Jerry Jones the fodder for America's.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Team, well, well we'll talk about that a lot more
• 28:02
  on the next IV as we get ready for the
• 28:05
  season opener Thursday night at the Link, the championship banner
• 28:08
  will be unveiled, the Cowboys will be on the other sideline.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I do just every Eagles fans greatest dream right there.
• 28:17
  That's gonna do it for this episode of Inside the Birds,
• 28:20
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• 28:23
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