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The DiCecco Daily: Impact Of Eagles Losing DBs Coach Christian Parker To Cowboys DC Job · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Checho Daily. Andrew dicheco here, Eagles beat reporter for
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  Speaker 1: insidethebirds dot Com. The Eagles are losing defensive backs coach,
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  Speaker 1: passing game coordinator Christian Parker, who has finalized a deal
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  Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys to become their defensive coordinator. Needless
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  Speaker 1: to say, it's a massive loss for the foot off
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, but a huge gain for the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Parker is just thirty four years old, but has
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  Speaker 1: a commanding presence. He has a track record of developing talent,
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  Speaker 1: maximizing the talent of those around him, and relatability. So
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  Speaker 1: when you look at what the Cowboys needed, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that they were going to maybe go for a bigger
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  Speaker 1: name and maybe Parker would be more appealing to the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, which of course he was a defensive
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  Speaker 1: quality control coach. But I can tell you from talking
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  Speaker 1: to players for the past two seasons. You talk to
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  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, just different coaches, it's something that
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  Speaker 1: it is a prevailing theme. It comes up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever Christian Parker's name is brought up, the player's eyes
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  Speaker 1: they light up and they are quick to heat praise
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  Speaker 1: upon their coach, especially obviously secondary players, whether it's Quinta Mitchell, Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Degen. By the way, during cleanout, said that he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be the player that he is without Christian Parker.
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  Speaker 1: Quinyon Mitchell has offered a similar sentiment. I spoke to
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  Speaker 1: a Dori Jackson this season and Adri Jackson has mentioned that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he works with him a lot on the side, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you listen to my podcast on Thursdays,
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  Speaker 1: Christian Parker would work with Quinya Mitchell and Adri Jackson
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  Speaker 1: off to the side on ball skills and footwork and
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  Speaker 1: different types of fundamentals. That was every Thursday. But Adory
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  Speaker 1: talked about beyond even the on field, you know, impact
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  Speaker 1: that Christian Parker has made, it's the relatability piece. He
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  Speaker 1: cited that he was always three years. There was only
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  Speaker 1: a three year difference between Dori Jackson and Christian Parker,
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  Speaker 1: and they would talk about TV shows, movies, certain songs,
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  Speaker 1: even sports figures. And you have to think zooming out.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the defensive backs on a roster are going
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  Speaker 1: to be in their twenties or early thirties, and Parker
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  Speaker 1: having that relatability where he can communicate and talk about
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  Speaker 1: different things with his group, I think makes his ability
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  Speaker 1: to convey his messaging a lot clearer, a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: to digest than maybe some other coaches. And so now
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be overseeing the entire defense, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I know just from being around him, he has
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  Speaker 1: a commanding presence. He conducts himself like a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: He speaks in ways that you're able to understand and
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  Speaker 1: process it, and he just is a very sharp defensive mind.
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the conversation that I had, well,
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  Speaker 1: I asked Sean Payton a question at the NFL Scotting
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  Speaker 1: Combine caught him a bright defensive mind, said, Christian's really sharp.
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  Speaker 1: That was a holdover on Sean Payton's staff. He's obviously
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  Speaker 1: very well versed in the vic Fangio system. So you
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  Speaker 1: can expect to see a lot of that or some
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  Speaker 1: iteration of that with the Dallas Cowboys. But you look
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  Speaker 1: at everywhere that he's gone, whether it was Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: and Jay R Alexander, whether it was Denver, Pat Sertan
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  Speaker 1: Jaklin McMillan, who came up with a monster interception whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call it. I believe it was an
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  Speaker 1: interception against in the in the playoffs, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think you look at that track record there he comes
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  Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. Yes, the Eagles drafted QUINNYA. Mitchell and Cooper Degen.
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  Speaker 1: They were high picks and a lot was expected and
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  Speaker 1: they were already good players. But Christian Parker took them
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  Speaker 1: from good to great, from good to becoming all pros.
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  Speaker 1: And how many times have we seen examples of players
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  Speaker 1: who were good but they never quite reached their potential.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that falls on the player not putting the work in,
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  Speaker 1: but also that falls on the coach for not maximizing
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  Speaker 1: their talents. And I think what Christian Parker did was
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  Speaker 1: get them up to speed very early on in their career.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Cooper Degen didn't play for the first handful of
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  Speaker 1: games because he was recovering from an offseason hamstring injury
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  Speaker 1: that you know, shortened his rookie season or elongated the
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  Speaker 1: process until he was able to get on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And then Christian Parker implements him, and he's someone who
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  Speaker 1: just jeled the bright d jailed seamlessly and quickly became
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  Speaker 1: one of the better nickel defenders in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 1: because he mastered that nickel role, I think Cooper dejen
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  Speaker 1: was able to have a more comprehensive understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: defense as a whole, and he flies around and has
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  Speaker 1: plays with good fundamentals. Quinnon Mitchell already among the elite
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  Speaker 1: for reminter corners in the NFL. Yes, they have that
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  Speaker 1: inherent talent. But to suggest, and you know, for those
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  Speaker 1: who want to criticize Kevin Patullo, well, I mean coaching matters.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to criticize Kevin Patullo about the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator role and his job that he did and say
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  Speaker 1: how much coaching impacted it, well I think you have
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  Speaker 1: to look at Christian Parker and look at it the
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  Speaker 1: other way and say his coaching directly correlated to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of success in the secondary, not only that raid
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  Speaker 1: blanket ship, maybe more so in twenty twenty four. An
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  Speaker 1: undrafted player who I thought really hit his stride in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, good communicator, a traffic cop back there.
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  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio likes him and trust him. Christian Parker thought
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  Speaker 1: an awful lot of them. Drew mccooba is a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: It started off a little shaky, but I thought that
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  Speaker 1: he got a lot better from a communication standpoint, from
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  Speaker 1: and being assignment sound perspective as the season wore on.
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  Speaker 1: And that's no mistake. He's in a room with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of veteran player not even a lot of veteran
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  Speaker 1: players because that Dory Jackson was the oldest corner there,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of players who are well versed in
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  Speaker 1: the coaching and ideologies and understanding of what Christian Parker
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  Speaker 1: So now you look at it and who would be
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  Speaker 1: the obvious candidate in house to replace them, Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be Safeties coach Joe Casper if they choose
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  Speaker 1: to go the internal route. Highly regarded, a young coach
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  Speaker 1: who's on the assent. I've heard good things from. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Drew mccoba, whether it's Marcus Epps, whomever, Brandon Johnson
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's just his name comes up a lot
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  Speaker 1: as well, much like Christian Parker's did early on when
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  Speaker 1: he joined the Eagles, So that that's name you're going
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  Speaker 1: to want to pay attention to and keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: As they look to fill that role, and you take
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  Speaker 1: a step back and look at what Christian Parker could
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  Speaker 1: bring to the Dallas Cowboys. They're going to be disciplined,
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be assigmon sound, They're going to be
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  Speaker 1: far more equipped to master those fundamentals that I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the Dallas Cowboys, they aren't a
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  Speaker 1: disciplined team and their fundamentals are lacking. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: bring some structure. Now, he is a young coach, but
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  Speaker 1: he commands a room, and I think when you look
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  Speaker 1: at a lot of these coaches, even Sean Desai, one
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  Speaker 1: of his issues was that he didn't really command a room,
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  Speaker 1: and Christian Parker certainly does. He has a track record
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  Speaker 1: of success at multiple stops, and so I think that'll
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  Speaker 1: help him build that credibility and then that relatability piece
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  Speaker 1: that I believe is an underrated bonus. When you're getting
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  Speaker 1: a coach like him that already has such a sharp
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  Speaker 1: defensive mind, is obviously going to be a plus and
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  Speaker 1: help him convey his message a lot smoother. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of those players start
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  Speaker 1: to really take to his coaching, and I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if he moves on from there and becomes a
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  Speaker 1: head coach, if he's successful, because that's that's the caliber
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  Speaker 1: of coach and the caliber of person and communicator and
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  Speaker 1: leader that I believe that Christian Parker is. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's based solely off my assessment and conversations that I've
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  Speaker 1: had with him from the two years of covering the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles in which he's been the Eagles defensive backs coach
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  Speaker 1: and past game coordinator. That's going to do it for
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  Speaker 1: this edition of a Czech o'daly. I'm Andrew Decheco and
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  Speaker 1: I'll catch you all on the next one.