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Football at Four: Eagles Roster Update Four Weeks From NFL Draft · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Jeff Mosher is here.
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  Speaker 1: It was a busy week for the Birds as they
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  Speaker 1: obviously made a lot of moves around the edges here.
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  Speaker 2: What do they all mean?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mosh is here to tell us all what he
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  Speaker 1: thinks they all mean. Jeff Boucher from the Inside the
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Jeff, Mike?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, Buddy? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: A good time downleer one?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a good game a scoobl Vers Sanchez. I
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  Speaker 1: got that game on Friday. I felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: like a World Series preview maybe in that but why
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  Speaker 1: was there? Things were happening, Eagles were making moves. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go back a little bit and get some thoughts. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like Goddard was as good as gone. Not
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  Speaker 1: only they get them back, they get them back at
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  Speaker 1: a lower cost from last year. Are you surprised they
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  Speaker 1: got Goddard back with that deal?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, Josh and I talked about this little
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  Speaker 4: last week about surprise. You just never know what a
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  Speaker 4: market's gonna look like. And the tight end market this
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  Speaker 4: year it surprised me now to look back on it
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  Speaker 4: and see that there just wasn't It wasn't abundant, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's as we speak. I believe John new
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  Speaker 4: Smith is still like David Nijoku. I think he took
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  Speaker 4: a visit with a team, but I don't know that
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  Speaker 4: he's signed yet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, these were.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the top names, and for whatever reason, the
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  Speaker 4: tight end market this year did not materialize. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 4: get a year, right Mike, where you think a guy's
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  Speaker 4: not that good. Adam and I constantly talk about the
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  Speaker 4: Christian Kirk like market from five years ago when he
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  Speaker 4: signed for like eighteen million a year and everybody was shocked,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: And this is one of those where it went the
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  Speaker 3: other way.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he just just not a big market for
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  Speaker 4: tit ends this year, so it hurted Ballace counter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the Eagles prosper because of that. They get
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  Speaker 1: Goddard to come back here, they make the trade for
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood not to trade. They signed Hollywood Brown. They add
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  Speaker 1: him to the mix, and that of course sent off
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. Okay, you're bringing in an accomplished receiver.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of role do you see? Let's say AJ
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  Speaker 1: Brown is here. Let's start with that. How what kind
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  Speaker 1: of role does Hollywood Brown? Is it a good fit?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean yes and no.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's a good fit as a good player.
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  Speaker 4: He can stretch the field, he can line up in
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  Speaker 4: multiple different spots.
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  Speaker 3: I personally don't think he gives.
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  Speaker 4: The Eagles what they really need if they have AJ Brown,
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  Speaker 4: which is a true slot wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he can be a vertical slot, but you
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  Speaker 3: want a slot who can do a little run block.
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  Speaker 3: He can catch the ball, so.
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  Speaker 4: You can you can be in your eleven personnel without
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  Speaker 4: giving away too many tells. I still think they need that,
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  Speaker 4: but he's obviously are if you look at the guys
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  Speaker 4: that the Eagles have had as number three receivers, you know,
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  Speaker 4: John Dotson did you have a third round pick for him?
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  Speaker 3: He had at the end of the day, what do
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  Speaker 3: you have thirty catches as an eagle.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's not worth a third round pick.
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  Speaker 4: We said that when it happened. I get that they
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  Speaker 4: won a Super Bowl. I get he made some impressive
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  Speaker 4: plays in the Super Bowl. But there are like a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of free agent receivers you could have gotten without
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  Speaker 4: giving up a third round pick, who probably could have
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  Speaker 4: given you the same production on a one year contract
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  Speaker 4: each of the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: So does this move then tell say that he's not
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  Speaker 1: a good fit with the current compliment of receivers, and
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  Speaker 1: there's more of a move in the event that aj
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  Speaker 1: Brown is not here.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean the point I was gonna make was that,
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  Speaker 4: like if you look at their number three receivers and
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  Speaker 4: not slot, I just mean, like a number three receiver,
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  Speaker 4: which is usually your first guy off the bench to
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  Speaker 4: play the outside right, whether it was John Dotson the
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  Speaker 4: years before that, it was you know, they tried to
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  Speaker 4: remember side. They tried to sign Devonte Parker and he
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  Speaker 4: wound up retiring. They they gave John Ross a try,
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  Speaker 4: They gave a who is the other guy that they
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  Speaker 4: brought out of retirement and Paris Campbell a try.
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  Speaker 3: I mean this, Marquis Brown is legit.
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  Speaker 4: He had a thousand yard season, So they have already
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  Speaker 4: improved the depth that they've had at that position by
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  Speaker 4: a lot over the last few years. Now, if you
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  Speaker 4: that's if you have AJ Brown, if you don't have
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  Speaker 4: AJ Brown, now you're asking him to be your one
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  Speaker 4: of your top two wide receivers depending on what you
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  Speaker 4: do going forward. And that's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: miscast role for him. So it's still a good guy
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  Speaker 4: to have, but it's a miscast role for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Ollywood Brown obviously probably you know, he
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  Speaker 1: gives them a little speed, the ability to kind of
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  Speaker 1: stretch the field, something they really haven't had a whole
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  Speaker 1: heck of a lot of in that third receiver role.
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  Speaker 1: And don't forget Johnny Wilson missed last year. He was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the guy that blocked in that role. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's a guy that is in there is a
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  Speaker 1: blocking guy. You have Hollywood Brown who can stretch the field.
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  Speaker 1: Does any of this, the Wattle trade, the Brown deal
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  Speaker 1: change anything with AJ Brown in your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Not really, Nope, we're just in a holding pattern here
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  Speaker 4: and seeing what's gonna You know, the drafts will happen,
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  Speaker 4: and then June first will happen, and then training camp
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  Speaker 4: will happen.
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  Speaker 3: So we got it's a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Between because the Eagles don't need picks for this year,
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  Speaker 4: so they don't have to right, So let's let's.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that real fast. I'm glad you brought that
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  Speaker 1: up because I brought this up earlier. The Eagles go
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  Speaker 1: into this season with Super Bowl aspirations.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Correct, If you trade aj Brown.
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  Speaker 1: And don't get anything back to help this year's team,
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  Speaker 1: do you still have the same aspirations losing the player
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  Speaker 1: of that magnitude.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they will, but I would think that they
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  Speaker 4: will make counter moves to make sure that they're still
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  Speaker 4: well stocked to that position. It's not a great argument
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  Speaker 4: that I'm about to make. It's not apples to apples.
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  Speaker 4: I've already made this argument before I gotten blowback on it.
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  Speaker 4: But I just want people to understand that there's more
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  Speaker 4: than one way to skin a cat.
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  Speaker 3: Right. When the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, not the
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  Speaker 3: one against the Eagles.
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  Speaker 4: Their second one, right, they went and they traded Tyreek
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  Speaker 4: Hill to the Dolphins after that, and that didn't make
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  Speaker 4: them a better team per se, but they still won
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl again over that one over the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: right for their third one, because they were better all
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  Speaker 4: around and they were able to compensate for it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the blowback I get is, yeah, you can do that
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  Speaker 4: when you have Patrick Mahlmes.
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  Speaker 3: I get it, I get I.
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  Speaker 4: Get the Jail Hurts is a good quarterback, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: not as transcendent to where you just put anybody out
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  Speaker 4: there with him and expect him to win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: But what I would say is that the GM is
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  Speaker 3: not an idiot.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he knows that if he trades AJ Brown
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  Speaker 4: that there's gonna be some extensive work to be done
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  Speaker 4: to be able to replace that, and he'll be aggressive.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing I'll say at this point is where
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  Speaker 4: how he's really going to be challenged here if he
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  Speaker 4: trades AJ Brown or even if he doesn't, right is,
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  Speaker 4: right now, you have no edge rusher of a Jalen
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  Speaker 4: Phillips capability that you're you Look, they were gonna pay
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  Speaker 4: him like twenty five million in the year in that neighborhood, right,
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  Speaker 4: They're not paying anybody else twenty five million on the
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  Speaker 4: edges and no one's available on free agent that's worth that.
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  Speaker 4: So we've talked about the trademarket, right, maybe Jonathan Garnard.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like it's like five guys though, Like if
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  Speaker 4: you don't get Grenard, what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: So that and then if you do want to trading
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  Speaker 4: AJ Brown, you got a lot of work to do
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  Speaker 4: to your point to be that super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I feel like if you make a
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  Speaker 1: trade and it's like, yeah, the picks next year, but
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  Speaker 1: you're doing nothing then to improve the team right now
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  Speaker 1: and you're given up a player of that that is
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of helping you win a super Bowl now.
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  Speaker 2: So if you move him, we're hoping that.
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  Speaker 1: You get something to help the team now as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to in the draft next year. Because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles want to I don't think the Eagles want
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  Speaker 1: to kick one season away.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's true. But remember it's not like how he
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  Speaker 4: woke up one day and said I want to I
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  Speaker 4: just feel like moving AJ Brown. This is all the
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  Speaker 4: result of an unhappy receiver who is you know, obviously
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  Speaker 4: allowed that the impact is play, who I imagine would
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  Speaker 4: like to prefer to be elsewhere. I mean, when when
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  Speaker 4: a guy wants to be somewhere else, whether his name
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  Speaker 4: is Carson Wentz or Hassan Redick or so.
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  Speaker 3: Be it, it usually winds up that that guy is
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about this Tanner mckista. So I get
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  Speaker 1: to I'm away, you know, I'm kind of paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to stuff, but not and somebody said the Eagles just
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  Speaker 1: traded for Andy Dalton. I was like, what the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: trade for Andy Dalton? Doesn't really fit the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the mold all that much. But a veteran quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: has started what's the messaging in your mind when you
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  Speaker 1: see that deal happens? And then Rich Samini, a very
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  Speaker 1: well respected reporter who covers the Jets, said the Jets
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  Speaker 1: were told it's gonna be a second round.
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  Speaker 2: Pick for McKee.
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  Speaker 1: So were they trying to move McKee in hopes that
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  Speaker 1: to get a second round pick? Or is it McKee's
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  Speaker 1: here and Dalton is just the sam Howe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 4: The second. I mean, they're not trying to move McKee.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, you've seen it happen. You know we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go into the draft teams are. It's not a
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  Speaker 4: great quarterback draft. So some team's gonna come out of
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  Speaker 4: this draft thinking I didn't really get what I wanted
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback. You know, I was hoping to maybe get
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  Speaker 4: Ty Simpson I didn't, or you know, Garrett and Nesmeier,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't. Okay, and then we're gonna have training camp, right, oh, tising,
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  Speaker 4: and thenquarterback's gonna get hurt. It always happens, right, So
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  Speaker 4: there's a real possibility that someone is still going to
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  Speaker 4: call the Eagles at some point between now and the
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  Speaker 4: opener of the season, and circumstances may say that that
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  Speaker 4: team is going.
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  Speaker 3: To offer what the Eagles would be looking for. Right.
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  Speaker 4: So if that's the case, and the Eagles do this
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  Speaker 4: really well, this is why credit Howie is they always
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  Speaker 4: have contingency plans ready. Now, it's a little bit weird
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  Speaker 4: to have and it all and as your third given
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  Speaker 4: all that he's accomplished in the in the league, and
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  Speaker 4: a little bit higher of a salary, we'll see if
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  Speaker 4: that gets changed. You know, Eagles acquire guys sometimes they
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  Speaker 4: do something with the salary to make it different.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see what that is.
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  Speaker 4: But It certainly gives them the insurance to have a
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  Speaker 4: guy to be the number two in case they do
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  Speaker 4: lose McKee. And I'm sure they'd like to draft the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback anyway, But that guy might not be ready like
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  Speaker 4: Kyle McCord wasn't, or he might make a team unlike
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  Speaker 4: comm accord, but still just not be ready to go
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  Speaker 4: win games.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Damien per is here.
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  Speaker 1: Now. At first, she would say, man, this guy was
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  Speaker 1: almost had.
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  Speaker 2: A thousand yards a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've been sucked in by the you know, Rashad Pennies, great,
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  Speaker 1: you know numbers in Seattle, AJ Dillon. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm out all that excited about. Do you see a
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  Speaker 1: role for Damian Pierce. There's just the classic, Hey we
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  Speaker 1: got Devin White. Look at this move, big name player
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  Speaker 1: who essentially has no role.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we can't even put Damian Pierce in Devin White.
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  Speaker 3: I mean different.
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  Speaker 4: White was at least an all pro in a first
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  Speaker 4: round pick. Damian Pierce had one nice season as a
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  Speaker 4: Day three pick. And no, I'm not I'm not really
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  Speaker 4: excited about it. No, no disrespect to Damian Pierce. He's
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  Speaker 4: up between the tackles pounded a rock runner and they're
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  Speaker 4: about to sort of introduce an offense.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Different schematically, as a person who I spoke to in
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  Speaker 4: the league kind of cracked it's best available gator for Howie,
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  Speaker 4: who you know loves his floorer the guys because because
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  Speaker 4: how he went there. So uh yeah, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 4: Mike and you just pointed this out, and I can't,
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand it. The Eagles have kept four running
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  Speaker 4: backs for the last few years, even though the fourth
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  Speaker 4: running back has collected dust.
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  Speaker 3: I mean AJ Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: They had so many reasons as they're picking up players,
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  Speaker 4: especially cornerbacks right left and right throughout the season, and
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  Speaker 4: to figure out a way.
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  Speaker 3: That AJ Dillon did not need to be on the
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  Speaker 3: fifty three man roster.
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  Speaker 4: But there he was all year long, even though Barkley
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  Speaker 4: and Bigsby and Shipley were the guys right and remember
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  Speaker 4: there were Shot Penny year same thing. He just sat
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  Speaker 4: there and collected ust. So for whatever reason, they liked
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  Speaker 4: to have four running backs. So you've got Bigsby, you
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  Speaker 4: got Barkley, you got Shipley. Maybe there's a shot that
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  Speaker 4: Pierce sticks. I'd be surprised but they've surprised me before.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I'm not gonna let this Damian peersting make
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  Speaker 2: me feel like, Wow, there's a guy that can throw
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  Speaker 2: the bottle over duting up.
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  Speaker 1: He's to me just aj Dillon, big guy probably doesn't
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  Speaker 1: touch the ball once all season long. Yeah, Marcus Epps
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  Speaker 1: is back. Would you say that EPP's and mcuba will
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  Speaker 1: be your starting safety tandem.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'll say it could be your starting safety ten.
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  Speaker 4: This is another thing, by the way, this is a
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  Speaker 4: really this is a fascinating offseason only because the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: have made a lot of good moves.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing what they normally do.
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  Speaker 4: But we have the discussion about edge like really lacking
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  Speaker 4: the star that they expect to have.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 4: We're having discussion a wide receiver and safety. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought Sidney Brown would get traded.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it.
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  Speaker 4: Would happen at the end of camp when everybody's like
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  Speaker 4: kind of well, I'm gonna wind up cutting this guy.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna wind up cutting that guy. Let's do like
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  Speaker 4: one of these uh you're a guy for my guide deals,
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  Speaker 4: but he doesn't even make it that far.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, you bring back Epps. You signed J T.
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  Speaker 4: Gray, who's really just a special teams player. He makes
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  Speaker 4: up for what Epps, I'm sorry for what Sidney Brown
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  Speaker 4: gives you on special teams. But right now you're looking
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  Speaker 4: at the safety spot, and it's Andrew mccouba, it's Michael
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  Speaker 4: Carter to the second.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get some some rep go there, Marcus Apps.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the only three guys, which I mean Andre
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  Speaker 4: Sam who's never really you know, played meaningful downs in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. So this is yet another position where you're
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  Speaker 4: just wondering, like, can how he keep spinning it and making,
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  Speaker 4: you know, spinning the wheel and making magic happen when
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  Speaker 4: he's got deficiencies at several spots on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting that you say, yes, it could be And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean unless you think you draft a safety and
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  Speaker 1: play mccuba and a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: That seems a little.
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  Speaker 4: Joke on the podcast today that if you trade aj Brown,
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  Speaker 4: you take some of that competent compensation and you package
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  Speaker 4: it with your first round pick, you move up, you
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  Speaker 4: get Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's upset.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a far fet scenario, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: there's a possibility, uh, and maybe they make a trade
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  Speaker 1: the other so basically, I mean all this stuff was
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  Speaker 1: kind of leading up to the draft, which is now
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  Speaker 1: a bunt out.
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  Speaker 2: Has anything that has happened in the.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this last free agency period which opened two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, change the draft outlook for you at all,
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  Speaker 1: or you know not nothing they have done in this
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  Speaker 1: free agency will change their draft strategy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is this is gonna sort of be the
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  Speaker 4: repetitive part of our conversation.
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  Speaker 5: The Eagles have always done a good job of draft
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  Speaker 5: proofing the roster, having enough bodies that they feel confident
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  Speaker 5: in to start at positions that they that they might
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  Speaker 5: be deficient while they let their so they can just
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: go ahead and draft the best players.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Right, But can you go into the draft with with
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: no answer as a starting edge?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Right? No?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Can you can trade aj Brown?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: And can you not have a safety and then tell
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: me you're not going to reach at those three spots
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: in the draft.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: That's that's hard to imagine.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: So that's why I'm not sitting here saying, how, you know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: how he's lost his time, which I think between now
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: and the draft we're certainly going to see something significantly
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: done to make sure that the roster is more draft proof.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: But if it's not.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: If you and I are having this conversation on a Wednesday,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: right like we always talk on my name Wednesday, yep,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: and the draft is on Thursday, and this is basically
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: what the roster they have looks like, then it's gonna
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: be an interesting conversation that we're going to have that.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: And you know, and by the way, they also traded
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Sidney Brown away and they basically moved up a couple
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: of spots in the draft. So obviously you're doing that
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: with the thought of, hey, a couple spots up could
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: help me make a trade and move a couple spots
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: someplace else or get somebody else here.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Who knows.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: But Cidney Brown is a safety who they obviously and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Adam has been you know, saying for years or the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: last all year that you know, they don't view him
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: as a safety, they view him as a special teams player.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So he was not in their safety plans either.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: What are the Falcons thinking, By the way, what are
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the Falcons thinking, Like, what are they seeing Sidney Brown
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: that they're gonna I know it's not that they're giving
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: up a lot, but they don't have that many trafficks.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Sick guy the Eagles will probably wind up cutting at
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: the end of training camp. But what is so important
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: about Sidney Brown to them that they had to even
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: do pick swats?
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I was saying the same thing I said, are they
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: really move giving you two? I mean, what's a sixth
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: round move up? But the other one is a fourth
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: round move up, which you know could be from something.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: But to move from what one twenty two to one seventeen,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem all that much. But those four spots
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: are five spots could be the move that says, hey,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: can we use this one? And because they got a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: bunch of middle round picks there.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the whole point is why give up
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: anything sign a guy who's probably gonna be available at
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: some point and really only can guarantee to help.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You on special teams. I don't know, you kind of
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: missed five, all right?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Jeff Boscher the Inside the Birds podcast, a lot of
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: people watching on YouTube right now. Of course, no, Jeff,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: he is of course with us on Mondays and Wednesdays.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Adam will be here tomorrow, Andrew check go on Thursday.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Adam is back on Friday. All off season, we're getting
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: ready for the draft.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: We are one month to the day to the NFL Draft.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Now that it's interesting because of the McKee stuff. That
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: one perked my interest. The McKee thing now becomes very
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: interesting to me because you said it not a great
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: quarterback class, and everybody loves to find that guy that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: can get on the cheap meaning pay wise. So if
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: they feel like they can get Tata McKee at that price,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the Eagles may be able to get another interesting pick here.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: So that's something that definitely I'm keeping an eye on.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you missed some good basketball, local basketball here
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: over the week.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I saw you were at the Ukon. Were you there
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: last night?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I was covering it for Philly Voice both nights Friday
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: and Sunday, all the games.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was great time. First fun for me.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: First, I've covered everything basically every single major exporting event
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: except for an NCAA tournament until this weekend, So check
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: that off my list.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because the games were also in Tampa,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and I didn't go to the games, but I did
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: see that the game last night in Tampa was like
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a ten fifteen start man.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: The Yukon game against Furman on Friday night wound up
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: starting around ten thirty, because you know, it's the fourth
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: of four games and every you know, a couple of
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: games are slower going overtime, and that was kind of brutal.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: That was really brutal.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I you know, I watched pretty much every game. Now,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I don't remember some of the endings, but.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I was just college basketball, good college basketball. Back at
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the XMA.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I've been to Actually, I've never been to a college
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: basketball NCAA game in Philly. I've been to one in Tampa.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: When West Virginia played Kentucky in Tampa. It is like
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: twenty eleven or something. I went to the games in Tampa.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Had a blast watching those games. I was at the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Mac here in Atlantic City. So I'm all college basketball up, man,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not missing anything. I was at the Phillies game Friday.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I saw Scuball and Sanchez. I mean, I'm living it up.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I'm having some sports fun right now.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: That's wait, Wait, Matt, was it the Mac or Mac
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the Mac?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: It was Jerry Mack, Jerry McNamara.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say Sienna represented well. They went
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: out to play the DUCA really great.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: It did.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because the last couple of years you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: had Patino coaching Iona. He ended up in Saint John's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and now McNamara who coached Sienna.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: He's now at Syracuse.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: This is a hotbed for definitely definitely a hotbed there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right man, we will catch up on Wednesday, alright.
• 20:38
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