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The DiCecco Daily: Going Inside My Day 3 Picks For Eagles In Mock Draft 1.0 · 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 Checko Daily. It's Andrew dcheco here, Eagles beat reporter
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  Speaker 1: for Inside the Birds dot Com. Hope everyone out there
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  Speaker 1: is having a great weekend. But let's not waste any
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  Speaker 1: time as we always do. Let's get right to the information.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the Day three portion of the Checko
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  Speaker 1: Madraft one point zero. I promised you that I would
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  Speaker 1: deliver it in a two part podcast here and to
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  Speaker 1: kind of recap where we are, I went with right
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  Speaker 1: or I guess what you could call it, offensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: Caden Proctor from Alabama on with the first round pick
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  Speaker 1: pick number twenty three. In the second round at number
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  Speaker 1: fifty four, had them going with wide receiver Omar Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Junior out of Indiana, and in the first of the
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  Speaker 1: two third round picks at pick sixty eight, Max Claire
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  Speaker 1: tight end from Ohio State, and then rounding things out
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  Speaker 1: at pick ninety eight, Danny Dennis Sutton edge rusher from
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  Speaker 1: Penn State, enormous six foot five, two fifty five or thereabouts.
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  Speaker 1: So they're all positions of need and they all happen to,
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  Speaker 1: at least at the moment, coincide with where the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: will be picking. You're always going to hear people who
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  Speaker 1: are like, that's not gonna happen. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be there. It's February first, right now, that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: where they are. Obviously, stocks rise and fall throughout the
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  Speaker 1: pre draft process, but the NFL scouting combine has not
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  Speaker 1: even happened, so it's impossible to say that somebody won't
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  Speaker 1: or will be there. I remember back to last season.
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  Speaker 1: This is I don't know February or March, where I
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  Speaker 1: had the Eagles taken Drew mcouba in the second round,
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  Speaker 1: and all I got was a lot of comments saying,
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  Speaker 1: there's never that's two where way too early for macouba.
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  Speaker 1: He's not He's more of a third or a third
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  Speaker 1: round pick. He's too small. You know that that's a reach.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's where, that's where the Eagles took him. So
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  Speaker 1: it just goes to show you, you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: speak with such conviction, it's impossible to know. But that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes these mock drafts fun. These exercises can go
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  Speaker 1: a number of different ways, and you won't really know
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  Speaker 1: until you get to the draft itself. But I do
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  Speaker 1: talk to a lot of people. I do go to
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  Speaker 1: the combine and I do go to pro days, so
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  Speaker 1: I gather a lot of this information and it helps
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  Speaker 1: me inform not just throw darts at the wall, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe better inform my selections here. And so let's kick
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  Speaker 1: things off with round four, pick number one, twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: I went with cornerback Domani Jackson from Alabama. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles have quint Down Mitchell and Cooper Degene, so they
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  Speaker 1: would appear to be well stocked there, and they they
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  Speaker 1: should be because the Eagles. Not many teams around the
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  Speaker 1: NFL have two top end corners like the Eagles do.
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  Speaker 1: But then you look at that second cornerback spot, and
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  Speaker 1: it took a little bit of time, but a Dori
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  Speaker 1: Jackson eventually settled in. I think it's worth re signing
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  Speaker 1: adri Jackson to another one year deal, a modest deal
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  Speaker 1: at that, and having him maybe be there in the
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  Speaker 1: case of insurance, but also maybe be that Isaiah Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: type of player where he can step in as that
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  Speaker 1: first guy off the bench tons of experience. But the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles do need to find a better answer there, and
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  Speaker 1: I think obviously Keeley Ringo and Jacoreyan Bennett, they will
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  Speaker 1: at least be back for training camp. But they've both
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  Speaker 1: proven that they are not the answer. So where do
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  Speaker 1: you turn. Well, you could you could draft a player
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  Speaker 1: high of course that there's going to be some players
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  Speaker 1: that would work in the first or second round, and
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  Speaker 1: then you count on defensive backs coach Joe Casper to
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  Speaker 1: develop them, or maybe you sign someone with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more upside and free to see that can help
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  Speaker 1: you right now. But I have the Eagles swinging for
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  Speaker 1: developmental player with a lot of upside in Demani Jackson
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  Speaker 1: six foot one, one hundred and ninety seven pounds. He
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  Speaker 1: does have the appeal due to the blistering speed and
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  Speaker 1: ability to physically challenge receivers to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: To like his ability to attack the catch point and
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  Speaker 1: fight through the reception. His college career began at USC
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  Speaker 1: but Jackson spent his final two seasons playing for the
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  Speaker 1: Crimson Tie, collecting a pair of interceptions and eight passes
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  Speaker 1: defended over his twenty eight games in Tuscaloosa. There are
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  Speaker 1: some durability concerns. I believe he had a knee injury
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  Speaker 1: his final year in high school and he's been banged
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  Speaker 1: up throughout his college career. But when you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: that kind of frame, with that kind of physicality and
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  Speaker 1: that speed, he runs sub four to three. From my understanding,
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  Speaker 1: those are qualities that you can certainly work with in shape.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're taking a corner in the fourth round,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case, I have them taking a cornerback
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  Speaker 1: at the fourth round, you want to get somebody that
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of traits and characteristics that you can
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  Speaker 1: mold into potentially being a starter with some upside or
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  Speaker 1: some growth potential. So that's that's where I went with that.
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  Speaker 1: I would I would say that the cornerback position's pretty
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  Speaker 1: deep in this year's class, which is good comparatively, the
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  Speaker 1: tight end position is not deep in this class, which
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  Speaker 1: is why I had them going with Max Claire at
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  Speaker 1: pick sixty eight out of Ohio State. Not waiting to
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  Speaker 1: take a flyer on a player that has flashed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit at the college level. Leagles need a bona
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  Speaker 1: fide frontline player that can take over for the post
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard era, whenever that may be. In the fourth
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  Speaker 1: round pick number one point thirty seven, I went with
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  Speaker 1: Michael Tafe, safety from Texas. The Eagles are thin at
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  Speaker 1: the safety position. Look complicating matters. Red blanket Ship is
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  Speaker 1: a homegrown success story and he's said to become a
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  Speaker 1: free agent, and I think he's going to garner some
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  Speaker 1: interest around the league. And Drew mccooba had notable signs
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  Speaker 1: of development as the season wore on there, and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be returning from a season ending ankle fracture.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have Sidney Brown, who was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three third round pick. He didn't exactly run with
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities that he's been given. He's a box safety
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't fit within the structure of this defense based
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  Speaker 1: on what they need him to be able to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so I look at Tafe six foot, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty nine pounds, he was a one time walk
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  Speaker 1: on for the Longhorns, who offers experience fifty three games,
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  Speaker 1: thirty six starts, and plus ball skills. He also covers
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  Speaker 1: a ton of ground for the position, which is arguably
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  Speaker 1: a necessity in the modern era. And perhaps more important, guys,
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  Speaker 1: is that, especially in a fit Veanjo scheme, it would
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  Speaker 1: be that he possesses a high level football IQ intangibles
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  Speaker 1: that both blanket Ship and Macouba also share that could
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  Speaker 1: go a long way. I do view him as being
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  Speaker 1: someone who could step in and help on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: For those wondering and want to look him up, that
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  Speaker 1: his last name is spelled taa ffe and he is
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  Speaker 1: from the University of Texas. I like his game quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit. He has really good range for the position,
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  Speaker 1: and the Eagles obviously need to stockpile that position. They
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  Speaker 1: were very lean there and it kind of reminds me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of edge thrusher in that way. In
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  Speaker 1: the fifth round, pick number one fifty one, I have
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  Speaker 1: them going with Bryce Foster, a center from Kansas. The
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  Speaker 1: Eagles could use more interior depth along the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: The pool of depth there is relatively shallow, and for perspective,
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  Speaker 1: the only reserve holdovers are Drew Kendall, Willie Lampkin, and
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  Speaker 1: Jake Majors. Jake Majors was a reserve future signing who
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  Speaker 1: spent most of the season on the Eagles practice squad.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have Brettoa, who perform very well last
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  Speaker 1: season when pressed at the service and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: hit free agency. But of that group that I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: not counting Brettoath obviously Drew Kendall is the only one
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  Speaker 1: who could moonlight a guard. I think Lampkin and Major's
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  Speaker 1: profile more as centers. But to be clear, Foster, he's
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  Speaker 1: six foot five, three hundred and ten pounds. He enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: a decorated career at center for the Jayhawks, but he
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  Speaker 1: does have an athletic skill set and frame that suggests
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  Speaker 1: he could offer guard versatility. He's athletic, he's a fluid
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  Speaker 1: mover with adequate play strength, and he would give offensive
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  Speaker 1: line coach Jeff Style in another young prospect to shape.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that would be a really good swing
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  Speaker 1: in the fifth round. A lot of experience, and I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned six three hundred and ten pounds, that's not your
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  Speaker 1: prototypical center size, and I think that that athleticism and
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  Speaker 1: ability to get to the second level and do some
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  Speaker 1: of those things that Jeff Style and typically commands from
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  Speaker 1: his lineman suggests that he may offer positional versatility.
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  Speaker 1: Rounding things out here in round five, pick number one,
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  Speaker 1: seventy nine, I have the Eagles going with Cole Peyton,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback from North Dakota State. The Kyle McCord experience was
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  Speaker 1: short lived, but the the quarterback factory churn's on here
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Kyle McCord signed a reserve future deal with
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  Speaker 1: the Packers this offseason. He spent the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: season on the Eagles practice squad. The Eagles drafted him
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  Speaker 1: in the sixth round last year out of Syracuse that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't make the team obviously, but in Peyton, who's
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  Speaker 1: six foot three, two hundred and thirty three pounds, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles will be getting a tough, dual threat quarterback with
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  Speaker 1: intriguing arm talent. He didn't become a full starter evident.
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  Speaker 1: Last season he was a fifth year senior, passed for
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  Speaker 1: two seven hundred nineteen yards, sixteen touchdowns and four interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: but he also averaged five point seven yards per carrie.
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  Speaker 1: He's raw, undoubtedly, but he moves really well. He has
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  Speaker 1: the arm. He's played at a college program that has
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  Speaker 1: the expectations of winning year in and year out, so
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  Speaker 1: that should help. I think he has a live arm
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  Speaker 1: and is as qualities that are worth developing. And he's
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  Speaker 1: going to enter the league with a minimal sample size
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  Speaker 1: and he's fairly raw, but he does have tools that
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  Speaker 1: are worth developing. Who is the quarterback coach this season
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  Speaker 1: remains to be determined. Could it be Scott Leffler, could
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  Speaker 1: it be someone else. But I think when you draft
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  Speaker 1: somebody like this on Day three. You're getting somebody who
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  Speaker 1: does have some qualities. You bring him into the fold
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field during the season, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to drastically alter the offense because he could do
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  Speaker 1: some similar things from a movement perspective. And I do
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  Speaker 1: think that he has some untapped potential. So we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to wait and see. I know that there are some
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  Speaker 1: who may be of the belief that they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see the Eagles go back to the Day three
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  Speaker 1: well where they're taking a quarterback, and that it might
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  Speaker 1: be better serve drafting another position. Well that's fine, you
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  Speaker 1: may think that, but the Eagles have a pretty extensive
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  Speaker 1: track record of wanting to continue to find the next
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  Speaker 1: developmental arm and look for that cost effective backup at
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  Speaker 1: that position. And so I try to put you know,
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  Speaker 1: I try to put this exercise in a perspective and
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  Speaker 1: look through the eyes of how Howie Roseman typically does business.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the way that I saw it. There's
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  Speaker 1: always so many draft selections, there's always so many there's
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  Speaker 1: so many areas of need. But I do think that
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  Speaker 1: based off of previous track record, that you would assume
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  Speaker 1: that the Eagles would look to draft a quarterback at
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  Speaker 1: some point and then develop them and then hopefully if
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  Speaker 1: everything pans out all of a sudden, have a cost
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  Speaker 1: effective backup. Well, that's gonna do it. For this edition
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  Speaker 1: of The Checko Daily, I'm Andrew Dcheco and I'll catch
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  Speaker 1: you all on the next one.