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Ask Greg Cosell On Patreon: Do The Eagles Have An Impact Second-Level Blitzer? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the 2026 season. Eagles, ask Greg Cosell.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get started with the man wearing the Puma hat.
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  Speaker 1: Frank, go ahead. You're the man, Adam.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Greg, it's good to have you back, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: What did you see from Campbell? I mean, is it
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  Speaker 3: as big a drop-off as maybe the naked eye perceives?
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  Speaker 3: And again, I don't want to make this an indictment
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  Speaker 3: on Campbell or anything like that, but I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like we really missed Dean's physical presence.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it's week one. So let's put
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  Speaker 1: that in perspective. We know that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: overreaction to week one in all games, in all areas.
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  Speaker 1: The way they use Dean predominantly as a rusher was
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  Speaker 1: in what we call four-man sim pressures. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't necessarily blitzing with five. They would use him
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  Speaker 1: as part of a four-man pass rush. He'd be the
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  Speaker 1: fourth rusher, and they'd drop out a defensive lineman. And
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  Speaker 1: that's called either a zone exchange or a sim pressure.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if they start doing more of that with
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  Speaker 1: Campbell because Campbell was a good pass rusher at Alabama.
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  Speaker 5: So funny, you just brought up who I was going
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  Speaker 5: to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen, I think it was Baldy.
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  Speaker 5: He broke down the Washington's line and how good they
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  Speaker 5: did against our line. And he showed Carter losing a lot.
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  Speaker 5: So to your eye, not.
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  Speaker 1: To my eye, it looked really bad.
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  Speaker 5: To your eye, did it look that he got dominated?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not every snap. Look, look, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of snaps in a game. Nothing happens on every snap.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want people listening to think that I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about 60 snaps Jalen Carter got dominated. But I was
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  Speaker 1: talking specifically on some pass rush snaps where they clearly
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  Speaker 1: allowed Cosby to block him one-on-one and Carter could not
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  Speaker 1: get beyond the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm wondering if you mentioned, I think on your
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  Speaker 2: breakdown with these guys, that you were really impressed with
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  Speaker 2: with Jalen Hurts. I was. Obviously, I don't evaluate these guys,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought the same thing about Hurts, that he
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  Speaker 2: just– From watching the other games earlier that looked like
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  Speaker 2: everybody had just woken up, some of them looked like
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  Speaker 2: they had just gotten off a 24-hour plane ride, he
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  Speaker 2: looked very comfortable. Can you just get a little more
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  Speaker 2: into that? He just seemed like he knew where to
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  Speaker 2: go with the ball. He did run out of the
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  Speaker 2: pocket sometimes, but he didn't seem like he was just
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  Speaker 2: bailing out recklessly like he'd done in the past. Just
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  Speaker 2: love to hear more thoughts about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just as a general point, which is not an
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  Speaker 1: X and O point, he just looked comfortable and in command.
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  Speaker 1: There was no random sense to his play, which we've
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  Speaker 1: seen in the past, where it looked like, and he
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  Speaker 1: could still make plays doing that because he's got a
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  Speaker 1: certain talent level, particularly when he moves. But he looked
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  Speaker 1: really comfortable in this game. He saw things the right way.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see one play where I thought he
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  Speaker 1: should have turned it loose and he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: What was your evaluation of Makuba and Epps as safeties
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  Speaker 2: during the game?
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  Speaker 1: They played solid. They weren't really tested a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the past game for the commanders was not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: great by any means. And, you know, Daniels until really
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  Speaker 1: later in the game was kind of, he was caught
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  Speaker 1: up in breaking down. He didn't see it real well.
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  Speaker 1: And so there weren't a lot of, they really didn't
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  Speaker 1: get tested.
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  Speaker 6: What is, in your experience, something in week one that
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  Speaker 6: if you see it, maybe you should keep an eye
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  Speaker 6: on it.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing more quarterbacks line up under center. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big trend that now is taking place for a number
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  Speaker 1: of reasons. Number one, the run game is becoming a
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  Speaker 1: bigger deal because more teams, and this we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, more teams are playing
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  Speaker 1: foundationally out of a too high shell safety structure. So
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  Speaker 1: what that means is that there's one less player as
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  Speaker 1: a gap defender in the run game for the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you play with a single high safety, then
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  Speaker 1: the other safety is down in the box. And you
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  Speaker 1: have that added gap defender. So now, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have that added gap defender, the run game becomes a
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  Speaker 1: little more difficult to deal with.
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  Speaker 7: I'm surprised no one's talked about the offensive line.
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  Speaker 8: Go for it.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 7: I saw a lot of what we saw last year,
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  Speaker 7: Barkley getting hit in the backfield before he could get moving.
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  Speaker 7: Is that more scheme or is that personnel and which
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  Speaker 7: personnel need to pick it up? I know Dickerson's probably
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  Speaker 7: out for a while, but it can't be just one guy.
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  Speaker 7: And the other thing is I wanted to comment on Wicks.
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  Speaker 7: Two great plays and then they weren't able to get
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  Speaker 7: the ball back to him, I don't think. So is
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  Speaker 7: that more because Jalen just didn't have time to throw?
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  Speaker 1: So that's it. They didn't have a lot of dropbacks
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  Speaker 1: in this game. This was not, you know, a high-volume
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  Speaker 1: passing game. And the nature of this offense is that
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily geared to one particular player. So I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't put a lot of stock in that after week one.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Wicks, as we said, wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: the primary receiver on the 64-yarder, but he was on
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  Speaker 1: the nine-yard touchdown. But, yeah, so I wouldn't put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stock in that, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: who had targets week one. It was the first week
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  Speaker 1: of the season. There were, you know, Hurts only dropped back, what, 27,
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  Speaker 1: 28 times. It was not a high-volume passing game.
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  Speaker 8: My thing was watching Jalen. I agree with what Chris
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  Speaker 8: had to say. I thought that was one of his
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  Speaker 8: better games of all time. His understanding– of what the
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  Speaker 8: offense is supposed to be. I don't think a lot
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  Speaker 8: of people define that for him from the OC spot.
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  Speaker 8: And that's just a total guesstimate on my side. Because
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  Speaker 8: we're not there.
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  Speaker 1: We're not there. And I'm sure it has been. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what coaches do. But now it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: how it's taught. Just like when we're growing up in school,
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  Speaker 1: some teachers are better than others. It's not that the
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  Speaker 1: teacher who's not as good doesn't know the subject. They
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  Speaker 1: might not be able to explain it in a way that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that it makes sense to you.
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  Speaker 6: Greg, I wanted to ask you about, specifically, Cooper DeGene,
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  Speaker 6: Do you think his added size, I know he kind
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  Speaker 6: of bulked up a little bit in the offseason. Do
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  Speaker 6: you think that plays kind of played a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of a role in how he played? Obviously, it's just
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  Speaker 6: one game.
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  Speaker 1: But look, as a zone player and a match player
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  Speaker 1: and an awareness player, he's elite. The question is, if
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  Speaker 1: they do play a lot of man, can he do
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  Speaker 1: that on a week-to-week basis?
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to be back. Glad you guys are back.
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  Speaker 1: See you guys tomorrow night. Talk to you all.