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The DiCecco Daily: Eagles Finally Get On Board With Late Flurry Of Agreements · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone?
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome in to another episode of the check Odaily. It's
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Andrew de Checko here, Eagles beat reporter for insidethbirds dot
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  Speaker 2: Com and we have action. Yes, that's right, Chalk three
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: up on the Eagles free agents scoreboard as they make
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: a flurry of signings. At least they agreed to these signings.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Nothing will be official until Wednesday at four pm, but
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: it starts with a rather large splash. They land a
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: cornerback two Inreek Women, formerly of the Seattle Seahawks. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is an interesting one because he agrees to a
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  Speaker 2: one year, fifteen million dollar deal. So it's a little
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: pricier than I thought the Eagles would be willing to
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: do for the position. But they're demonstrating by their actions
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: that they wanted to fortify that position as best they
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: could after toggling last season between a Dori Jackson, Keilee
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: Ringo trading for Jacooran Bennett trading for JayR Alexander. Now,
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: Dori Jackson was the last man standing, but it never
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: quite felt like anyone cemented their spot, and I was
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: sort of waiting, and I'm sure a lot of you
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: listening were as well. For a team to really go
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: after that spot, and no.
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  Speaker 1: One really did.
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles did a nice job of camouflaging that with
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: extra safety help. They had the pass rush that was
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  Speaker 2: really dialed in, and for whatever reason, quarterbacks just opted
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: not to throw at that spot. But with Rake Woollen,
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  Speaker 2: who's twenty six years old, unique length at six foot three,
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  Speaker 2: and he jumped a forty two inch vertical at the
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: NFL scouting combine ran a four to two six. So
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: those dimensions and measurable and testing numbers are rare for
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: the position. And as a rookie, he started all seventeen
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  Speaker 2: games for the Seattle Seahawks, producing I think seventy tackles,
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  Speaker 2: but he had six interceptions which helped him punch his
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: ticket to the Pro Bowl, and that interception total qualified
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  Speaker 2: as tied for the league lead that season. So this
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  Speaker 2: is someone who has great length. He has a nose
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  Speaker 2: for the football, fifty three career passes defended. So is
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: something amiss. Well, anytime a player agrees to a one
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  Speaker 2: year deal such as that, it's a prove it contract.
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  Speaker 2: And so I look at riek onoee season. I just
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  Speaker 2: outlined his tremendous rookie campaign, his play sort of tailed
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  Speaker 2: off each season afterwards where there was erratic play, untimely penalties.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there were times where he was reliant too
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  Speaker 2: much on his athleticism and not necessarily dialed in all
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  Speaker 2: the time with his technique. This season or the last
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  Speaker 2: season when they won the Super Bowl, he was working
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  Speaker 2: in with Josh Job, and the Seattle Seahawks actually gave
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: Josh Job a three year deal for twenty four million,
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  Speaker 2: opting to keep Josh rather than rig Wollen. So there's
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  Speaker 2: questions there. His play was uneven, although he saw one
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: season of stewar performance. But in Philadelphia it's a new slate,
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  Speaker 2: it's a new defensive system where I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to in theory thrive. Playing with two all Pro corners
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  Speaker 2: in Quinna Mitchell and Cooper dejen Vic. Fangio did a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job last season disguising and eliminating some of
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  Speaker 2: the tendency's teams might have had to attack that cornerback
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  Speaker 2: spot by being creative. I don't know they'll have.
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  Speaker 1: To do all that much this season.
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  Speaker 2: Not saying Reek Wollen is a world beater by any stretch,
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  Speaker 2: but he's a different type of athlete. He has good length,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned, he's played the position previously at a
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  Speaker 2: high level, and when you're playing with Quinya Mitchell and
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: Cooper Dejeni, yes you're going to be targeted. But I
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  Speaker 2: think that he's proven that he can get his hand
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  Speaker 2: on the football, use that length to narrow and tighten
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  Speaker 2: those throwing windows, and this will be a spot for
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  Speaker 2: him where he can use it as a springboard, and
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  Speaker 2: if he maximizes his opportunity in Philadelphia, he will be
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: in position to cash in this time next offseason when
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: he goes back to the table. But I go back
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  Speaker 2: to the athleticism because Rake Wollen was initially a wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver in his early days at UTSA, And for those
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: of you who follow my draft coverage, you'll probably already
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  Speaker 2: know this, but I scouted him immensely coming out of UTSA.
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  Speaker 2: I followed that team very closely. I like that secondary
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  Speaker 2: with Rashad Wisdom. They had Frank Harris at quarterback, Sincere
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  Speaker 2: McCormick at running back, and a number of different players
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  Speaker 2: that I found to be particularly fun to watch, And
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: so I key it in on Riek Onee, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: he was just at the time a raw athlete, figuring
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  Speaker 2: he was going to test well at the combine.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 2: He was a fifth round pick of the Seahawks, probably
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  Speaker 2: in large part due to pure athlete, but need some
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  Speaker 2: refinement and is he pro ready well. He took the
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  Speaker 2: NFL very quickly and then for whatever reason, his play
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  Speaker 2: tailed off, and it's going to be up to him.
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  Speaker 2: I go back to this in Philadelphia to really maximizing
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  Speaker 2: this opportunity and use it as a springboard towards a
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  Speaker 2: more prosperous situation for him. But these are the type
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  Speaker 2: of signings that if you're a team that likes to
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  Speaker 2: shop in the in the aisle of the one year
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  Speaker 2: prove it type of contracts, you look for.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 2: You look for a younger player who has a certain
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  Speaker 2: skill set, who's flourished at one time or another, and
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  Speaker 2: has measurables that you can't teach and then you figure
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  Speaker 2: the rest out later. That's a swing that you always take.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think the Eagles have the coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: in place and the structure in Vic Fangio, newly minted
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  Speaker 2: defensive backs coach Joe Casper, cornerbacks coach Roy Anderson to
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  Speaker 2: really hone in on the details and get that technique
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  Speaker 2: refined so that he's playing at a more consistent level.
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  Speaker 1: It's also worth.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioning that Women's arrival perhaps makes it so that Cooper
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  Speaker 2: Dejen could play some safety in base. Cooper Dejen last
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: season was outside corner and base, of course, but the
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  Speaker 2: women signing gives you a little bit more of flexibility
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  Speaker 2: and versatility there. I like the fit in Vic Fangio's defense.
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  Speaker 2: I never want to be too strong in any endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: I liked him coming out, and he flashed quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit at different points in his Seattle Seahawks career. But
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  Speaker 2: you always have to ask yourself, why was a player
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  Speaker 2: available at twenty six years old with all of these
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  Speaker 2: attributes and characteristics and signed a one year deal.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a big year for Rieque,
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  Speaker 1: and I think will be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for him obviously, we haven't
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  Speaker 2: gotten the chance to speak to him yet, but I
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  Speaker 2: have the sense that any young player is going to
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  Speaker 2: look at this and embrace it and enter the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: with almost a chip on your shoulder that you want
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  Speaker 2: to go out there and prove your worth. You want
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  Speaker 2: to rebound and tap back into the player that you
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  Speaker 2: were earlier in your career and prosper from it. That's
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  Speaker 2: the best kind of free agent that you could hope
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  Speaker 2: to get, someone with something to prove, who has qualities
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  Speaker 2: that it has played at a level that leaves you
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  Speaker 2: wanting more. And it's hard not to look at this
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  Speaker 2: young secondary with Drew mccouba entering his second season, Quinya Mitchell,
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Dejen and now Riek One will see what happens
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  Speaker 2: at that other safety spot. It's only March tenth, but
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  Speaker 2: you can certainly see the youthful secondary of the athleticism,
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  Speaker 2: the ranginess that they all possess, and Joe Casper and
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  Speaker 2: Roy Anderson in this case have.
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  Speaker 1: An abundance of tools to work with.
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  Speaker 2: And I think if we've learned anything from watching the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles operate over the last few seasons, their assistant coaches
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  Speaker 2: have done a tremendous job when it comes to player development.
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  Speaker 2: So you also have to bank on that and factor
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  Speaker 2: that into the equation when you're bringing in free agents,
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  Speaker 2: and I think in this case there's a lot of upside.
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  Speaker 2: Shortly after that, the Eagles agreed to terms with tight
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  Speaker 2: end Johnny Munt, who was just released by the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars a couple days ago.
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  Speaker 1: He will be on a one year deal. But you
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: look at the tight end room.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know yet what's going on with Dallas Goddard,
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  Speaker 2: but they didn't have any players at that position, and
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: they looked at you. When you look at last season,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have a blocking centric tight end, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought in many points of the season it was evident
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  Speaker 2: and the run game suffered from it. It's not the
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  Speaker 2: only reason, of course, the offensive line didn't perform to
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  Speaker 2: the standard that they've set over the years, but the
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  Speaker 2: tight ends left a lot to be desired in the
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: blocking department. Dallas Goddard included his blocking regressed. But Johnny
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  Speaker 2: Munt is a blocking specialist. He's not someone who has
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  Speaker 2: a rich history of catching the football. And he's been
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  Speaker 2: in the league since twenty seventeen. He was an undrafted
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  Speaker 2: free agent out of Oregon, signed with the Rams, spent
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: some time there, spent some time with the Minnesota Vikings
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  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, and that's
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  Speaker 2: actually where he overlapped with Eagles offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mannion, and then he ended his.
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  Speaker 2: Run of three different teams with the Jacksonville Jaguars last season,
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  Speaker 2: playing in sixteen games and starting six. So I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that he's not a receiving centric tight end. He's caught
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  Speaker 2: just seventy four receptions for six hundred and fifty eight
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  Speaker 2: yards and four touchdowns in one hundred and fourteen games
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  Speaker 2: twenty four starts. That's not going to be his forte.
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  Speaker 2: His forte is going to be using his six foot four,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and forty three pound frame and really driving
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  Speaker 2: defenders off the ball and adding some tenacity and attitude
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  Speaker 2: to the edges there and helping free up teammates for
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  Speaker 2: big plays.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say that.
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  Speaker 2: He won't be utilized as receiver on occasion, but his
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: calling card is his blocking. And when you look at
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: this Eagles tight end room, what were they sorely lacking
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  Speaker 2: a blocking specialist? And as they look to reshape this room,
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  Speaker 2: this makes a lot of sense. I actually mentioned Johnny
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  Speaker 2: Mount as a free agent fit for the Eagles when
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: I was on earlier today or if you're listening to
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: depending on when you're listening to this earlier on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: when I was on with the afternoon show Unfiltered on
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  Speaker 2: I thought Charlie Kohler would have been a nice fit
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  Speaker 2: as well, because you have to do something a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different and reimagine the room to add more balance
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  Speaker 2: and a wider variety of skill sets.
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  Speaker 1: And the Eagles have gotten off to a good start
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  Speaker 1: and doing so.
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  Speaker 2: Then shortly thereafter they add or they re sign an
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: old friend and tight end, Grant kal Katara, who signed
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: a one year deal.
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  Speaker 1: Again. All of these deals are.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Finalized Wednesday at four pm, but Grant kaal Katerra returns
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: to the Eagles. And if you've read some of the
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: stories that I've written throughout the off season leading up
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: to free agency, whenever I outlined Grant kaw Katara, I
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: always said he would be a fine third tight end
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: because it was unrealistic to expect the Eagles to completely
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: wipe out the tight end room entirely and start from scratch.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: Kal Katara is someone that it's a low risk signing.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: You know each other pretty well, you know his strengths.
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  Speaker 2: At this point you should and I think as a
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: third tight end he could be fine. You have to
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: know what he is, what he's proficient in, and he
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: is a good receiver. I would argue, having watched Grant
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: for a number of seasons in training camp, he arguably
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: has the best set of hands on the team. He's
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: certainly up there, but he's not utilized all that much.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: And when he was the second when he was the
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: second tight end for the Eagles, which he was for
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: the last two seasons before that, it was Jack Stole
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: and Grant Kakata was the number three tight end. Grant's
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: always caught forty two passes and has two touchdowns. He's
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: sparsely utilized on offense though he played he played last
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: season quite a bit. But I think as a third
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: tight end who can play on special teams and he's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: a competent pass catcher. Jalen Hurts looked his way quite
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a bit in training camp. For what it's worth, you
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: could do a lot worse. And now you have two
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: players in that tight end room when you had zero.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't forget EJ.
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins and Jahem Bell, and I think that's just a
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: low risk signing worst case scenario. If I mean, I
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: assume the Eagles are going to draft the tight end,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: We'll see what else they do.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't see what you need from Grant, or
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have a role for him, or you're
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  Speaker 1: not seeing something that maybe you wanted to see him
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  Speaker 1: tap into or develop, well then you move on.
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  Speaker 2: But this there's no harm to this signing, and I
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: think the familiarity there is between on both sides probably
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: played a big factor in it. Good guy in the
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: locker room, respected on and off the.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Field, and in that building as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I know there's a lot of outside angst when
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: it comes to Grant Cokatara, but in a different role,
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  Speaker 2: I think will be fine and I don't necessarily fault
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  Speaker 2: him for.
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  Speaker 1: His blocking.
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  Speaker 2: Is blocking flaws because he was put in a position
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't accentuate what he does well. In that instance,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: that comes down to coaching, because if he's not proficient
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: at something and you keep putting him out there, you're
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: setting the player up to fail, and you're setting the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: offense up to fail. And so in a specific role,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I think grand k Katara is just fine and he
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: certainly won't break the bank to bring him in there.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: So the room has a couple more bodies.
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  Speaker 2: They added a cornerback in Riek Woman, who I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Is was the best option out there.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Cam Taylor Britt was a player that I mentioned a
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: lot because I believe that he wasn't going to cost
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the time to bring him in. But the Eagles surprised
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: me a little bit here and they ponied up a
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: little bit for a cornerback, and I understand that they
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: it could have been an exception because of the age,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the profile, the.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Previous demonstrated performance.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And he may only be here for a little while,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: one way or the other, because if he doesn't play well,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: he won't be back. But if he does play well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: he could And I don't want to get too far
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves here. The reality of the contract though,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: suggests that he could play himself out of the Eagles
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: budget next offseason and really help himself.
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  Speaker 1: With a rebound year.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And I can't emphasize enough how much it means to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: have a clean slate, learn a new set of coaches,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: to learn a new set of coaches and have them
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: learn you, and maybe they find different ways to accentuate
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: what you do well and really tap into that. There's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of intrigue here from my perspective, because of
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the Eagles coaches who are going to be working with
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: rike women and the surrounding talent that he'll be working with.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: He's certainly going to see the football a lot because
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: teams tend to avoid Quinnon and Cooper.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: But as I've outlined, Wollen.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Has a tendency to make a play, make a lot
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: of plays on the football, as evidenced with his fifty
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: three pass breakups and twelve career interners interceptions. So there's
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of upside to this signing. How it all
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: pans out, We're gonna have to wait and see. But
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I think if you're someone who was a little apprehensive
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: about the Eagles after not doing a ton and being
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: inactive on the first day of legal tampering, hopefully this
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: quells some of the concerns you may have had. Although
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: it's important to reemphasize that Howie Roseman.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Shared his plan for free agency.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: If you listened after the season and a season ending
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  Speaker 2: press are at the combine, he was very transparent with
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  Speaker 2: his plans, knowing that it was going to be tough
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  Speaker 2: to retain a lot of these guys and how important
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: it is to make sure.
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  Speaker 1: That you're committing to your younger your younger.
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  Speaker 2: Nucleus, that you're gonna have to dole out a considerable
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: amount to make sure that you keep them in the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: building and then you're able to build your team for
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  Speaker 2: long term success.
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  Speaker 1: That's what good teams do.
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  Speaker 2: It's never easy, certainly when you draft as well as
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the Eagles have, but how Roseman outlined his plan, so
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it really shouldn't be a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not tough for fans who are losing players
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: who they have grown to see on Sundays and you've
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: seen them play at the highest level in the Super
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Bowl in some cases, and the Kobe didn't get to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: play in it. But it's all part of the business.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: It's all part of the process. Howie Roseman and the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Eagles don't go into free agency or an offseason without
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: a plan and without knowing that some of these dominoes
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: could fall and how to counter that and how to react.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It's a long off season, but we'll have it covered
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: on the Inside the Birds Platform, on inside the Birds
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  Speaker 2: dot Com, and of course right here on the Checho Daily.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: This has been to Checho Daily.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew de Checko, and I'll catch you all on
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  Speaker 2: the next one.