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The DiCecco Daily: What Brandon Graham's Return Means For Eagles · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into this edition of the Czech Odily Andrew decheco
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  Speaker 2: here from inside the Birds dot com. And on this Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: which is Coordinator Day, perhaps even bigger news that stole
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  Speaker 2: those headlines, the Eagles brought back and out of retirement
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  Speaker 2: defensive end Brandon Graham, who returns for another season at
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven years old. We'll talk about what all that means,
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  Speaker 2: but let's first get some housekeeping items out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: So with Brandon Graham joining the Eagles, he's been granted
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  Speaker 2: a two game roster exemption, which is really two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: That exemption expires on Monday, November three, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: count against the fifty three man roster. But that two
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  Speaker 2: game exemption, I mean that can be lifted at any
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  Speaker 2: time during that span once Brandon Graham is prepared to go,
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  Speaker 2: and it also affords some time for a potential ramp
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  Speaker 2: up period. But he would need to be activated to
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  Speaker 2: the fifty three man roster to play Sunday against the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: But let's now talk about what that means, because Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Graham brings so many positive things to the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 2: in terms of leadership, veteran presence. He's seen it all,
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  Speaker 2: he's experienced it all, and he can impart wisdom on
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  Speaker 2: younger players. And he just is a locker room pillar
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  Speaker 2: and he has been for decade, for over a decade.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Eagles are getting a player in Graham.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what he has left ultimately, but I think
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  Speaker 2: what they're getting is someone who's gonna add some juice.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna bring the energy, he's gonna be talkative and
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  Speaker 2: probably up the end in practice by getting after it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think think that that promotes competition. So on
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  Speaker 2: the field, though, what can be expected, Well, you can't
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  Speaker 2: roll out him playing Sunday against the Giants, but I
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  Speaker 2: would assume that it would be more likely that Brandon
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  Speaker 2: would play coming out of the bye week against the
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers. But who knows. He's kept himself in
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  Speaker 2: good shape. We'll see how he is able to take
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  Speaker 2: to being in football shape. But he joins a group
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to be bolstering a group that's been
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  Speaker 2: dwindling in numbers and they're now likely going to be
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  Speaker 2: down at least for this week. Another player in diseaso Julari,
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  Speaker 2: who suffered a hamstring injury. Look, Brandon Graham adds to
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  Speaker 2: a group that has just two sacks this season, those
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  Speaker 2: belonging to Patrick Johnson who has one and josh Usha
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  Speaker 2: who picked up one against the Minnesota Vikings. So it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a much needed presence there, if not
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  Speaker 2: for any other reason than to absorb snaps and allow
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles some flexibility in terms of of their their
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  Speaker 2: defense and give Vic Vangio some you know, another piece
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  Speaker 2: to work with. What I can say about Brandon Graham
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  Speaker 2: is when he tore his triceps the first time. It
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  Speaker 2: was in Week twelve against the Rams and Sofi I
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  Speaker 2: was out there for that, and he was putting together
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  Speaker 2: his best game of the season by far, tackles for laws,
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  Speaker 2: storming into the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: He was just really active. And he goes on intore reserve.
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  Speaker 2: He returns for the Super Bowl, tears it again, his triceeps,
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  Speaker 2: and then he had his retirement. It was a great
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  Speaker 2: it was you know, it was a nice ceremony. He
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  Speaker 2: was flanked by the two Super Bowl trophies. But as
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Graham said on the BG Unblocked podcast on Phoy,
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about you know, he wasn't necessarily ready
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  Speaker 2: to retire. You didn't see Brandon a ton during training camp,
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  Speaker 2: but you did see him during the joint practice against
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  Speaker 2: the Browns for I think it may have just been
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  Speaker 2: the one day. But yeah, I mean, he looks to
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  Speaker 2: be in great shape and the love and passion for
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  Speaker 2: the game hasn't eluded him. So we'll see what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to do if he does play,
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  Speaker 2: let's say, against the Giants. I would only imagine a
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  Speaker 2: handful of snaps to a raucous.
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  Speaker 1: Crowd when he is introduced.
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  Speaker 2: But I think once he gets his legs under him
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  Speaker 2: and starts to hit someone again and get back out
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  Speaker 2: on the field and in the flow of the game,
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  Speaker 2: I think realistically fifteen twenty snaps could be a fair
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  Speaker 2: estimation as to the snaps that he could assume.
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  Speaker 1: But who knows. I would never put anything but.
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  Speaker 2: By Brandon Graham, who played I think three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eleven defensive snaps before he got hurt against the Rams
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  Speaker 2: last season. So that's a really good addition. And you
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  Speaker 2: know it's no harm, no foul. They bring him in
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  Speaker 2: to be clear, But this week they're also i should say,
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Smith, Darius Cooper, and Jacory and Bennett. They're all
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  Speaker 2: eligible to have their twenty one day practice window open.
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  Speaker 1: So Nolan Smith will be returning.
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  Speaker 2: In the near future, and so that'll add to the
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  Speaker 2: group you have. Brandon Graham now talked about oocha. They've
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  Speaker 2: been using Jahad Campbell there off the edge they did
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  Speaker 2: against the Vikings, so they have some bodies now remember
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  Speaker 2: Obo okoronkwoll Is on season ending injury reserve with the
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  Speaker 2: triceps injury, and Zadarius Smith retired of course, but those
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  Speaker 2: are that's your edge contingent right now. So when asked
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  Speaker 2: about Brandon Graham and how can he help Vic Vangail,
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  Speaker 2: Eagles defensive coordinator doing coordinator availability on Tuesday, said We'll
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  Speaker 2: see you see what kind of shape he's in, what
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  Speaker 2: kind of retention he has from last year. Shape comes
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  Speaker 2: in in two forms, one just your conditioning, but in
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  Speaker 2: football shape to contact shape.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully the sooner the better.
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  Speaker 2: And then he was asked again like has this been
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing conversation with Brandon? Have you been in communication
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  Speaker 2: throughout the process, and he said, well, all the way
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  Speaker 2: from the start, I was teasing him not to retire,
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to last February or March, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I've run into him, We've talked, when he's
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  Speaker 2: come by. I always tease him about it and try
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  Speaker 2: to light the fire. Well, the fire is lit, and
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Graham is back with the photoph the Eagles they
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  Speaker 2: need them, and I just want to reiterate not only
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  Speaker 2: on the field, but he adds such a endearing and
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  Speaker 2: strong and I guess galvanizing type of locker room presence
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  Speaker 2: to accompany the strong leadership group of the Eagles already
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  Speaker 2: have in place. So I think that that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a huge boost for the team. But also expectations
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  Speaker 2: for the on the field play should be tempered. You
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  Speaker 2: have to realize that he's thirty seven years old, he's
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  Speaker 2: coming out of retirement, and you know there's Jayalix's hunt.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to have Nolan Smith back in the fold.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be other players there that'll soon that
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  Speaker 2: will be in the mix. But Brandon Graham right now
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  Speaker 2: that that's a good addition for the fold off Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I like the the readdition, and I do believe that
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  Speaker 2: it's going to help for the multi reasons in which
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  Speaker 2: I explained in the podcast. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Eagles are
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  Speaker 2: back on the practice field, so we'll get our first
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  Speaker 2: look at Branding Graham donning the number fifty five, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see and learn a little bit more about the
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  Speaker 2: status of Cam Jurgens, the Eagles center who suffered a
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  Speaker 2: knee injury and was ruled out against the Vikings. That's
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  Speaker 2: something that I'll certainly be keeping an eye on and
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  Speaker 2: seeing how that progresses from there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're going to learn a lot about the
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  Speaker 2: twenty one day practice window. If the Eagles were to
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  Speaker 2: activate any of the three players that I mentioned, it
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  Speaker 2: would likely happen on Wednesday, presumably before you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the morning. But there's a lot to unpack, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of there should be some reinforcements coming on
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  Speaker 2: the way, including Branding Graham. More on all that tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: because we'll get to speak to Branding Graham for the
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  Speaker 2: first time since returning Wednesday during locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Available, and we'll have more on that.
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