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Football at Four: Going Inside The Latest Key Eagles Transactions · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  is Football at four, and it's Adam Kaplan from the
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  Inside the Birds podcast and Inside the Birds dot Com
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  with us right now on the Sports Bash. Adam Man,
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  this team relentless. They just keep making moves and making
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  moves and doing stuff here. They trade for a running
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  back last night, and obviously people saying, wait, why did
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  you need a running back? Well, it seems like things
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  are starting to trickle out today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, here's the problem. Shipley got hurt with the
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  rib injury was I think limits of six plays and
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  because of that and AJ Dillon is look aj Dillon,
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  it just doesn't have explosiveness. And the guy that they
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  traded for will serve two roles. Once Tank Bigsby knows
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  what he's doing in the offense, which could be this,
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  people'll see he's past the physical so he'll he's on
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  the football team. Let's not forget Mike. The Eagles game
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  not just one for backup running back. Two draft picks,
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  albeit your third day, fifth and sixth round picks, Mike.
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  That's a lot for a guy now. But he'll also
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  do in addition to getting work one ship that comes back,
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  getting work behind Shipley because that's really what his role is,
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  to ride death to Shipley right now, it's not healthy
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  get the rib injury. Also, the guy now, he hadn't
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  done a lot in the pros, but the Eagles really
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  like Tank fix beyond kickof returns two years ago, only
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  had less than a dozen, but his average was really high.
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  And by the way, Shipley has been one of their
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  kickoff returners, so they need to do that and that's
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  what they're gonna do. I know it's surprised with people.
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  I know their fans that said, what two draft picks,
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  this guy's going to take Shipley's job. That's not why
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  they did this. Shipley, Mike right now is hurt. That's
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  why they did this. And Shipley. Look, he's explosive, Mike.
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  He saw that running catch. That was a great play.
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  And Fixby Mike is really strong and he's a little
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  bit more explosive. We talked to Greg co Sell about him.
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  We're dropping a show later this week where we break
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  down the Cowboys tape with Greg. We dropped the defensive
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  tape today, we're dropping the offensive tape. I think Thursday morning.
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  We go tomorrow Thursday morning. But Mike, he really likes
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  Fixby and the Goals have a lot of draft picks
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  for next year, and this is what they did with them.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Adam Schefter just tweeted out the NFL
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  is fining Jalen Carter fifty seven, two d and twenty
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  two dollars for spitting on Dak Prescott. They said the
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  game that he was ejected from will serve as a
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  one game suspension, so Carter will pay fifty twenty two
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  dollars and he will play for the Eagles on Sunday.
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  Any's surprise. There no but here.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let me just explain where j Rosenhaus's his agent
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  cover from Carter didn't play. He was disqualified for the
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  game before kickoff. But okay, but for the game started.
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  But here's the thing. He got paid for the game.
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  That's why they didn't appeal. Okay, that that's the whole
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  thing here, The fact that all he now, well, we
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  don't know. Maybe it'll be reported, Maybe we'll find out.
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  We've found out over the years when they've disciplined players.
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  There's gonna be some sort of discipline. Sirianni said it
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  more than once. He wouldn't say what it's going to be.
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  Now if it's the oh, he won't start the game,
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  and that's a that's what we call like a token,
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  hey slapping the risks. You know, Hey, you won't to
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  start the game. But it's a sign that hey, we
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  don't we don't up stepped away what you did. You
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  got thrown out. But the bottom line is, Mike, you
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  got to send a message. Whatever is legal with the CBA.
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  The CBA has changed a little bit from what you
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  could actually do for a player to a player, but
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  there he's got to be sent a message. Just say,
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  I said this to Jeff and our show that dropped yesterday.
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  What if this had been a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, Yeah, absolutely So the Eagles, you know kind of
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  you know, they kind of make out here, right, I
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  mean they won the game. They didn't play and find
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  an arbitrary What I guess this is it's in the CBA.
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  Speaker 2: That's the number, right, because that's the first I don't
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  have it in front of me, but that number is
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  exactly in the CBA. And I think for a first time,
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  if for a first offense, Yeah, it's I've read those
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  fine letters. They are actually kind of fun. They're kind
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  of harsh sometimes, but this one is a sportsmanship So
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  I know the argument for people you have to be
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  a Cowboys fan. For people think that artist getting off
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  Scott free, Well, look, I don't disagree, because the NFL
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  made a Claire what's sportsmanship Like, this is our new
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  thing that we're cracking down on him. This is this
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  is this is a pinky on the rest, not a
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  slap on the rest. This is a pinky.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, obviously we talked about Bigsby, the thought
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  process there and his fit with this team. Kick returner too.
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  They have made some interesting decisions. They did bring in
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  Zo Darius Smith, and I think on Friday you were
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  live on the air when that happened here. So now
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  you've had some time to kind of look at some things.
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  How will he be used today? Vic Fangio said, Well,
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  I don't really never really see the guy. I know
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  who he is, but I don't know much about him.
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  So what does this mean for the other past rushers
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  and how do you see him fitting in?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's what we call it power rusher, but
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  now we don't know what he weighs. He's listed as
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  two seventy. You know, he has thirty three years old.
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  He's been relatively healthy over his career. I've talked to
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  people have worked with him before. Good leader, good locker
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  room guys. Now he's got strong presence, he's got his opinions.
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  But he's a good football player now, Mike, he had
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  a good season.
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  Speaker 1: You know that.
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  Speaker 2: The thing was, you know, Detroit acquired him because the
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  Browns were bad and he helped them. They needed him.
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  Now they cut him. They didn't want to pay him,
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  but they had interested. I'm told I'm bringing it back.
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  He goes beat him for the punch and by the way,
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  the lies pass rush is really not there. That's one
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  of the reasons why I picked the Packers three weeks
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  ago when I had to turned these picks in to
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  when they it is be NFC North. So yeah, I
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  love this move.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Again, he hasn't played since January. Let's just understand you're
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  over nine months here. Who knows what kind of physical
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  shape he's in. That's what Fangio is saying. It all
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  sounds good now. The Robert Quinns thing that people brought up,
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  remember Robert Quinn Egos didn't know about it. He wasn't
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  he passed the physical. He had a knee problem and
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  a back problem. He looked he was toast after that. Mike,
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  I don't even know that he played again if he
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  played for the Eagles. So this is different unless something
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  we didn't know how comes up. He's healthy and he
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  passed the physical. He didn't have anything previous that he
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  got here. Robert Coin previously had something and then it
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  flared up again, the back problem. So I love the move.
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  This is and it's all he had to give up
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  a draft pick for him because he was a straight
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  free agent. Because he was he was released. This is
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  a smart move, and it's one that you typically do
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  after week one, so you don't guarantee all the money.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Adam Kaplan football at four here on the
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  Sports Batch, I do want to get a couple of
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  quick things before you got to get out of here.
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  Today won Today. Fangio did say Dori Jackson will play,
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  but he did really hammer home that they want Cooper
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  Dezine in the nickel. Like that scene, to me was
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  one of the big things, was that he was asked
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  about Cooper because they did bring Mike Hilton in here,
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  a veteran player who has played primarily in the slot,
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  and he was asked about where they prefer if they
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  would think about moving him out there, and he said,
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  we prefer him in the nickel. So I guess it
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  looks like, at least for the short term, a Dorri
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  Jackson is going to be the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Right then Ja Cory and Bennett will Vet should take
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  that job bank and then if that doesn't work, trade
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  this really Oh, I like count surprised they haven't. Now again,
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  we're only in the second week. We're not even in
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  mid September yet. But Kendall Fuller have played for Vick
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  two years ago. He's out there. From everything I've been told,
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  he still wants to place thirty. God can play, and
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  he's had a number of injuries. But yeah, i'd watch that. Understand,
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  Mike Keill is not an outside he's not a cornerback.
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  He's only a nickel. That's it. When he was arguably
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  for for about four or five years, him Kenny Moore
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  were the best nickel defenders. And he's an older player
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  now he's near the end. Yeah. So yeah, if you
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  follow me on Twitter, I I did tweet all the workouts.
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  How about the working out Kus Watkins? That made me laugh?
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  How about that one?
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  Speaker 1: I know I saw that and I was like, interesting
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  that an old REUNI with Quez Watkins there. But you know,
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  I was gonna say they they're probably pretty happy with
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  their wide receiving core right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but see, I'm glad you bought this up. So
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  let me go in such football here, most workouts have
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  nothing to do with what's currently going on. They're called
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  emergency list if because what happens Mike on these workouts
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  two things happen, you take it physical, and you can
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  tape the workouts. So let's say let's say, okay, let's extrapolate.
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  Let's say the Jeans suffers at that countries out two weeks.
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  Let's say Vic is not ready, but Mac McWilliams as
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  the nickel and he doesn't feel like anyone else could
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  do it. You have already worked out Mike Hilton got
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  you taped his workout. He's already passed your physical. You
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  saw him run. You have all the information you need.
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  So all you need to do is it's either in house,
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  will you go out and sign a guy like Mike Kiln.
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  That's why you work these guys out. Mike, We'll oft
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  or not. It doesn't have to do it anything currently.
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  It's what if somebody gets hurt. It's this guy ready
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  to go, and Mike Hilton everything I've been total, he's healthy,
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  ready to go, right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, And I know the injury report not out yet.
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  They don't they play on Sunday, They don't come out tomorrow.
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  But uh, I'll be interested to see what's going on
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  with Landon Dickerson. He obviously could not finish the game. Uh.
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  If the Eagles, Uh, will have to go to a
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  left guard because I want the thing I wanted to ask,
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  not about Dickerson's availability, but Brett Toath was the first
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  guy in there. We are you surprised by that?
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  Speaker 2: No, once we saw Dylan McMahon, what's not active and
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  Matt Matt prior Mike. See, the thing is, it wouldn't
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  be fair to him. He barely practiced that left guard.
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  You never played it before they two or three days
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  he started working there. But it's one of more cuffor
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  right tackle and right guard. Brett Johnson's the backup left
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  priors to back up right. I for the life of me,
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  now you talk about workouts, that's the one position they
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  haven't worked any veterans at left guard. I don't know
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  why now got a sign that Dickerson might be ready. Maybe,
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  but we know that Staltlin is absolutely loved Breck Toast.
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  We could all disagree. Dat's got better information than everyone
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  listening to you and I, but it is what it is.
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  It's stute trust if he thinks the kid could do it,
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  been on and off the roster for six years, Mike,
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  he's the backup left guard for now.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's always that guy on every team
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  that just comes, goes, comes, goes, comes, goes. You know,
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  it's like if the Eagles that have had a bunch
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  of the guys, especially offensive linemen, that just are always
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  kind of the old, faithful.
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  Speaker 2: Julian VANDERVELTI, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was the I don't know,
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  so I came up with his term roster tango about
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  eight years Agohen Jeff and I started the company. It
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  was because of him. I don't have it in front
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  of me, but it might have been fourteen times. He
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  was kind some ridiculous number and I'm amazed that an
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  agent will put up with it because agents don't get
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  paid on practice squad deals. They have to be on
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  the fifty three. So yeah, now if he gets a
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  game check, agent gets money. But that Julian VANDERVELTI was
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  an incredible story man. It there have been. And then
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  there was a punter named Brock Miller who's the bry
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  Up punter for a number of years. He never would
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  really sign with a team. He would rarely did. He
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  was just the guy that because he's a left footed punter,
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  they want to see the spin off the guy's left foot.
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  He goes brought him in before It's it's fun. These
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  workouts make me laugh sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think you were the one that said
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  the other day how impressed you were with Braiden Man.
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  Speaker 2: He's he is. I got I'm gonna see Sean Lindetta
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  a tonight at an event the former Eagles putter two
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  times egos punter, and I want to ask Sean about
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  Braiden Man. He had any reporter Andrew to Checko knows,
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  so does Jeff. I gotta tell you, Braiden Man had
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  at one of the best trending camps I've ever seen
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  for punter. I never know what it means because when
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  you get to it, when you get to when they
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  say the live bullet slide, you got to see how
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  the guy does. Holy smokes, Mike, he was incredible. On
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  Sunday they what boy Feelers have went through a number
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  of putters, like three putters since they cut him. I'm
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  I'm I'm surprised if the series got rid of him.
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  The jet Stubber should have cut him. He's a good putter.
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  How he got that one? I I that was a
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  good move by Howie a couple of years ago to
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  get trade Man.
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, there's the big news. That's the breaking news.
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  The NFL will find Jalen Carter fifty and twenty two
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  dollars for spinning on Dak Prescott. He will not be
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  suspended the game that he set out that serves as
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  his suspension. He's Adam Kaplan. This is Football at four.
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