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The DiCecco Daily: Impact Of Losing Rookie Safety Drew Mukuba On Philadelphia Eagles Defense · 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 another edition of The check Odaily. It's Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Decheco here, Eagles beat reporter for insidethebirds dot Com, and
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  Speaker 2: there's some injury news here as it pertains to the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles rookie safety Drew mccuba. As reported by NFL Network
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  Speaker 2: and then confirmed by Nick Siriani during his three p
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  Speaker 2: fifteen post game availability, Drew mccuba suffered a fractured ankle.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to have surgery and his timetable is undetermined,
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  Speaker 2: but he'll be headed to injured reserve and they kind
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  Speaker 2: of left the window open for return possibility, though they
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  Speaker 2: would have to be a deep postseason run and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of factors would have to play into it. But
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  Speaker 2: at least the way that I'm viewing it right now,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be a season ender. But we'll have
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  Speaker 2: to wait and see how everything plays out. I think
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: there's still a little bit that has yet to be determined.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit about Drew mccooba and
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  Speaker 2: the rookie season that he had, because I thought that
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: early on you can make a case that you could
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  Speaker 2: see the rookie tendencies reveal themselves. There were some blown coverages,
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  Speaker 2: there were some mistackles. I can think of the mistackle
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  Speaker 2: against Wandel Robinson in the first Giants matchup, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: a couple in the Chiefs game.
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  Speaker 1: They fled.
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  Speaker 2: They surfaced throughout the season, but I thought that he
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  Speaker 2: really started to tighten things up. And I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: it was a month ago Eagles defensive coordinator of Vic
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  Speaker 2: Vangaeo said he would grade out his season to be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit uneven.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think in.
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  Speaker 2: The past few weeks he's really starting to come into
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  Speaker 2: his own and it's a shame that his rookie season
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  Speaker 2: ends in the way that it did because he was
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  Speaker 2: really doing some good things.
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  Speaker 1: You could see him growing.
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  Speaker 2: More confident in the role he was playing off with
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  Speaker 2: Read Blank and Ship Well and you don't you don't
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  Speaker 2: hear his name called often, so that's always a good
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  Speaker 2: thing as a safety. Two interceptions on the season, And
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  Speaker 2: I can remember talking to Kobe Dean outside of his
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  Speaker 2: locker after the Lions win and when he was talking
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  Speaker 2: about physicality and the tone setter mentality that he brings
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  Speaker 2: and the physical nature of the Eagles defense and how
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  Speaker 2: they've all sort of taken on that personality and mentality.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Now you got Kuba coming down, And if
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  Speaker 2: you heard some of the licks that he was putting
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  Speaker 2: on those running backs, he said, man, he was hitting him.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that he was really starting to emerge
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, if you will. And it wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: flashy rookie season, but it was certainly one that the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles and I would imagine the fan base should feel
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  Speaker 2: pretty good about the future. And it doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 2: it's an injury where it's going to hinder any sort
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  Speaker 2: of offseason progress or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So let's look at the safety position for.
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  Speaker 2: A moment, because that now leaves Sidney Brown and who else.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see about Reid Blankenship this week. He left the
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  Speaker 2: game with a thigh injury did not return, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: learn more. The Eagles have a walkthrough and a practice
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: Remember it's a shortened week and they're playing on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: three o'clock on Black Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to look at the position right now.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have Sidney Brown, Red Blankenship, who may or
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  Speaker 2: may or may not be able to go, and then
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  Speaker 2: you have Andre sam who's on the practice squad, and
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  Speaker 2: you also have Michael Carter, who played nickel in Dallas
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  Speaker 2: when there were injuries to a Dori Jackson had to
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  Speaker 2: sort of reconfigure the secondary, and then you had Michael
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  Speaker 2: Carter play some some reps. Now there was that pick
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  Speaker 2: play on that Pickens reception later in the game that
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  Speaker 2: I think is a byproduct of not having that chemistry
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  Speaker 2: or continuity. Being a new addition around the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 2: you're still trying to feel things out. He ended up
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  Speaker 2: picking his own teammate in a critical moment. But he
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  Speaker 2: does offer the ability to play safety. He played safety
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  Speaker 2: at Duke, and I would imagine that if Reed Blankenship
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  Speaker 2: can't go, you would see Michael Carter and Sidney Brown
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  Speaker 2: as the starters. But who knows, because there's another wrinkle
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  Speaker 2: to this whole thing. Dori Jackson left the game with
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  Speaker 2: a head injury. He was evaluated for a concussion. We
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  Speaker 2: don't quite know if it was a concussion. Again, we'll
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  Speaker 2: learn more when the injury report comes out to start
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  Speaker 2: the week on Tuesday. But if you don't have a
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  Speaker 2: Dori Jackson, and it's worth noting that that's his second
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  Speaker 2: that would be would be his second concussion of the season. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he missed the Giants game, the second one with the
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  Speaker 2: concussion after sustaining it in the Minnesota Vikings game. So
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  Speaker 2: if he can't go, if he's not cleared, if it
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  Speaker 2: is in fact a concussion, then you have to figure
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  Speaker 2: out what you're gonna do with your second cornerback spot.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna go with Cooper Degen.
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  Speaker 2: Are you gonna go with Keilee Ringo, who played four
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  Speaker 2: snaps against the Cowboys his first play he was tagged.
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  Speaker 1: With a penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Or are you gonna go with maybe a Jacoryan Bennett
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't played many defensive snaps this season, just twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: been playing sporadically on special.
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  Speaker 1: Teams since returning.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have to worry about the safety position
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  Speaker 2: and how you're gonna allocate those snaps.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if he's able to play within the confines
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to lean heavily on here for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 2: And then Michael Carter, as I mentioned, can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Andre sam is a player who the Eagles like. I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten to know him a little bit over the past
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  Speaker 2: year and a half talking to him, and he actually
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  Speaker 2: lockers next to Mac McWilliams, who, of course is my
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  Speaker 2: rookie diary subject this season. So he's a player who
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  Speaker 2: could be elevated from the practice squad. Remember, Marcus Epps,
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  Speaker 2: who was on the fifty three, is on injured reserve
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  Speaker 2: with an with I believe I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: designation of his injury, the nature of his injury was,
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  Speaker 2: because it was late.
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  Speaker 1: In maybe the Giants game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think it was the Giants game that he
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  Speaker 2: got injured and there was so it's unclear, but either way,
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  Speaker 2: he's on injured reserve, so he won't be available.
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  Speaker 1: And you also have you can get creative with your secondary.
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  Speaker 2: If you maybe look at a Parry Nickerson, if you
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  Speaker 2: that secondary, so it's something to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 2: as the week progresses. We'll learn more Tuesday when we're
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  Speaker 2: Then there's the walkthrough and then locker room and then
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  Speaker 2: I am Andrew Decheco and I will catch you on
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