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The DiCecco Daily: What Else To Expect From Eagles At Trade Deadline · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome into this edition of to
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  Speaker 1: check Odaily. It's Andrew de Checko from Inside the Birds
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  Speaker 1: dot Com and today I want to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about the upcoming trade deadline. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: after the trade deadline, anyone who is released is subjected
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  Speaker 1: to waivers, whether you're a veteran or not, so there's
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  Speaker 1: a big distinction there. I just wanted to throw that
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  Speaker 1: out there before I forget to mention it. I feel
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  Speaker 1: it's important to note every single season that I have
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  Speaker 1: these conversations. But the trade deadline and what could that
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  Speaker 1: potentially mean for the photo off Eagles. Well, there's a
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  Speaker 1: number of positions that I think are worth considering. Now
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  Speaker 1: to what degree, Well, I'm going to sort of map
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  Speaker 1: it out at least how I view it, what I
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  Speaker 1: view to be the most important, and we'll go from that.
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  Speaker 1: The most important for me is edge rusher. The Eagles
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  Speaker 1: were able to dominate the New York Giants and they
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  Speaker 1: produce five sacks in that game. But if you think
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  Speaker 1: about it, Zach Bond had one and there were three
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  Speaker 1: from the interior. Jalen Carter, Moro Jomo and Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 1: had one. Jordan Davis, by the way, has three on
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  Speaker 1: the season, which is just tremendous, But they haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: a ton from their edge group, and when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the current iteration of what they have to work with,
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  Speaker 1: sure there's reinforcements on the way in Brandon Graham and
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Smith, but for me, they still need to add
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  Speaker 1: another piece because then it allows Nolan Smith to play
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  Speaker 1: reduced snaps and keep his body as fresh as possible
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  Speaker 1: and preserve him for the stretch run. The way that
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  Speaker 1: he plays the game, it lends itself to constantly being
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  Speaker 1: nicked up. It's also what makes him such an impactful player.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of a double edged sword there. Jay
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  Speaker 1: looks Hunt, you can kind of reduce some of his snaps,
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  Speaker 1: Josh jushe and go on down the line. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what it means for someone like a Patrick Johnson, who
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  Speaker 1: I think has given good effort, good snaps. Vik Vanjaio
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  Speaker 1: is really high on him and he's an excellent special teamer.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, of course, will be coming onto the fifty
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  Speaker 1: three man roster and that's gonna be an addition that
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be interesting to see how it unfolds. And
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  Speaker 1: what BG ultimately can provide in terms of output. But
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  Speaker 1: I think they still need to add another body. Now
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  Speaker 1: who that is. We'll have to see if the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: are looking to add to that defensive group.
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  Speaker 1: I have to think that going back to the team's
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  Speaker 1: philosophical approach and what they tend to value, that's trench play,
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  Speaker 1: and specifically in this case, I would think that edge
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  Speaker 1: would be the most prudent, especially given the the youth
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  Speaker 1: in that room. It's very it's youthful, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these players haven't been asked to play a ton
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  Speaker 1: of snaps in their career. So adding another player, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting it has to be a headliner like
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  Speaker 1: a Trey Hendrickson or someone to that effect, but they
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  Speaker 1: could certainly stand to add someone who's played a decent
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  Speaker 1: portion of the snaps you're in and year out, they've
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  Speaker 1: been a productive player, and then it alleviates some of
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  Speaker 1: the pressure from the two younger players. So I believe
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  Speaker 1: are more than capable of doing it. But just for
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  Speaker 1: optionality purposes, just for preservation purposes, I do think that
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  Speaker 1: that group needs to be bolstered. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that you can look at the Giants game and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're okay, they can get to the quarterback. They don't
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  Speaker 1: need to add anybody there, they're good. You have to
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  Speaker 1: take the full complement of games, all eight games into
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  Speaker 1: the equation here when you're really assessing the edge group.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they are going to be fine there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think if you're looking at three positions and
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  Speaker 1: I have them sort of slotted in my mind that
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  Speaker 1: I feel to be the most important, that is at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the list for me. Next on the
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  Speaker 1: list would be backup offensive lineman. The reason being is
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  Speaker 1: that the Eagles offensive line is playing through a lot
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  Speaker 1: of injuries. They're not at full strength, and they haven't
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  Speaker 1: been at full strength all season. Cam Jurgens is dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the knee Landon Dickerson's been banged up all season long.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Mailatta hadn't mentioned a couple months ago. I believe,
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  Speaker 1: dating back to the summer that he was still maybe
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  Speaker 1: working through some things or or working through that, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the rigors of the previous season. Lane Johnson had
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  Speaker 1: a stinger earlier in the year. Tyler Stein's been healthy,
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  Speaker 1: but he hasn't had to play a lot in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He's also younger, so he's sort of a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more fresh than maybe some of the other players. But
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  Speaker 1: I think when you look at beyond that, Brett Toath
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  Speaker 1: did a tremendous job and a commendable job piloting the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line Sunday against the Giants, and he deserves a
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  Speaker 1: lot of recognition, and I think he kind of reinforces
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  Speaker 1: why the Eagles have a lot of confidence in him
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  Speaker 1: as a backup offensive lineman. But beyond that, Fred Johnson
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  Speaker 1: is another player that they can count on on game day.
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  Speaker 1: He's been the sixth offensive lineman. He played a number
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  Speaker 1: of snaps in jumbo package on Sunday, even a few
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  Speaker 1: against the Vikings, and that's something that I believe the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles can lean on moving forward and implement that to
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  Speaker 1: the offense. But beyond that, there's a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: that I have in terms of viable depth pieces. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that my urgency on this stems from just
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  Speaker 1: the beaten up nature of the offensive line and you
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  Speaker 1: want to have as many capable options behind them without
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  Speaker 1: having to, I guess, alter the offense or have it hindered,
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  Speaker 1: have it be hindered in any way. And Matt Pryor
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  Speaker 1: is a player who the Eagles signed in free agency.
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  Speaker 1: He played over a thousand snaps last season for the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, but he's mostly been a right side guy,
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  Speaker 1: and when he had to go in against the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't look very good. And I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: comfortable the Eagles would be putting him in there in
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  Speaker 1: a critical moment. They have Drew Kendall, who's a rookie
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  Speaker 1: and played his first offensive snaps against the Giants, played
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  Speaker 1: four snaps second game that he was active, but he's
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  Speaker 1: clearly not ready to step in if the situation calls
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  Speaker 1: for it. And then you know, you have a couple
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  Speaker 1: of rookies who are on the injured reserve list. They
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  Speaker 1: just don't have a lot of players that they can
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  Speaker 1: hang their hat on in terms of reserve offensive line
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  Speaker 1: that you can plug them in and then feel confident
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  Speaker 1: that they can go out there and the offense is
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  Speaker 1: will be able to get off without a hitch. I
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  Speaker 1: think you can count on well, I know you can
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  Speaker 1: count on Toth, and I know you can count on
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  Speaker 1: Fred Johnson. Matt Pryor is a bit of a question mark,
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  Speaker 1: and so is Drew Kendall being a rookie. But he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly someone in Kendall that they're going to want to
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  Speaker 1: continue to develop and work with. But I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: Unless injuries dictated, he's getting to be This is more
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  Speaker 1: so a learning season for him, but you do need
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  Speaker 1: to have another lineman that I believe that you can.
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  Speaker 1: You can plug in and for Jeff Satlin to feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable if injuries arise. So backup offensive linement is two
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  Speaker 1: and then final for me. Number three might surprise some
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  Speaker 1: folks because it's not higher on my list, but it's cornerback.
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  Speaker 1: Cornerback is a little bit lower because I believe that
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  Speaker 1: if you rectify the pass rusher, you bolster it, that
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  Speaker 1: helps the back end and you're able to kind of
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  Speaker 1: marry the rush and the cover aspect of the defense.
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  Speaker 1: The other point is is that the Eagles have three
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  Speaker 1: corners who have played defensive snaps for them, or at
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  Speaker 1: least profile as being a long term number two option
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  Speaker 1: this season, and that's a Dori Jackson, Keeley Ringo and
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  Speaker 1: Jakooryan Bennett. Adding another player to the mix sort of
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  Speaker 1: muddies the waters. And you don't really even really know
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  Speaker 1: what you have in Jakorean Bennett yet. So how can
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  Speaker 1: you hastily go and add another player unless this is
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  Speaker 1: a big unless they are a surefire upgrade over what
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  Speaker 1: you have, like Arik Wohen for example, isn't so much
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  Speaker 1: of an upgrade that it would be worth bringing him
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  Speaker 1: in having to teach him the offense, And maybe it
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  Speaker 1: takes a couple of weeks for you know, Vic Vangio
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  Speaker 1: and Eagles to get comfortable putting him in there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just throwing him out there as an example because his
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  Speaker 1: name's floated around. But yeah, I mean, I think they
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  Speaker 1: have enough there that they should be able to piecemeal
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  Speaker 1: it together. Land On whoever you believe is the most competent,
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  Speaker 1: the most consistent of that trio and make do with that.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to alleviate all your
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  Speaker 1: problems or address all of your perceived deficiencies in a
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline one. It takes two to tango. But there's
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  Speaker 1: also so much parody in today's NFL that there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a lot of teams that are still in
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  Speaker 1: it that are going to be in the mix, I
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  Speaker 1: imagine during the trade deadline. So it's not always as
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  Speaker 1: simple as saying, well, Howie Roseman will be aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: he'll go get player X. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more that goes into it. So you can go into
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline and approach it in a way where
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  Speaker 1: you want to make an upgrade, but it has to
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  Speaker 1: make sense from a compensation standpoint. But also there's other
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  Speaker 1: teams that maybe are willing to pony up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more. So I think if you have to whittle
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  Speaker 1: it down, it would be edge rusher top of the
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  Speaker 1: need for me backup offensive linemen, and then cornerback. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there are a lot of folks out there who
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  Speaker 1: might differ on that, but they're all needs. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of where you prioritize. And I just think
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  Speaker 1: adding an edge rusher and bolstering that group so you
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  Speaker 1: can send players in waves take some of the pressure
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  Speaker 1: off the back end. And you even saw against the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles were pressuring Jackson Dart so much so that
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  Speaker 1: you hardly notice keithy Ringo is even out there. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that not every team's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: New York Giants, but it just goes to show you
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  Speaker 1: the impact that a good rush can have on the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Or you can kind of mask a player if you're
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily I guess, if you're not overwhelmed with what
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  Speaker 1: they can bring, or if they're sort of when you
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  Speaker 1: look at your secondary and they're a player that you
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  Speaker 1: know is going to be targeted every week, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a toy to bear down on the quarterback, that's
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  Speaker 1: something that you can sort of you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: mask that player. So just my thoughts here as we're
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  Speaker 1: fast approaching this trade deadline, there's a lot of there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of scenarios. There's a lot of ways that
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles could go or not go. They could like
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  Speaker 1: their roster the way it is right now. They could
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  Speaker 1: be really intrigued with some of the younger players and
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  Speaker 1: be infatuated with those who are coming back because they
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  Speaker 1: are getting a number of reinforcements that it may preclude
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  Speaker 1: them from being aggressive at the deadline. The great thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is we're gonna find out. Well, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. For this edition of the Checko Deily,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrew to Checko and I will catch you on
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  Speaker 1: the next one.