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The DiCecco Daily: Putting The Andy Dalton Trade Into Proper Perspective · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's happening? Everyone? Welcome in to another episode of The
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  Speaker 1: Checko Daily. Andrew de Checko here, Eagles beat reporter for
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  Speaker 1: insidethebirds dot Com, and the Eagles on Wednesday strike a trade,
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  Speaker 1: acquiring quarterback Andy Dalton from the Carolina Panthers in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for a twenty twenty seven seventh round pick. And on
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  Speaker 1: the surface, it may be a little curious, right because
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles already have Tanner McKee. He is in the
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  Speaker 1: last year of his rookie deal, and one would presume
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to look into drafting a quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: all their problems will be resolved. But this is also
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  Speaker 1: a team, in the Philadelphi Eagles, and this is really
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  Speaker 1: important to note. They will leave no stone unturned at
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  Speaker 1: any point when it comes to strengthening the roster, and
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position is one in which they prioritize, probably
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  Speaker 1: more than most teams around the NFL. And so you
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  Speaker 1: look at it and you can say, is this a
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  Speaker 1: precursor to something else or I don't view it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's my understanding that there's no correlation by bringing
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  Speaker 1: in Andy Dalton that that's going to all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden relate to Tanner McKee and the team moving him
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. The Eagles have always made it
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  Speaker 1: a priority to strengthen the quarterback room, and you can
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  Speaker 1: go back a number of different years for examples doing that.
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  Speaker 1: They lost Sam Howe in free agency and adding someone
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  Speaker 1: like Andy Dalton who's thirty eight years old. He started
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine games in the NFL. That
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  Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. You look at what he's making.
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  Speaker 1: He slated to make three point nine million this Year's
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  Speaker 1: that money's pretty standard for a number two quarterback. It's
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  Speaker 1: a steep investment for a number three quarterback. But the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles don't operate like most teams it comes to viewing
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position and the level of importance in which
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  Speaker 1: they place on it. So you take all that into
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  Speaker 1: consideration and they have all their bases covered. That's something
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  Speaker 1: that they have made an emphasis to ensure that they
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  Speaker 1: were doing. Go back to last season, before the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: they traded for Sam Howe. Now did they need Sam
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  Speaker 1: how Well? Tanner McKee was a little banged up in
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  Speaker 1: training camp and missed the first two or three games,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Sam Howe fulfilled the role of the
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  Speaker 1: number two quarterback. But I think they probably could have
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  Speaker 1: gotten by with an elevation of Kyle McCord or adding
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  Speaker 1: someone even who was waived at during cutdowns, or signing
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  Speaker 1: a veteran to kind of bridge the gap for two
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  Speaker 1: or three weeks. But they saw the value in making
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  Speaker 1: sure that one through three was covered, and they trade
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  Speaker 1: for Sam Howe, so it made a lot of sense
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  Speaker 1: at the time. They lost Sam Howe and free agency,
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  Speaker 1: he goes to the Dallas Cowboys, so it left the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles with only Jalen Hurts. Tanner McKee, who I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: is in the final year of his rookie deal, and
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  Speaker 1: who knows. There could be a team that blows the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles away in the offseason at some point for a
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  Speaker 1: trade for Tanner McKee, but the Eagles certainly aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to just unload him. And again, this trade shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: viewed as a either or a precursor to moving off
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  Speaker 1: of Tanner McKee. That's not the way that this trade
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  Speaker 1: should be viewed. And I think Andy Dalton, he's played
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  Speaker 1: for a number of teams. He was drafted in twenty
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  Speaker 1: eleven in the second round, the thirty fifth overall pick
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  Speaker 1: of the Cincinnati Bengals. I remember watching his career at
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  Speaker 1: TCU where it was Andy Dalton. It was the running
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  Speaker 1: back was Matthew Tucker, I think, who also spent some
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  Speaker 1: time with the Eagles, very briefly. I think their receiver
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  Speaker 1: was Josh Boyce. I remember that team very well, but
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  Speaker 1: I liked him coming out of the draft. He was
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  Speaker 1: an older rookie. He's thirty eight years old right now,
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  Speaker 1: and he spent a number of years with the Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: There was four seasons in which he threw for more
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  Speaker 1: than twenty five touchdown passes, two seasons in which he
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  Speaker 1: threw for more than four thousand yards. Then he goes
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  Speaker 1: to the Dallas Cowboys. Then he goes to the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears and the New Orleans Saints. Then he spends three
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  Speaker 1: years with the Carolina Panthers, and he overlapped there in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season with Parks Fraser, who is
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles quarterbacks coach right now, but he was the
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  Speaker 1: pass game coordinator when Andy Dalton was in Carolina with
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  Speaker 1: Parks Fraser in twenty twenty three, so there's some familiarity
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  Speaker 1: and a little bit of an overlap there. Andy Dalton
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  Speaker 1: has an eighty four, eighty three and two record as
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  Speaker 1: a starter. He's appeared in one hundred and seventy nine games,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, starting one hundred and sixty nine. So
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  Speaker 1: that kind of experience isn't often found in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: from a backup quarterback position. You don't see someone who's
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  Speaker 1: played the game for fifteen seasons who is going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to stick around for another year for one,
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  Speaker 1: but be able to provide a wealth of knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: experience to a quarterback room that doesn't have a ton
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  Speaker 1: outside of Jayalen Hurts in terms of in game experience.
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  Speaker 1: And so Andy Dalton could maybe help Jayalen Hurts because
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  Speaker 1: Jayalen's learned from a number of quarterbacks throughout his career
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  Speaker 1: and he's had quarterbacks where he can bounce ideas from.
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  Speaker 1: So it's whether it's Gardner Minshew or Sam Howell or
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  Speaker 1: Will Greer, who I think Will Greer is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a coach, a future coach in the NFL. He's
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  Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys right now as a backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but they've always had someone that can be sort of
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  Speaker 1: a sounding board, and in this case, you have someone
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  Speaker 1: like an Andy Dalton who played at a high level
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  Speaker 1: with the Bengals. There is one year where he threw
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  Speaker 1: for thirty three touchdowns in twenty thirteen twenty interceptions, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: But he's played with different types of receivers, he's played
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  Speaker 1: in different offenses. He can be another set of eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline and be able to convey what he's
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  Speaker 1: seeing on the field to Jalen and it may help.
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  Speaker 1: I often think that a lot of those quarterbacks, once
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  Speaker 1: you get to a certain age, you're more or less
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  Speaker 1: an extension of the coaching staff. And so that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how I'm viewing this right now. Very modest compensation
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  Speaker 1: to get them, and for a team like the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of business as usual. That's how they operate,
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  Speaker 1: that's how they view the quarterback position. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: out of the ordinary in the sense of how the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles operate. But it may be looked at it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit differently if it was another team with another
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  Speaker 1: acclimate to this defense and maximize this new opportunity here
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. There's so much more to break down. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens in the rest of the week, and
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  Speaker 1: pro days, there's thirty visits that are now starting to
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  Speaker 1: come out, and we'll have all that covered. We'll break
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  Speaker 1: all that down for you on Inside the Birds, and
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  Speaker 1: of course right here on The Checko Daily. That's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it for this episode of The Checko Daily, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Andrew de Checko. We'll catch you on the next one.