Eagles' Team Strategy and Player Developments 2025

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00:00Yes. First of all, I'm not Brennan, uh, Brandon Graham back, uh, he's 37 years old and I'm

00:07not paying 37 year olds to do anything except work in the front office. Uh, I need a 23

00:13year old, 22 year old athlete, pure and simple that I can manage fiscally. I also am not

00:19bringing back frankly sweat. I thought he had his best year. I don't think he'll ever

00:24do better than what he did. You told me about hunt. They got him under rafts. He grew five,

00:29five inches and is a monster. Uh, I would, for me, just you win it all. They were great.

00:37They were dominant. It was unbelievable. It was the worst Superbowl ever. Unless you're

00:40a Philly fan, they're up 34 nothing. The game was just, just a disaster. But the fact is

00:46I am not running a team where I'm just gonna, Oh, here we want a title. So let me give everybody

00:51a ton of money to come back and run it back. Uh, the Patriots used to win by hiring guys

00:56every year to do jobs. And I think how he's smart enough. I think Howie Roseman is the

01:01best GM in the national football league. And I think he'll figure out a way to not give

01:06all these guys. They think they're all going to get rich. I don't think they're all going

01:10to get rich in Philadelphia. Well, Scott, let's first start on offense. Now they only

01:15have one key player, Makai, backed in who'd never played garden. His life, an unbelievable

01:20story. He got in really good physical shape. He held up Scott. He, he, he only missed a

01:24couple of games due to injury. He did a great job. Now his contract's up. He signed a one

01:27year $5 million deal. Uh, Tyler Steen's the kid that they drafted a couple of years ago

01:31who was a tackle at Alabama. He's the guy that's going to replace him. I'd be surprised

01:35if Becton's back. Makai though, the cool thing for him is he's shown he can play both tackle

01:39positions and guard, but it's all about defense. Milton Williams, number 93 Scott. I think

01:45if he asked the Eagles this, they would probably tell you that they would agree with me from

01:49a consistency standpoint. He was their best defensive player. Yes. Jalen Carter's more

01:53talented. Don't get me wrong. Number 98, but Milt Williams out of Louisiana tech is

01:58an unbelievable football player. Good every year. And he was phenomenal this season. He's

02:02a free agent. He could command a deal around 20 million or more. It's a lot of money. That's

02:07where it's going now that for, for guys from the interior who could play the run and rush

02:12the passer like Williams, you just don't find these guys in free agency. He's been a phenomenal

02:17third round pick. Now, Josh Swett, you mentioned him number 19, who was drafted in the fourth

02:24round in 2018. He's been a terrific football player. Now, one thing we need to mention

02:28about Josh Swett, he took a massive pay cut to return to the Eagles this season. He changed

02:32agents, played really well, stayed healthy. It's not happening again. Yeah. Well he, he,

02:38I would be surprised if he's back. I'm not saying it won't happen, but they, you mentioned

02:43Jalex Hunt, Scott, let me explain to you who Jalex Hunt is. This guy was a safety at Cornell.

02:49He had a growth spurt, four to five inches when he was 19 years old, six foot five, 250.

02:55He's number 58 wearing Trent Coles all number. It was phenomenal in the Super Bowl game.

02:59He's gotten better and better and better. Now on your point earlier about Brandon Graham,

03:03this is a good point you made. What happened was Hunt was not supposed to play this season.

03:07It was going to be Bryce Huff who signed for 17 million a year and Brandon Graham. Their

03:13first, their first four edge rush spots were taken. Hunt was the fifth. You don't dress

03:18five edge rushers. Graham tears his triceps. Jalex Hunt has a risk procedure also didn't

03:23play well. We're talking Bryce Huff, excuse me. And then, then Hunt gets thrown into service

03:29and gets better and better and better. And remember Nolan Smith, by the way, Nolan Smith

03:33was their fourth edge rusher to start the season. Now he's a bonafide starter. So you're

03:37right. How he set this thing up extremely well for the future. You're also right. You

03:41can't resign everybody. Cap is not the biggest issue in the world. It's more cash. You got

03:47to be careful how much cash you tie up on defense, but they've drafted so well since

03:53really 2021, one of the best drafting GM since then in Howie Roseman. So they're in good

03:57shape, but Zach Bond is the big one. Scott, he never played inside backer in his life.

04:04He came out of nowhere, became a first team, all pro. No talking to Greg, go sell from

04:08NFL films. Greg actually thought that if you, if you compare the tape of bond and Fred Warner,

04:14it was better the season that tells you how it came out of nowhere. So, and by the way,

04:19that kind of deal that he's going to get could average at least 13 and a half million. He

04:22did. He signed for one year and three and a half million this season with, with Eagles.

04:26It's incredible what he did.

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