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The Philadelphia Eagles are making their way through training camp and things are trending upwards. The biggest development thus far has been Jihaad Campbell, the Eagles first round rookie who is rehabbing quicker than expected. He is on the field taking first team reps, and today he spoke about his health and mentality heading into pre-season. In other news, Jalyx Hunt is making huge strides and studying the greats. Lastly, new Eagles OC Kevin Patullo made some interesting comments about Jalen Hurts and the offense. Today, RB discusses all of this and more!
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00:00the eagles are making their way through training camp but so far one thing has stood out above all
00:05else the birds got the steal of the draft today we get some huge news on jihad campbell and even
00:11get to hear from him on where he's at health wise and mentality wise also another young stud
00:16stepping up and making huge strides on defense for the birds and we even get to hear from eagles
00:22offensive coordinator kevin petullo on jalen hurts and the rest of the offense we'll break it all
00:27down but welcome into a to z philly i'm rb and we started off with one of the young studs on this
00:34defense a guy that we have talked about tirelessly throughout this offseason needs to make some huge
00:40strides really showed a lot of potential at the end of last season and that is jay licks hunt
00:46yesterday for day three of camp they had an open practice today it was more of a walkthrough so
00:52we're getting near the tail end of camp you know where we don't really get to see too much and get
00:57a lot of insight but yesterday was a huge day especially for jay licks hunt who said that he's
01:02trying to keep up with nolan smith who set a high bar in the edge rusher room but even better yet
01:08jay licks hunt talked about his offseason what is he trying to do going into year number two
01:14and i thought this was a very insightful answer from a young guy like jay licks he says that he spent
01:19the entire offseason studying and talking to the best pass rushers in the league and that way he could
01:25learn from them and apply it to his own game he talked to von miller who's now with the washington
01:30commanders he talked to max crosby and a few others so i just love the way that everybody on this team
01:37is approaching this season you know they're not satisfied they're not complacent even these young
01:42guys who just won a super bowl already right like you think about some young people in general that may
01:47not be that mature they're like okay i won already i won the super bowl i'll get my money in a few
01:52and i'll just chill it feels like every guy on this team is really hungry and and desires winning
01:58again and really wants to just you know get better in every little margin of their game so i love this
02:03mindset from jay licks hunt and i do think that he's going to take a huge step this year we heard
02:08what jordan my lot has said about him right he looks like micah parsons in the flesh obviously a
02:13little bit of an overreaction probably but i love how he's developing so shout out to jay licks hunt
02:18but really the main story of the day is another young eagles defender first round rookie jihad
02:24campbell and let's be honest if jihad campbell was healthy was completely healthy no shoulder
02:31concerns going into the draft he probably would have been a top 10 to 15 pick right he slides all the way
02:37to the end of the first round we just saw this a couple years ago with who with nolan smith and look
02:43at what nolan smith is doing production wise he's now the leader in that edge room and i will be
02:49honest here obviously zach bones the guy but i think years down the line jihad campbell could end up being
02:54the leader in that linebacker room here's what zach berman who's been at the practices had to say
03:00about jihad campbell he says three practices into camp jihad campbell is mixing in with the first team
03:06defense it's looking like it's on track for a bond and campbell combo on september 4th against the
03:12dallas cowboys to open the season and as we know nicobe dean still rehabbing that injury but
03:18all of the reporters right it's like a consensus right now jihad campbell looks really really good
03:24he's ahead of schedule health wise he looks great and we know what he did last year at alabama like
03:31it's no kidding there's no you know a well this was against a bad you know like he played at one of
03:36the best schools and he was a production machine 117 combined tackles 54 solos five sacks 12 tackles
03:45for loss this is a guy who is the pitch perfect chess piece in vick fangio system like he is going
03:52to be able to impact the game in multiple ways as of right now he's primarily being used as an off
03:58ball linebacker to begin maybe he can experiment as an edge rusher vick fangio loves these guys that
04:04are multi-faceted you know that he can plug in here plug in there and jihad campbell is 10 times
04:10ahead of schedule right now he looks really good and we even got to hear from him yesterday here's
04:16what jihad campbell had to say about his training camp so far
04:19so when we hear from jihad there and we looked at a couple videos the other day of him practicing yes
04:44he's still a bit limited right almost like a i don't know a snap count or a pitch count
04:49but he doesn't look like a guy who's still like major rehabbing an injury no like he looks ready
04:55to go and based on what the reporters are saying this looks like the guy that the eagle signed up
05:00for to draft that everybody would have drafted in the top 15 so the reason i say the eagle has got
05:05the steal the draft is because they got a guy lower on the board when his value was tremendously higher
05:11and somehow some way these types of players continue to fall into the hands of how he rose and
05:17part of it's probably luck part of it's playing the board right they tried to move up three times to
05:21get him in the span of an hour but he fell right into their lap anyway so it's a good problem to have
05:27when nikobe comes back you have to figure some things out but if jihad campbell can step in right
05:32away like a lot of these other alabama guys i mean the eagles did it again and this right here
05:37should put so much fear into the rest of the nfl because jalex hunt and jihad campbell like those
05:42are two young pieces that really need to have a big year you know the eagles have to compensate for
05:47the fact of losing veterans and guys with experience even though their super bowl defense and their team
05:53overall was predicated on youth now they got even younger in some areas and they're going to have to
05:58rely on that to really step up and do it again and you're already getting great signals from guys like
06:04jihad campbell and jalex hunt so i'm really excited about that the other big question on this team is
06:08kevin petullo and every time i've heard this guy talk so far he talks like a head coach like he has
06:14a really good iq for the game and i feel like nothing's going to phase this guy just from what i
06:20hear obviously the game situation is different but he's talked about being here how he is comfortable
06:25and you know he's learned a lot from kellen so i'm excited and kevin petullo says with how good
06:30the eagles receivers are on the perimeter and how good hurts is it throwing the deep ball
06:34the offense will want to take more chances down the field he also talked about jalen hurts and i
06:41loved how he continues to back his guy said this like probably five times in the first two months
06:47of the season last year how kellen more like just continue to come to the defense of jalen even if
06:53jalen was doing something wrong or needed to improve in one area it wasn't just like you know black and
06:58white like here's what he's doing here no like you could tell kellen always had the best interest
07:03of jalen in mind and i feel like that really boded well with jalen like i feel like that made him a bit
07:09more comfortable like hey i don't have to be 100 perfect all the time i have guys in my circle who
07:15are going to back me and i feel like kevin petullo is also kind of giving that off so far he says
07:21watching jalen hurts practice over the years it is clear how much he has improved he is currently
07:26completing 93 of his passes in practice he says in meetings hurts is also doing a great job at
07:32pointing out what the defense is doing pretty much he's like ahead of schedule and now he's starting
07:36to pick up on things and read things before the snap and he's telling you hey this is what's going
07:40to happen here so he's also learning as a quarterback and i think obviously we've seen the growth on the
07:46field in terms of the mechanics and the accuracy things like that but he's also improving you know from
07:52an intelligence standpoint on the game and being able to read the field and i think that is just
07:57one of the indicators of great quarterbacks and then on the flip side we have jalen hurts here on
08:01an interview and he gives a lot of praise back to kevin petullo that he has laid the groundwork for
08:06this year's offense quote he has an opportunity to lead the group and he's been very very pointed
08:11and clear and been leading with great conviction and when you have that stamp of approval from a guy
08:16like jalen hurts that goes a long way you know because we saw what happened before with jalen and nick
08:20like if jalen isn't happy and he's not completely confident he'll give you these subliminal answers
08:26and he'll leave it very cloudy and up in the air he's being straightforward and maybe that's another
08:31you know learning point of jalen and maybe he's getting better at that but he just came right out
08:36and said yeah this guy's been laying the groundwork he's comfortable i'm comfortable with him he said it
08:40from day one so i'm excited to see how this duo works together this year another guy on offense
08:46terrace marshall who got some praise recently from aj brown now getting some first team reps so
08:51keep your eyes on terrace marshall maybe you could put you know end up being that y receiver three
08:56replacement next year uh jalen hurts had a great day yesterday he hit davante smith for his first
09:03touchdown to training camp he missed a few deep balls but he had a nice pass to dallas goddard over
09:08the middle yesterday with pressure he signaled a first down he was 10 for 10 to start the day
09:13he did though miss a few deep balls like i said and there was also some great coverage on the back
09:18end from guys like quinyon mitchell and also keely ringo but quinyon so far has been perfect in camp
09:24doing what quinyon does vick fangio said he's trying to mirror him on both sides so i think
09:29he's going to be so valuable to this defense of course and in terms of cb2 still an ongoing battle
09:35as we monitor it but adori jackson was with the starting defense yesterday for the second practice in a row
09:42so after that first rough one from keely maybe they're looking in the direction of adori jackson
09:47which i wouldn't be mad about you know obviously they want the young guy to win it but if he's not
09:52capable of it and he still needs some more time to develop okay you know you go with the best option
09:57that's what i love about vick fangio he doesn't care what the name is what the contract is best guy
10:02on the field at all times sydney brown was also the starting safety with coop at the nickel we saw
10:08macuba in some different packages as well they went dime at one point and they had macuba as at
10:13nickel as well so you know maybe sydney brown can win the job i mean those are the two ongoing battles
10:19and like i said ringo uh had a really good play he was guarding aj brown on the perimeter and hurts
10:25bombed it about 50 ish yards downfield it was under thrown and keely did a really good job and last but
10:31not least another young eagles defender who cannot get lost in the mix moro ajomo a seventh round pick
10:38a couple years ago making a strong impression played really well at the end of last year there
10:43was a couple games where he was just wreaking havoc and uh you know the eagles are going to need
10:48that dt depth right they draft ty robinson but they're going to need some big snaps from ajomo and
10:54says he spent a good part of the day yesterday in the backfield operating mainly against tyler steen
10:59he's quote-unquote sacked hurts on one play and later batted down one of his passes they're not even
11:04in pads yet but a good start for moro ajomo so another young guy who they find as a late round
11:11gem who is giving them solid production and is going to have to account for more snaps this year
11:16and take another step especially when you lose a guy like milton williams and vic fangio talked about
11:21that a couple days ago so a lot of promising things that we're hearing from these young eagle players
11:26obviously you know it's training camp so how much can you really put into it but i think we're seeing
11:32a really good mentality from this team i think it's playing out in a good way so far give me your
11:37thoughts down below do you think jihad campbell will be the steal of the 2025 nfl draft appreciate
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