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Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

#198: The Eagles part ways with Malcolm Jenkins

Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

NBC Sports Philadelphia

Sports News, News, Eagles, Football, Nfl, 518680, Sports, Nfc East, Philadelphia Eagles

4.8927 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Reuben Frank and Dave Zangaro discuss the Eagles not picking up the team option on Malcolm Jenkins (0:28), the resigning of Rodney McLeod & Jalen Mills (9:45), conversations the Eagles had with the Texans about trading for DeAndre Hopkins (17:30), the market for a backup quarterback (22:38), the Dolphins agreeing to terms with Jordan Howard (27:37), as well as Tom Brady leaving the Patriots to join the Buccaneers (31:09).

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0:00.0

The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.

0:07.0

Eagles fans everywhere.

0:10.0

This is for you.

0:12.0

Let the celebration begin.

0:14.7

Some big news to get to on this Eagle Life podcast.

0:18.1

I'm Dave Zengaro. Hey, Rub, how are you?

0:20.2

Hanging in. We're all hanging in.

0:22.4

And we're doing this from the the comfort I guess of our own

0:26.4

homes and Howard Roseman making big decisions from the comfort of his home. The big one we have to talk about, the Eagles decision to move on for Malcolm Jenkins.

0:37.2

They basically won't pick up his option, which means Malcolm will become a free agent

0:41.2

when the new league year starts.

0:43.6

It's a big deal, Ruby, it's a giant move for the franchise.

0:47.0

Yeah, and how he said he was going to take a motion out of the equation when we talked to him on January 7th and you know sure it sure looks like he did that you let Jason Peters and then Malcolm Jenkins go back to back

1:02.1

you know mixed feelings. We know without knowing exactly how much Malcolm and

1:08.1

his and his team was looking for whether it was you know 15 million a year or 10 million a year it's hard to really

1:16.4

you know kind of come down exactly on how I feel about this but I mean I wouldn't

1:22.1

write a blank check for a guy you know a 32 year old safety with

1:26.7

somewhat declining skills I think he's still a top 10 safety in the league

1:35.4

but at some point you have to make a decision that's best for your team for the long run, which is what this off season is about. It's about the long run.

1:41.1

So it's... It's, you know, definitely mixed feelings, mixed emotions. I mean, we all feel the same

1:50.3

about Malcolm. He's just a great guy to have in a locker room. He's a really good player.

1:54.8

You've written a lot about his absurd durability, not just not missing games or snaps, but not missing practices.

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