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Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

#211: Eagles make a shocking move by drafting Jalen Hurts

Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

NBC Sports Philadelphia

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

4.8 β€’ 927 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Reuben Frank and Dave Zangaro discuss:

  • (0:30) β€” Draft Jalen Hurts is a head scratchier.
  • (14:51) β€” Howie explains Hurts selection as value.
  • (24:08) β€” Drafting Hurts was a disservice to Carson Wentz.
  • (29:52) β€” Eagles exploring using Hurts similar to how the Saints use Taysom Hill.
  • (36:18) β€” Davion Taylor selected with the 103rd pick.
  • (40:22) β€” Draft finishes up Saturday.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.

0:07.0

Eagles fans everywhere. This is for you.

0:12.0

Let the celebration begin.

0:14.7

That was not what I was expecting.

0:17.6

That's not what anybody was expecting.

0:20.0

This is the Eagle Eye podcast brought to you by hers with Rubin Frank on Dave Zengaro.

0:28.8

Dave is speechless already.

0:30.8

And you know I, uh, the way Rubin I handle these drafts is we divvy up the initial story when they pick a player.

0:40.0

So for number 53, it was on me.

0:44.4

And we had a few pre-written stories ready to go.

0:48.0

I had an idea of a list of guys that I was like

0:51.5

my secrets. I was mentally prepared to write stories on a list of like

0:59.2

20 players like I mentally and then Jeline Hurts from Oklahoma it it took me longer to write that story

1:11.7

than I think it's ever taking me to write any draft story ever

1:16.1

because I can just write it straight and say they took this player but I was trying to understand it before I

1:28.0

wrote anything about it and here we are what what, four hours later, and I still don't get it at all.

1:38.8

Yeah, we've talked to the general manager, the head coach, and the player personnel director twice.

1:43.3

I still don't get it.

1:45.3

Yeah, I don't know if I've ever been, I've been doing this a long time, Dave,

1:50.8

I don't know if I've ever mentioned that to you. The J Burwanger

1:54.2

pick really surprised me in 36 because I knew he wanted to go into the

1:58.8

rubber and plastic business. Now I you know John Harris was probably the most surprising one in 97, first round pick.

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