Ask Greg Cosell: Is Nakobe Dean's Presence Making Zack Baun Play Better?

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On Tuesday night's "Ask Greg Cosell" for Patreon Tier 3/Bomb Post Touchdown members, Greg answered tape-based questions about the Eagles. Here's a shortened sample-size version of the show.

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0:00.0	The following is a shortened version of our Ask Greg CoSell live stream that we do every week during the NFL season for our Patreon tier three members.
0:10.5	Each week, our tier three members get into a live chat room with Greg Cocell and get to ask him their tape, breakdown questions directly.
0:19.5	And they get Greg's responses.
0:21.4	It's one of the most popular shows we have on Patreon.
0:25.2	You can get the full version of this show and ask Greg your own questions by becoming
0:31.1	a tier three bomb post touchdown member at patreon.com slash inside the birds.
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0:43.6	Greg, my question for you is, during the Eagles by week week you had talked about when Campbell was playing
0:56.6	linebacker with Bonn that just the added responsibility and kind of pressure that that put on
1:01.6	blanketship. And so I'm wondering, not that he wasn't playing well during the start of the year,
1:08.0	but ever since Dean's been playing linebacker, it just seems Bonn has become more impactful on making some of the more splash plays that we saw last year.
1:16.0	So it just was wondering if you've seen a difference in his play, playing with Campbell
1:20.1	early in the year versus now with playing with Dean more.
1:24.3	Yeah, I mean, you notice him more.
1:26.0	Again, I'm not charting him, you know, on every play, but I think you notice him more and there seem to be more of those kinds of plays that we got used to seeing last year.
1:36.5	I, Dean to me, and again, Bond's a really good player. Obviously, he's a more physically gifted athlete than Dean. He's bigger,
1:44.7	you know, probably runs faster. But Dean, to me, has become a tempo setter for the defense.
1:50.5	I mean, he's got great recognition and reaction, football intelligence. You can see it.
1:55.3	I don't know if I, I think I mentioned this to Jeff and Adam, but I happen to hear, you know, I don't spend a lot of time,
2:02.2	you know, necessarily listening to, you know, press conferences and people talk. But, you know,
2:06.6	a lot of times, if I'm, you know, when I'm home at night, I check through some stuff. And I heard
2:11.3	Dan Lanning, who was the D.C. at Georgia before he became the head coach at Oregon, talk about,
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