Hello and welcome into the debut edition of the Bird's Huddle podcast. Don't freak out. I'm not Dave Zengaro. I'm not Ruben Frank. Their Eagle Eye podcast will still exist. You're going to get them in full. This is a special little extra podcast for you. I am Mike Mulhern. I'm here with the Super Bowl champion, Barrett Brooks, former second round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles. We love talking draft. We know you guys want more draft content. We're, you know, a week out, going down

in Pittsburgh. So, Barrett, you know, how are you feeling? Well, first of all, you know,

you guys don't know what I know. The guy behind my ear when I'm on the show is my guy right

here, Mike Moherne. I mean, he's savant as far as, you know, everything, Eagles, everything, sports, period. He knows the little idios secrecy of what went on the past 20 years. So, don't hold yourself short, Mike. Tell people exactly what you do and what you know. You're the, you're the brains behind this whole operation, man. You make things happen. I appreciate you, man. You won't start of my career, got me going to the right direction, bro. So, yeah, we're talking draft right now, and we're going to talk about what we feel as there will be, you know, quality for this Eagles team to go, not necessarily pick 23, but throughout the draft. We'll give you a little bit of knowledge about everything. Yeah, I appreciate that, Barrett.

Kind words,

as always checks in the mail.

We've worked together for a long time. I produce Birds Huddle every night. I do Eagle Spring Post Game Live. You may have seen me on an Eagle Eye episode or two. I write for the website every once in a while. But Barry and I sit across from each other. We talk all the time talking draft, talking about ridiculous things.

Right.

Kids and grandkids are, you know, do it or have done.

So. from each other. We talk all the time, talking draft, talking about ridiculous things. Right. Kids and grandkids are, you know, do it or have done. So we figured let's bring that to you guys and talk a little football here. Yeah, so let's have some fun. Let's do it. Let's do, man. Let's go. All right. So first things first, I just want to kind of toot our horn a little bit. I feel like we've had a pretty good history of getting some of these Eagles picks right last year on our on the clock special right before. You said, Jehad Campbell's the guy for the Eagles. They land him. A couple years ago, we talked trade up for Jalen Carter. That's the move. They did that. I had written trade up for Jordan Davis the year before. I said, take Devante Smith the year before that. So I feel like we got a pretty good idea of what Howie Roseman likes to do. So we're going to try to do that once again here. Yeah, this is going to be a little harder, though, because he can't just go back to the well now. What I mean by the well, he can't just go to Alabama or go to Georgia, you know. Well, yeah, you can't. You're right. You're absolutely right. You know, in fact, it's looking like he might go there again, you know, because the success he's had those two schools has been amazing. But, you know what I mean? I mean, it's not hard when you think about it. Howie is going to go best available. That's why I feel he's going to go. But this year is a little different, man. I mean, I don't know which direction he's going. You know, so this is going to be pretty tough this year.

Yeah, I agree. And, you know, everybody's saying it's a tougher draft, a worse draft class than we've had in a little while. Everybody's already looking ahead. The next year's drafts, they can get picks for that year. So we'll see how things go down. but the way I kind of broke it down here, I made some tiers for the Eagles for their first round pick kind of guys I think they could trade up for,

guys maybe a minor trade up for, and then, you know, if you're forced to, you take them at 23 in this third tier, or maybe a slight trade up just to make sure you don't get totally

boxed out. But basically, I think there's kind of a consensus, 12 guys that are probably off the board by the time the Eagles are really in range to even make a trade up, unless they did something drastic and traded their second and future picks and got nuts. But this doesn't seem like the kind of draft where you're going to do that. There aren't those kind of prospects.

Right.

So I figure the 12 guys that are probably off the board, you got Mendoza's going one overall. David Bailey, Arvel Reese, Ruben Bain, Sonny Stiles, Jeremiah Love, Francis Malgoa, Spencer Fenno, McKay, Lemon, Carnell Tate, Caleb Downs, and Mansour Delane. And a couple of those guys they probably wouldn't pick anyway, like Jeremiah Love, running back.

They're not going to be interested in that. Mendoza, we know, is long gone. Delane, I doubt they'd take a corner if he fell, but you never know. They've obviously invested heavily in that position. And maybe if one of those guys fell past 12, they might say, oh, my God, you know, one of those tackles or one of those edge rushers somehow fell. I think they'd maybe sprint up and start working the phones to make a trade. Well, they've done it before, you know, I mean, I mean, one of our picks that we really didn't think that they were going to get was the cornerback, you know, from, you know. Toledo you know, Toledo. And they didn't even have to move up for him. Right. And that board broke perfectly for them. He had the measurables that you want, four three speed. You know what I mean? There's no way that he was going to be able to, we were able to pick him up where we picked them up. And what happens? We pick him up. In fact, we didn't even do a draft, a draft when we put our draft board. We didn't do a breakdown on him because there's no way that he would be dropping to us. And what happens? He dropped to us. Yeah, he probably would have been in that in that 2024 draft. He probably would have been in that first category. Right, right. probably aren't going to be there. Right. So here's my first tier, kind of in order of who I think the Eagles could want and would want.

So top in the list, I got Monroe Freeling, the tackle from Georgia.

I'll give you the full tier here.

Then I'm going, Jordan Tyson, the receiver from Arizona State, then Venga Yawani, the guard

from Penn State, Caden Proctor, tackle from Alabama,

who actually reportedly met with the Eagles fairly recently. And then Kenyon Sadiq, the tight end from

Oregon, your boy, Barrett. I know you love him. So that's my little five-man tier here.

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