Hello everybody.

Live from the Xfinity Mobile Studio,

this is an emergency edition of the PHO Y Eagles podcast,

Bo Wolf, E.J. Smith, Fran Duffy, and after Jalen Phillips

fled the coop earlier today for a big deal, that was a mercenary. This is a homegrown guy who is now

leaving Philadelphia, Nicopi Dean signing with the Las Vegas Raiders to join Quay Walker. E.J., what do you make of it from the

Eagles perspective? Yeah, you know, it's a move we expected. It's definitely, you know,

somewhat of a foregone conclusion that Nacobo Deem would wind up elsewhere because of the fact

that the Eagles are well situated at linebacker with Jahad Campbell and Zach Bond, but still

a significant loss for the

Eagles defense. I remember having conversations in Indianapolis with people about how important

Nikobie Dean was, not just for the Georgia players. I think that it's obvious that he has a strong

connection or a strong connection with the contingent of Georgia players on that defense, but really just the group as a whole, you think about how much better that group

played once he got back from the injury last season. So again, that may be something that

we are shocked to find out that he is signing elsewhere, but still a significant departure on a day

that has already had a significant departure for the Eagles defense.

Fran, it feels like a little bit of the inverse of the conversation we've had with Jordan Davis,

where you can understand for circumstances why not only are the Eagles not bringing back to Kobe Dean because of Jahad Campbell, but the money is it's maybe not what you would want to

pay. But boy, this is a guy who was so fun

to watch for the eagles and it's just going to be sad that he's not here anymore and it'll be it'll be

sad to watch him with another team yeah yeah but i said it earlier on the show um the moment they

drafted jihad campbell uh this was this was in the cards. We knew that this was a likelihood,

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