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We're talking Edge today as we continue our position previews for the Eagles as the NFL draft approaches.

Tight ends in the books.

Edge today.

Different, different group entirely.

Whereas yesterday it's like there's one guy at the top.

And then like, okay, maybe there's a couple guys you like on day three.

There's like six guys who are going to go in the first round here.

Yeah, first-ish. All kinds of guys who check all the boxes. Now, some of them will go along before the Eagles have a chance, but this is a fun group to go through. How did you enjoy the experience? I like watching edge rushers. It's a pretty straightforward evaluation a lot of times, just in the sense that, you know,

I feel like you can tell quicker if you're going to like an eddresser than some of these other positions. it's a pretty straightforward evaluation a lot of times, just in the sense that, you know,

I feel like you can tell quicker if you're going to like an eddresher than some of these other positions. Do you want to see how they move? Yeah, exactly. That body moving around. And it's fun because you can put them into different buckets. I want to note two things before we start this exercise, like big picture takeaways looking at this edge group. First and

foremost, if you look at Fran's big board, he's got one, two, three, four, five guys in the top

16 and then his next guy is at 46 on his big board. Okay. And I think it feels that way when you

watch this group. There's five or six guys that you're like, yeah, I could see it with this guy. I think he's a first round like type talent, maybe late first, early second for some of these guys. And then after that, it feels like there's a big cluster of players that are like imperfect in one way or another. And you kind of have to pick the flaw that you're most comfortable with. I think that's right. We will get to it. We're going to do the show today. We're going to talk about some of the first round guys up top. We'll do a segment on the second day two guys that we each like respectively. Then we'll bring Fran in and talk about some day three guys. But there are some second round guys who I like and have specific thoughts on. There's a second round guy who. But then after like Edge 9 on France board, all of those other guys are a little bit indistinguishable. I think Edge 9 was a good cutoff point after. There's like there's the the small, speedy guys over here. Yeah, it's funny. And then there's big hulkers over here. There's really a big delineation.

Like, there's not very, there's not very many normal ed dressers in this class. Yeah. You know, after the top. Yeah. Yeah. Even at the top, like David Bailey is like 6.3, 250. Like, okay. Yeah, that's a normal eddresher. But like I would say Ruben Bain and Arvel Reese are also like kind of in one of those two buckets

Where it's like you're either kind of in one of those two buckets

where it's like you're either kind of like a really big guy who doesn't have the movement skills but you're physical or you're a smaller guy and it's like Nick Benito like oh yeah like this guy could maybe be like an undersized guy but with power and explosives off the edge. So I don't know. It was a fun group to watch because of that. you kind of had to figure out who could bridge the gap.

Well, let's talk about those three guys you just mentioned up top because those are the three guys who it would be shocking if the Eagles have any chance to even trade up for. Now, Arvel Reese and David Bailey, especially, those guys are going to go top five potentially. Yeah. Likely. But do you have any strong opinions about those two?

Not too many. David Bailey's awesome to watch. Arvel Reese is awesome to watch. With Arvel Reese, I wrote, I'll let Fran figure out where this guy fits in the league. He's just fun. He's just a fun guy to watch play football. He had so much more power than I was expecting him to have his size. Listen, I think because it is a, like, it's a more popular position in the league now, but there are a few examples of like those undersized guys who move from offball linebacker to edge rusher. Like Nick Benito is like, I mentioned him a second ago. Like he is like the trademark. Like if you're going to be 6.3, 240, like, you know, oh, he could be like Nick Benito or Hassan Reddick. Like there's not that many examples of it working in the league. But with Arvill Reese, like, I think it's going to work in the league for him just because he is so powerful at that size. He kind of, you know, one of the other things, like, you know, I hear Fran talk draft so much. I'm starting to pick up some of the, some of the phrases that he uses a lot. Like, Arvo Reese, to me, like, the size isn't a problem unless it's a problem. And it doesn't seem to be an issue for him. Yeah. I mean, he's 6-4-241. He's a little bit underneath. But, yeah, he is powerful. I will say it's a little tricky with Darabelle Reese.

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