ITB on WBCB: Former Eagles DE Mike Mamula, Legendary Eagles Radio Voice Merrill Reese Join Caplan To Talk Birds
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
Inside The Birds
4.6 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON CHANNEL FOR EXCLUSIVE, BONUS CONTENT NOT SEEN OR HEARD ANYWHERE ELSE!!!: https://www.patreon.com/insidethebirds
► Sign up for our newsletter! • Visit http://eepurl.com/hZU4_n
► Support Our Sponsors
► My Bookie Promo Code link!: https://bit.ly/joinwithTHEBIRDS
► Fast Growing Trees: https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com. Promo Code: BIRDS
► 1v1ME: https://www.1v1me.com/ Promo Code: BIRDS
► Camden Apothecary: https://camdenapothecary.com/
► Sky Motor Cars: https://www.skymotorcars.com/
Catch Ray Didinger's new play coming this fall, "Spinner:"
https://www.delawaretheatre.org/spinner
Follow the Hosts!
► Follow our Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InsideBirds
► Follow Geoff Mosher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffpmosher
► Follow Adam Caplan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/caplannfl
► Follow Andrew DiCecco on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewdicecco
How to access our FULL Podcast:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...
SPREAKER: https://www.spreaker.com/user/...
NFL insider veterans take an in-depth look that no other show can offer! Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with the latest news, rumors, and discussions.
For more, be sure to check out our official website: https://www.insidethebirds.com.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From Inside the Birds, Adam Kaplan, and voice of the Philadelphia Eagles, Merrill Reese. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Adam Kaplan from Inside the Birds. |
| 0:09.8 | And along with me tonight is a pro football Hall of Favorner himself, the Pete Roselle Radio Television Award winning play-by-play voice of the Eagles. |
| 0:19.2 | The great Mel Reese. |
| 0:20.3 | Merrill, great to see you. Hi. Hi, I am happy to be here and I'm happy you are the one working. I appreciate that. No problem. You've given you the chance to do it. And Eagles Legend, first round pick in 1995 out of Boston College, but also from Lackawanna, New York. Who else is from there? Ron Jorzki. Jaws, that's right. |
| 0:39.2 | Number 59. And Mike Momula. Mike, welcome, my friend. Mike, I got to, by the way, we are in Chicken Pizza, in Washington, PA. We're at up 6.11. So join us tonight if you could still get here. But Mike, I want to ask you this question. So it is now 30 years since you were drafted, as we said in 1995. |
| 0:57.2 | So you're... still get here. But Mike, I want to ask you this question. So it is now 30 years since you were drafted, |
| 0:54.9 | as we said in 1995. So you have Brad Blank, a great agent who you and I know Brad very well. |
| 1:02.2 | And I remember sitting Brad's suite in the NFL Combine. We were talking about you, you know, |
| 1:06.6 | your draft process and the comment and all that. But what i don't know is when you got drafted here |
| 1:11.7 | what did you think of philly so when i first got here i landed and i got on the 95 bridge to go to |
| 1:21.0 | the stadium to immediately do a press conference and the first thing that i remember saying is |
| 1:26.2 | the all the oil refineries and everything. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm like, what is this place? |
| 1:32.4 | I'm like, I didn't know what was going on. |
| 1:34.6 | But, you know, obviously it's a, you know, and then, you know, an hour later I was in Villanova. |
| 1:40.2 | So, you know, it was a great, you know, time in my life, and it was happy to be here. |
| 1:48.2 | Mel, one of the things I love about getting to know you of these decades is you have these |
| 1:51.8 | great remembrances of these players when they're drafted and getting to know them. |
| 1:55.5 | What do you remember about Mike coming in here as a first round pick? |
| 1:58.1 | Well, the first thing I remember about Mike is that he owned the combine. |
| 2:04.1 | That you went to the combine, Mike, and everybody knew you were a good football player from |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Inside The Birds, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Inside The Birds and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.