Merrill Reese has high expectations for the Eagles as he begins his 46th season covering the team

Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

NBC Sports Philadelphia

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the latest Eagle Eye podcast, Reuben Frank and Dave Zangaro are joined by Merrill Reese to discuss:(0:50) —Thoughts on the roster(9:00) — Why he doesn't do season win-loss projections anymore.(12:15) — Optimistic about Jalen Hurts.(17:25) — Shocked the Eagles were able to land AJ Brown in a trade.(18:00) — Nick Sirianni's first year.(26:30) —Putting Jonathan Gannon's under the microscope this year.(31:00) — 46 years covering the Eagles.(38:30) — Excitement over Devon Allen.(42:00) — What to expect from Carson Wentz in DC this year.

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0:00.0	The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.
0:07.0	Eagles fans everywhere. This is for you.
0:12.0	Let the celebration begin.
0:15.0	Everyone hope you're enjoying your summer.
0:18.0	It's the dog days of the NFL schedule.
0:21.0	With Rubin Frank, I'm Dave Zinger. This is the Eagle Eye
0:23.4	podcast, a special one for you today. Joining us now on the Eagle Eye
0:27.3	podcast, we're happy to welcome him back. Merrill, Reese, how are you?
0:42.0	I'm well. I'm well. I'm excited about the upcoming season. There's still a little ways to go to training camp, but this should be something. It should be.
0:44.0	It's funny, Rub and I were talking not that long ago about this roster and it's just about how much better it appears than recent seasons.
0:53.4	What's your take on it?
0:54.3	When you look at the players they brought in
0:56.4	and at least what they have on paper right now.
0:59.8	Dave, I think I said to you guys before the draft that the guy I most wanted was Jordan Davis and that's who they got.
1:08.0	I mean that's the guy and the thing that they got Jordan Davis and the Kobe Dean and then ended up with
1:14.3	AJ Brown to me was incredible. I can't remember a first day of a draft that
1:20.3	went like that. Yeah, I still I'm still not quite sure how Nacoby Dean fell to the third round.
1:29.6	It seems like they just have more young talent than they've had in a long, long time.
1:33.7	Even in 17 when they won it all, it was an older veteran team and
1:39.6	you know it wasn't really super sustainable, although they did get to the playoffs the next couple years.
1:44.3	But when you look at this roster, I mean it's been a long time since they've had so much
1:48.1	young talent. Any of these young guys that you're really excited about seeing in camp?
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