The DiCecco Daily: Are Eagles Better Or Worse At Off-Ball LB?
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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In this episode, he continues a series looking at the Eagles' roster by position group compared to the end of the 2025 season to examine if the team is in better shape, worse, or the same at each area. In this episode, he goes examines the off-ball LB position.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's happening, everyone. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome into another episode of the Checo Daily, Andrew DeCechko, Eagles, big reporter, |
| 0:15.7 | Friendside, the Birds.com. |
| 0:17.4 | And our better, the same, or worse series continues on with the linebacker group. |
| 0:23.7 | And it's really an interesting group this year because a lot of this is going to be based on |
| 0:28.5 | projection. |
| 0:29.6 | So let's go to the 2025 group because Zach Vaughn, needless to say, speaks for itself. |
| 0:36.1 | He's in a class of his own, one of the best off-ball linebackers in the NFL. |
| 0:40.2 | Then you had Nkoby Dean, who returned from injury about October. |
| 0:45.5 | He played in the Giants game on special teams, and then he made his first start of the year |
| 0:49.5 | against the Minnesota Vikings, and he started to play very well. It didn't take long for him to |
| 0:55.4 | round back into form, but it was his emergence that relegated rookie Jihad Campbell to the backburn. |
| 1:04.9 | And that was to no fault of Jihad Campbell. I thought the rookie linebacker did a nice job |
| 1:10.0 | early on in the season. He's athletic. He's |
| 1:13.7 | lengthy. He could make plays sideline to sideline. Yeah, sure. There were some blips on the radar, |
| 1:20.7 | and he wasn't perfect, but he was in the running for a defensive rookie of the year. And I think |
| 1:26.6 | his game against the Buccaneers indicates the kind of player that he is. |
| 1:30.1 | He got beat on a play. I think it was a wheel route, and then he makes a big-time interception off Baker-Mayfield in the end zone, I believe. |
| 1:38.6 | If I'm remembering this, this is back in September. |
| 1:41.0 | But there are other instances that, to me, indicated that he's a big-time |
| 1:46.0 | player and he's ready to make an impact on the defense as a starter. Then you had |
| 1:52.4 | Smile Mondant. Smile Mondin was a rookie out of Georgia, and he really played on special teams, |
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