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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: How Jaelan Phillips Will Impact Eagles Defense

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Football, Sports

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights from covering the Eagles on a daily basis.

In this episode, he goes into the Eagles' trade for Dolphins EDGE Jaelan Phillips, and how the addition will impact Vic Fangio's defense.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on, everybody?

0:10.7

Welcome in to another edition of DeCecho Daily.

0:13.7

It's Andrew DeCechko here from Inside thebirds.com.

0:17.7

And the Eagles, Monday morning around 7.30, struck another trade with the Miami Dolphins.

0:23.5

The Dolphins trade edge rusher Jalen Phillips to the Eagles in exchange for a 2026 third round pick.

0:31.9

And for those wondering, that's the Eagles original third round pick.

0:37.9

So Jalen Phillips, he's played nine games this season,

0:43.1

seven quarterback hits, three sacks,

0:47.5

and the big hiccup with him throughout his career

0:51.0

and even dating back to college at UCLA and Miami has been injuries.

0:55.4

And in 2023, he played for Vic Van Gio and he suffered an Achilles tear.

1:00.3

But in the eight games that he played for Vic Van Gio, he had six and a half sacks and 27 pressures.

1:07.1

Remarkably productive, has a good relationship with Vic.

1:10.1

And now he gives the Eagles a 26-year-old pass rusher with upside, 6'5-263.

1:18.2

You like the size there.

1:19.9

And they finally have a headliner who can compliment what the Eagles already have with Jailix Hunt,

1:26.6

Nolan Smith, Brandon Graham, who is joining the team

1:29.8

shortly, Josh Ushay, and Patrick Johnson, let's not forget Azizoshares on injured

1:36.7

reserve with a hamstring injury. So they have sort of a crowded house there, but I think that

1:42.4

they've done a really good job of piecing it together

1:44.8

where a lot of the players who they've been really reliant on, like a J-Lux Hunt, can now slot

1:51.6

into sort of a reduced role, which I think is going to help him from a production standpoint.

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