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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: My Too-Early 53-Man Roster Projection, Part 1

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis. #eagles #flyeaglesfly #philadelphiaeagles #53manroster

In this episode, he starts his 2-part "53-man roster projection" podcast by projecting the initial 53 on offense.


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on, everybody.

0:11.8

Andrew DeCechko here.

0:13.1

You're listening to DeCecho Daily.

0:15.2

And today, we take a look at my first of three 53-man roster projections. Now, today I'm just going to do the

0:22.5

offense. Tomorrow I will put out a podcast where I go through the defense, and this will be one of

0:30.1

three projections that I do throughout the offseason, the first of which, and those of you following

0:36.3

me already know this, happens right around

0:38.2

rookie minicamp and OTAs. The next one will be released right before training camp, and then

0:42.8

the final one, of course, is right around cut down, and that's where me and all the other beatwriters,

0:49.2

we do our 53s, and then we grade them and see how we fare amongst each other. For those who don't know, in 2023, I won last year was not the case.

0:58.7

I was the runner-up.

1:00.1

The winner was E.J. Smith of the Philadelphia Inquirer, but I hope to take back the crown this year.

1:05.0

But obviously, this is called the way too early 53-man roster projection for a reason.

1:11.6

And, you know, there's some interesting names that I have here on offense, but we're going

1:16.0

to start to go through it.

1:16.9

And as you all know, I don't just throw names out there.

1:19.4

I have reasoning.

1:20.6

I use logic.

1:21.9

I talk to people.

1:23.5

Obviously, that's more, that becomes more of a factor when I get down to the final 53,

1:28.5

but right now we haven't seen any of these players, a lot of the younger players,

1:33.2

really take competitive snaps.

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