Everybody, welcome in to this edition of DeCheco Daily.

I am Andrew DeCheco, and I hope everyone is enjoying our position preview series on the Inside the Birds platform.

On Monday, we took a look at the interior defensive line

on tuesday we talked about the edge rusher group and then on wednesday of course yesterday

we really delved into the linebacker room but today and those who followed along with my coverage

over the years you already know that i love to evaluate defensive backs and talk about them.

And we're going to right now, and that is the safety room that we're going to sort of really chronicle here.

And they have a number of different players that I find to be intriguing and some that I think could

fulfill certain roles on this Eagles team but let's first talk about Reed Blankenship who

headlines this group tremendous story of development join the Eagles in 2020 as a rookie

free agent flashed in the preseason, earned all of his

opportunities that he's gotten, and he's become one of the best safeties in the NFL.

I don't think that he gets the proper respect or recognition around the NFL or even locally

to a degree, but there's a lot of things that he does well. Obviously, he's tough, he's a

Simon sound, but what isn't discussed and what is hard to measure in the box score is his

football intelligence and what he brings from an acumen standpoint like that. And he plays such a pivotal

role, at least last season he did. So did

C.J. Gardner Johnson, by the way, in helping on the field, Cooper DeGine and Quinion

Mitchell, two rookie corners. So a lot of what he had to do, I don't think, is really taken into

account. But he's productive. He finds the football.

A lot of his interceptions tend to look the same. But this year, the big question is, how will

he fare when he doesn't have C.J. Gardner Johnson playing beside him? We saw the best of read

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