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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily/Positional Preview: Nolan Smith Becomes "Headliner" Of EDGE Group

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis. #philadelphiaeagles #eagles #flyeaglesfly #nolansmith #vicfangio #azeezojulari #jalyxhunt #joshuche 


He continues his positional preview podcast series with a look at the team's EDGE group, now headlined by Nolan Smith Jr.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:10.1

This is Andrew DeCecho with another edition of DeCecho Daily, and the position

0:14.6

preview series continues on with defensive ends, edge rushers, OLBs, whatever you want to call them.

0:23.0

I separate the defensive line with the edge rushers.

0:27.6

And the Eagles have an interesting contingent of edge rushers this year, much like I mentioned,

0:33.8

the interior defensive line.

0:36.6

But it's really top-heavy, and there are some questions

0:40.2

that I have, but we'll look at the top two players first, and that's going to be Nolan Smith,

0:45.5

Jr., who's entering his third season. If you look at the way that he finished last season,

0:50.8

four sacks in the postseason, plays with aggression and violence, and those had to set the edge.

0:57.8

He added some weight last off season, and you can see how much it affected him.

1:02.9

He is a budding leader on this defense, and somebody who has continuously gotten better, the more that he's played.

1:10.4

He only played 16% of the snaps as a rookie, really elevated last year and became somebody who Vic Fangio could obviously trust.

1:19.8

And now he's going to be the headliner of that edge rusher group and a budding leader, as I mentioned.

1:25.5

Taurus tricep in the Super Bowl is recovering from that,

1:29.8

and should be full go for training camp.

1:33.1

We'll have to wait and see if there are any limitations or what have you.

1:37.6

But we'll learn all that later this month.

1:40.7

And I think that he's going to have a double-digit sack season.

1:44.4

When you look at the way that he plays the game and how much he's grown in terms of having

1:49.2

a plan with his pass rush, being a two-way player physical against the run, he's not somebody

1:56.2

that the Eagles are probably going to want to take off the field.

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