The DiCecco Daily: What I learned From Eagles Locker Room Access Leading Into Opener
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In this episode, he gives a comprehensive update on everything going on with the Eagles as they get ready for Thursday's opener vs. Dallas, including details he picked up from locker room access.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening in Eagles fans? Welcome into another edition of the Checo Daily. |
| 0:14.1 | It's Andrew DeCecho, and we are days away from the Eagles season opener. |
| 0:18.6 | You can hear the excitement in my voice. |
| 0:20.7 | Regular season football is right around the corner, which. You can hear the excitement in my voice. Regular season football |
| 0:21.9 | is right around the corner, which means that will be the banner unveiling for the Eagles, |
| 0:26.8 | although today Nick Siriani mentioned that the Eagles won't be out there for that, |
| 0:32.2 | but they also weren't out there for the 2018 unveiling either for a perspective. |
| 0:38.3 | But let's get right to the Tuesday injury report and then I kind of want to discuss some of the different things that I learned over the past three days at the NovaCare complex talking to different players. |
| 0:48.3 | Not practicing on Tuesday, quarterback Tanner McKee. |
| 0:52.3 | He's still sidelined with the right thumb injury. |
| 0:55.3 | Full participants, defensive tackle Jalen Carter, shoulder, guard, Landon Dickerson, |
| 1:00.9 | back, safety, Drew McCuba, hamstring, outside linebacker Josh Ushay groin. |
| 1:07.6 | So obviously, it wouldn't appear that Tanner McKee is going to be available Thursday evening. |
| 1:12.8 | Not really a surprise if you've been following along. |
| 1:16.1 | From my observations in practice, he was doing everything with his left hand, handing the |
| 1:20.6 | football off while the other quarterbacks were throwing and just being really cognizant |
| 1:25.1 | to not affect his right hand in any way. |
| 1:29.4 | And the further along we got, it just became more and more apparent that Tanner just wasn't going to be available. |
| 1:35.0 | And that really was the expected outcome even a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:39.3 | We'll see if it lingers a game or two, but it shouldn't have that much of an impact. |
| 1:44.9 | It shouldn't extend too much further into the season. |
| 1:48.5 | But without Tanner McKee, that now means that Sam Howell, who was acquired in that trade, of course, |
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