The Intel With Greg Cosell: Tape Evals On NFL Draft Off-Ball LB Prospects
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
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In this episode, Cosell gives his tape-based observations on NFL Draft EDGE prospects, including Jihaad Campbell, Carson Schwesinger, Barrett Carter, and many others.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to another Intel with Greg Kosell, presented, of course, by Inside the Birds. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Jeff Mosher alongside Adam Kaplan. |
| 0:15.1 | And with us to break down tape is Greg Kosell, and what he's breaking down the tape of as we continue our NFL draft prospect preview |
| 0:22.8 | series is stacked linebackers. These are inside linebackers that might play in a in a 5-2 front. |
| 0:30.6 | Or if you're playing a 4-3, they could be the middle of the weak side, the strong side linebackers. |
| 0:35.5 | Inside linebackers for the NFL draft. |
| 0:38.3 | Greg, this is an interesting position because, you know, when we talk about interior |
| 0:42.1 | defensive linemen, we talked about guys of all different types and shapes and |
| 0:47.3 | measurables and scheme specific. |
| 0:49.3 | But when you look at inside linebackers, specifically off the ball ones here, I feel like traits are more important than, say, size. |
| 1:00.1 | I mean, yeah, some of them come in different size and shapes, but some of them athletically test through the roof and others, maybe not as much. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, I mean, that's definitely true. |
| 1:09.0 | And I think so much, too, is scheme dependent. I mean, we went through a period, and maybe some still believe this, where this position is not really viewed as a premium position. And we know a lot of teams don't normally pay a lot of money for, quote, stacked backers. That seems to have changed a bit in recent years. We saw the bears give a lot of money for quote stacked backers. That seems to have changed a bit in recent years. |
| 1:30.0 | We saw the Bears give a lot of money to Tremaine Edmonds. |
| 1:33.1 | We just saw the Eagles resign Zach Bonn. |
| 1:36.1 | But I think it becomes scheme specific. |
| 1:38.9 | And for instance, talking about the Eagles, obviously Super Bowl champions, you know, |
| 1:43.1 | in Vic Fangio's defense, |
| 1:45.4 | and I've learned so much about it from talking to coaches and different people, that position |
| 1:51.3 | is really, really important in the way that, you know, everybody thinks, okay, they're run players. |
| 1:57.3 | That's not the case. Well, they are run players, obviously, but that's not the case only |
| 2:02.4 | in a Vic Fangio defense. And it's really, really critical that your stack backers have a real sense |
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