News Today Eagles: FIRST TAKE – ‘Dak is HUGE threat to Eagles in NFC’ – Stephen A.- Cowboys could
and let’s start with the Dallas Cowboys relatively quiet off seon at least by Cowboy standards they brought back Zeke Elliott after Tony PD’s departure to Tennessee they signed All Pro linebacker Eric Kendricks uh they lost some o line vets took in three offensive linemen in the draft to address a void but again lose some experience there plenty of eyes when Dallas opens up the season on Sunday afternoon in Cleveland against the Browns good luck if those rookies are playing against number 9 miles Garrett I’ll take Cleveland they’ll be just as much attention on the broadcast Booth as future Hall of Famer Tom Brady will make his TV analist debut at 425 Eastern over on Fox week eight will be fun Cowboys going west to face the ners Dallas has faced Sam Fran and two of the last three playoffs by the way both of them were losses and what about Eagles Cowboys one of the best rivalries in the game returning in week 10 at Dallas and then week 17 in beautiful South Philadelphia one of the them has claimed the NFC e title in each of the last three seasons the last one to do it is Dallas so will we see a repeat we haven’t seen in that division in two decades Marcus as we take a look at Dallas’s schedule what are your expectations for this team who’ve been very quiet this off season I’m praying to God that they surprise me cuz the expectations are low I’m going to be honest man like this is not Grim I don’t think Dallas is going to be a bottom tier team when we look at the league overall but when you look at the beginning of this schedule against the Cleveland Browns we know what that defense is and if you in the business of not having a lot of Firepower on that side of the football honestly coming back for the Dallas Cowboys this year offensively two guys that hope one guy we know in CD lamb that you can depend on who else Jake Ferguson emerged last year had some really good games and I think he is going to be a model of consistency tight end wise going forward but you play the Cleveland Browns week three you play the B more Ravens the Giants obviously is a should be a tough out defensively Steelers lions in the first six weeks of the Season look at that week five through week 11 stretch and and let’s not like so I don’t so let’s already get this going for the Cowboy fans let me let me I’m not going to temper expectations cuz y’all don’t listen and I love y’all to death I live amongst you but y’all going to think we going to the playoffs and we going to shock people and we we going to have a chance to make a run that’s what they the fan base the fan base they here I don’t because this is not a business where you H you have to have talent and when you think about the team and and that’s what I keep trying to explain when you think about Dallas let’s focus on not making moves that’s fine I focus on teams that make moves and the teams that made moves over the last three to four years in this league it’s proved to pay heavy dividends for them and having success so I haven’t seen a formula yet where you can let Talent exit get none and expect to have success no team has done it that we’ve watched playing the Super Bowl over the last five years as much as you can do we think there’s a chance week one happens and CD lamb is not playing no he’ll be playing I was about to say you think he’ll be playing the CBA is set up that a player cannot sit out whether or not they have a deal CD lamb is playing week one whether or not he has a new contract isn’t the bigger story Dak Prescott’s contract if they don’t start off no no no I get that he’ll play It’s the pressure in the conversation getting Tighter and Tighter around everybody I don’t think there’s any pressure on Dak pres I think all the pressure in the world on Dallas okay what do you mean by that bro if go ahead what Chef this is how jury likes it he likes to put everybody’s back to the wall Mike McCarthy is in the last year of his deal Dak Prescott in the last year of his deal we’re waiting for Parsons and CD lamb to be paid th this this is the first time I think cuz see your point Chef you make a great point this is the first time where I feel like Dak Prescott back ain’t against the wall he just watched Kurt Cousins get a $100 million guaranteed from the Atlanta so you’re saying he I got you I got you the value of him on the free market yeah like let’s let’s so and he’s going to make 50 this year 55 million so let’s not get ourselves into thinking Dak Prescott has some instrum mountable amount of pressure we’ve seen other quarterbacks get paid off of Bad seasons and off injury mhm he’s going to get paid regardless of wor mental pressure I am worried about the literal pressure on Prescott and we talked about week one we’re potentially two rookies starting on this offensive line we’ll see if Tyler gon and Cooper BB start I’m also looking at week three and four you got Justin matab Dexter Lawrence arguably two of the five or six best defensive tackles in the NFL gr let’s start with the good who got it good yesterday Dallas Cowboys I know everybody thinks the Cowboys are going to stink cuz they didn’t sign any free agents but if they can somehow manage their way through the first half of the season the second half sets up great six of their last nine games are at home that stretch of nine games includes both of their games against the commanders one of their games against the Giants uh looks like a soft finish to the season for the Dallas Cowboys again assuming they get through the first half of it okay all right we’re always going to take a you know we’re always looking at the Cowboys here do you think so so many people writing them off do you think that bodess well for them does that I mean the first thing is they could be out of the playoff discussion by the time we get to the last few games and in some of those home games you have the Philadelphia Eagles you have the Cincinnati Bengals and the Houston Texans who we expect to be one of the best teams in the entire NFL and so we have to look at what the Dallas Cowboys didn’t do this off season and the way that other teams improve it’s not just about playing teams at home it’s about playing teams at home home that you’re good enough to beat and we don’t know if the Dallas Cowboys are that very quickly Cowboys better or worse than they were a year ago me listen right now I think they’re a worse team yeah I think they listen they got to replace a couple pieces on the offensive line who’s who’s who’s playing running back and then defense on defense can they stop the run they didn’t they haven’t shown this team this team won the East last year they are not going to win the East this year that’s a worst team and they proba won’t make the playoffs if you ask me and Graziano knows that no one ever repeats in that division exactly I I’ve missed that Dan I haven’t seen you in two weeks I haven’t heard anyone say it let so they got the good the bad the ugly Graziano who who got that was the good who’s the bad who got it bad uh the Miami Dolphins got a tough break at the beginning if you’re the Dolphins you want people coming to your place and playing in the heat in September when it’s still hot down there and it’s not hot elsewhere in their first seven games they only have one home afternoon Day game and it’s against the Jaguars who also play in the heat they play it home against the bills in week two that’s a night game home against the Titans in week four that’s a night game they don’t have a second home afternoon game until week eight against the Cardinals that’s October 27th yeah it might still be hot in Florida at that point but a the Cardinals also play in the Heat and B uh it starts to get a little bit nicer in South Florida around that time of year you played in that division dwood how real is that real actor oh it’s real it’s real like even though you’re coming off training camp there’s nothing like that humidity down in South Beach I remember they used to have the the AC blasting when you in the locker you go out there on the field you’re you’re literally m so for them to not have those home games early that is that’s a big deal for them I mean let’s be real the worst part to me was as soon as you put your lotion on after the shower to go to the game you was sweating through your sweat that’s exactly what that humidity does and so when you think about some of these teams that don’t play in that heat that don’t play in that humidity not only is it a factor during the game it’s something that you talk about all week they tell you about hydration they tell you about rest they tell you about nutrition it’s kind of like Denver it absolutely plays into the way the entire week goes absolutely and they also got uh Road games in the Northeast late in their season including finishing up at the Jets two is great when it’s cold right well I mean generally he hasn’t been although he he he hasn’t been all right gr that was the good and the bad what was the ugly the Steelers the Steelers second half is brutal all six of their division games are in the last eight weeks of the season and the the two that aren’t are at Philadelphia and home to Kansas City they have three short weeks over the second half of the Season uh they’re play look you look at this they at Cleveland four days after playing uh Baltimore they got a short week there to go at Baltimore and then they got another short week to play on Christmas against the Chiefs this is going to be a real test of Mike tomlin’s ability to Lug the team into the playoffs as he seems to be able to do every December GRE I’m going to make this real plain and and RC knows this just start from week 11 on we week 11 on it is literally a gauntlet for the Pittsburgh Steelers like they playing every every team from week 11 on is like a playoff team it is it’s going to be a challenge for the Steelers what did they do to deserve this R who made who made this schedule unfair somebody at Park Avenue they really hating on the Steelers what dude from Cleveland all of a sudden got a job in the league office to think that you have to play the Ravens twice the Bengals the the Cleveland Browns and then the Eagles and the Chiefs right a team that’s that won the Super Bowl two years in a row a team that was in the Super Bowl a year before you have to play those teams to finish the season when the end of the season is where we’ve seen the Steelers find ways to compete it’s the beginning of the season when they suck right coach Tomlin says coach Tomlin has a saying I try to make things as uncomfortable as possible guess what my dog you ain’t got a try hard this year because the NFL did it for you and when you look at the it’s always about okay what are our Prime Time games after I figure out what our Prime Time games are I want to know what teams do I play late in the season first because it’ be cold as hell in in in the AFC North secondly you want to see how good those teams are and when you look at this schedule you normally go down the list and you go win even win you never say lost when you’re in Pittsburgh because we don’t expect that green we got the New York Jets and then but when they get to the end of this season there are going to be some question marks in the heads of these guys leading up to that schedule and so the pressure is going to be on this team early in the season when you’re still trying to find out who you’re starting quarterback is this is a very difficult thing for Coach Tomlin and this could be a decision after the a conversation after the season if he continues coaching there say that again well I did this the last time I know and America got mad at me and said I was telling coach Tomlin he should be fired coach Tomlin is not going to be fired there’s still a love affair and his voice resonates so loud in that locker room I trained a guy and he came to me and he said man I never knew what it was like to play for Coach Tomlin until I played for Coach Tomlin everything he says to us on Wednesday happens everything he says about the way they’re going to attack us happens and when we do what he says we win but it’s going to be difficult to do that and it’s going to be a team that’s based on winning Lombardi trophies that hasn’t won a Lombardi trophy since Ryan Clark was actually hitting people in the mouth and so when you think about this team is Omar Khan and Mike Tomlin going to have to have a conversation when the season end if they are in a playoff team listen we always talk about Thanksgiving you want to be playing your best ball right yeah well damn it you better be playing your best ball because this schedule right here woo a reunion Roundup is our next stop week five Josh Allen and the bills will see their old teammate Stefon Diggs and the Texans dwood who’s closer to a championship right now Diggs or Allen I’m going with Buffalo I I know everyone’s quick to write off Buffalo’s demise but listen when you have 17 you’re always in your championship window I know they’re retooling on the back end of their defense but guess what they’re getting back the best player on their defense um from last year Matt Milano I think the Buffalo Bills going to be they’re going to be contending no matter what you agree with that Buffalo closer than Houston I I do cuz they’ve been building on this for a while I think you know the coaching staff has shown an ability to manage its way through adversity in the season you know Houston obviously is a lot to love there uh if the quarterback continues to do what he did last year that they should be great but progress isn’t always you know unbroken so I think Buffalo has been at this a little longer I’ll give them the egg I like it that’s probably contrary to the conventional wisdom RC let me give you a different one week 14 Kurt Cousins and the Falcons will travel to face his old team Minnesota here’s the question will cousins still be the starter in Atlanta by then absolutely if Kurt Cousins is upright he’s going to be the starter I know that the Atlanta Falcons threw us all off by drafting Michael pennick Jr at number eight but to them that was a pick that they made for the future look back at what Kurt Cousins was able to do in a short time last year his team was off to an 0 and3 start he steadied the ship and was playing Amazing football before that Achilles injury and I expect some of the Jaylen Herz targeted Paris Campbell frequently in first otaa session originally posted on a toz sports by Kelsey Kramer last updated May 26th 24 the Philadelphia Eagles are actively seeking their third wide receiver and although it’s still early days veteran Paris Campbell is emerging as a strong Contender according to chase senior of chat sports quarterback jayen hurts frequently targeted Campbell especially from the slot during the initial otaa session last week updates and insights from Eagles OTAs notable absentees devont Smith Lane Johnson Josh sweat James Bradberry Jake Elliot Ki Ringo following Devante Parker’s retirement the slot position for W3 was primarily occupied by Paris Campbell this session highlighted Campbell’s involvement as he took numerous reps from the slot position OTAs are optional but new players particularly those vying for roster spots are expected to attend to familiarize themselves with the team Campbell reunited with Nick serani in free agency Campbell’s addition to the Eagles reunites him with head coach Nick serani who was the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts when Campbell was drafted in the second round in 2019 unfortunately injuries hindered Campbell’s first three seasons he achieved a breakthrough in 2022 with 63 receptions for 632 yards and three touchdowns Campbell then joined the New York Giants in free agency managing only 20 catches for 104 yards across 12 games in 2023 in his 44 career games Campbell has amassed 117 receptions for 1,087 yards and five touchdowns along with 11 carries for 108 rushing yards the reunion with serani and the opportunity to work with an elite quarterback like Herz could help Campbell reach New Heights potentially matching or surpassing his 2022 performance ultimately campell’s success in 2024 will hinge on maintaining his health and Performing consistently throughout the offseason he faces competition for the wr3 spot from Britain cvy and rookies inia Smith and Johnny Wilson as an Ardent Eagles fan this news about Paris Campbell is absolutely exhilarating see Campbell get significant attention from Jaylen Herz during the first otaa session is a promising sign for our receiving core his familiarity with Nick sani’s offensive schemes dating back to their time with the Colts gives him a unique Advantage serani clearly sees untapped potential in Campbell and this reunion could be the Catalyst for a breakout season Campbell’s Speed and Agility combined with his recent physical transformation make him a tantal izing Prospect for the wr3 spot his 2022 season with the Colts where he notched 63 catches for 632 yards demonstrated his capability when healthy this reunion with serani and the chance to play alongside an elite quarterback like Jaylen Herz might just unlock another level in his game the absence of key players like devont Smith and laye Johnson during OTAs while voluntary has given Campbell an opportunity to shine and build chemistry with Herz his performance in these early sessions is crucial especially considering the competition he faces from Britain cvy and promising rookies inia Smith and Johnny Wilson Campbell’s history of injuries is a concern but his ability to stay healthy and deliver consistent performances could make him a vital asset to our offense the prospect of him reclaiming and even surpassing his career best form from 2022 is exciting his versatility and experience bring a different Dynamic to our wide receiver Group which could be the missing piece to elevate our passing game it’s not just about filling the wr3 spot it’s about adding a player who can make impactful plays and keep defenses on their toes Campbell’s blend of speed size and familiarity with the Playbook makes him an intriguing option and I can’t wait to see how he develops throughout the offseason overall Campbell’s potential Resurgence with the Eagles under sani’s guidance is a storyline to watch closely it’s thrilling to think about the possibilities and the added depth he brings to our already potent offense if he can stay healthy and continue to build rapport with Herz the sky is the limit for what he can achieve this season Fly Eagles Fly for for for Fore spee for [Music] for for
News Today Eagles: FIRST TAKE – ‘Dak is HUGE threat to Eagles in NFC’ – Stephen A.- Cowboys could
