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I'm totally with you on all three. The Eagles D has gone through more major changes than any other D in the league. The platoon of safeties will offer them a similar skill set to Dawkins (albeit via 2-3 players instead of one) and Bradley can be replaced by Gaither (similar POA win totals for those two last year) but their margin for error is much thinner now than it was last year.

"You look at the family tree, so to speak, that he's put out there, and there's a reason why we've been so successful, it doesn't all come back to us. Jim has imparted a tremendous amount of knowledge on his assistants, and there's a reason why we've all been successful up to this point in our careers.""

""It was interesting last night we got the word right before we had meetings, and by the time I got out of the meetings, I had messages from all those 'brothers' that we have if you will. John Harbaugh, Steve Spagnuolo, everyone was checking on everyone else to make sure everyone was doing ok, and that's the way Jim would have wanted it.""

""He demanded excellence, and that's what you want,"" said McDermott.