Speaker 1: Today is what is he Well, obviously I'm I can't speculate.
Speaker 1: It's an ongoing investigation. UM, just like Nelson's situation a
Speaker 1: few weeks back. But I did have a great conversation
Speaker 1: with him last night, UM, laid out my expectations for him.
Speaker 1: You know, again, those are private conversations. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get into a bunch of detail on that. But UM,
Speaker 1: he's um obviously, uh, you know, humbled by it, and
Speaker 1: he understands, uh, you know, the situation, the magnitude. But
Speaker 1: you know, until we get further details from the authorities, UM,
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't speculate any further. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: decision that done. Say that again. Why had the decision
Speaker 1: to allow him to practice? Well right now until we
Speaker 1: get further information from the authorities in South Florida and
Speaker 1: with dom and and the people here, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just felt like it, you know, just let him,
Speaker 1: don't punish him from being here, uh, and just let him,
Speaker 1: let him practice, let him report, let him go through physicals,
Speaker 1: conditioning test, all of that, and and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens in for days. They need to talk to Nigel
Speaker 1: Nelson King's charge. You and Nelson was at the end
Speaker 1: of OTAs and they were kind of scattered at that point.
Speaker 1: Nigel was actually flying back into town and actually was
Speaker 1: I was here in the building last night. So it
Speaker 1: just worked out that that we could get together. Have
Speaker 1: you ever gotten a team together and kind of outline
Speaker 1: your expectations for them off the field, and now, how
Speaker 1: do you feel I needed to do that after a lot, No,
Speaker 1: I I to ask you, qu yes I have I
Speaker 1: You know I did it back in April my first
Speaker 1: team meeting with them. You always lay out your expectations
Speaker 1: what to expect on the football field and off the
Speaker 1: football field, and and you got to make smart, smart,
Speaker 1: smart decisions. You know that we're in a we're in
Speaker 1: a high profile business, and being in this city of Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: things get magnified a little bit, and and you just
Speaker 1: got to be smart and careful and make good choices.
Speaker 1: And then uh, obviously we all suffer her and and
Speaker 1: uh from our from ourtual bad choices, bad decisions, the
Speaker 1: consequences of that. And UM, I addressed the team quite
Speaker 1: often actually on making making those I addressed the rookies
Speaker 1: just the other night. So um, and then tonight's meeting
Speaker 1: we'll have the same same similar message personally, or do
Speaker 1: you wait to the league and you know, obviously it's
Speaker 1: case by case. I mean, I think it just depends
Speaker 1: on the severity. If it's um, you know, until I
Speaker 1: can get all the information and us here at the
Speaker 1: Eagles can get all the information, then we will make it.
Speaker 1: We'll make a decision at that point. But up until
Speaker 1: that point, we'll we'll continue to play football and move
Speaker 1: forwards kids in the draft. If you had all the
Speaker 1: killing issues, you've now had two players at the end
Speaker 1: the camp and now to the the gig at camp, what
Speaker 1: is your philosophy on signing bringing guys in here that
Speaker 1: baby had checker passes? Well, again, those are those are
Speaker 1: things you you research before signing those guys. And then
Speaker 1: you know a lot of a lot of places are different,
Speaker 1: different cultures, different cities, uh, different organizations. I just know
Speaker 1: this that when they come to the Philadelphia Eagles, there's
Speaker 1: an expectation level that needs to be upheld. And then
Speaker 1: it starts with me and and uh, I have to
Speaker 1: be very clear, uh from from where I stand with
Speaker 1: the players and and and the coaches for that matter,
Speaker 1: and and make sure they understand again once they leave
Speaker 1: the facility. Um, you know, they're they're citizens, but at
Speaker 1: the same time they understand that they the players represent
Speaker 1: their families, the Philadelphia Eagles and the entire organization. Situation
Speaker 1: at all, not at all, not at all. No, Travis
Speaker 1: has a situation here where, you know, giving him an
Speaker 1: opportunity now to to uh um catch on with another
Speaker 1: football team. It's you know, obviously sometimes it comes down
Speaker 1: to the numbers and roster spots and and he's he's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy, ready to go, and and it
Speaker 1: just felt like now's the time, you know, with this
Speaker 1: decision to allow him to catch on with another football
Speaker 1: teams possibility, and Nigel gets released because it is I
Speaker 1: don't I don't foresee anything like that. No, you would
Speaker 1: interested in what was your level of interest there? Is
Speaker 1: that a positional group they look at to Um, there
Speaker 1: was a little interest there. We're always you know, with
Speaker 1: Howie and Joe and the guys. I mean, we're continuing
Speaker 1: to always, uh see about upgrading every position, and uh
Speaker 1: he was He's on the list obviously, and UM it's
Speaker 1: basically that's where where it's at. You know, it's it's, um,
Speaker 1: nothing's gone forward with that. UM, we're monitoring every every roster,
Speaker 1: every free agent that's out there. And if we can,
Speaker 1: you know, help our team somehow, some way, we'll do it.
Speaker 1: But right now, right now, there's nothing, nothing in the works.
Speaker 1: It's like you change how you call play, it will
Speaker 1: be directed. If that's the direction I go, then yes
Speaker 1: I will. I'll have the I'll have the third channel
Speaker 1: where I can communicate with the quarterbacks. UM. That's something
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of molling over just a little bit
Speaker 1: besides my game day duties. UM, still calling the plays,
Speaker 1: but whether I go through Frank to call it to
Speaker 1: the quarterback or if I go directed to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: UM on that part of it. Because there's other I
Speaker 1: mean with the game management situations and time management and
Speaker 1: just managing your roster and the trainers and substitutions and everything. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot involved. But I'm still working through that.
Speaker 1: But UM, we'll see where that ends up. You know,
Speaker 1: I tell you, you know, technology is like you can't
Speaker 1: stay up fast enough with it, you know, And and uh,
Speaker 1: those are great devices to have. In fact, we use
Speaker 1: them in Kansas City with the quarterbacks. We've had them
Speaker 1: on their helmets before gives you an opportunity to kind
Speaker 1: of see from the player's advantage point where they're looking,
Speaker 1: where their eyes are, Are they in the right direction,
Speaker 1: are they on the right reads you know and defensively
Speaker 1: or in the right spots? Um, and and then and
Speaker 1: then you know you can you can evaluate um and
Speaker 1: help correct the player. I know it's great with quarterbacks
Speaker 1: because you definitely get a you get that perspective on
Speaker 1: where where he's looking and if he's looking. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: you can't tell who he's looking at, but you can
Speaker 1: tell the direction of where they're looking. And and um,
Speaker 1: you get great feedback with with that kind of technology,
Speaker 1: I think. So we'll take a look at the tape
Speaker 1: here today and and and and see how a lot
Speaker 1: of times with I know this with my experience at
Speaker 1: helmet camp, sometimes they can get real jumpy because the
Speaker 1: players moving and he's a high high rate of speed,
Speaker 1: and so he can get kind of jumpy and a
Speaker 1: little nauseating at times. But um, if it looks like
Speaker 1: it's a tool that we can use and help develop
Speaker 1: young players, I'm all for for that kind of technology. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what for meting ready training? I'll tell you this, this
Speaker 1: this schedule that we're gonna about to partake for training camp.
Speaker 1: Took this team to any NFC championship game, that took
Speaker 1: him to the Super Bowl, has won a ton of games.
Speaker 1: So my feeling on it. I went through it as
Speaker 1: a player in Green Bay with Mike Holmgren, I went
Speaker 1: through it with as a player with Coachree in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, and then obviously back a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So this schedule has proven. Um, it's very hum with
Speaker 1: the rules now, with the practice in one time a
Speaker 1: day and and all of that, it allows the players
Speaker 1: to get plenty of rest in the afternoon. Um, so
Speaker 1: there won't be much won't be much change. The only
Speaker 1: thing I'll do, probably a little different, is about every
Speaker 1: third or fourth day, go ahead and take the pads
Speaker 1: off and give them players will break it at that time.
Speaker 1: It's good, you know, it's good. I love I love
Speaker 1: the fact that, uh, you know, we got the three
Speaker 1: three starters coming in. Of course, you know we mentioned
Speaker 1: Nigel and Jordan Higgs is coming back healthy and ready
Speaker 1: to go, and Michael Kendricks, and then I'll tell you
Speaker 1: Joe Walker has done a great job for us this
Speaker 1: offseason and he's gonna put himself in a position to
Speaker 1: be a solid backup and and then we got some
Speaker 1: young guys there. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to monitor that position and just
Speaker 1: watch and see and and keep upgrading if we can.
Speaker 1: But right now, very pleased with the with the work
Speaker 1: that uh these guys have done in the offseason, what
Speaker 1: the rookies have shown of these last three days, and
Speaker 1: just look forward to putting the pads on being the
Speaker 1: only veteran backup and that position. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: had to go into the season that way, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with him. You know, Um, would you like
Speaker 1: to continue to have more depth at that position and
Speaker 1: in any position? Sure, but uh yeah, I'm very comfortable
Speaker 1: with him go into a linebacker. There's a chance, there's
Speaker 1: a chance that could go to that spot. Yes, back
Speaker 1: to the video when you were a player, did you
Speaker 1: ever when you were watching team do you ever we
Speaker 1: wish you to see a play from a certain perspective
Speaker 1: that guys now have and you have the helmet, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, because we always had just the you know,
Speaker 1: the tower cameras and the sideline cameras. We just had
Speaker 1: two angles. But now you can get all the way
Speaker 1: down to eye level. And uh, you know, with all
Speaker 1: the uh you know, the the three D and the
Speaker 1: high definition and uh you know cameras at for seven
Speaker 1: on sevens you can put right over the football and
Speaker 1: you can see a you know, a panoramic view. That's
Speaker 1: really changed how you can study, study defenses and study tape.
Speaker 1: So you know, Um, the thing is too with technology
Speaker 1: if it helps you win football games. I'm all four days.
Speaker 1: You know. I was excited when we drafted him. I
Speaker 1: was excited during rookie camp when we had him in here,
Speaker 1: uh the entire offseason program, and he came back ready
Speaker 1: to go in a great frame of mind, and and um,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna put himself in a position I'm
Speaker 1: hoping to help us this season. I think he's I
Speaker 1: think he's that good and um excellent route runner, good hands,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, patient runner. And I love the fact
Speaker 1: that he's he's kind of a one cut, no nonsense
Speaker 1: type guy. He's a downhill guy, but but fast enough
Speaker 1: to u separate and create some you know, create some
Speaker 1: long runs. So I'm decided again, once we get in't
Speaker 1: start getting into pads protection how well can he protect
Speaker 1: and and a lot of backs in college that come
Speaker 1: to this level. Um, that's something they've got to learn
Speaker 1: extremely fast. Lunch half, you see him right doing a
Speaker 1: great job, doing a great job. He's he's he's a
Speaker 1: physical guy. He moves well, he's sharp, he's learning Coach
Speaker 1: Swartz's system back there and and uh again he's he's
Speaker 1: put himself in a position to, um, you know, help
Speaker 1: us tremendously and and uh again once we you know,
Speaker 1: I love I love the work these guys do in
Speaker 1: they're in the shorts and helmets. But again sometimes and
Speaker 1: once you get the pads on, it becomes a different uh,
Speaker 1: a different animal. And um, you know two, once we
Speaker 1: get into camp a week or so and the volume
Speaker 1: starts to increase just a little bit, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see exactly where these kids are. But right now, Love Love,
Speaker 1: where he's at. Love is uh uh his attention to detail,
Speaker 1: his aggression and uh he's making plays climates marve mornings
Speaker 1: and English prot everyone in the morn morning. There will
Speaker 1: be a conditioning testament just past fail. Yeah, what we've
Speaker 1: done done in the past is uh um here now
Speaker 1: it's different than what I've done in the past. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just a set of two different sets of ten
Speaker 1: sprints for time, and um it's different different lengths. It's
Speaker 1: like forty fifty sixty you know, big guys, middleweights, lightweights
Speaker 1: type thing, and uh, it's all time and it's just
Speaker 1: a past fail. Just see where there at and see
Speaker 1: what they've done for the last six weeks. John Boston
Speaker 1: TV he's been doing America's Got Talented Hoods until it
Speaker 1: was separate tic love it, love it. You guys watch
Speaker 1: it last Did you see it last night? Dude's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: What was on last night? You canvention America's Got Talent
Speaker 1: man John norbas one of our own. Um no, I
Speaker 1: tell you what he uh gosh pulling for him. He
Speaker 1: represents us the organization, um this city, Um, you know
Speaker 1: on that show like like a professional. And obviously his
Speaker 1: talent is something. I think that Um when football is
Speaker 1: said and done for him, I think he's definitely got
Speaker 1: a career and in in Las Vegas or Atlantic City
Speaker 1: or wherever. But um, yeah, I'm pulling for him and
Speaker 1: excited for for where he can go. Are you going
Speaker 1: to have to make some great you know, he's not
Speaker 1: not gonna be here today exact there's more coming up.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have to kind of give him time?
Speaker 1: We just gotta see. I mean, obviously he went through
Speaker 1: this show and and uh he'll be he'll be back
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the conditioning test and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll just go day by day and just see see
Speaker 1: where it ends up, you know, um in the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. All right, Thanks guys, Raw Steam Draw