Speaker 1: He won't practice today. Just just rest him. Uh Leois
Speaker 1: Leodis McKelvin left hamstring as well. I will rest him today.
Speaker 1: And then uh Fletcher Cox with that uh left ankle.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and just hold him out of practice.
Speaker 1: He'll be fine for the game. All three of these
Speaker 1: actually will be fine for the game, but just want
Speaker 1: to give him extra extra rest today. Everybody else um
Speaker 1: Yo Greenbeckham, Benny Logan and uh Jalen Mills, Um, all
Speaker 1: those guys that were nicked in the game will will
Speaker 1: be full practice today because oh follow up, UM, I
Speaker 1: tell you he's he's worked extremely hard. He's another one
Speaker 1: of those kids that he's gone against our defensive front
Speaker 1: not only through training camp, but but uh practice against
Speaker 1: him every single day. Um. Smart kid, athletic kids, strong kid.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to watch him playoffs Sunday. You ready
Speaker 1: for this? He is ready, He is ready. Just what
Speaker 1: do you have to do? Do you have to change
Speaker 1: anything knowing that you have a rookie in his first start. No,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not changing game plan and any of that. Uh. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, as as you get into the football game,
Speaker 1: if you see that maybe a guy is needing some help.
Speaker 1: We can obviously help him with backs and tight ends
Speaker 1: like like most teams will do. But if if everything
Speaker 1: is is great and going to his plan, then then no,
Speaker 1: we just roll. Um. Obviously we can. You know, the
Speaker 1: run game helps guys like that, especially in their first start,
Speaker 1: So we lean a little bit more on that maybe,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, but it'll be monitored obviously, But
Speaker 1: but a full week of practice with him and he'll
Speaker 1: be fine. What are your parting words to Lane Johnson? Honestly, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to express through myself through
Speaker 1: stout just one you know, obviously disappointed, um, and we
Speaker 1: all are accountable for actions. Um. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, look forward to getting him back in the
Speaker 1: building in a few weeks. No contact, obviously, you can't
Speaker 1: be the facility. Will you have some sort of player
Speaker 1: in intermediary? Can't and can't. Everything's off limits, um. You know,
Speaker 1: there can't be any US coaches, front office, Eagles personnel
Speaker 1: outside of Chris Paduzi staying in touch with him medically,
Speaker 1: you know, with the injury from the game, UM, we
Speaker 1: are off limits. Um. Treatment for that Lane. Lane has
Speaker 1: decided to go back to Oklahoma and go back to
Speaker 1: the family and of course his school and and uh
Speaker 1: we've set up some some uh rehab through the university
Speaker 1: to get his elbow and to keep him, to keep him,
Speaker 1: uh you know healthy. When this all has the Lane Jo,
Speaker 1: is there any advice to team, know what the probable
Speaker 1: outcome is, want to get just set it out of
Speaker 1: the way so you can have him for the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Now you barely have him. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean no, I to answer your question, because we
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen. I mean, everything
Speaker 1: was speculated and there was no official ruling, so you know,
Speaker 1: our my job was we were going. We were going
Speaker 1: full steam ahead with Lane as right tackle. You know,
Speaker 1: until we got official word. You assume you always assumed
Speaker 1: the worst. Okay, But with that being the case, the
Speaker 1: whole outcome could be wouldn't you have wouldn't you have
Speaker 1: rather gotten out of the way or early then waiting
Speaker 1: then you can speculate that we're not three and one
Speaker 1: or we're oh and four. I mean, we can go
Speaker 1: a hundred different ways, you know. Here, Um, I was
Speaker 1: I was going. I was going as long as I could,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the speculation was out there, and
Speaker 1: I was going as long as I could with Lane
Speaker 1: as my right tackle. It's a long way off. I
Speaker 1: know it's a long way off. But is it his
Speaker 1: job at right tackle when he does come back or
Speaker 1: is that kind of wait and see? Well right now, Um,
Speaker 1: the timing of it is a little uh if he
Speaker 1: because it's the Thursday game of the Giants, So we
Speaker 1: just got to make a decision at that point, see
Speaker 1: where he is physically mentally, um, where we are as
Speaker 1: an offense at that point, Uh, to make that decision.
Speaker 1: So it's hard now sitting here to to say he's
Speaker 1: he's got his job back. But at the same time, UM,
Speaker 1: you know which I just won't speculate down that that
Speaker 1: that far as ten weeks away. Yeah, we have not. Um,
Speaker 1: the plan is too Uh. We're just gonna wait through
Speaker 1: this week and and and you know probably be later
Speaker 1: in the week before we make a move you've made
Speaker 1: Now it's more about wanting to keep Allen barb where
Speaker 1: he is of his position or that the Big V
Speaker 1: has really showed you something about which honestly it's both
Speaker 1: of those situations. UM. I felt like in discussing this
Speaker 1: with coach Stoutlin and and Frank Um. You know where
Speaker 1: Big V is right now in his in his um
Speaker 1: progression of the offense, and where he is as an athlete,
Speaker 1: felt very comfortable with him going over there and not
Speaker 1: moving Allan. Allan is playing playing well at left guard.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to disrupt two positions m and so that
Speaker 1: that's why I made the decision with Big V. Keep
Speaker 1: Allan over there with with JP and and then you
Speaker 1: still have Matt Tobin as your swing tackle. They can
Speaker 1: go left and right like we've had, you know, in
Speaker 1: these first four ball games, and somebody like friend Zelik
Speaker 1: at this point keeping maybe an extra tight end into
Speaker 1: block to helping be doub least away on him. You know,
Speaker 1: we take a look at all of that. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: there'll be times when tight ends will be there, running
Speaker 1: backs will be there. Um, you know, we'll slide that direction.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but uh, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: with Carson two. I mean, you know we're not going
Speaker 1: to take We're not going to just handcuff the kids
Speaker 1: so much that he can't play and use his natural
Speaker 1: god given you know, instincts and ability. So again, as
Speaker 1: something will monitor during the game more so than even
Speaker 1: during the week that he's e've actually got to flat
Speaker 1: over to left tackle. Ever, h are you serve going
Speaker 1: forward about him having a third offense and then being
Speaker 1: out even more than out? Well, ultimately, you know, with
Speaker 1: any player you're you're worried about that, I think, um,
Speaker 1: uh again, it's a you just keep talking to the
Speaker 1: players about those situations. And obviously the you know you
Speaker 1: you you do the best you can to educate the
Speaker 1: players on on on these these types of issues. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, but looking down the road, if if whenever
Speaker 1: Jp steps aside, if if Lane you know, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the thought processes he goes to left and
Speaker 1: big vs. Your right right side tackle. Um. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know though it's kind of I'm struggling with the question
Speaker 1: because you don't know. There's a lot of unknowns, you know,
Speaker 1: and and um, I think think you just gotta go
Speaker 1: into it still educating Lane and all your players on Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta be smart with what you put in your body,
Speaker 1: and uh, um, get it checked out. There's there's resources
Speaker 1: that players and coaches and and that we have available
Speaker 1: to us to check these things out before before we
Speaker 1: put them into our into our systems. So until we
Speaker 1: get to that point, you know, we just keep educating them.
Speaker 1: It's smart off stufflements and can he maintain that that
Speaker 1: kind of you know, wait, three pound plus without that?
Speaker 1: I can. Um, you know that's that's that's that's his body,
Speaker 1: that's his that's his chemistry, that's his mate. Everybody's different,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I'm not a dietitian or a nutritionist
Speaker 1: or anything like that obviously, UM, but I you know,
Speaker 1: there are ways to do it and to be smart
Speaker 1: with it. And because there's help of Lable, there's all
Speaker 1: the resources are we have a great sports science team,
Speaker 1: we have a great nutrition staff that can help keep
Speaker 1: players weights at certain levels that we require them to
Speaker 1: be at field. A bunch of package plays and they
Speaker 1: gave Carson the option to run. Looking back upon the film,
Speaker 1: how do you think that there's worked? And were some
Speaker 1: of Sprowles's big runs as a result of the threat
Speaker 1: that Carson has. Yeah, they were very successful. Um obviously
Speaker 1: gained gained a couple first downs by doing that. The
Speaker 1: ability to run you know, the inside zone with Carson
Speaker 1: um reading the defensive end end or linebackers depending on
Speaker 1: plays is something that we're going to continue to develop
Speaker 1: and continue to grow with. Again, we're still relatively early
Speaker 1: in the season, so I don't want to expose our
Speaker 1: quarterback necessarily to too many hits outside of the pocket
Speaker 1: that way, But we'll continue to explore it and keep
Speaker 1: utilizing those types of types of runs pretty crazy. But
Speaker 1: what's going into that, What's the number one thing is preparation. Honestly,
Speaker 1: we spend time on Wednesdays and Thursday mornings in BLITZ
Speaker 1: meetings with the quarterbacks, the offensive line, uh he and
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Obviously, all the quarterbacks are here at five
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning and they're they're looking at BLITZ
Speaker 1: tape and going through all the calls and rules and
Speaker 1: things that we have going in for this particular week
Speaker 1: and which we do every week, and it's just recognition.
Speaker 1: Blitz comes down to recognition, and uh you know, we
Speaker 1: got an exceptionally smart center that's also on the same
Speaker 1: page with the quarterback and they watch film together during
Speaker 1: the week. So, um, it all comes down to their
Speaker 1: preparation and how they handle the BLITZ and then and
Speaker 1: then knowing that and getting the protection right, putting the
Speaker 1: ball in the right spot. Washington got out of the
Speaker 1: gate a little bit slow, and they've seemed to get
Speaker 1: together in his last few weeks a lot of it
Speaker 1: with their defense. What are you seeing from them that
Speaker 1: they're doing now that maybe they weren't doing earlier. What
Speaker 1: are they hanging their head on right now? Well, first thing,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were a little nicked up, you know
Speaker 1: in the back end early in the season that you know,
Speaker 1: Brelian should should be available this week. It's going to
Speaker 1: be Um, you know, get their get their cornerback, and um,
Speaker 1: you know they're they're, they're, they're this is a this
Speaker 1: is a good defense. They're they're playing better schematically. Um,
Speaker 1: they're getting after the passer a little bit, especially on
Speaker 1: third down there they've been able to push the pocket
Speaker 1: and and get some sacks and some um. They're also
Speaker 1: they're also creating some turnovers late in these games that
Speaker 1: they're allowing one either their offense to score or to
Speaker 1: hang on to leads. And um, this is a good defense,
Speaker 1: good sound defense. Again, it's not it's not a multiple
Speaker 1: you know defense as far as scheme, but they're they're
Speaker 1: kind of coming into their own right now and playing
Speaker 1: playing well with it. You mentioned that a run game
Speaker 1: can help up a young, inexperienced offensive lineman like big feet. Um,
Speaker 1: you guys are already up averaging like the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing attempts in the league. You didn't use Barner or
Speaker 1: small Woods Sunday. Is it more likely in a situation
Speaker 1: like this you might rotate off for this week. It's
Speaker 1: a good chance, a good possibility that that happens again.
Speaker 1: It just depends on getting into the game and how
Speaker 1: the game unfolds, and then if there's obviously an injury
Speaker 1: or or something at the position. But you know, I
Speaker 1: love obviously, I like where Wendell's at. I love where
Speaker 1: Kenyon's at. These guys do give us a little bit
Speaker 1: of a burst. Give give Darren and uh Ryan arrest
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we'll just have to see as
Speaker 1: the game unfolds. But I would like to use them
Speaker 1: a little bit more certain about overusing Darren. I mean,
Speaker 1: right now, he's on the face for probably the most
Speaker 1: rushing attempts of his career, and he's at an advanced stage. Listen,
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy is an amazing athlete. Um works
Speaker 1: extremely hard, protects his body. One thing with Darren is
Speaker 1: he doesn't take a lot of like just direct hits.
Speaker 1: He's underneath a lot of hits because of his size obviously,
Speaker 1: and you know he's I don't see any signs of
Speaker 1: him slowing down, and UM, continue to use him. I
Speaker 1: don't want to increase necessarily his his workload. Uh, the
Speaker 1: same way with Ryan, I don't want to necessarily increase
Speaker 1: their workload, but at the same time, I want to
Speaker 1: maximize the opportunities that they have for years. I guess
Speaker 1: since he's beeners, he's still the same player in the
Speaker 1: same d threat that the kid he's still fast can run.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing you see on film and
Speaker 1: just just throw on his highlight reel and you're going
Speaker 1: to see the exact same receiver that we had here.
Speaker 1: And um, you know him, and you know, the compliment
Speaker 1: of Jordan Reed and Garson and these guys have really,
Speaker 1: um kind of opened some things up for them offensively.
Speaker 1: But M Deshaun is definitely a deep threat and and
Speaker 1: someone you gotta watch out for. Surprising, the Eagles released
Speaker 1: him for three years. Surprise. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: all that went into the being released. It's hard to
Speaker 1: comment on that, but um, I know he's playing extremely
Speaker 1: well right now, and we just gotta watch out for him.
Speaker 1: You're outside receivers. In terms of what they've done as
Speaker 1: in deep balls and stretching the field, well, I mean
Speaker 1: we've we've missed a couple opportunities down the field. Um,
Speaker 1: Jordan and Nelson Mote both have missed some miss some opportunities. Uh.
Speaker 1: DGB had a chance this past weekend. Uh you know
Speaker 1: in the end zone, we just overshot Nelson again, So
Speaker 1: a little bit of of timing and accuracy with the throw. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think they're they're again
Speaker 1: they're working extremely hard. Um, we're picking our spots or
Speaker 1: I'm picking spots to push the ball down the field. Um.
Speaker 1: Something that I'm very conscious of, you know, UM, knowing
Speaker 1: our personnel and knowing the type of guys we have. Um.
Speaker 1: But but I like where they're at. I like the
Speaker 1: fact that they keep working every single day and and UM,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to shy away from one guy or
Speaker 1: the or the other just because of you know, one
Speaker 1: one bad play. What kind of what are you what
Speaker 1: kind of appealed to you about by time? If you
Speaker 1: guys would during the draft, what what were the things
Speaker 1: that made him stand out. He big athletic. I mean
Speaker 1: he swallowed up a lot of defensive ends in college.
Speaker 1: Very you know, very athletic, versatile. Um. And then when
Speaker 1: you get to meet him and know him and you
Speaker 1: get to see how how smart and intelligent for the
Speaker 1: football intelligence the IQ is there. Um, shake his hand,
Speaker 1: he's got big, powerful, strong hands, Um. And those were
Speaker 1: all things that that intrigued us, you know, back when
Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to draft him what it was
Speaker 1: and starting to hear Cousin. I've always liked Cousins and uh,
Speaker 1: I think I think too. He might have been pressing
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the season and he's now
Speaker 1: he's just kind of letting things happen and develop around him.
Speaker 1: He's Um, he's a kid again. He's he's a he's
Speaker 1: a smart kid. He's a sharp kid. Um. And and
Speaker 1: you know, with the defense playing as well as they
Speaker 1: are now, has really helped them offensively. He's just taking
Speaker 1: care of the football and you can you can do
Speaker 1: a lot of good things when you take care of
Speaker 1: the ball offensively, um, and also when your defense is
Speaker 1: creating turnovers for you. And those are the things you
Speaker 1: see out of him, and he manages that team very well.
Speaker 1: Is Matthew Ryan Matthews totally healthy. Is that ankle steel factor? Yeah, he's, No,
Speaker 1: he's he's one hundred percent. He's healthy. Um, came out
Speaker 1: of the game healthy. Um, he's good to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you guys,