Speaker 1: And we welcome you to then Overcare Complex. It's inside
Speaker 1: training Camp presented by Xfinity Dave Spidero joined by Chris McPherson,
Speaker 1: and we've got Eagles football back for the twenty and
Speaker 1: fifteen season. Training camp officially underway. The Eagles obviously making
Speaker 1: some news already, Chris, it's never boring around an overcare conflict. No,
Speaker 1: this is already arguably the most eagerly anticipated training camp
Speaker 1: in recent history, with all the moves made this offseason.
Speaker 1: And then on the EVA training camp, the Eagles send
Speaker 1: cornerback Brandon Boykin, the nickel corner for the past three seasons,
Speaker 1: to the burg Steelers for a conditional draft pick in
Speaker 1: two sixteen. The big question now is what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Obviously long term a great value add for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: well in the short term, who will take over Boykin's role?
Speaker 1: To one of the many storylines that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly getting his crew together. Eighty nine players in all,
Speaker 1: they all passed the conditioning test and we're on the
Speaker 1: field on Sunday. So let's send you out to the field.
Speaker 1: It's our three sixty update with Alex Smith. Pack your bags,
Speaker 1: we're going camping Hi everyone. Alex Smith here with your
Speaker 1: three sixty update, presented by Sports Authority. It's a beautiful
Speaker 1: day here in South Philadelphia. As the Eagles reported for
Speaker 1: their first training session of twenty fifteen training camp. It
Speaker 1: was head coached Chip Kelly kicking things off today with
Speaker 1: his pre practice press conference. Chip Kelly was asked early
Speaker 1: and often about last night's trade of Brandon Boykin to
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers for a conditional fifth round pick, and
Speaker 1: Kelly responded to those questions by praising the depth that
Speaker 1: the Eagles have at cornerback. I wanted talking to him
Speaker 1: last night. I think he was stunned, he was disappointed.
Speaker 1: I think he really liked it here, very close with
Speaker 1: his teammates, and I told him I thought the timing
Speaker 1: itself wasn't a real good time. But they actively pursued him.
Speaker 1: They tried to They wanted to trade for him at
Speaker 1: the draft, and we turned it down, and they had
Speaker 1: called last week and turned it down again. And then
Speaker 1: when we sat down with Corey and Billy and Ed
Speaker 1: has a group and you know, looked at the offer
Speaker 1: that they made for us, and kind of, really it's
Speaker 1: more speaks to what our depth was at the position.
Speaker 1: We felt like it was a move to make. So
Speaker 1: the other big topic heading into this twenty fifteen training
Speaker 1: camp for the Eagles is the health of quarterback Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford and Kelly spoke today about Bradford having no limitations
Speaker 1: on that left knee, saying that his quarterback feels comfortable
Speaker 1: heading into camp. He's full go, one hundred percent. You know,
Speaker 1: when you talk to him, he had a great offseason.
Speaker 1: I think from when we left on June eighteenth to now,
Speaker 1: he feels really confident. You know, he's not going to
Speaker 1: play with a brace, not going to at least in
Speaker 1: our training session out here. It feels comfortable without it.
Speaker 1: He's ready to go. So once practice came to a close,
Speaker 1: Bradford himself spoke about trusting his left knee, playing without
Speaker 1: a brace, and praising the work that he put in
Speaker 1: with the Eagles training staff during the last six weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was kind of a collective idea, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: just felt like I got to the point where I
Speaker 1: didn't need it. I was doing a lot of things
Speaker 1: without the brace and I felt fine. And I felt
Speaker 1: like sometimes during OTAs, de brace restricted me a little bit.
Speaker 1: And so you know, the doctors. I talked to him
Speaker 1: yesterday and they were cool with it, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with that one. It was interesting to note today
Speaker 1: that it was rookie cornerback Jacorey Shepherd who got the
Speaker 1: first team reps at nickelback, previously held by Brandon Boykin.
Speaker 1: And after practice it was veteran Malcolm Jenkins praising the
Speaker 1: work that he saw in the field from Shepherd. Shepherd today.
Speaker 1: Last night you figured out he would be with the
Speaker 1: ones as a nickel today and he stepped in today.
Speaker 1: It didn't miss a beat, and I think they're hungry
Speaker 1: to get their opportunity as well and show what they got.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a lot of competition. We got EJ. Biggers,
Speaker 1: Watkins playing the nickel and myself and Walter Thurman can
Speaker 1: drop down into nickel at any time. So we got
Speaker 1: a lot of depth and a lot of talent, and
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking forward to what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: as the secondary. Sticking on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: it was veteran linebacker tomko Ryan's talking about his opportunity
Speaker 1: to get back on the field and playing alongside the
Speaker 1: newly acquired Keiko Alonzo all it was good. You know,
Speaker 1: it's saying if I'm in there with Kiko, Michael, whoever,
Speaker 1: we do a good job. I think of just helping
Speaker 1: each other, communicating, helping each other, no matter who's in there.
Speaker 1: And finally a couple of depth chart notes from this
Speaker 1: afternoon's practice. It was Alan Barbie and Matt Tobin who
Speaker 1: got first team reps at the guard position. Meanwhile, outside
Speaker 1: at wide receiver it was Riley Cooper and Josh Huff
Speaker 1: with Jordan Matthews playing in the middle. Switching over to
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Walter Thurman lined up
Speaker 1: and took first team reps opposite of Malcolm Jenkins, and
Speaker 1: has previously mentioned it was Jacory Shephard getting first team
Speaker 1: reps at the nickel. And for continuing coverage of Eagles
Speaker 1: training camp, be sure to keep it right here on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Well, thank you very much, Alex.
Speaker 1: I guess it's not too early, Chris to take a
Speaker 1: look ahead at the regular season by my calculations, Just
Speaker 1: forty four days from now until the opener in Atlanta
Speaker 1: against the Falcons Monday night football, and you had a
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Speaker 1: The first game of the twenty fifteen regular season is
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons. So it's only fitting that we
Speaker 1: kick off our behind Enemy Line series by looking at
Speaker 1: that opponent. And to do so, we're bringing the man
Speaker 1: who covers the Falcons better than anyone. And as d
Speaker 1: Orlando led better from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, d let
Speaker 1: let's start off with this. Was it a blessing in
Speaker 1: disguise that the Falcons did not win the NFC South
Speaker 1: last season, which went to the Carolina Panthers, which is
Speaker 1: a seven eight and one record. Oh yeah, no question
Speaker 1: about it. They were clearly a team that needed to
Speaker 1: draft higher. The positions would have changed, It changed drastically
Speaker 1: if they had had pulled out that division crown. And
Speaker 1: they clearly need some help to build some more depth
Speaker 1: and they could go ahead and get started with their
Speaker 1: rebuilding projects. So that I mean, you never like to
Speaker 1: say you want to lose a game, but it may
Speaker 1: have benefitted the franchise in the long term. Led dan
Speaker 1: Quinn takes over as a head coach for the winningest
Speaker 1: coach in Falcon's history and Mike Smith. Now dan Quinn
Speaker 1: had a lot of success as a defensive coordinator in Seattle,
Speaker 1: but he certainly doesn't have those same pieces now in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: What has he done to try to transform that Falcons
Speaker 1: defense in the image of what he had in Seattle. Well,
Speaker 1: they went out and made a lot of below the
Speaker 1: radar moves and picking up linebackers Footbrey, Justin Durant and
Speaker 1: O'Brien Schofield. They've bosso picked up guys like Adrian Clayborne
Speaker 1: who were on the you know grab people over there
Speaker 1: have been heard a couple of years and haven't been
Speaker 1: able to stay in a high level of play. Uh,
Speaker 1: So you know you got guys like that, they come in,
Speaker 1: You drafted Vic Beasley, and then uh you moved some
Speaker 1: guys around. They certainly moved a lot of people around
Speaker 1: in the secondary trying to find the right combination for
Speaker 1: this efensive scheme. So, uh, he's trying uh about every
Speaker 1: you know move in the book from guys off the
Speaker 1: street to guys who were reserved elsewhere to high draft
Speaker 1: pick to try to breathe some life into the league's
Speaker 1: worst defense. See led You mentioned that it was the
Speaker 1: least worst defense was also the worst defense in terms
Speaker 1: of the past. Obviously, Seattle is known or is known
Speaker 1: for the Legion of Boom. Can Dan Quinn have the
Speaker 1: same success with this a Land defense if he doesn't
Speaker 1: have that strong play on the backside of the defense? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they've got They've got a major project going
Speaker 1: on over there on that side of the ball with
Speaker 1: the Cardo Allen, a fifth round pick out of Produce
Speaker 1: who was a ball hawking corner and the big kin
Speaker 1: and tackled a lot. They're converting him to free stafety. Now,
Speaker 1: um uh, you know, if that works out, then you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta get back there to go love with
Speaker 1: William Moore. You have Desmond truefin at corner and then
Speaker 1: you gotta try to find out what you have and
Speaker 1: Jalen Kyllis and Robert Alford at the other corner and
Speaker 1: made the others the Nickels. So there is some palent
Speaker 1: back there, but they look short short of safety and
Speaker 1: they're trying to make one, you know, a YadA. They
Speaker 1: had a lot of success with late draft round picks
Speaker 1: like Cam Chancellor, he was a fifth Maxwell I believe
Speaker 1: it was a fourth. Uh, you know co string of
Speaker 1: guys that they you know, were even Brandon Browner who
Speaker 1: they went to Canada to get. So they know what
Speaker 1: they're looking for and they're searching for guys to come
Speaker 1: in and pit that seal it. On the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football, dan Quinn have some beautiful pieces to
Speaker 1: work with Matt Ryan at quarterback, Julio Jones or Roddy
Speaker 1: White at the wide receiver positions. You bring in a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator and Kyle Shanahan certainly familiar with the
Speaker 1: MC east. What is Shanahan doing to maximize the talent
Speaker 1: of Ryan's and those wide receivers, but at the same
Speaker 1: time trying to keep things status quot since they've had
Speaker 1: so much success on offense. Yeah. Yeah, they were trying
Speaker 1: to get this outside outside the zone running schemes moving.
Speaker 1: You know, the Falcons haven't ran the ball well over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. You know, the Stephen Jackson
Speaker 1: experiment just didn't work out. So they're trying to get
Speaker 1: the zone blocking scheams going. They have a couple of
Speaker 1: kids back there, de Bontay Freeman, the second and guy
Speaker 1: and the rookie Keevin Coleman from Indiana that they're trying
Speaker 1: to plug in there and see if they can balance
Speaker 1: out the offense from Matt Ryan and Julio Joe. Who
Speaker 1: do you think will be the leading rusher for the Falcons?
Speaker 1: Obviously it's you know, early on in training camp, so
Speaker 1: the preseason and you know, some time to look forward
Speaker 1: to before the start of the regular season here at
Speaker 1: d LA. But who do you think will be the
Speaker 1: feature runner in this offense? I think over the season
Speaker 1: it'll be Coleman. I think Freeman will start out back there,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna bring the rookie along and put him
Speaker 1: on a fast track. I think you know over the
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Speaker 1: insider Dave Spidero, joined by Ross Tucker, the host of
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Speaker 1: You've been talking about this football team all offseason. I'd
Speaker 1: like you to take us through your thoughts on the move,
Speaker 1: starting March tenth, really before that, when Lashawn McCoy's trade
Speaker 1: was announced to this point, how you felt about the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. I think it was as entertaining for me
Speaker 1: as anybody you know. I work in the media now,
Speaker 1: So for me, I love the Chip Kelly, you know,
Speaker 1: keep making these big moves. Fascinating to think that that
Speaker 1: offense they had a couple of years ago with Foles
Speaker 1: and Shawn Jackson and Jeremy Macklin and l Shan mccryo
Speaker 1: Macklin has hurt that year. But it's just hard to
Speaker 1: believe that those guys are all gone because two years ago,
Speaker 1: I think most Eagles fan felt pretty good about the
Speaker 1: core group they had. Now they're all gone, But I
Speaker 1: think if you look at each one individually, I think
Speaker 1: they felt like Bradford a little bit an upgrade from
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, clearly, as long as Bradford's stays healthy. We've
Speaker 1: talked about that a million different times. At running back,
Speaker 1: I think he likes the idea of DeMarco Murray and
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews for about the same money that they're paying
Speaker 1: Shady McCoy. Plus you still have Darren Sproles in the mix.
Speaker 1: Tight ends are the same. The concerns for me would
Speaker 1: the interior offensive line at both guard spots. They've released
Speaker 1: Evan Mathis and so they've got a bunch of young
Speaker 1: guys I thought struggled a year ago, really competing and
Speaker 1: battling for those two spots. But they got some experience
Speaker 1: under their belts. I think a lot of times offensive
Speaker 1: line coaches think, now they got some start, they'll improve
Speaker 1: a lot going in next year. And wide receivers, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not overly confined about the wide receivers. I think
Speaker 1: with Jordan Matthews in year two, Riley Cooper, I think
Speaker 1: Agla is a guy that everybody loved coming out when
Speaker 1: they draft him in the first round. I think the
Speaker 1: wide receivers will be okay. I think really the interior
Speaker 1: offensive line. Maybe it's because I I don't know an
Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman is the issue that concerns me the most.
Speaker 1: Cutting Evan Mathis without replacing that talent was a little
Speaker 1: surprising everywhere else. Lose Macklin, bringing Aglar, lose Shady, you're
Speaker 1: bringing to Marco Maray and Ryan Matthews, lose Foals, bringing Bradford,
Speaker 1: lose mathis bring in. That's kind of the problem. And
Speaker 1: then the defense, of course, also has been overhauled by
Speaker 1: my calculations. Are lost forty four days between today and
Speaker 1: September fourteenth, play Monday night football in Atlanta. So take
Speaker 1: us inside the locker room. What has to happen from
Speaker 1: a camaraderie standpoint, a chemistry standpoint, to make all these
Speaker 1: pieces melt together. I actually think that Chip's already handling
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I mean, that's why Evan Mathis
Speaker 1: isn't here, That's why Lashaw McCoy is here, It's why
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson isn't here. You know, Chip firmly believes, and
Speaker 1: there's definitely some truth to this that if you get
Speaker 1: everybody going in the same direction, everybody's oars are going
Speaker 1: in the same direction, you've got the best opportunity to
Speaker 1: have success in the NFL. Hey, the team that won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year at the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: they were not the most talented team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Eagles still have talent. We talked earlier, they replaced
Speaker 1: most of the talent that they lost, but now they've
Speaker 1: got all guys that have totally bought in to what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I've been on teams with guys that didn't
Speaker 1: buy in. You can tell is filters around. It's an
Speaker 1: issue a lot of times in the NFL. There's a
Speaker 1: belief that you need to replace talent with talent and
Speaker 1: that you can't just go with culture. My opinion, the
Speaker 1: only issue that really is is the interior offensive line. Again,
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, he's just culture over talent. Well, where
Speaker 1: are we talking culture over town. We're really only talking
Speaker 1: about Evan Mathis at this point because he replace the
Speaker 1: other positions with talent. We watched practice today, No need
Speaker 1: overreact to first day of practice. Everybody's kind of getting
Speaker 1: the rust shaken loose, and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford and benchmarks that you might have for Bradford
Speaker 1: moving forward. First preseason game is fifteen days away, the
Speaker 1: Falcons six weeks away. So what do you want from
Speaker 1: Bradford kind of week over week when you look at him,
Speaker 1: I just want him to make it to the Atlanta game.
Speaker 1: In all sincerity, you know, number of reps doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: number of throws preseason playing time, not really, not really.
Speaker 1: I mean it's such a quarterback friendly offense, Dave. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen everybody, you know, vic and and Falls and Sanchez.
Speaker 1: It seems like everybody, maybe with the exception of Matt
Speaker 1: Barkley when he played a little bit last year, but
Speaker 1: it seemed like everybody does well on this offense. We
Speaker 1: know AM's a smart guy. We know Sam has a
Speaker 1: good arm and he's accurate. I think that Chip will
Speaker 1: make sure he gets enough reps. If anything, David, it
Speaker 1: would be more to me about the practice reps. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expose him that much in the preseason games. Make
Speaker 1: sure he's getting all the reps he needs mentally in
Speaker 1: these preseason practices. Try to keep him healthy in the
Speaker 1: preseason games. What do you see on the defense? Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins the only returning starter in the secondary Eagles investing
Speaker 1: heavily there the trade that brings Keiko Alonso to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Clearly the Eagles want to cut down that seventy two
Speaker 1: passing plays of twenty plus yards from a year ago.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. I think Byron Maxwell will
Speaker 1: help with that quite a bit. I think there's any question.
Speaker 1: You know, you and I are both here. When the
Speaker 1: Seahawks played the Eagles last year, and I've talked to
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews about this. Byron Maxwell did very well against
Speaker 1: George Matthews, and I think that's a big reason why
Speaker 1: the Eagles said, we gotta get that guy. They need
Speaker 1: him to be a shutdown corner, and I think he's
Speaker 1: better than people think. I think sometimes people think, well
Speaker 1: they got Richard Sherman. You know he always had help. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: there were plenty of times when Bayern Maxwell was man
Speaker 1: to man. He's versaile. He can play inside, he can
Speaker 1: play outside. So he's going to be probably the biggest
Speaker 1: lynchpin on the back end of that defense, along with
Speaker 1: the rookie of course, and trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're better in that area. As we get through training
Speaker 1: camp deeper into the summer, I will pin you down
Speaker 1: and find out if you think the Eagles are a
Speaker 1: playoff team, but we're not going to do that on
Speaker 1: day one. Well, let's put it this way. They're definitely
Speaker 1: in the mix. And as I watch over the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I'll have a better form or answer.
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Speaker 1: You know, we can talk about the cornerbacks, the offensive line,
Speaker 1: the running backs, but it all comes back to the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Good to see Sam Bradford on the field today.
Speaker 1: Look good from what we could see, and he's certainly
Speaker 1: the talk of the town. He seraily is the armtown,
Speaker 1: no question. The big thing with him is how would
Speaker 1: the leg hold up? And it was very good to
Speaker 1: see him be full go for the first aid training camp.
Speaker 1: But this is a marathon. It's not just about today.
Speaker 1: The goal is forty three days from now. You want
Speaker 1: him rady for the Monday and opener against the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcom So it would be very important to see how
Speaker 1: has he developed, how's he progress over the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. Yeah, we'll see that every day we debut
Speaker 1: this segment. It's called Eagle in Focus, and of course
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, specifically number seven, Sam Bradford, bo Wolf
Speaker 1: has the Eagle eye on him. Hello, Eagles fans on
Speaker 1: bo Wolf and welcome to Eagle in Focus, where we
Speaker 1: narrow our focus from everything that's going on in training
Speaker 1: camp to focus on one individual player. And we will
Speaker 1: start where else at quarterback with the man who Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly acquired shocking the NFL world on the first day
Speaker 1: of the new league year March tenth, chip Kelly and
Speaker 1: the Eagles sending Nick Foles, a twenty sixteen second round
Speaker 1: pick and more draft pick considerations to the Saint Louis
Speaker 1: Rams in order to acquire the former number one overall
Speaker 1: pick in two ten, the NFL rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten, a Heisman Trophy winner, Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: And now we will find out whether Sam Bradford is
Speaker 1: the man to lead this Eagles offense and whether he
Speaker 1: can prove that he can stay healthy after suffering a
Speaker 1: coren ACL last summer. Back in March, chip Kelly X
Speaker 1: blained why it was that Bradford was the man for
Speaker 1: the Eagle. He's a big, strong, physical quarterback. He's over
Speaker 1: six fours, two hundred and forty pounds. He's smart, he's intelligent.
Speaker 1: He's one of the most accurate throwers when you see
Speaker 1: him throw the football. I think he's smart. I think
Speaker 1: he's wired, right. I think we had some inside information
Speaker 1: because Pat Schurmer had an opportunity to coach the kid
Speaker 1: for a year. So he knows what he's like in
Speaker 1: the meeting room. He knows what he's like on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. He knows the consistency that comes with him.
Speaker 1: He understands his work ethic. He's an unbelievable competitor. You
Speaker 1: talk to the people that have been around him, whose
Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL, who was coaches in college. Kevin
Speaker 1: Wilson is now the head coach at Indiana, was his
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Talked to Kevin about him. Gona talk to
Speaker 1: Bob Stoops about him. I mean, the kid's wired, right.
Speaker 1: He's a competitor as well as Chip Kelly is fond
Speaker 1: of saying, if Sam Bradford did not have those injury
Speaker 1: question marks, he simply would not have been available for
Speaker 1: the Eagles to a choir, and aside from those injury concerns,
Speaker 1: he has everything the Eagles want in a quarterback. He
Speaker 1: has the size, the mobility, the ability to get the
Speaker 1: ball out quickly, and he's got outstanding downfield accuracy and armstraight.
Speaker 1: So really the only question now for Bradford is to
Speaker 1: prove that he can stay healthy and that he can
Speaker 1: pick up this Eagle's offense and be the man to
Speaker 1: lead this Eagles team and this outstanding offense to maybe
Speaker 1: a third straight season where they set a franchise record
Speaker 1: for points. Story for Eagle and focus on Bobo, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. So just to set things up for you, Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: practice closed again at the Novicare Complex. Tuesday, the first
Speaker 1: public practice in pads at Lincoln Financial Field. We expect
Speaker 1: to see all of you over across the street checking
Speaker 1: out the Eagles for the first time. And then on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the players off, so we kind of heat things up
Speaker 1: after that and get a look ahead at the first
Speaker 1: preseason game and see where this team stands early in
Speaker 1: training camps quickly coming on the rising. Two weeks until
Speaker 1: the first preseason game. But again Tuesday, that open practice,
Speaker 1: it's going to be something special to watch. Gates open
Speaker 1: at ten am, so make sure that you're there. It's
Speaker 1: free family fun at Lincoln Financial Field. Yeah, well, hope awesome.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're back with Inside Training Camp presented by Exfinity.
Speaker 1: You'll hear from the offensive coordinator Bill Davis, running back
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray, and how about the leader of the defense,
Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's meeting with the media. All that and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more when we come back tomorrow with Inside
Speaker 1: Training Camp presented by Extrinity. For christ McPherson, I'm Dave Spidero.
Speaker 1: We thank you for joining us today on Inside Training Camp.
Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great Eagles Day.