Speaker 1: Three down, one to go. Hi. Everybody, Welcome to Inside
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Speaker 1: all eyes on Thursday nights preseason finale, the Eagles hosting
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Chris, We've got a lot to
Speaker 1: look forward to in this game. It's been a it's
Speaker 1: been a good preseason for the Eagles. Great preseason that
Speaker 1: for the starters that ended on the right note with
Speaker 1: that tremendous pouncing of the Steelers wearing thirty one to
Speaker 1: twenty one. But now in this fourth preseason game, most
Speaker 1: of the stars, respective of the night off, but still
Speaker 1: plenty of things to watch as roster jobs are still
Speaker 1: out there to be won. Indeed, let's start with my
Speaker 1: perspective of the Eagles on offense. On offense, obviously, it's
Speaker 1: going to start with the quarterback Matt Barkley, expected to
Speaker 1: play at least into the third quarter, his first start
Speaker 1: since his days at USC, So for Barkley, an opportunity
Speaker 1: to step up and show that he can be relied
Speaker 1: upon as a starter if needed in twenty and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Of course, also we are looking full bore at the
Speaker 1: running back position. How many will the Eagles keep three? Four?
Speaker 1: Is it possible to keep five? Does Chris Polk play
Speaker 1: in this game? And if he does, see his first
Speaker 1: preseason action, how long can that hamstring hold up? Henry
Speaker 1: Josie averaging more than eight yards per carry looking for
Speaker 1: a roster spot. And ken Yon Barner, who was so
Speaker 1: impressive just two days after being acquired in a trade
Speaker 1: from car lineup. He will get some playing time trying
Speaker 1: to solidifire roster spot as well. And of course we
Speaker 1: look at the offensive line lane. Johnson his final appearance
Speaker 1: before his four game suspension starting Monday. Johnson not permitted
Speaker 1: here at an overcare complex. He'll go back to Texas
Speaker 1: and train and prepare for game number five. So those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that I'm watching on the
Speaker 1: offensive course, wide receiver tighten everything, nothing escapes the eyes
Speaker 1: in preseason game number four. Certainly, I'm going to focus
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the football, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start at the outside linebacker position. Marcus Smith the second
Speaker 1: has made tremendous strives throughout the course of the preseason.
Speaker 1: How is he going to fair? He's been doing a
Speaker 1: lot of work one on one work on the side
Speaker 1: with Trade Thomas, the long time Eagles offensive tackle, to
Speaker 1: get himself right and to rEFInd that technique. How does
Speaker 1: that progress? Brandon Graham tremendous preseason in his own right
Speaker 1: with two sacks tied for the team league. Can he
Speaker 1: continue the way that he's performed Now I'm gonna transitionto
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Look, the Eagles are I had to
Speaker 1: make one tough roster move, letting go with a former
Speaker 1: draft pick in Joe Krueger. There are gonna be some
Speaker 1: tough moves on the horizon. Do you have players like
Speaker 1: bo Allen Taylor Hard who had played well this preseason?
Speaker 1: Can they secure spots here on the final fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster? And then look, I'm gonna transition from defense
Speaker 1: to special teams here? What's gonna happen at place? Kicker
Speaker 1: as Alex Henry is in the fight of his life
Speaker 1: going against rookie Freed and Cody Parkey, who was required
Speaker 1: from the Indianapolis Colts last week. Parky had some work
Speaker 1: on kickoffs and a point after attempt as well, Henry,
Speaker 1: how much will he get to kick in the game.
Speaker 1: Will he have a chance to get his confidence back
Speaker 1: after missing that thirty one yard field goal. So certainly
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a lot of things on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of football, but also special teams comes to the
Speaker 1: forefront with a placekicker battle still in the air. Day Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean really, it's an opportunity not only for some
Speaker 1: of these bubble players to make the fifty three man rosters,
Speaker 1: either here or another team in the NFL, but it's
Speaker 1: also a chance for players like Nige Good, for example,
Speaker 1: to u earlier this week in the locker room, he
Speaker 1: wants to show the coaches that he can be counted
Speaker 1: on as a starting caliber player. So anybody who says
Speaker 1: that this fourth preseason game has no meaning, you really
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. And even for the
Speaker 1: players who won't be playing, one of them with whom
Speaker 1: I spoke cornerback at Brandon Boykin, he won't play in
Speaker 1: this game. A lot expected from Boyken this year after
Speaker 1: his breakout season in twenty thirteen six interceptions. He's very
Speaker 1: much looking forward to seeing what this defense is like
Speaker 1: in year two under coordinator Bill Davis and when we
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Speaker 1: When I was a little kid, I thought writing sept
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Speaker 1: Dave Spiderio joined by Eagles cornerback Brandon boy Can. Having
Speaker 1: another fantastic preseason. I think do you think that absolutely
Speaker 1: as well? You should. How do you how do you
Speaker 1: metture it in the preseason? Um, I think you just
Speaker 1: got to kind of be honest with yourself. You know
Speaker 1: that these are the first couple of games and if
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a mistake, this is when you want
Speaker 1: to make a mistakes. So, um, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of dissect your game and like, uh, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about yourself in a way that you know that you
Speaker 1: can get better. You know, don't say like, oh I
Speaker 1: would have made that tackle, and again like if you
Speaker 1: missed the tackle, you know you need to make the tackle.
Speaker 1: And because when when Week one rolls around, it's for real.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll say I have never heard more crying
Speaker 1: in my life than people complaining about these The emphasis
Speaker 1: on the rules, Now, it's interesting. The crying is not
Speaker 1: coming from the players, nor is it coming from the coaches.
Speaker 1: It's coming from the media. How are the players reacting
Speaker 1: to everything? We're just playing. We're just playing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's tough. It is tough. After literally at five and
Speaker 1: a half yards, if you got your hands on the receiver,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a flag. So um, you know, we've
Speaker 1: been taught our whole life to be physical and you know,
Speaker 1: get your advantage by you know, putting yourself in the
Speaker 1: best position possible. And you know, now we got to
Speaker 1: change that. So um, you know, these past couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: like preseason, like I talked about, we're just trying to
Speaker 1: you know, get our technique in a place where we
Speaker 1: can be better for week one. So it's more about
Speaker 1: getting your footwork right, getting your hands in position, making
Speaker 1: the most of those five yards. Absolutely, you know, we
Speaker 1: got a five yard contact zone, like they said. Actually
Speaker 1: ref came and talked to us and talked about that.
Speaker 1: So get all your work done five yards with your
Speaker 1: hands and after that its feet and eyes. And I
Speaker 1: think we've been doing a pretty good job in practice.
Speaker 1: So um, I think you will see some improvements as
Speaker 1: far as not getting flash caught against US next week.
Speaker 1: Do you ultimately believe, Brandon, if that will make you
Speaker 1: a better cornerback? I mean, my theory is that the
Speaker 1: defense will always catch up to the offense, and then
Speaker 1: in time you'll rely more on your technique and then
Speaker 1: your athletic ability will take over, and then they will
Speaker 1: change the rules again and take more away from you.
Speaker 1: I think so, you know, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, the game's changed so much and it
Speaker 1: constantly changes, but I think we'll just adjust. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it may take some time, but you know, people are
Speaker 1: still gonna, you know, make plays on the ball and
Speaker 1: you know, do what they need to do. But I
Speaker 1: do feel like there are certain times when you're running
Speaker 1: down the field and and you got like some contact
Speaker 1: with the receiver and you're both fighting them looking for
Speaker 1: the ball, where um, I disagree that it should be
Speaker 1: called if we're both looking for the ball and competing
Speaker 1: for the ball. You know, I think that's just a
Speaker 1: football play, so they shouldn't really take that away from it. Well,
Speaker 1: you know why, it's score more points, get more viewers,
Speaker 1: have more fun on the square where you guys are
Speaker 1: always taking advantage of It's a shame anyway. But the
Speaker 1: defense yere too. It seems to be a lot more cohesive.
Speaker 1: Communication seems to be there in a lot more confidence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: confidence is huge for us. And I think you hit
Speaker 1: it right on the head when you said that. I
Speaker 1: think you know, last year we didn't have really anything
Speaker 1: to to gauge ourselves off of, and this year we do.
Speaker 1: And you know the second year in the scheme, we're
Speaker 1: moving at a really fast rate. Right now, we feel
Speaker 1: confident that we can play at a game speed with
Speaker 1: chaos going around us. So, UM, I think last last week,
Speaker 1: you know, a game through where you saw kind of
Speaker 1: the ones staying there for a good amount of time,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, really be calm under the under
Speaker 1: pressure is what you're gonna get. What's what's next for
Speaker 1: Brandon Boyken? What kind of individual goals do you want
Speaker 1: to achieve this year? Individual goals? I think you know, Um,
Speaker 1: my job is to calls turnovers. Um, you know, if
Speaker 1: I'm playing Nicholas, especially it's third down, so um, you
Speaker 1: know more than like it's gonna be a passing situation,
Speaker 1: then we gotta get off the field. But not only
Speaker 1: do we want to get to feel you want to
Speaker 1: get the ball back. We want to get a turnover.
Speaker 1: So I feel like if I'm around the ball, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to strip it, trying to punch it, um, you know,
Speaker 1: forcing funeos, getting intercepted in any way possible. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see me, you know, just trying to cause a turnover anyway.
Speaker 1: Have you always, dating back forever, always been around the football. Well,
Speaker 1: I played quarterback until college, right, so I was used
Speaker 1: to having the ball in mind every single play, and
Speaker 1: I got mad and a high school like if I
Speaker 1: didn't have the ball, we were like a wing t team.
Speaker 1: So like more more likely than not, I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: pitch it, like I'm trying to do everything. And so
Speaker 1: that's just kind of how mentality is. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta get the ball. I want to make a play.
Speaker 1: I gotta be the guy to make the play. And
Speaker 1: that's good and you enjoy in a moment of high
Speaker 1: pressure late game. Obviously last year it happened a few times.
Speaker 1: You want them to throw your way, don't you. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you gotta have that mentality the game's on the line,
Speaker 1: you know, when you kind of sit back and relax
Speaker 1: and say the ball is probably not gonna come to me.
Speaker 1: That's when it does. So everybody on our defense, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's high alert at all times, knowing that
Speaker 1: you know you're probably gonna be the guy to make
Speaker 1: the play. And you know, for me not being out
Speaker 1: there every single play, when I get on the field,
Speaker 1: I have to make an impact and you know that's
Speaker 1: that's my kind of my goal and my mission. How
Speaker 1: would you describe the locker room and how everything's come
Speaker 1: together since the spring and then just kind of how
Speaker 1: everyone's looking forward to to September seventh in Jacksonville. I think, Um, honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean since I've been playing football and been in
Speaker 1: the locker room, I think like the chemistry and the
Speaker 1: camaraderie that we have here and the Eagles organization is
Speaker 1: the best I've been around. Um, you got linemen that
Speaker 1: will talk to defensive backs and have casual conversation, and
Speaker 1: you know, we're all kind of just mix up in
Speaker 1: the locker room. So so the trust factor is developed,
Speaker 1: you know, before we even get on the field, and
Speaker 1: you know that's huge for us, and you know, you
Speaker 1: want to feel like you're a brother, your brother's next
Speaker 1: to you know, we got a brotherhood and that's been
Speaker 1: really one of the biggest things that I've seen. We've
Speaker 1: developed even more than last year. I man, it seems
Speaker 1: like a million years ago twenty twelve dozen. You live
Speaker 1: through that kind of season, you really learn a lot
Speaker 1: about the NFL, doren't you. I did. I had to
Speaker 1: learn really quick. You know. That was my first year
Speaker 1: and um, you know kind of was trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what it was like to be a pro and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody was telling me that, you know, it
Speaker 1: gets better. You know, the fans weren't really happy and
Speaker 1: we weren't really seeing the real, you know, side of
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagle fan experience. So um, you know now
Speaker 1: that we got everything rolling, um, it's awesome and um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's it's great to be you know,
Speaker 1: an Eagles player because the community is great. So we
Speaker 1: want to just continue to get that this year. Well,
Speaker 1: many happy returns and we mean interception returns for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: About twenty fourteen, Brandon boy can thank you so much
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Speaker 1: to Inside Training Camp presented by Exfinity. Dave Spedero, Chris McPherson.
Speaker 1: Eagles pretty darn high on this defensive line. A young group,
Speaker 1: an aggressive group, and one that really improved in twenty
Speaker 1: and thirteen. One of the players who improved a lot,
Speaker 1: Chris Nose tackle. Somebody who really has that push that
Speaker 1: d I have to be great. Benny Logan, Yes, took
Speaker 1: over as a start in midway through last season after
Speaker 1: the trade that said Isaac's Hope Waga to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Logan came in the third round pick a year ago.
Speaker 1: Solidified the run defense was tremendous down the stretch as
Speaker 1: the Eagles won seven of their final eight games to
Speaker 1: win the NSC East title. Now in trench as expected
Speaker 1: to be the starter for the full time for the
Speaker 1: first time in his young career, Logan sit down with
Speaker 1: Our bow Wolf in this week's one on one interview
Speaker 1: presented by Gatorade. Well, we're here outside on the practice
Speaker 1: fields at the Novicare Complex with the Eagles defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Benny Logan. And Benny, let's get the first hard hitting
Speaker 1: question out of the way. What's your favorite flavor of Gatorade?
Speaker 1: My favorite flavor of Gatorade is the what's the white gun?
Speaker 1: The White Arctic? Yeah, something like that. The Arctic count
Speaker 1: is death of my favorite gun of Gatorade. All right,
Speaker 1: I like that. So you know you're rocking the Phillies Jersey.
Speaker 1: That means you've you've acclimated yourself to Philadelphia. Here. People
Speaker 1: talk about the difference it makes your second year to
Speaker 1: your first year in your rookie season. Do you feel
Speaker 1: really a huge difference? Uh? Yeah, definitely, Uh this secret
Speaker 1: year going around and definite feel more comfortably relaxed. Uh.
Speaker 1: I did a lot of things to approve on. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: I wasn't really able to you know, to show you know,
Speaker 1: what I was able to do because of him. Screening
Speaker 1: is just beginning to camp kind of helped me back
Speaker 1: for a few, you know, three weeks. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm back down on rid of the role and this
Speaker 1: upcoming third preseason game and playing a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go out there and just really just
Speaker 1: show the things I've been working on, things that improved though,
Speaker 1: So you'll have a chance to get after Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: It would be definitely you know, fun and inciting to
Speaker 1: sack mikel Vick just to say, you know, you was
Speaker 1: able to sack him last yot I played with him,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't able to hit him at PREXE of course,
Speaker 1: as you know. But now I'm able to allow to
Speaker 1: just go out there and just get after him. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. Me and Brandon Gahan was actually
Speaker 1: talking about that, Uh, just looking forward to get out
Speaker 1: to Mike Vick less Alan just playing the game and
Speaker 1: I join it. But you know, getting out to mikeael
Speaker 1: Vick just say you was able to sack You know,
Speaker 1: Michael Vick right when you say that you've taken a
Speaker 1: step forward from from last year to this year. What's
Speaker 1: what's specifically? What areas are you better at than last years? Oh?
Speaker 1: Just maturity, maturity and the defense matures there has been
Speaker 1: a pro take care of your bad take care of
Speaker 1: just your responsibilities, uh own and off the field. Just
Speaker 1: being you know, more adapted to certain situations and just
Speaker 1: being more mature about different situation also, but just mainly
Speaker 1: just learning this scheme, knowing the insides out the defense,
Speaker 1: what I can what I can do to you know,
Speaker 1: help my team be success. We have the defense be successful.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the best stories of the
Speaker 1: defense last year was you guys on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: how young you are and the steps you guys took
Speaker 1: last season. Seems like there's even more depth there now
Speaker 1: than there was last year, with guys like Taylor Hart
Speaker 1: and bow Allen and even even an older guy like
Speaker 1: Brandon Bear. Oh yeah, no, I mean we're young like
Speaker 1: error guys on the defensive line, you know, bring a
Speaker 1: different kind of a game when they come Miss no
Speaker 1: Bo Allens has grown powerful anchor ahl add and the technician.
Speaker 1: He's hard worker, h Taylor Hard. Taylor Hard has really
Speaker 1: powerful to uh you see it on film. I you know,
Speaker 1: take care of your blockers and pretty much jacked them up.
Speaker 1: So each guy, you know, backup starter, you know, pri
Speaker 1: provides a difference, no variety of things that could bring
Speaker 1: to the game. And were also young. So I mean
Speaker 1: we all you know ready just run and hit the
Speaker 1: field running. So it's gonna be exciting to watch us
Speaker 1: once we could lose the beginning of the season. So
Speaker 1: what is Brenny Logan bring? What's this game? I mean
Speaker 1: being a Logan me and aggression. I mean I like
Speaker 1: to be physical, just all up in the middle, just
Speaker 1: you know, just my style of play. You know. I
Speaker 1: like to just try to describe person a course from
Speaker 1: me and just do all the dirty word. Do you
Speaker 1: have expectations for yourself for the Cities goals? But really
Speaker 1: my expectation this should be better than I was last year,
Speaker 1: to be better than I was the game before. Every
Speaker 1: game will look to improve and get better off for something. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely trying to get to the quarterback more this year.
Speaker 1: Done the last year. And how about as a team,
Speaker 1: what are your what are your goals for this shit?
Speaker 1: Those teams this as a eagal team, we gotta get more,
Speaker 1: we gotta get better. We gotta get deeper in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: not just make a run or the first year it
Speaker 1: was okay, we made a run in the playoffs first year,
Speaker 1: but we just want to get deeper in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: making noise and the super bowls out with them and go.
Speaker 1: But you just can't open talk about super Bowl. We
Speaker 1: gotta put work into it and really just work card
Speaker 1: con team work card come in every day, you know,
Speaker 1: regards of how we feel, you know, to put it
Speaker 1: in the works so we could get to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I don't know what sense you had of a team
Speaker 1: as a rookie, because I'm sure your head was swimming
Speaker 1: a little bit. But when you look at the team
Speaker 1: as a whole last year versus the team as a
Speaker 1: whole this year, do you feel a difference in where
Speaker 1: you guys? Because actually I was telling I have a
Speaker 1: lot of other teammates, former teammates that went to the
Speaker 1: LSU on other teams, and I was telling those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, just being with the Eagles, you know, the
Speaker 1: locker room and just the guys that you were with.
Speaker 1: It made it seem so much like college. Just a
Speaker 1: bun we have, I mean, we're always doing things, you
Speaker 1: know together, and we was away from them facility. The
Speaker 1: guys were checking on one another, checking I mean text
Speaker 1: them and calling and see how they were doing and
Speaker 1: things like that. So just a bun and just the
Speaker 1: cameras who you have, you know, reminded me of college
Speaker 1: and just uh, you know, you hear stories about when
Speaker 1: you come in the league. You know, guys are all
Speaker 1: about the seld up. When I got to the East,
Speaker 1: I didn't see like the selfish player and thing like that.
Speaker 1: Everybody was you know, together, you know, willing to help.
Speaker 1: Once I got ya's working open arms. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: older guy you know, trying to push I mean, no
Speaker 1: briskman off to the side like that. Every about you know,
Speaker 1: work with means you know, just the set to me.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's why I think I was so unique
Speaker 1: about the camerascry and just the organization here with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: All right, So big things ahead in twenty fourteen for
Speaker 1: the Eagles team in for Benny Logan, that's your Gatorade
Speaker 1: one on one. Well, thank you very much, Bow and Benny. Well,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, obviously, we know what Nick Foles has done
Speaker 1: in this preseason. A tough game in Chicago, bounce back
Speaker 1: efforts and very impressive ones in New England, and then
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers last week. So tomorrow night he
Speaker 1: sits and he watches as Matt Barkley takes the rains.
Speaker 1: But Foles has his eyes on something greater, and that's
Speaker 1: September seventh and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah, a year ago,
Speaker 1: at this time, Nick Foles was the one who started
Speaker 1: the last preseason game against the New York Jets. Well,
Speaker 1: this time, as you said, Dave, he'll be on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: preparing for Jacksonville, looking to build upon a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: MVP twenty thirteen season as he hopes to lead the
Speaker 1: Eagles into the playoffs and beyond. In today's Player in Focus,
Speaker 1: Melissa Kelly profiles the quarterback Nick Foles for the last
Speaker 1: Player in Focus of the preseason. It is only fitting
Speaker 1: that we do on who other than starting quarterback Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: The Austin, Texas native led the NFL with a one
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen point two quarterback rating in two and thirteen,
Speaker 1: making it the third best in NFL history. He had
Speaker 1: the best touchdown to interception ratio of twenty seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: to two interceptions by any quarterback in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. In the beginning of training camp, Foles talk
Speaker 1: to the media about what it is that makes him
Speaker 1: feel more prepared going into this training camp than he
Speaker 1: did a year ago. I think the big thing is
Speaker 1: just I feel comfortable there. I know how to run
Speaker 1: this offense, and I want to keep getting better as
Speaker 1: a player, and I want to make the guys around
Speaker 1: me better. So I think, all on all you just
Speaker 1: you can't help but just get more comfortable and grow.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't mean everything's going to work out
Speaker 1: all the time, but you just have to gond through.
Speaker 1: Even after his season last year, head coach Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: recently discussed what areas he thinks Foles has improved on.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he has gotten better. Obviously, he
Speaker 1: had an outstanding year last year, you know, to do
Speaker 1: what he did from a statistical standpoint, to do what
Speaker 1: he did from a leadership standpoint, I've seen him improving
Speaker 1: a lot of different areas. I think he's a lot
Speaker 1: more accord. I think he's a better decision maker than
Speaker 1: he was a year ago at this time. Offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Past Schermer says that Fules has been making great efforts
Speaker 1: during camp and is using it as a chance to
Speaker 1: polish his skills. I think he's going through this camp
Speaker 1: just like he did the spring, trying to develop his
Speaker 1: craft and get better at all the things necessary to
Speaker 1: play quarterback within our offense. And so that's just a
Speaker 1: continuation of that. Foles and the rest of the starters
Speaker 1: will be sidelined for Tomorrow Knight's game against the New
Speaker 1: York Jets as they look to prepare for Week one
Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Aguars. You can catch tomorrow night's game
Speaker 1: locally on six ABC or nationally on NFL Network at
Speaker 1: seven pm. For the last Player in Focus, I'm Melissa Kelly.
Speaker 1: I'll back to you guys in the studio. Great stuff there, Melissa.
Speaker 1: As always, we thank you very much for the Player
Speaker 1: in Focus feature, and we thank you for joining us
Speaker 1: for these many weeks here on Inside Training Camp presented
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Speaker 1: is over the preseason. Family tomorrow against the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: and again you can watch it locally on six ABC
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and catch everything right here, including the postgame
Speaker 1: interviews right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. After that, Chris,
Speaker 1: we get down to fifty three players on Saturday by
Speaker 1: four pm, and who knows what happens between then and
Speaker 1: Monday when the Eagles return to practice. Hectic time for Gerald,
Speaker 1: manager High Roseman, head coach Chip Kelly and the personnel
Speaker 1: staff as a look to turn the bottom of the
Speaker 1: roster to try to solidify that part of the team,
Speaker 1: to try to bringing players who can help this team
Speaker 1: not just in a short term, but the long term
Speaker 1: as well. So it will be a very active weekend
Speaker 1: for the Eagles before back in business on Monday preparing
Speaker 1: for jacking. Yeah we cannot wait. But first again against
Speaker 1: the Jets on Thursday night. For Christ McPherson, I'm Dave Spidero.
Speaker 1: We thank you for joining us on inside training Camp
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