Speaker 1: Good evening, everyone, Welcome to the postgame show for Jami Barrico.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris mccreers alongside I A greased the Eagles win
Speaker 1: over the Miami Dolphins by score thirty eight to thirty one.
Speaker 1: A wild game, wild scene there at Lincoln Financial Field,
Speaker 1: as it's the last home preseason game for the Eagles
Speaker 1: and also the last time we're going to see the
Speaker 1: starters until September tenth, which is just seventeen days away,
Speaker 1: when the Eagles opened the regular season against Washington. So
Speaker 1: great to see the Eagles get the win, Marcus Johnson
Speaker 1: getting the game winning touchdown from Matt mcgloyin to cap
Speaker 1: things off. But let's talk about the starters, like because
Speaker 1: that's what everyone's gonna want to talk about. What did
Speaker 1: you think overall offense defense as they kind of put
Speaker 1: an end to the preseason. I'll start with the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, because I think that was the
Speaker 1: side of the football that was coming into this game
Speaker 1: under the bigger microscope. Defensive played well for the first
Speaker 1: couple of games. Most fans wanted to see the offense
Speaker 1: open it up a little bit, see if Carson can
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field. To Ali Shon or Tory,
Speaker 1: and that's what you got in that first half, I
Speaker 1: mean the first quarter. That's what you wanted to see.
Speaker 1: You wanted to see how this offense can be explosive,
Speaker 1: get yardage and chunk plays. They were able to do that,
Speaker 1: ran the ball with somewhat successful degree. Still a few
Speaker 1: issues on the offensive line that they still need to
Speaker 1: clean up. But I thought when you're just looking at
Speaker 1: the quarterback, receivers in the running back, the skill position
Speaker 1: guys that first team, I thought they all answered the
Speaker 1: bell tonight. The Alshon Jeffrey touchdown was interesting considering what
Speaker 1: happened with the fact that he had the injury, the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, and there are questions about whether or not
Speaker 1: he was on the same wavelength and had seen rapport
Speaker 1: needed with Carson Wentz. But on that touchdown through in particular,
Speaker 1: Wentz a great job of showing patience in the pocket,
Speaker 1: allowing Jeffrey to get by the defender and then throwing
Speaker 1: the ball as soon as he was open. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I mean, you can't under you can't
Speaker 1: overstate how important practice is. You know, it's one thing
Speaker 1: not to play in preseason games that's sort of a
Speaker 1: little bit of an epidemic around the league. Stars don't
Speaker 1: play in preseason games. That's more than acceptable, but to
Speaker 1: practice time is what you need to get your chemistry down.
Speaker 1: And al Shan practice in a full week this week,
Speaker 1: going up against the Dolphins in practice, I think that
Speaker 1: brought out a little bit of us since the urgency
Speaker 1: in him. I was out there for a few practices.
Speaker 1: You certainly was, and you could tell that he and
Speaker 1: Carson were starting to build that chemistry and it's great
Speaker 1: to see them take it from the practice field to
Speaker 1: the playing field. And early in the game they made
Speaker 1: a conscious suffer to get number seventeen the ball. The
Speaker 1: touchdown play was a beautiful design play. They faked the
Speaker 1: bubble screen out, the elson through the slot, the corner
Speaker 1: jumps up, and then, like you said, Carson did a
Speaker 1: nice job of being patient and allowing Alshan to uncover
Speaker 1: through that window and through a nice little pitching catch
Speaker 1: to him, al Shoon walks into the end zone. That's
Speaker 1: something that we all been waiting to see Alshan catch
Speaker 1: his first touchdown pass from Carson, and in their final
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal before they take on the Redskins. It was
Speaker 1: great to see that tonight. Indeed. Okay, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Doug Pearson and the quarterback Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz in just a little bit. But first we're gonna
Speaker 1: send it over to for the first time and welcome
Speaker 1: in Eagles Insire Dave Spider, who was on the sidelines
Speaker 1: for the Eagles Network preseason broadcast, and Spuds, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the offense here. Your thoughts of what you saw
Speaker 1: alf Carson Wentz? Uh well, all right, we do have
Speaker 1: him here, all right, So, Spuds, we're talking about Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz and what he showed here in his final performance
Speaker 1: before we get to see him on September tenth against Washington.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the first team offense tonights?
Speaker 1: A better job. They got the running game going at bit,
Speaker 1: they threw the ball down the field, They found Tory
Speaker 1: Smith and got him involved in the past game. And
Speaker 1: of course you talked about the red zone touchdown to
Speaker 1: al Shan Jeffrey. You know, the question I have is
Speaker 1: kind of throw it back at you, guys. What will
Speaker 1: we be talking about from this game when the regular
Speaker 1: season begins. Obviously, the biggest stories of the Eagles go
Speaker 1: through three games and they're healthy, and that's really all
Speaker 1: that matters. There is a lot to clean up. Of course,
Speaker 1: they will game plan that will change things significantly. I
Speaker 1: take from the preseason with the starters that these weapons
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, with Legarrett Blunt at running back, it
Speaker 1: is a different dimension here added to this offense. It
Speaker 1: is a dynamic offense. Last year, it was very difficult
Speaker 1: to get that chunk play. This year you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of it with that revamped wide receiver. Course,
Speaker 1: so I thought Carson was up and down in the preseason,
Speaker 1: too many giveaways, but he got the ball down the
Speaker 1: field tonight to Tory Smith. He converted in the red
Speaker 1: zone to Alishan Jeffrey. I agree with what I said.
Speaker 1: The offensive line has to be better, But hey, guess what.
Speaker 1: From this point forward, that group of five is preparing
Speaker 1: not for the New York Jets next week, they're preparing
Speaker 1: for a very difficult Washington Redskins front on September tenth.
Speaker 1: So there is some time to get all this right,
Speaker 1: the chemistry down, the timing, the consistency, and get this
Speaker 1: offense rate where it wants to be for the regular season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can't go on to stay today. The importance of
Speaker 1: trying to get plays in chunk yardage. It's just too
Speaker 1: difficult to try to march down the field on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis ten twelve plays and you hope that you
Speaker 1: get a touchdown. That's too hard to do in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to get plays in chunks. Tory Smith
Speaker 1: really it seemed like it was his first target this
Speaker 1: preseason and he was able to take big time advantage
Speaker 1: of that. Was great to see him getting the end zone.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think, like when I think about
Speaker 1: Tory Smith, I remember when the Eagles signed him, there
Speaker 1: were a lot of questions ken Tory Smith still get
Speaker 1: down the field. What happened in San Francisco. These last
Speaker 1: couple of years, we've seen in practice, in training camp
Speaker 1: and now in the preseason here that Tory Smith can
Speaker 1: get behind defenses, can stretch a secondary, and can really
Speaker 1: open up things underneath. Really strong performance from Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: catching the football tonight. I like the way Carson spread
Speaker 1: the football around. Didn't get Nelson Agilore involved, but that
Speaker 1: will come. I just think this offense, if the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage is worn by the Eagles can be extremely dynamic,
Speaker 1: as dynamic as we've seen Eagles offense in many, many,
Speaker 1: many years. Dave Tonight, Wendell Smallwood made his preseason debut,
Speaker 1: and I thought he brought a lot of juice to
Speaker 1: the run game. He was able to draw the face
Speaker 1: mask penalty that really got the offense going there. What
Speaker 1: did you see from Smallwood? The second year back out
Speaker 1: West Virginia. Totally agree with you, Chris. You know, he
Speaker 1: is the burst back. He is the guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: give you that juice to and through the hole. He's
Speaker 1: gonna make people miss. And so I liked what I
Speaker 1: see from Wendell Smallwood. I think everybody has liked what
Speaker 1: they've seen from him when he's on the field. He
Speaker 1: just has to stay healthy. So if the Eagles can
Speaker 1: work Smallwood into the rotation, and I actually think that
Speaker 1: Smallwood will lead this team in rushing in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: that Blunt will be the short yardage back. I think
Speaker 1: the offense can run just enough, maybe not great, but
Speaker 1: they can run just enough to make defenses respect the
Speaker 1: threat of a run game and take some pressure off
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz. The Eagles don't need wins to throw
Speaker 1: the ball six hundred and seven times again, they need
Speaker 1: to have a running game that they can rely on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we may not have a thousand yard rusher amongst our
Speaker 1: top three guys, but I think back to the year
Speaker 1: two thousand and three day and we had a pretty
Speaker 1: good three headed monster trio there. And I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: you who led us in rushing. All I know is
Speaker 1: we had three very good running backs and they did
Speaker 1: a great job of feeding whichever back was hot and
Speaker 1: using them different dynamics. I can sort of see that
Speaker 1: with this trio running backs as well. We may not
Speaker 1: have a guy who rushes way over a thousand yards,
Speaker 1: but you may have three running backs they are very
Speaker 1: effective in his offense, and as long as they move
Speaker 1: the chains, that's okay by me, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: okay by his coaching staff. I believe it was Buck
Speaker 1: Halter who led the team back here, and I actually
Speaker 1: went back to two thousand and I can We talked
Speaker 1: about this before the game when the Eagles really struggled.
Speaker 1: I think du Stanley got hurt and Darnell Autry had
Speaker 1: some carries and Stanley Pritchett had some carries, and then
Speaker 1: Chris Warren came in late in the season and the
Speaker 1: Eagles win eleven and five. I believe in won a
Speaker 1: playoff game. I think so you know you can do it.
Speaker 1: If you are winning the line of scrimmage, You're gonna
Speaker 1: run the football no matter who the back is. Now,
Speaker 1: the Eagles do not have this, you know, game changing
Speaker 1: running back. But if they can keep Smallwood healthy, if
Speaker 1: they can mix in Darren Sproles, and if they can
Speaker 1: get Blunt in the north south role. We talked about
Speaker 1: it last week. Why all these tosses to le Garrett Blunt.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles now know that he is the
Speaker 1: north south back and Smallwood is gonna attack the edges,
Speaker 1: and then Darren Spros will do a little bit of both. Yep.
Speaker 1: I want to go to the other side of the
Speaker 1: ball real quick. I want to look at the defense
Speaker 1: a little bit of reality check for the fans tonight.
Speaker 1: We thought we had the eighty five Bears defense based
Speaker 1: on these first two games. But I'm actually okay with
Speaker 1: what I saw tonight because I think this is the
Speaker 1: best offense they've seen, the best quarterback they've seen, in
Speaker 1: the preseason, and so it keeps them on their toes,
Speaker 1: gives them something to go back in the film room
Speaker 1: to watch. And you know, sometimes when you get a
Speaker 1: little overconfident about what you've done in these preseason games,
Speaker 1: you need a little bit of humble power to bring
Speaker 1: you back down and keep you even killed. We gave
Speaker 1: up a couple of big plays to night run game,
Speaker 1: man passing game, but nothing too serious that I would
Speaker 1: be concerned about. How about you, what did you see
Speaker 1: out there defensively? Well, maybe not the eighty five Bears,
Speaker 1: but what about the second coming of Lawrence Taylor as
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks. Michael Kendricks reinvents his career here. I mean,
Speaker 1: somehow Jim Schwartz has to use him and play to
Speaker 1: his strengths. We've seen Michael Kendricks play down hill and
Speaker 1: be very effective. I think, I honestly, teams will now
Speaker 1: copy what they saw against Ronald Darby here, throw the
Speaker 1: ball up to big, tall receivers and have a jump ball,
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty ball. So the Eagles have to find
Speaker 1: a way to protect Ronald Darby there in those instances.
Speaker 1: But I just think Darby makes up big difference early
Speaker 1: pass breakup. Vinny Curry starts things off with the strip
Speaker 1: sack and Fletcher Cox falls on it, sets up the touchdown.
Speaker 1: I think the defense is in a lot better shape.
Speaker 1: My be concern on defense. Who is the backup middle linebacker.
Speaker 1: We saw Nagy good, we saw Joe Walker, makes him
Speaker 1: placed on Cherry had the big interception. If the Eagles
Speaker 1: can find depth at linebacker, particularly in the middle, I
Speaker 1: think they're good enough on the back end now and
Speaker 1: there's certainly good enough upfront to be a really have
Speaker 1: a greeking defense that Jim Schwartz wants to bring to
Speaker 1: the table every week. A Grease Spuds, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Make sure to read on the inside column to recap
Speaker 1: everything from the Eagles win over the Minami Dolphins. Will
Speaker 1: be up in just a little bit here on Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagle dot Com. Dave, thank you very much. So like
Speaker 1: a lot to unpack there. So going back to the defense,
Speaker 1: Vinnie Curry, you know Derek Barnett started tonight by the way,
Speaker 1: left defensive end. You know Brandon Graham injured, has the
Speaker 1: elbow injury, not gonna play until the start of regular season,
Speaker 1: will be fine. So you got Barnett out there. It
Speaker 1: was sort of a message being sent to Vay Curry,
Speaker 1: like this is the night you've really got to step
Speaker 1: up your game, and I think he delivered in a
Speaker 1: big way, no doubt about it. Listen, when you when
Speaker 1: you add talent to a certain position and now it
Speaker 1: seems like you have an abundance of it, that's going
Speaker 1: to raise the level of play, or it should raise
Speaker 1: the level of play of everybody in that meeting room.
Speaker 1: And the most talented position we have won this roster,
Speaker 1: I believe, is the defensive line. I mean, those guys
Speaker 1: are going to be fighting for snaps. Nothing is going
Speaker 1: to be given to you. Everything is going to be earned.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I'm not surprised Vinny Curry knows
Speaker 1: this is the last opportunity he's going to get to
Speaker 1: show what he can do. And he's out there against
Speaker 1: Larremie Tutsu, Larmy Tusso people forget could have been the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick a year ago if it had
Speaker 1: not been for that snap food right before the draft
Speaker 1: that he got called in. But that's a good player
Speaker 1: that Benny Curry was going up against, and so it
Speaker 1: was good to see Benny Curry, get back there, get
Speaker 1: a sack on Jay Cutler, get the turnover ball. Rolling
Speaker 1: for the defense, I have no major concerns about our
Speaker 1: defensive line. I think we got a lot of talent
Speaker 1: there and they're gonna push each other week in and
Speaker 1: week out. It may be this guy who has the
Speaker 1: best matchup, so he may shine this week and it
Speaker 1: may be a different guy the following week. They're all
Speaker 1: gonna play well. I'd be surprised if one guy is
Speaker 1: like the clear, clear dominant player on that D line.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of talent there. I'm not concerned at all.
Speaker 1: But the defensive line, it's just gonna be a matter
Speaker 1: of when you have to get down to the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster. Howard Horry, Roseman, Joe Douglas gonna sort
Speaker 1: everything out to figure out which guy's to keep it,
Speaker 1: which guys are gonna allow to go on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: So it is a preseason for the Eagles. But I
Speaker 1: would think that Malory Reason might quick the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame duo. They're always in mid season form, so we
Speaker 1: want to provide an access look at what it's like
Speaker 1: to be in the booth with them as the biggest
Speaker 1: plays of the game are going on. We present to
Speaker 1: you Merrill camp Cutler takes the snap. He looks he's hit.
Speaker 1: He fumbles the football, and I think the Eagles haven't
Speaker 1: fumble recovered by Futcher Cock if Benny Curry. This time
Speaker 1: Merrill coming off the edge and he just blows around
Speaker 1: the left tackle and he gets to Jay Cutler. Football
Speaker 1: comes out going back the other way. Gwentz calling for
Speaker 1: the football, takes the snap. He steps up here, it
Speaker 1: comes to rush. He is going deep looking for Tory Smith.
Speaker 1: He hasn't touch down. That's what I wanted to see.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins go to a four man front this time.
Speaker 1: It's well protected by that big offensive line, and Tory
Speaker 1: Smith just runs by the secondary. That's called taking the
Speaker 1: top off of the defense. That's why they got color
Speaker 1: Smith slot to the near side. Gent looks Fires complete
Speaker 1: Jeffrey touchdown. Quick slants. Hey, he looked out the first wind,
Speaker 1: it wasn't there. He reset. He drills him on the
Speaker 1: slant route in an easy touchdown. Carson went to all
Speaker 1: Sean Jeffrey. I like seeing that number seventeen catching the football.
Speaker 1: Floor fires with a quick slant. It is deflected, it
Speaker 1: intercepted and running across the fifteen, the ten, the five,
Speaker 1: and it for a touchdown. Has Michael Kendricks has third
Speaker 1: interception of the season and again offer the deflection. Michael
Speaker 1: Kendricks seems to be that guy Johnny on the spot
Speaker 1: this season and this preseason at least gets the interception
Speaker 1: on the deflection rising into the end zone. He's having
Speaker 1: fun this preseason though. That was a fun feature right there.
Speaker 1: So on that last touchdown by Michael Kendricks, obviously he's
Speaker 1: gonna get the craft for making the play and using
Speaker 1: his athleticabilly to get to the house. But still CJ.
Speaker 1: Smith someone who's battling for one of those corner spots.
Speaker 1: It looks like the top three at this point it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Ronald Darby, Jale Mills, and I would say
Speaker 1: Patrick Robinson seems to be pretty says the number one
Speaker 1: slot guy at this point. So you're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out for Seul Douglas. You know who's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the mix? Is c J. Smith gonna still be someone
Speaker 1: who can be counted upon. Jalen Watkins had an interception.
Speaker 1: He's been moved to cornerback pretty much on a full
Speaker 1: time basis So great for c J. Smith to battle there,
Speaker 1: to create the pass breakup to allow Kendricks to get
Speaker 1: the pick. Sex. Yeah, no doubt about it. And c J.
Speaker 1: Smith has come a long way from being undrafted last
Speaker 1: year to where he is this year. Certainly put into
Speaker 1: the mix to see if he could fight for you know,
Speaker 1: one of those four or five defensive backs that you
Speaker 1: want the Eagles to keep. It's gonna be tough for you.
Speaker 1: You know, rob Brooks is still in the mix. They
Speaker 1: want to get him healthy. He's a slot guy. The
Speaker 1: thing with Patrick Robinson a he's a veteran b He
Speaker 1: seemed like he can play outside or inside if need be.
Speaker 1: And c J. Smith right now, it's just Black's top
Speaker 1: end speed. He's more of an outside guy, smart player
Speaker 1: in position. But if you're getting the pinch and someone
Speaker 1: goes down, I'm not sure how much confidence I have
Speaker 1: And putting c J. Smith out there against the likes
Speaker 1: of Dash, Brian Odell Beckham Junior guys like that, you
Speaker 1: kind of want somebody if they don't have all the
Speaker 1: top level attributes that you look for in the corner,
Speaker 1: say like for example, Patrick Robinson, may not have, but
Speaker 1: Patrick Robinson has the experience, He has the savvy of
Speaker 1: a veteran. He has, you know, the knowledge of going
Speaker 1: up against these guys, whereas c J. Smith is still
Speaker 1: a little raw. And so this is a big year
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. This isn't rebuilding. You know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to win right now. It's just gonna be tough for
Speaker 1: CJ to crack that active roster. Wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: he's back on the practice squad again this year, because
Speaker 1: I think he's worth keeping around and continuing to develop,
Speaker 1: because I think he does have the ability to play
Speaker 1: in this league. He's just not very fast, and so
Speaker 1: he's gonna need to rely on technique and experience to
Speaker 1: have success in this league. Take me through the mind
Speaker 1: of a linebacker for a second. Why do you think
Speaker 1: Kendricks has all of a sudden been able to put
Speaker 1: everything together? Is as simple as saying, Jim Schwartz understands
Speaker 1: him a little bit more and knows what situations to
Speaker 1: health thrive him. No, I think it's more or less.
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks understands what Jim Schwartz wants out of his defense,
Speaker 1: wants what he wants from that specific position, and it's
Speaker 1: allowing Michael to play a lot freer. He's not thinking
Speaker 1: as much, just letting his athletic ability take over. And listen,
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks back in twenty twelve twenty thirteen found himself
Speaker 1: around the football a lot. That's one thing he had
Speaker 1: going for him is his instincts, and he's certainly fast
Speaker 1: enough to make plays. And I think what you're seeing
Speaker 1: down is a guy who's just playing with confidence and
Speaker 1: just letting his natural abilities take over as opposed to
Speaker 1: being sort of robotic when he's out there playing and
Speaker 1: trying to think his way through every play. He's being
Speaker 1: able to play a lot freer. And although you shouldn't
Speaker 1: take anything away from the production that he's put out
Speaker 1: there on the field, but you're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who has a lot of starts under his belt, season
Speaker 1: experience out there against the second and third string guys,
Speaker 1: so you kind of expect a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's still a positive sign that he
Speaker 1: finds himself around the football all the time. And that's
Speaker 1: a coach's dream. From from a defensive standpoint, you want
Speaker 1: a guy who has a nose for the football and
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz, he's gonna have to put his thinking cap
Speaker 1: on and find a way to try to implement Michael
Speaker 1: Kendricks in his defense because I think it's another playmaker
Speaker 1: that he has that he just has to put the use.
Speaker 1: What's the thing is last year, I forget the exact
Speaker 1: tole It's like twenty seven percent snaps on defense that
Speaker 1: he was out in the field, whereas in previous years
Speaker 1: he was a vital component of the defense, always out
Speaker 1: there in the base unit. So obviously he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be the first team nickel that's gonna reduce his snaps.
Speaker 1: So he's got to find a way to do something
Speaker 1: productive when he's on the field. And he's taken the
Speaker 1: approach where, look, coaches, you gotta put me on the field.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I can to put my best
Speaker 1: put forward and say, if you don't want to play
Speaker 1: here on the field, that's on you, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do everything I can to give you the impression that
Speaker 1: I need to be out there. I think he's taken
Speaker 1: the right approach to it this offseason. I know he
Speaker 1: kind of made some waves when he said that he
Speaker 1: had wanted a trade, but it seems like ever since
Speaker 1: that happened, no, well that's not happening obviously, but ever
Speaker 1: since he made those comments about you know, I requested
Speaker 1: a trade, it didn't happen. You know, he could have
Speaker 1: kind of taken a step back and allow his play
Speaker 1: to suffer, And it seems like he's using it as
Speaker 1: fuel to motivate him to be able to say, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to force my way to be
Speaker 1: on the field with this defense. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: and he needs to be commended form that, I think
Speaker 1: to a standpoint because as a professional athlete, especially when
Speaker 1: you have the ability that Michael Kendricks has, you want
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show it. And it can be frustrating
Speaker 1: and you can sort of get down on yourself and
Speaker 1: you can kind of drift away mentally, and Michael Keintricks
Speaker 1: could have very easily have done that. But he's come
Speaker 1: in here with the right attitude, with the right mindset,
Speaker 1: and he's basically from my perspective as saying, where anytime
Speaker 1: I'm mouth there on the field, I'm gonna make enough
Speaker 1: plays to make them want me out here on the
Speaker 1: field more as opposed to soaking and really detaching himself
Speaker 1: from the team, wishing he was somewhere else. I liked
Speaker 1: his mindset that he seems to be all in here.
Speaker 1: He's here, he seems to be here mentally and physically,
Speaker 1: and he's making plays. And that's a good thing for
Speaker 1: the Birds because here's the thing. You never know when
Speaker 1: your opportunity is going to come for you to be
Speaker 1: out there for all the time. Injuries happen every game,
Speaker 1: any play, and Michael Kendricks is a good football player
Speaker 1: and is still young, and you can never have too
Speaker 1: many good football players. So I thought it was good
Speaker 1: for the Eagles not to have Jordan Hicks out there tonight,
Speaker 1: so you can try to figure out. You know what
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks is bringing to the football team, you know
Speaker 1: what Brandon Graham is bringing to the football team. So
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out what's gonna go on from
Speaker 1: a death perspective at linebacker. As Dave said when we
Speaker 1: talked to him a few moments ago, they need to
Speaker 1: figuret who that backup middle linebacker is going to be.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the questions that we're going
Speaker 1: to be looking to answer in this final preseason game.
Speaker 1: But Derek Barnett haven't talked a whole about him because
Speaker 1: I think Vinny Curry was the one who made the
Speaker 1: flash plays out there tonight for the defensive line. What
Speaker 1: did you think seeing the rookie out there? And it
Speaker 1: was interesting to me that he was at the left side,
Speaker 1: whereas you would have thought, if you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: get him on the field, you would put him at
Speaker 1: the right side position, where he played most of his
Speaker 1: college ball at Tennessee. Yeah, what a difficult thing for
Speaker 1: him is when you're a backup player, you got to
Speaker 1: be able to do both things right. You gotta play
Speaker 1: from the left end the right side. Vinny is the
Speaker 1: right starting defensive end, so you want to sort of
Speaker 1: keep him in his comfort zone. So they kept him
Speaker 1: at the right side. With Brandon being out, is natural
Speaker 1: for Derek to going there and have to fill in
Speaker 1: for Brandon Graham. And that's the tough part about being
Speaker 1: a rookie. And then when you're not a starter out there,
Speaker 1: you're a rotational player. You gotta do whatever it is
Speaker 1: called for. And tonight he got a chance to go
Speaker 1: up against first team right tackle. You got a chance
Speaker 1: to go up against the first team right tackle. So
Speaker 1: you know, Derek Barnett again, if it's almost you can't
Speaker 1: ask him to keep the pace up that he had
Speaker 1: the first two preseason got on the would end up
Speaker 1: with like thirty sacks before the season is over with,
Speaker 1: So that's impossible to do. But it was good experience
Speaker 1: for him to be out there with that first unit,
Speaker 1: more importantly, going up against that Miami Dolphins first team
Speaker 1: offensive line, so he can get a feel of what
Speaker 1: it's like to be up there, be out there against
Speaker 1: a higher level of competition. No concerns for me. Again,
Speaker 1: I look at our defensive line, not as a starting
Speaker 1: four necessarily, but as a starting eight. They got eight
Speaker 1: men on that defensive line that they're going to rotate,
Speaker 1: and that's what you need to have to be successful
Speaker 1: in this league. I'm gonna stay on the defense. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to cornerback or Ronald Darby. Okay, he had
Speaker 1: the one nice pass breakup where you see that anticipation,
Speaker 1: you see athleticism, and it just pops out at you
Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, that's something that no one in
Speaker 1: the secondary had before he arrived in Philadelphia. Now he
Speaker 1: got beat a couple of times deep tonight. But to me,
Speaker 1: I was not done fine with it. But he's still
Speaker 1: right there with the receiver. It's not like he's being
Speaker 1: toasted and the receiver's five yards down the field of them.
Speaker 1: He wasn't not a place he didn't get beat. It
Speaker 1: was one of those fifty fifty balls. And listen, you
Speaker 1: can't teach hey, No, DeVante Parks has three and he
Speaker 1: hasn't a boy about four or five inches And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, good throw by Jay Cutler to put it
Speaker 1: out there and allow his receiver to go up and
Speaker 1: make a play. That's what we're gonna do without Sean Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Right when you got a five eleven six foot corner
Speaker 1: on him, we're gonna still throw it up there until him. Um.
Speaker 1: You know the one thing I said about this play, Uh,
Speaker 1: the the Miami Dolphins has players who get paid as
Speaker 1: well to make plays. Indeed, let's send it back over
Speaker 1: to the lake head coach Doug Pearson now dressing the media,
Speaker 1: did you see what you wanted to see? Off? Think
Speaker 1: took the first team and then I did. I did.
Speaker 1: I was pleased with obviously the way the way they played.
Speaker 1: Um again, um, got great work, uh for two days
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, Uh, you know, Monday and Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: and uh got a couple of scores, you know, Tory
Speaker 1: and Allshambo. So happy to uh get them in there
Speaker 1: and get them out joy sessions kind of scale back
Speaker 1: what you wanted from the first and to feel like
Speaker 1: you had to play as much. Yeah, they got a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of great work for two days
Speaker 1: and and you know, you think about it, we don't
Speaker 1: really play full football games on forty eight hours rest.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know they they Monday Tuesday was was
Speaker 1: pretty intense for for for both teams. Um, I felt
Speaker 1: like we got some good work. So uh, that's that
Speaker 1: was part of the reason why why I was able
Speaker 1: to pull them out sooner. Doug, assuming this is in
Speaker 1: for Carson and the starters for the preseason, do you
Speaker 1: feel good enough what you've seen, especially with those new receivers,
Speaker 1: you know, both getting touchdowns today. Yeah, I do. I do.
Speaker 1: I feel real comfortable with where they're at. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: their focus obviously now is is uh in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and UM, you know they can get some
Speaker 1: get some really good work, you know, one on one
Speaker 1: work and in the in these next few practices and
Speaker 1: and um, you know, kind of get ready for the
Speaker 1: regular season. So happy to get both those guys tonight
Speaker 1: in the end zone and uh kind of kind of
Speaker 1: catapult the offense, Uh, you know into the regular season,
Speaker 1: the offensive line obviously tech Carson as well as you like.
Speaker 1: It's another thing, what was it? What were the problems?
Speaker 1: We got a lot of a lot of pressure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of unscouted blitzeres um again you know,
Speaker 1: a preseason game things that they didn't show obviously, even
Speaker 1: and uh, because we didn't do any blitz periods in
Speaker 1: our in our sessions, uh the other day, and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of unscouted looks. But you know
Speaker 1: it's it's no excuse. We've we've got to be ready
Speaker 1: for for for everything and anything. And uh, just a
Speaker 1: lot of quick pressure on Carson. Um. A couple of
Speaker 1: times he was able to make some make some tremendous
Speaker 1: plays and get the ball out of his hand. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, we got to do better obviously
Speaker 1: in that situation and learn from it and move on.
Speaker 1: Would you have bet been to play Bader and not
Speaker 1: been fold the pressure, Um, I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think I would have made the decision at that point.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Yeah, how tough is it to
Speaker 1: choose the running back posistione. But the way it looks
Speaker 1: like the finals of guy guys might find uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think that first of all, were I
Speaker 1: was excited to get Windel out there obviously get some
Speaker 1: get some touches and and get him back, you know,
Speaker 1: working with the with the first unit and um la
Speaker 1: Garrett had a had a fine game and the touches
Speaker 1: that he got and and and really, um you saw
Speaker 1: it's not a kind of you know, the style of
Speaker 1: runner that that he is as well, and and there
Speaker 1: and they're two different guys. I mean. The thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the that's the beauty of the run
Speaker 1: game is you can you can mix and match your
Speaker 1: run game with the personnel that you have, so um
Speaker 1: and then then you throw in Darren, you know, Sprowls
Speaker 1: and um you know, it's it's great to have those
Speaker 1: three guys. I think it really uh gives us um
Speaker 1: I think a little bit of a from from a
Speaker 1: game planning standpoint, obviously, um an advantage to get those
Speaker 1: three guys on the field. Choose between they're making it tough.
Speaker 1: I challenge the challenge the young guys tonight after the
Speaker 1: game that you know, this next week is going to
Speaker 1: be important, and uh, I want them to make it
Speaker 1: hard on us as a as a coaching staff and
Speaker 1: a personnel department. Um. And and that's that's all we
Speaker 1: can ask is is make it tough on us and
Speaker 1: and uh but at the end of the day, we've
Speaker 1: got to select the fifty three that uh uh is
Speaker 1: gonna gonna travel with Washington three games now without fools.
Speaker 1: What's going on with his elbow? And then what's the
Speaker 1: play for him this week? Again? Just uh, um, you
Speaker 1: know with him, it got a little sore uh during
Speaker 1: the week with with the Dolphins, a lot of throws,
Speaker 1: you know, because he missed so much time early in
Speaker 1: camp and then going coming back and and got more
Speaker 1: more throws, more intense throws against the Dolphins, and just
Speaker 1: got a little little sore on him, and so I
Speaker 1: just didn't want to push him, you know. Just again,
Speaker 1: the more more rest uh that you can get on
Speaker 1: that elbow, the better. And um, you know, I'm confident
Speaker 1: with with Nick having coached him in the past and
Speaker 1: being a veteran quarterback and understanding our system. So UM,
Speaker 1: you know the rest will will definitely help him. Would
Speaker 1: you like to see him next about I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't made up my mind yet where I'm at
Speaker 1: with that. Um you know, Uh, it's kind of where
Speaker 1: I'm at right now with that one yellow receivers well,
Speaker 1: similar to the lotting time position. And uh are those
Speaker 1: guys making it difficult markets price, uh potentially for that
Speaker 1: last spot they are? Um, and again it's uh, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: I can remember myself being in that situation, even as
Speaker 1: a third or fourth string quarterback, just just fighting and
Speaker 1: clawn for everything and and and the exciting thing is
Speaker 1: these guys are making plays when they're in the game,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know this this next week is going
Speaker 1: to be important for all those guys that that are
Speaker 1: vying for those positions. And and again it goes back to, um,
Speaker 1: make it hard on us for for those final roster spots,
Speaker 1: and and UM, it's good to see all those guys.
Speaker 1: And it's good to see Bryce back out there again
Speaker 1: and playing, and um, you know Greg Ward and Mac
Speaker 1: and all those guys. Marcus had a nice touchdown reception tonight,
Speaker 1: So UM, it's good competition right there at that spot.
Speaker 1: You know, the zideline offers a limited viegle. But for Darby,
Speaker 1: they were too big plays game. What should get them
Speaker 1: better upon those plays? Well, I gotta you know, go
Speaker 1: back obviously look at the film and and we can
Speaker 1: decide and make that decision. But um, obviously it was
Speaker 1: a great cat the one over the top of him
Speaker 1: was a great catch. Felt like he was in good position,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. And and just got to track the
Speaker 1: ball and make that play. Obviously, the again the receiver
Speaker 1: made made a tremendous play. Um. And and you know
Speaker 1: these are things in these games that that uh you know, um,
Speaker 1: we'll just go back and look at the film tomorrow
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, make that correction show him, um
Speaker 1: and and and show him how to be better in
Speaker 1: that situation, um, so that it doesn't happen again. One
Speaker 1: to ninety three yard drive. The balance that you had
Speaker 1: is that how you want to the offense to little
Speaker 1: to shoot in terms of that, Yeah, you'd love to
Speaker 1: have that type of balance, you know anytime, um, you know,
Speaker 1: run and pass and and kind of keep the defense
Speaker 1: off off balance a little bit and and get get
Speaker 1: the quarterback on the move and pocket and it was
Speaker 1: great to go down and score and obviously finish off
Speaker 1: that drive. Um. But yeah, that's a that's definitely a
Speaker 1: sort of a blueprint to to what you'd like to
Speaker 1: see during the regular season. Is there anything out of
Speaker 1: the first team offense you want to see that have
Speaker 1: more success with you know, going forward from you know
Speaker 1: what you saw tonight, not really. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the last two weeks really are Our hurry up
Speaker 1: tempo offense was was very good. We were able to
Speaker 1: put pressure on the defense and our guys really, um,
Speaker 1: they practice fast that way and then they're used to
Speaker 1: that and they're comfortable with that, and it gets your
Speaker 1: quarterback in a rhythm and it gets your offense in
Speaker 1: a rhythm. So that was very beneficial. Something we'll obviously
Speaker 1: continue during the regular season. But you know, we've got
Speaker 1: to just clean up some things into protection. You know,
Speaker 1: it goes back to Howard's question there in the protection
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we'll do that. And obviously now
Speaker 1: the focus for them is to get ready for Washington
Speaker 1: in two weeks time. With one today just wing you
Speaker 1: to see him after doing this camp and after the
Speaker 1: day's game. You know, he's he's done. He's done a
Speaker 1: great job, you know, coming in there and and uh
Speaker 1: really starting camp as our third but really playing as
Speaker 1: our number two here in these last few games. And um,
Speaker 1: he's done a nice did a nice job tonight, even
Speaker 1: after the turnover, to bounce back and go down really
Speaker 1: against their their starting defense and score was exciting for
Speaker 1: him and for the offense. Um, he's done a nice job.
Speaker 1: He's done a really nice job. And uh, um again
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's one of those positions where you
Speaker 1: want to see that position play well, and he's done
Speaker 1: a nice job. How much is his game playing for Washington?
Speaker 1: How much is evaluating and using Yeah, it's a fine line,
Speaker 1: you know, because we want to make sure our starters
Speaker 1: are getting a little bit of of some Washington and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, getting starting to think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Redskins a little bit. But at the same time
Speaker 1: as coaches and and and the rest of the team world,
Speaker 1: we're still evaluating. And we got one more preseason game
Speaker 1: left next week up in New York, and and we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that those guys are also ready
Speaker 1: to play. As far as Jarrett partner Alan Port was
Speaker 1: it to get him in there with the ones start.
Speaker 1: I think it's important. Yeah, it's important, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to see him against you know, some some good starting
Speaker 1: um offensive tackles obviously, and and uh it'll be a
Speaker 1: nice uh um you know tomorrow going back and watching
Speaker 1: the tape to just really kind of dive in to
Speaker 1: see how well he did or are some of the
Speaker 1: mistakes he made that we can help him get better
Speaker 1: as well. But it's always good to get get those
Speaker 1: young guys, especially a guy that's going to be in
Speaker 1: the mix with that d line throughout the season. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, getting some good work against some good tackles.
Speaker 1: All right. So there's head coach Doug Pearson addressing the
Speaker 1: media at the link. Finally, the Eagles thirty eight to
Speaker 1: thirty one win over the Miami Dolphins. So a lot
Speaker 1: to get into there, but the starters, especially on offense,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be done until September tenth. And it was
Speaker 1: interesting this came up that the Eagles have the ninety
Speaker 1: man roster. They can keep all ninety players going to
Speaker 1: this final preseason game a week from tonight against the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Were as usually, you had the cutdown
Speaker 1: to seventy five, so you might have to put in
Speaker 1: some guys who are gonna play a lot, are gonna
Speaker 1: have exactly, So now you can just have guys going
Speaker 1: out there who are fighting for those bottom of the
Speaker 1: roster type positions. Yeah, no, go about. I don't know
Speaker 1: this new NFL rule where it's just one final cut. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you can go into that final game with
Speaker 1: all nineties if your players, you don't have to put
Speaker 1: any any players at risk. All right, So we're waiting
Speaker 1: to hear from cornerback Carson Wentz and just a little
Speaker 1: bit at the link following the Eagles win. You know,
Speaker 1: as we're looking at the offense the running back position
Speaker 1: up here we go, we do have Carson Wentz coming
Speaker 1: over now, so let's send it back to the link.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz addressing the media with this game and the
Speaker 1: practices you have in Miami and war idea of where
Speaker 1: you are this campus and you're going to get rid
Speaker 1: of the seat them. Um, you can maybe say that,
Speaker 1: you can maybe say that I think, um, you know,
Speaker 1: getting those couple of days of practicing against them, Um,
Speaker 1: that helped us gage kind of where we're at for
Speaker 1: sure as well. Got some really good situational work and
Speaker 1: the coming out here tonight. UM, we'ren't really sure how
Speaker 1: much we play, but we came out and UM did
Speaker 1: some good things. Obviously, the interception was unfortunate, but UM,
Speaker 1: aside from that, we were moving the ball well. So
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought, things are looking pretty good. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: where do you How do you feel about where you
Speaker 1: are after three? Game was September ten, and stay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel good, you know, I feel confident. I'm thankful
Speaker 1: that for the most part, everyone's pretty healthy too. UM,
Speaker 1: So I think this offense tonight was was a good
Speaker 1: showing for us. Like I said, the interception was unfortunate,
Speaker 1: but we moved the ball well. And UM, for the starters,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to get start getting ready for Washington. You
Speaker 1: only through twenty three passes the whole three preseasons preseason games.
Speaker 1: He's that enough for you? Yeah, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of just the way it works.
Speaker 1: That's preseason football. UM, got lots of work in over camp,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, and UM shoot sixteen games last year,
Speaker 1: I was healthy, so, UM, god, I think good work
Speaker 1: in in the preseason. I don't think it was overkilled,
Speaker 1: but it was a good a good number, and I
Speaker 1: feel confident going forward. I'd just see on the Tories
Speaker 1: spent touchdown pass. Yeah, they were trying to buff coverage
Speaker 1: a little bit and then the safety was trying to
Speaker 1: roll back, but he was kind of flat footed. And
Speaker 1: I know with a guy like Tori, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: sit flat foot, he's gonna run right buy them. So
Speaker 1: UM just gave him a chance and he did the rest.
Speaker 1: Do you recognize or was that the play call going
Speaker 1: into it? Um? That was a play call. I mean
Speaker 1: that's part of the design. Um. And then just the coverage. Um,
Speaker 1: Like I said, they were bluffing it, but they got
Speaker 1: back and uh, Tori to the rest. Obviously the two
Speaker 1: touchdowns today one al sean to how does it feel
Speaker 1: to kind of get them the same page with those
Speaker 1: guys you your two new weapons. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was great. You know, it was great to do it here,
Speaker 1: do it in front of the fans. Fans get to
Speaker 1: get really excited about that. So, um, that's that's really cool.
Speaker 1: You know, I've felt I said it kind of all along.
Speaker 1: I felt really confident in our chemistry with with those guys.
Speaker 1: Um going back to even the spring, but to finally
Speaker 1: do it in a game like situations, it's really good
Speaker 1: to see. We got a lot of ones versus once
Speaker 1: totally the days you were with Dolf practice. Do you
Speaker 1: see that kind of as a one of the recents
Speaker 1: he to play in the best batch. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's part of it. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, we got such a good situational work during
Speaker 1: the week where we didn't have to go full fully live,
Speaker 1: but I've got to see some different looks. I think
Speaker 1: that was part of it. And then just coming out,
Speaker 1: you know and putting the other couple of drives that
Speaker 1: I think it was at ninety three yard drive you
Speaker 1: ended with, and um, I think I think we all
Speaker 1: kind of said we've seen enough and um yeah those
Speaker 1: coaches coaches decision at the end of the day. Though,
Speaker 1: the way the protection protection has been the first three
Speaker 1: games that's following, um yeah, yeah, I mean the protection
Speaker 1: has been has been solid. You know. Some of the
Speaker 1: things that have happened are on me, you know, some
Speaker 1: of the nakeds and stuff. You know, that's just that's football.
Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of the ball. Um. So I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not really concerned about that. I know those
Speaker 1: guys will be rock solid all years. What do you
Speaker 1: have to do personally as well as with the first
Speaker 1: team offense heading into the opener in Washington? What do
Speaker 1: you guys think you need to do to get even
Speaker 1: better going into that that first game. I mean, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I mean I've been saying that kind of
Speaker 1: all week in all camp is just consistency. You know,
Speaker 1: we know we can be dynamic on offense. You know,
Speaker 1: last week came out and we had three three and outs.
Speaker 1: You know that's not that's not our style of football. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we know we can we can be dynamic.
Speaker 1: We've got to be consistent and say ahead of the chains,
Speaker 1: be disciplined last week with some penalties I think we
Speaker 1: had a couple of the nights still, um, but those
Speaker 1: are the biggest things. We just got to keep keep
Speaker 1: honing in on goals throughout the summer and then obviously
Speaker 1: the one tonight to Tory. How much bigger a part
Speaker 1: of the offense do you think that might be this season? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that can be a definitely big part of
Speaker 1: the offense. Um. You know, I think a guy like
Speaker 1: Tory that that can run like that is going to
Speaker 1: open up some things. So whether we actually are completing
Speaker 1: deep balls or he's just kind of UM stretching the
Speaker 1: defense for some underneath stuff to help out UM like
Speaker 1: guys in the slot to help out earth sprawls, you
Speaker 1: name it. I think that's just a big part of
Speaker 1: the offense that we're gonna see kind of expanded on
Speaker 1: a little more holds, click, shooting everything. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought we were moving the ball, well, you know, we
Speaker 1: kind of gotten that that mock no huddle tempo again.
Speaker 1: And as you saw last week, we were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. Last week doing that had had to
Speaker 1: fumble up, which was unfortunate. But tonight the same thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we're all just sometimes when you
Speaker 1: get in those modes, you're you're not thinking as much,
Speaker 1: you're just kind of playing UM and sometimes that can
Speaker 1: be a really good thing for guys. And when we
Speaker 1: know we have the talented players that we have on
Speaker 1: the edges, UM. I think that's a big part of
Speaker 1: our offense. I mean, the interceptions, the Phillips is running
Speaker 1: towards you did you did you have second thoughts developed
Speaker 1: trying to make a tackle? UM, it was. It was interesting.
Speaker 1: I was trying to not get hurt, but UM, yeah
Speaker 1: it was. I'm not not my proudest moment trying to
Speaker 1: make that tackle. He just tiptoed right over me. So
Speaker 1: not my proudest moment. General to play like that. How
Speaker 1: he balance obviously want to make a play and be competitor,
Speaker 1: but also be smart. You just gotta learn. I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I wish I would
Speaker 1: have made the tackle. So that's UM, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: But you know once yeah, I don't know. You just
Speaker 1: try to learn how to balance that in getting back
Speaker 1: that nune to your drive. When you went into tempo,
Speaker 1: he started to get some chunk plays. There was that
Speaker 1: because of tempo, you think or was it to play
Speaker 1: son um, some of both, some of both. I think
Speaker 1: the tempo definitely helps with with those chunk plays. UM,
Speaker 1: because defenses then are usually in kind of their generic looks,
Speaker 1: their base looks, and UM that's when just players go
Speaker 1: make plays. You know, it's UM to some extent, they
Speaker 1: have an idea what we're doing. We kind of know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. It just comes down to players executing.
Speaker 1: And UM, I think that was a good thing tonight.
Speaker 1: It looks like you started to get more comfortable in
Speaker 1: that the crossers. How do you feel where do you
Speaker 1: feel you are as far as making those throws? An,
Speaker 1: that's the area of improvement last year. I feel I
Speaker 1: feel really good with him. You know, I felt I
Speaker 1: say I felt good with him. Last year. Things just happened.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes things, um and games, those things happen.
Speaker 1: So I felt really good all offseason. Felt good tonight. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, shoot, those guys are making some really good
Speaker 1: catches too. Um. They weren't necessarily great throws, but those
Speaker 1: guys gave him a chance. And when you got playmakers
Speaker 1: out there, you just gotta give him a chance. So
Speaker 1: I was good to see. How's the Blitz communication at
Speaker 1: this point? It's been pretty good. It's been pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good than all right, there's quarterback Carson Wentz following his
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Speaker 1: by Rico so Carson Wentz was asked during his press
Speaker 1: conference about what was it like only having I guess
Speaker 1: it was twenty three pass attempts for the entire preseason?
Speaker 1: How is he going to be able to be ready
Speaker 1: for the star of the regular season. Do we forget
Speaker 1: that last year he fractured his ribs in the first
Speaker 1: preseason game. The little bit of action he had was
Speaker 1: sideline for the final three preseason games, and then eight
Speaker 1: days before the regular season was told, buddy, you're now
Speaker 1: the starter because we just traded Sam Bradford. And back
Speaker 1: then he was working with the second and thirdeam units,
Speaker 1: So it's not even like he was able to build
Speaker 1: a rapport with Nelson Agilore, Jordan Matthew Zachertz, all those guys.
Speaker 1: He was working with the backups to the backups at
Speaker 1: that point, and you know what they seem to do
Speaker 1: pretty much all right when the season opened on nine
Speaker 1: to eleven against the Browns. Well, he threw more passes
Speaker 1: last year in the preseason in that one game, in
Speaker 1: the first preseason game, than he did in three games
Speaker 1: this year. So it's a different mindset. You're you got
Speaker 1: a different different level of importance to this season than
Speaker 1: you did at that time last year where he was
Speaker 1: the third stream quarterback. The most important thing for this
Speaker 1: team is to get you to the starting line healthy
Speaker 1: as possible, and so with all the OTA's offseason workouts,
Speaker 1: you know, things of that nature. He's still going to
Speaker 1: get the work in practice every day. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's going to miss practice. So they still have what
Speaker 1: about two weeks a little bit over two weeks before Um,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to step in Washington to take on Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm perfectly fine with the work Carson Wentz has gotten.
Speaker 1: You look around the league, this has become a trend.
Speaker 1: It's not like it was when I played when when really,
Speaker 1: when I came into the league, starters were playing into
Speaker 1: the fourth preseason game. I mean they were, and it's
Speaker 1: gradually declined as the years have gone on to the
Speaker 1: point where it is now. They're there are starters that
Speaker 1: are gonna play opening day that will have only played
Speaker 1: in one preseason game. I mean Cam Newton played the
Speaker 1: night and I think he only had two passing attempts.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna play next week. He'll be ready to
Speaker 1: play the first week. So it's become much more important
Speaker 1: for these teams to get their starters to the starting
Speaker 1: line when the season begins. And Carson Wentz as a quarterback, Uh,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find a more important player on this team.
Speaker 1: And he's healthy. You know, you got Brandon Graham and
Speaker 1: Jordan Higgs banged up, but other than those two and
Speaker 1: they should be ready to go opening day. The best
Speaker 1: thing coming out of training camp for me is that
Speaker 1: we have all twenty two of our starters healthy and
Speaker 1: should be ready to go when the season starts. That's
Speaker 1: the number one concern for coaches when the preseason gets
Speaker 1: here and you're playing and what's basically meaningless preseason games
Speaker 1: for the starters. They want to get these guys to
Speaker 1: the starting line healthy. We're gonna be able to do
Speaker 1: that this year because we need our full compliment of players.
Speaker 1: The challenge for the Eagles is going to be that
Speaker 1: they open the season against an MC East opponent on
Speaker 1: the road. Week two, they gotta go to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: so you got the Indy Reed Doug Pierson matchup, and
Speaker 1: then Week three is your home opener that's against the Giants.
Speaker 1: So you're hoping that there's not a lot of rush
Speaker 1: to shake off at the beginning of the season. That's
Speaker 1: the one reason why teams are using the preseason to
Speaker 1: try to make sure that they're trying to be as
Speaker 1: ready as possible. But it's hard to simulate that speed
Speaker 1: because you can attest this like the difference between the
Speaker 1: preseason and the regular season in terms of what you
Speaker 1: see on the field, no doubt about it. Since the
Speaker 1: urgency is heightened, the speed of the game as much
Speaker 1: faster as a Instead of playing ten or twelve snaps
Speaker 1: versus first team guys in the preseason, now you may
Speaker 1: play fifty or sixty snaps against those guys. So it's
Speaker 1: most certainly a different once you get to the regular season.
Speaker 1: But I tell you something else Doug brought up as
Speaker 1: a coach. They went against the Dolphins a couple of
Speaker 1: days this week in practice. Now, regular training camp practice,
Speaker 1: especially for today's game, isn't as intensified. You can sort
Speaker 1: of get your work done, get through practice, especially when
Speaker 1: you're talking about the third week of the preseason. But
Speaker 1: when you bring a team in to practice against for
Speaker 1: a couple of days, the level of intensity is raised.
Speaker 1: So when Doug mentioned you don't normally play three games
Speaker 1: over the course of seven days, he's right. I mean
Speaker 1: they basically played at the level of intensity of again
Speaker 1: in those two practices that they had against the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins for two straight days, and then to go out
Speaker 1: there and have to play a preseason game to night.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's healthy. Again, that's the number one objective. Indeed,
Speaker 1: that's certainly correct. So we're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 1: here on the postgame show presented by Rico. On the
Speaker 1: other side, we're gonna offer the players who help their
Speaker 1: cause the most in terms of try and make a
Speaker 1: roster spot, and then take a peek at the upcoming
Speaker 1: calendar for the Eagles. So stay tuned. We'll be back
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Speaker 1: more game to go in the preseason, the annuals Dravit
Speaker 1: Ganza against the New York Jets. This time they are
Speaker 1: going to MetLife Stadium. So next Thursday, again, the full
Speaker 1: ninety man roster will be available. You're not going to
Speaker 1: see the starters, and it will be a chance for
Speaker 1: the backups to, you know, put on one last show
Speaker 1: and to try to impress, whether it's the coaches for
Speaker 1: the Eagles or the coaches and personnel people for the
Speaker 1: other thirty one NFL teams once the roster cut down
Speaker 1: day finally comes on September second. Yeah, I mean, a
Speaker 1: couple of young guys are gonna get a chance to
Speaker 1: go out there next week and try to make a
Speaker 1: difficult for the head coaches and the coaches staff to
Speaker 1: make those final decisions. You gotta look at the running
Speaker 1: back spot next week. Gotta like what Corey Clement is
Speaker 1: doing as a player. He's gonna make it difficult on
Speaker 1: these coaches to get rid of him, so that fourth
Speaker 1: preseason game. Early in my career, I look forward to
Speaker 1: the fourth preseason game because that was my opportunity to
Speaker 1: show that I could play defense too. So, you know,
Speaker 1: but as I got older, I didn't want to want
Speaker 1: no parts of that fourth preseason game. So it'll be
Speaker 1: exciting for all the young players. And again, the best
Speaker 1: thing about this fourth preseason game is the new NFL
Speaker 1: rule where you don't have to make cuts this week.
Speaker 1: They go into that fourth game with all ninety players,
Speaker 1: meaning that they won't have to put basically they're too
Speaker 1: deep out there. If they don't want to, they can
Speaker 1: typically go with their third and fourth stringers to try
Speaker 1: to figure out that bottom spot, the bottom spots on
Speaker 1: the roster or even practice squad guys. So it's certainly
Speaker 1: important for the young guys, and those guys want as
Speaker 1: many reps as they can get. I tell you, as
Speaker 1: a young player, I didn't want the first and second
Speaker 1: team out there taking away my reps in that last
Speaker 1: preseason game. I wanted to get as many as I could.
Speaker 1: So as we look toward this final preseason game, who
Speaker 1: do you think helped his cause tonight in terms of
Speaker 1: trying to obtain one of those fifty three roster spots.
Speaker 1: I look at that secondary position, particularly the cornerback position,
Speaker 1: and they're still trying to sort some things out behind
Speaker 1: the starters. Who's going to be the backups, that fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth corner, maybe even a sixth corner, And I go
Speaker 1: with Jalen Watkins. You know, Jalen has been moved around
Speaker 1: a couple of times in his career, from corner to
Speaker 1: safety and back to corner. They're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: where he fits best. That he had a big interception
Speaker 1: in it late in the game to stop the Dolphins
Speaker 1: from scoring a touchdown. There. Certainly, when you're a playmaker
Speaker 1: and you're taking the ball away, that's going to stick
Speaker 1: out in the coach's minds, and it's gonna book come
Speaker 1: down to how effective of a special teams player can
Speaker 1: he be. He certainly knows the secondary positions to the
Speaker 1: from a schematic standpoint, having played corner and safety. If
Speaker 1: he can go out next week, can have another big game,
Speaker 1: he could be that fifth cornerback that they keep on
Speaker 1: his roster. Quite possibly. I'm gonna go two guys here first,
Speaker 1: and obvious one on offense. To me, it was just
Speaker 1: great to see Wendell Smallwood have the performance he had
Speaker 1: and not that there was so much a question about
Speaker 1: his roster spot. I mean, Frank Right, the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: said earlier this week that this guy's a three down
Speaker 1: back in our offense. He's going to have a big role.
Speaker 1: But he looked great in training camp. There was a
Speaker 1: time where la Garrett Blond had the you know, personal issues,
Speaker 1: he had to leave the team for about a week.
Speaker 1: It was during the live hitting practices, and Smallwood took
Speaker 1: advantage of those reps and definitely looked like a guy
Speaker 1: you could put as your primary guy in the backfield.
Speaker 1: The problem was he got hurt after that and missed
Speaker 1: the first two preseason games. Well, we went back and
Speaker 1: saw some of the bursts, you know, we saw some
Speaker 1: of the pass catching ability, the playmaking ability that we
Speaker 1: had seen earlier in camp. Has to brush up on
Speaker 1: the pass part a little bit, but that's going to
Speaker 1: come in time. But nonetheless, still it's great to see
Speaker 1: him and what he can control potentially to the offense
Speaker 1: this season. Mike got in defense, I'm gonna go along
Speaker 1: with the defensive line Elijah Qualls sixth round pick of Washington.
Speaker 1: Remember he missed the whole spring because of that NC
Speaker 1: double A graduation rule. He teamed it with Alex McCallister
Speaker 1: to get his sack there late in the game. Someone
Speaker 1: who's very disruptive was in the backfield team like all
Speaker 1: night that d tackle position. Okay, again, you've got Fletcher Coxon,
Speaker 1: Tim jernikin those guys you know are set desny Vyo
Speaker 1: didn't play tonight, but it has had a very good camp.
Speaker 1: Every every time you asked the coaches who's played well
Speaker 1: in the defensive line, Yo's name comes up. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you figure if he's your three, well, who's gonna be
Speaker 1: your four? Is it gonna be? Are you actively bo Allen? Well,
Speaker 1: he'd be ready to go. Is it gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: Justin Hamilton, who's played and played well at camp here?
Speaker 1: You know, so is it gonna be Qualls? It's you
Speaker 1: know that's it's gonna be some tough decisions there along
Speaker 1: that defensive line. So to me, I gave Elijah Quall
Speaker 1: Calls game ball for tonight. There for in terms of
Speaker 1: stepping up and helping his draft stock or his stock
Speaker 1: for making the fifty three man roster out just a
Speaker 1: little bit better. So I want to touch on one
Speaker 1: day small World real quick. The other thing I loved
Speaker 1: about watching him play tonight is that you forget that
Speaker 1: he has a little power with him. He runs, he's tough,
Speaker 1: he's hard to bring down. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: couple of times where they could have had him down
Speaker 1: for a two or three yard game. He's able to
Speaker 1: break tackles there. You know, you kind of think of
Speaker 1: small Wood is more of a outside the tackles type
Speaker 1: of runners. So he can use his speed, but he
Speaker 1: can run inside the tackles as well, and he can
Speaker 1: get his shoulder square to the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: if he needs to break a tackle to pick up
Speaker 1: those tough yards. It's good to see him do that tonight.
Speaker 1: But you brought up the main thing. It's about the health.
Speaker 1: If he can stay healthy, he's certainly going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of this rushing attack offensively. So tomorrow,
Speaker 1: wip about two o'clock, what are you and Chris Carlin
Speaker 1: going to be fielding calls about how good the offense
Speaker 1: look tonight, that they were able to open it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know Carson through the first two games,
Speaker 1: sort of taking what the defense was given him, getting
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands quick. We got airy yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got pushed the ball down the field. It was
Speaker 1: great to see Torry Smith do what they brought him
Speaker 1: here for and then come on, man, this whole city
Speaker 1: has been waiting on al Sean Jeffery to getting the
Speaker 1: end zone and so it was great to see him
Speaker 1: getting the end zone. We have to talk about that.
Speaker 1: They may nitpick it Ron Darby a little bit, of course,
Speaker 1: but that's Philadelphia. One week you're the hero, the next
Speaker 1: week you're at the top of a discussion. You're probably
Speaker 1: loving all the press attention. Yeah, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: different so different at different tomorrow. If this is when
Speaker 1: you learn you're not in Buffalo exactly, that's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing with that. So that's gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: here on the postgame Show presented by Rico, for all
Speaker 1: of us, here at Eagles Network for Ike Reece, for
Speaker 1: the entire team, I'm Chris McPherson. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: The Eagles come out on top thirty eight to thirty one.
Speaker 1: Make sure you stay tuned for coverage as The team
Speaker 1: gets back on the field over the weekend starting on Saturday,
Speaker 1: so until then, have a great Eagles Night everyone,