Speaker 1: Hello Eagles fans. I'm Chris McPherson and welcome to another
Speaker 1: edition of Inside Training Campers in the Vikes banding. We're
Speaker 1: hitting our stride here as the first live hitting practice
Speaker 1: took place on Tuesday. The last open practice is this
Speaker 1: Sunday at the Length, and Folks, we're just over a
Speaker 1: week away from the first preseason game. On today's show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have highlights from the first live hitting sessions.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go inside the mind of a former NFL
Speaker 1: GM but first head coach Doug Pearson shows a certain
Speaker 1: side of himself during press conferences, but what does he
Speaker 1: really like as he commands the team on the field.
Speaker 1: We have exclusive access as we make them up during
Speaker 1: the practices in the spring. Let's take a listen, Oh,
Speaker 1: get loose man, Get loose eyes up, Matt eyes up,
Speaker 1: and the snap, Matt eyes up. Listen. These normally flatten anyway,
Speaker 1: so just take it as a flat route. Try to
Speaker 1: keep your eyes focused a little bit on a defense
Speaker 1: down just a little bit. Okay, you're reading me right,
Speaker 1: you're reading me. Try to hit that one on the
Speaker 1: run theren. Let's get one hold on, Let's get one
Speaker 1: halfback read. There you go. There you go, good, nice,
Speaker 1: good timing, good timing. Set, throw with your eyes, throw
Speaker 1: with your eyes. Get up the field, stay inside. There
Speaker 1: we go. There we go. Hustle back, offense, hustle back,
Speaker 1: find the ball. Everybody's jogging back light jog, just a
Speaker 1: light jog to the huddle. Oh wow, trick him. You're
Speaker 1: gonna trick him on this one. The play ball. Here
Speaker 1: we go. A snap count is our weapon. Now let's
Speaker 1: go focus, focus, focus on tight ends. We gotta go
Speaker 1: on a pop now anything anything, explode, pop buzz, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Gotta go fast. Clock's moving. Next play Here
Speaker 1: we go, Clock's moving. Good job D that way, D
Speaker 1: good and then nice doesn't have to be a hard
Speaker 1: throw right because he's he's turning his head all the
Speaker 1: way back. You just want to locate. Keep it nice
Speaker 1: and high. Good choice, not bad and not bad. Might
Speaker 1: get a flag. We get little flag. Fifty two, we
Speaker 1: get a little flag. Oh he tripped and you're just
Speaker 1: happened to hold him up. I got I got I
Speaker 1: got I got I got I got seven on seven
Speaker 1: going this way? Here we go. What do Rasul Douglas
Speaker 1: Danielle Pumphrey and Nate Gary all have in common. Yes,
Speaker 1: they are members of the Eagles twenty seventeen draft class,
Speaker 1: but he also played in the Reesa's Senior Bowl. Bill
Speaker 1: Savage is now the executive director of the Reesa's Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: but he previously worked as an NFL GM and also
Speaker 1: end time in the Eagles personnel department. He visited an
Speaker 1: Eagles training camp and talked with Dave Spadaro about Carso Webs,
Speaker 1: whom Savage called the poster boy other Reesa's Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: to explain what do you see from the quarterback now?
Speaker 1: What impressed him a year ago down in Alabama. We
Speaker 1: welcome you to Eagles training camp twenty seventeen. I'm Eagles
Speaker 1: insider Dave Spidaro, joined by Phil Savage, executive director of
Speaker 1: the Reese's Senior Bowl, former executive in the NFL, administrator
Speaker 1: in the NFL with the Eagles in twenty ten to
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I'm just gonna call you mister football. You
Speaker 1: love the game. I'm a football guy. Yeah. Awesome, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And so this week, as an example, I was at
Speaker 1: Big ten media Days. Of course, trying to keep the
Speaker 1: Reesa's Senior Bowl relevant in front of the coaches and
Speaker 1: players from the deference very much. So then, of course
Speaker 1: we have a partnership with our friends in Hershey, So
Speaker 1: I spent a day there Wednesday, and then I'm here
Speaker 1: today with you guys, and I'll be down at another
Speaker 1: team in the division on Friday. When you go and
Speaker 1: watch practice, you say, oh, we had that guy at
Speaker 1: the Senior but we had him, We had him, We
Speaker 1: had him. Yeah, yeah, definitely in how that game catapults
Speaker 1: players into the spotlight in the NFL. Yeah, the Rams
Speaker 1: drafted six recent Senior Bowl players this year. So I
Speaker 1: visited with them back in May, and it's awesome to
Speaker 1: go and see these players trying to fulfill their dream
Speaker 1: of being a professional athlete. But of course, the poster child,
Speaker 1: if you will, for our game right now is your
Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz. And you know, I was so impressed
Speaker 1: with him, not only at North Dakota State, but when
Speaker 1: he came to Mobile, he really took ownership of his
Speaker 1: side of the roster. And that was a team that
Speaker 1: included players from Stanford and Ohio State, Michigan because he
Speaker 1: was on the North of course, but just to see
Speaker 1: him out here. I mean, he's developing, He's turned into
Speaker 1: a grown man, and I think that the future is
Speaker 1: so exciting. I talked to Howie and a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys that I know here. You know, there's just
Speaker 1: a there's a quiet confidence and there's a buzz of
Speaker 1: excitement about being able to build a team around a
Speaker 1: bona fide franchise quarter no doubt, and he's grown so
Speaker 1: much in the last year. When you see him now,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you feel that he was kind of
Speaker 1: going on on that upward trend to Phil Oh? Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, some of the NFL guys called me probably
Speaker 1: in December before the game and said, hey, I think
Speaker 1: this quarterback from North Dakota State that he invited, he's
Speaker 1: probably top of the second round. Well, then by the
Speaker 1: time we got to early January, guys were concert well,
Speaker 1: I think he's probably more of a first rounder because
Speaker 1: more of the decision makers were then beginning to watch
Speaker 1: his tapes. Or by the time he got to Mobile,
Speaker 1: people are saying he might be a you know, twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty type first rounder. By the time he left Mobile,
Speaker 1: he was top ten, And of course, by the time
Speaker 1: the spring rolled through he goes in the top two,
Speaker 1: and conceivably he could have been the number one. Sure,
Speaker 1: how did he handle the attention from the media, all
Speaker 1: of the attention from the teams, the grind of the
Speaker 1: schedule end. Oh, by the way, you have practices in
Speaker 1: a game to prepare for seamlessly. I mean he handled
Speaker 1: it in such a mature way. As I said all along,
Speaker 1: he was an a plus off the field, then he
Speaker 1: was an a plus on the field in the practices
Speaker 1: because you see the arm strength, you see the athletic ability.
Speaker 1: But the way I described Carson all the way through
Speaker 1: the whole pre draft run up was that this was
Speaker 1: a big school prospect wrapped in a small school uniform.
Speaker 1: If he had been wearing the uniform of a major university,
Speaker 1: I think he clearly would have been the top choice overall. Phil,
Speaker 1: You're a GM in Cleveland, right you were. You've been
Speaker 1: an administrator in the league for many years, Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: as your baby, you do Alabama football on the radio
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, and maybe you want to
Speaker 1: get into your world someday. How do you do it well?
Speaker 1: As I've always said, there's no formal school for player
Speaker 1: personnel or scouting. So really, what I try to suggest
Speaker 1: to young people that are in college is to try
Speaker 1: to try to get an internship with a team. We
Speaker 1: actually offer a scout school for two days down at
Speaker 1: the Recas Senior Bowl in early January. We've had nine
Speaker 1: of our participants land jobs in the NFL, So that's
Speaker 1: a way to at least introduce yourself to the concept
Speaker 1: of going into professional football and you get a chance
Speaker 1: to find out more about it. You know, people have
Speaker 1: a perception of what scouting or player personnel is like,
Speaker 1: but they really don't know the business. They don't know
Speaker 1: the details, and so it's an opportunity for us to
Speaker 1: try to teach some of the people. And it's not
Speaker 1: only guys. We've actually had a We had a young
Speaker 1: lady this past year from Tulane that participated, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's too far off in the distant future
Speaker 1: that we will have a female scout in the National
Speaker 1: Football Seague. Hey, it's good to catch up with you.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked football since we were in the staff
Speaker 1: law room twenty eleven. Draft. Yeah. I spend you know,
Speaker 1: two and a half years here and enjoyed my time
Speaker 1: and have a good relationship with Howie and a lot
Speaker 1: of the staff here. Joe Douglas one of my all
Speaker 1: time favorites, and you know, some of the coaches are
Speaker 1: here as well. I think, I think this organization has
Speaker 1: a group of tremendously great people. And when you walk
Speaker 1: into the four year of Ohio State football, there's a
Speaker 1: quote there from what he has said, you win with people.
Speaker 1: Think the Eagles have a great chance to do that.
Speaker 1: You're feeling the buzz a little bit here, absolutely, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Phil Savage, thanks so much. All right, Dave, great seeing,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, thanks for joining us here. It's
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Speaker 1: a series of milestones throughout the course of training camp.
Speaker 1: First you have the rival of the rookies, then the veterans,
Speaker 1: which marks the gang of the full squad practices. Tuesday
Speaker 1: was another one, as it was the first live hitting
Speaker 1: session of this year's training camp. Here's a look at
Speaker 1: some of the best players from the past two days.
Speaker 1: We're back on Friday with a special one on one
Speaker 1: interview that you will not want to miss, and we
Speaker 1: will also preview the final open practice, which takes place
Speaker 1: this Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. I'm Chris McPherson and
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us on this edition of Inside
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