Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to Inside Training Camp, presented by Exfinity, Davis
Speaker 1: Federo and bow Wolf has the Eagles prepare for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, the preseason opener eight o'clock on Friday. Watch
Speaker 1: it on six ABC in Philadelphia. And Bo, we've finally
Speaker 1: gotten to this point here, time to talk about what
Speaker 1: we are looking for in preseason game number one. Why
Speaker 1: don't you start with the defense. I'll start with the defense,
Speaker 1: and it starts with the first overall pick, Marcus Smith
Speaker 1: the second and we talked a little bit about this
Speaker 1: on yesterday show. Feels like forever ago, but I think
Speaker 1: that being able to see Marcus Smith in live action
Speaker 1: should be exciting. And then beyond that, this young defensive line,
Speaker 1: the guys like Bo Allen, Taylor Hart, even Joe Krueger
Speaker 1: who we haven't seen play since last year's preseason. I
Speaker 1: want to see how they do when the actions live.
Speaker 1: Can they get after the quarterback? Can they stop the run?
Speaker 1: The big question for the Eagles offense, of course, going
Speaker 1: into this game, and as you look beyond the preseason
Speaker 1: through the first four games of the regular season, the
Speaker 1: right tackle position with Alan Barberie starting in place of
Speaker 1: the suspended Lane Johnson. So this will be Barbarie's first
Speaker 1: chance to go out there, get some timing going with
Speaker 1: Todd Harriman's work on the edge, and really I anticipate
Speaker 1: that the Eagles will come out and throw the football.
Speaker 1: See how he doesn't in past protection. That's right, Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly says, probably about one or two series, hopefully ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen snaps for that first team offense. Otherwise, for
Speaker 1: the offense, it's all about really the young players, is it. Now?
Speaker 1: We know about Nick Foles, and we know about Lashawn McCoy, etc.
Speaker 1: But what do we know about Jordan Matthews has been
Speaker 1: so sensational in this preseason training camp? What about Josh
Speaker 1: Huff who's been kind of a quiet understudy, third round
Speaker 1: draft pick, some young offensive lineman who the Eagles really
Speaker 1: want to emerge. And then, of course behind Foals, how
Speaker 1: does it shake out in terms of the depth chart
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position? Matt Barkley, Mark Sanchez, g J. Kenny,
Speaker 1: Who's gonna come out and impress us? Who are we
Speaker 1: going to be talking about on Saturday morning? They will
Speaker 1: both get a lot, All three of them should get
Speaker 1: some reps, and certainly as Sanchez and Barkley, we'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of playing time. By the way, Eagles fans,
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Speaker 1: saw a little bit of playing time last year. Now
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Speaker 1: preseason opener against the Bears. Well, he had a chance
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Speaker 1: presented by Gatorady, we have second year quarterback Matt Barkley.
Speaker 1: And Matt, the first thing I have to ask you,
Speaker 1: it's a little football related, and it's only because after
Speaker 1: the training session the quarterbacks went and diod sliding drills.
Speaker 1: Is that correct? That's right? Yeah. We as a group
Speaker 1: we went into the indoor brought up the slipping slide
Speaker 1: and I'm practiced getting down mainly for our number one QB,
Speaker 1: working on his sliding skills, helping him out as a
Speaker 1: group effort. But we saw improvement, which was good. Brought
Speaker 1: me back to my old baseball days. Um, you don't
Speaker 1: have an issue with it. I never struggled with it.
Speaker 1: It came naturally to me and from playing baseball and Whatnotum.
Speaker 1: But it was a fun little session. Didn't really feel
Speaker 1: like you were in camp at all. But we were
Speaker 1: learning a football skill as well, so beneficial. All right. So, man,
Speaker 1: I have to ask you who is tougher to deal with, Chip,
Speaker 1: Kelly or your wife, Brittany. That's a tough question. I
Speaker 1: know nothing but hard hitting questions here from Philadelphias dot Com.
Speaker 1: I'd say tougher to deal with. I'd say Chip. Chip
Speaker 1: My wife can be tough at times, but I know
Speaker 1: I'm with her forever. And as much says I'd like
Speaker 1: to think on which hip forever, that is not going
Speaker 1: to be the case one way or the other. Eventually
Speaker 1: my career will end or or my time here will
Speaker 1: be done. Um, So you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You're always on pins and needles. Um. But they both
Speaker 1: challenge me and then you know, push you to be
Speaker 1: the better man. Now, there are times you come home,
Speaker 1: long day of practice, tough game or something like that,
Speaker 1: and it's like, honey, I'm tired, and she's like, you
Speaker 1: gotta do stuff. Run to take the trash out, you
Speaker 1: gotta take the dog out to go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: or go for a walk, go for a bike ride
Speaker 1: down the Schookole River with her. I've done it all.
Speaker 1: But she she is an athlete herself too, so she
Speaker 1: knows what it's like to come home from a hard
Speaker 1: day's work or coming home from camp. So uh, she's
Speaker 1: been very uh awesome with with the transition from college
Speaker 1: to being married to being out here on her own. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she she could have done anything better. Now, you first
Speaker 1: met her in kindergarten, that's right, five years old. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did she impress you with her finger painting skills? Or
Speaker 1: I just thought she was always a cutie. I just
Speaker 1: we just always had a c on her and she
Speaker 1: kind of liked me. We couldn't date till we were sixteen,
Speaker 1: though our parents wouldn't let us. So a week after
Speaker 1: her sixteenth birthday last, you're out and we date all
Speaker 1: through high school, took a little break in college, but
Speaker 1: pretty much dated three years doing distance in college, and
Speaker 1: got back together knowing that she'd be the one that
Speaker 1: I was going to marry. So it's cooled to be,
Speaker 1: you know, spending spending life with your best friend all
Speaker 1: the time. So how important is it for you have
Speaker 1: that support system, especially when you're coming into the league,
Speaker 1: getting adjusted to a new city, new surroundings. You're a
Speaker 1: professional athlete, How important is it having that support system
Speaker 1: already in place. I think it's huge. And she knows.
Speaker 1: She knows football too. She's not naive to everything, so
Speaker 1: she knows football. She knows the ups and downs of
Speaker 1: the sport. She knows how taxing it can be on
Speaker 1: your body and you're in your mind. But she's always
Speaker 1: been a steady shoulder for me to you know, to support,
Speaker 1: to be supported by. And her encouragement is NonStop. It's
Speaker 1: pretty amazing, just the joy and encouragement. She's not. Her
Speaker 1: emotions don't don't go with the teams. It seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of fans in this city,
Speaker 1: either emotions are with the team and mine are in
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, and but she's been always been
Speaker 1: even keel and no matter what the situation is in
Speaker 1: my work, I come home and it's it's there's joy
Speaker 1: and it's a loving environment. How would you describe with
Speaker 1: the last twelve months like for you from a professional standpoint,
Speaker 1: A lot of learning, A lot of learning both you know,
Speaker 1: off the field with with marriage and living in a
Speaker 1: new city, and on the field with a new offense,
Speaker 1: and learning what it means to be a pro and
Speaker 1: to keep care of your body and to recover, and
Speaker 1: to nutrition and hydrate and sleep, all the thing that
Speaker 1: that Chip Kelly has been emphasizing. I really think I've
Speaker 1: learned a whole lot from being here that I probably
Speaker 1: would not have learned if I was in another program
Speaker 1: or another team. No, mat as the most prolific quarterback
Speaker 1: in the history of USC you would have a a chance
Speaker 1: with me. A lot of great people, and one of
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Speaker 1: I added him to that list because he exemplifies courage
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Speaker 1: and beat them. Matt Barkley our guests here on our
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Speaker 1: Eagles dot com. And as the Eagles prepare to open
Speaker 1: up their season on Friday night, you, I'm sure are
Speaker 1: preparing to open up your fantasy season drafts a plenty
Speaker 1: this month, and with that in mind, we caught up
Speaker 1: with Joe Dolan, a fantasy guru dot Com, for the
Speaker 1: first edition of this year's Fantasy Spin. Well, as we
Speaker 1: get ready for the Eagles regular season, We, of course
Speaker 1: get ready for the fantasy regular season, and with that
Speaker 1: in mind, we bring in Joe Dolan from Fantasy Guru
Speaker 1: dot com for our Fantasy Spin segment, and Joe, let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about general strategy for your draft.
Speaker 1: I think two things we want to talk about. First
Speaker 1: of all, waiting on quarterbacks this year. Sure you could
Speaker 1: get a guy like Nick Foles in the third or
Speaker 1: fourth round, but so deep at the position you want
Speaker 1: to wait a little bit. Yeah, absolutely, bo And I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm saying anything that's particularly revolutionary here, but
Speaker 1: I think a lot of fantasy sites, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to agree with them, they're touting just wait on the
Speaker 1: quarterback position this year. There is excellent depth. And what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is it's not that Aaron Rodgers and Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning and Drew Brees aren't better than everybody. But the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is it's easier to make up
Speaker 1: points at the quarterback position because in most leagues you're
Speaker 1: only starting one of the quarterbacks. So if you go
Speaker 1: into the middle rounds and you can get a guy
Speaker 1: like Matthew Stafford, or you get a guy like Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: or you get Tony Romo, Jay Cutler. All these guys
Speaker 1: are available later rounds than Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning and
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. And it allows you to load up on
Speaker 1: other positions at the beginning of the draft. And I
Speaker 1: especially preach this strategy in an auction league. I'm always
Speaker 1: one of the last guys to pluck a quarterback in
Speaker 1: my auction leagues because I just tend to find values
Speaker 1: at that position. Typically, it's the exact opposite with the
Speaker 1: running back position. You want to be one of the
Speaker 1: first poach a running back in an auction league, but
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks, getting a guy like Cutler or Luck or Stafford,
Speaker 1: or Foles or Kaepernick. It's just so much more affordable
Speaker 1: to find one of these guys than it is to
Speaker 1: go after Manning, Rogers and Breeze. And it seems like
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a shift in fantasy football. A
Speaker 1: few years ago, it was pound running backs early, Get
Speaker 1: your running backs early. You're telling us that it's probably
Speaker 1: more receivers and tight ends early. You want to wait
Speaker 1: at least for your second running back in the middle round,
Speaker 1: right bow, And I still want that stud. I want
Speaker 1: a Shady McCoy. I want Jamal Charles, I want Eddie Lacy,
Speaker 1: I want Adrian Peterson if I can get that guy.
Speaker 1: But one thing I'm really advocating this year is if
Speaker 1: I don't get that guy, I don't want to reach
Speaker 1: and try to find a guy that, you know I
Speaker 1: have to convince myself to take him in the first round.
Speaker 1: I don't Frank Gore's You're right. I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to convince myself to take Leaveon Bell in the
Speaker 1: first round if I really don't want him there. So
Speaker 1: one thing I've been saying this year is kind of
Speaker 1: weight on your number two running back. I think you
Speaker 1: can mix and Matt. So if you get Shady McCoy,
Speaker 1: say you pick number one or number two and you
Speaker 1: can get Shady. I'm not freaking out about my number
Speaker 1: two running back spot because I think I can mix
Speaker 1: and match with getting maybe Shane Vereen in the middle rounds.
Speaker 1: Maybe I get Trent Richardson as a post hype guy
Speaker 1: in the middle rounds. Maybe I go after a couple
Speaker 1: rookies like Jeremy Hill and Carlos Hide and try to
Speaker 1: find the next breakout guy. But I'm not going after
Speaker 1: a Frank Gore in the second or third round, because
Speaker 1: I feel like I need a number two running back.
Speaker 1: I think that's just a way to guarantee you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose this year. Joe Dolan from Fantasy grew dot com.
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Speaker 1: with your fantasy spin. Always fun talking to Joe Dolan
Speaker 1: about fantasy football. You're ready for your draft, Jay, I've
Speaker 1: given up fantasy football. I'm lousy and fantasy football. But
Speaker 1: my question is this, In how many drafts will Lashan
Speaker 1: mccoyb be the first overall pick? I would imagine just
Speaker 1: about everyone right almost. I think Jamal Charles is the
Speaker 1: only guy who people Some people think goes ahead of
Speaker 1: Lesha mcli in PPR formats, but for me, Shady's the guy.
Speaker 1: All right? Well, how about Zach ERT's second year tight end?
Speaker 1: Expect you to be a big, big part of this
Speaker 1: Eagles offense in year number two. So where does he
Speaker 1: factor into the fantasy world. We don't know. I in
Speaker 1: the real world, he's a big time part of the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense. Melissa Kelly has him in focus. Tight End
Speaker 1: zach Ertz is going into a second season in the
Speaker 1: NFL after having a very promising rookie year. He is
Speaker 1: projected to be one of the most improved players on
Speaker 1: the Eagles roster, but he said he's not going to
Speaker 1: let that put pressure on him. I mean, all that
Speaker 1: praise is puts pressure on the outside. But I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna put more pressure on themselves than myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, whatever they're saying outside doesn't really matter to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I work as hard as I can for
Speaker 1: as long as I can every day, and that's all
Speaker 1: I'm focused on. Offensive coordinator Pat Shermer noticed a big
Speaker 1: change in ERT's play in the middle of last season.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz, who did a nice job for us catching
Speaker 1: the ball, and he's improved in all areas. Near the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, I think it started to all
Speaker 1: make sense. He was playing faster, and you saw his
Speaker 1: production pick up, you know, at that point, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of picked up where he left off,
Speaker 1: and so you know, again I anticipate he's going to
Speaker 1: be He's very productive this fall. Head coach Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: has noticed an improvement in the second year tight end.
Speaker 1: He missed the spring, you know, and it's it's spring trap.
Speaker 1: I mean, preseason camp last year was really our first
Speaker 1: chance to really start to work with him. So I
Speaker 1: just think it's he was behind a little bit, but
Speaker 1: not by any fault of his own. He real smart kid,
Speaker 1: understands exactly what we're trying to do, but then you
Speaker 1: have to go out and do it. And it's just
Speaker 1: he miss raps, which which is the most important thing.
Speaker 1: And now I think he's just a lot more comfortable
Speaker 1: in terms of what we're doing there. Arts and the
Speaker 1: Eagles returned to the field tomorrow night at Chicago. You
Speaker 1: can catch the game locally on six ABC at eight pm.
Speaker 1: That's all for Player and Focus. Now back to you
Speaker 1: guys in the studio. Thank you very much, Melissa. How
Speaker 1: about the defensive backfield. Good competition there, Nate Allen and
Speaker 1: Earl Wolf battling for a job next to Malcolm Jenkins.
Speaker 1: For his part, Alan the veteran understands it. There's competition
Speaker 1: all the time in the NFL, and we sat down
Speaker 1: and talked about that. Every year it's going to be
Speaker 1: competition no matter who you are. Nothing they're set in
Speaker 1: stone and you know, the competition that just makes us
Speaker 1: better as safeties. You know, they're rotating a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in there at safety and it's just gonna make
Speaker 1: us better as a secondary. Make sure you tune in
Speaker 1: just a little bit later tonight. We'll have the entire
Speaker 1: nay Down interview for you right here on Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: dot com. And if you're more of an Earl Wolf
Speaker 1: guy in terms of that safety competition, we caught up
Speaker 1: with him a little bit more long form on the
Speaker 1: Eagles Insider podcast this week. Check that out as well. Right,
Speaker 1: enough of the chatter, the game is ahead of us,
Speaker 1: make sure you're with us the entire way. On Friday night,
Speaker 1: you can tune in on six ABC at eight o'clock
Speaker 1: for the kickoff the Eagles at the Bears, the preseason opener,
Speaker 1: and then we'll have live coverage of the Eagles post
Speaker 1: game from Soldier Field. It's our press pass here on
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Speaker 1: For Bo Wolf, I'm Dave Spidero. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us on Inside Training Camp presented by Acceinity