Speaker 1: Him a learning the way here, can you tell us
Speaker 1: what your role was, what the capacity was, and how
Speaker 1: that was when for you it was just more consulting stuff,
Speaker 1: anything that I can help out with some of the
Speaker 1: guys and some of the guys that they were looking
Speaker 1: at the frank in from the Ruggers and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I've been doing some of that type of stuff
Speaker 1: and also some other conversations I won't get into, but
Speaker 1: so I've been having conversations off and on with these
Speaker 1: without the scouting as opposed to coaching broadcasting. Um well,
Speaker 1: I think that it's not just scouting, Like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to grasp the whole gambit of football operations of how
Speaker 1: a team is running. So I'm not I'm learning about
Speaker 1: scouting part of it, how the I guess the terminology
Speaker 1: and all those things. But sometimes it's either you have
Speaker 1: an eye or you don't. And I've been blessed to
Speaker 1: have an eye to be able to see talent and
Speaker 1: so if I can help in that respect, love to
Speaker 1: do that. But also I want to learn everything about
Speaker 1: running the football team. Talk. You're really good, Oh thank you?
Speaker 1: How tough is it to kind of man's a cushy job.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, how to leave that well, it's
Speaker 1: not really tough because that opportunity was not there at
Speaker 1: the moment, and so it's time for me to look
Speaker 1: for other things. And this is something that I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about for a while. Like I said, um, didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't know it would come to fruition as facts.
Speaker 1: But here it is. And you know sometimes that I've
Speaker 1: I've kind of said this that sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: step out of your comfort zone to really see what
Speaker 1: you can achieve. And so this is something that I'm
Speaker 1: really gonna loking forward to seeing that this is something
Speaker 1: that will move to something even bigger. You'll still be
Speaker 1: based in Colorado. I will be based in Colorado as
Speaker 1: of right now. Yes, I know your family is very
Speaker 1: important to you. You be traveling a lot for a
Speaker 1: little well this year. The way the things are out, um,
Speaker 1: we will get down until as far as the schedule,
Speaker 1: it's concerned of how much I'll be traveling and how
Speaker 1: much I'll be able to stay up in Colorado. Would
Speaker 1: do things remote and so you know we'll have those
Speaker 1: discussions as we prove forward with this thing. This is
Speaker 1: a fluid thing to be honest with something bigger. What
Speaker 1: exactly bigger is bigger? Bigger is bigger? I I don't
Speaker 1: know what. I don't know what bigger is. I just
Speaker 1: know bigger. It's not where I'm standing right now. So
Speaker 1: so whatever bigger is, then that's what'll push you. And
Speaker 1: how much she miss just being around the game in
Speaker 1: this in this kind of way, just on the sidebars.
Speaker 1: You know, It's one of those things that even when
Speaker 1: I'm going different places. For instance, I was in Orlando
Speaker 1: with my family and we'll passing by, me and my
Speaker 1: brother in law to go to the gym, and I
Speaker 1: passed by a football feel and as I passed by,
Speaker 1: it's nobody in the Stateum, but there's a certain comfort
Speaker 1: I have when I see football feeds. So just having
Speaker 1: that knowledge of understanding go for being able to bring
Speaker 1: what I know and what I've learned over the years
Speaker 1: back to this organization. I just for the guys upstairs,
Speaker 1: but for the players downstairs, I'm gonna have conversations with
Speaker 1: them from time to time and I'm not gonna overdo nothing.
Speaker 1: I know how to get people their space. But I
Speaker 1: just feel comfortable. This is a place that I feel
Speaker 1: calmor but not just this organization but the football field
Speaker 1: watching tape, having those discussions I feel comfortable doing, you know,
Speaker 1: like the evaluation, like making evaluations of players and getting
Speaker 1: the normal evaluating them food, who's got it? Who guys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you and the energe played again. You understand that
Speaker 1: when you as you get up there in age playing
Speaker 1: the game, you see guys and young guys come in
Speaker 1: and you're hoping that they can help the team win
Speaker 1: that year. So you start to evaluate even back then.
Speaker 1: So now that I'm out of the game, I just
Speaker 1: take those things that I've learned then and I apply
Speaker 1: them now. She evaluating guys to see if they can
Speaker 1: help this team going forward, to bring this place back
Speaker 1: to some place that it was when we played and
Speaker 1: I played here, the energy was completely different. There's expectations
Speaker 1: every year what we're going to do, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that players will tell you the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: They want to get this thing back there as well.
Speaker 1: The challenges of a great player, and we see it
Speaker 1: in a basketball like a guy like Michael Jordan Man
Speaker 1: you know struggles till a play magic John too any
Speaker 1: coaching struggles to apply the greatness that they had to
Speaker 1: the players. They assess, do you have any of those
Speaker 1: struggles ever, or you just you can separate what you
Speaker 1: were able to do versus what you're looking at. The
Speaker 1: way that I try to operate is I try to
Speaker 1: break things down to the at least common denominator for
Speaker 1: me to understand them, to digest them so I can
Speaker 1: use them. So I do the same thing when I
Speaker 1: explained stuff. So whatever I have to do to say
Speaker 1: in turns that they'll understand because I've done in the
Speaker 1: high school the same as I've taught the things that
Speaker 1: I taught on a pro level. If I was teaching them,
Speaker 1: I do the same thing on the high school level.
Speaker 1: I have to even bring it down further for those
Speaker 1: guys they don't understand. So I've done these things before.
Speaker 1: I know to communicate and so again for me, I'm
Speaker 1: a simplistic dude, so I need I need things broken
Speaker 1: down from I'm a visual cat too, so to be
Speaker 1: able to explain to these guys. But it grasp it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that would be a problem. Get you
Speaker 1: tired of the ESPN thing or not, just want to
Speaker 1: get back in the field to be around it more
Speaker 1: than you were. No, I ain't Joe. I enjoyed my
Speaker 1: time then, I really did. Um. It was just one
Speaker 1: of those times that everything kind of fell into place
Speaker 1: for me to have more freedom to do other things.
Speaker 1: And this was that opportunity and it presented itself and
Speaker 1: I jumped on it. And Uh, we're rolling with a
Speaker 1: fluid situation, working your way up the ladder or something
Speaker 1: that excites you, something you're willing to do well. If
Speaker 1: you like, follow my rookie year, that's that's that's what
Speaker 1: I did on my career, Like every step with my
Speaker 1: way in football, I didn't just like that exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Mone Warner high school, college, pros and now hopefully front office.
Speaker 1: You work your way up a bit when you left here.
Speaker 1: Obviously you've spoken a lot about the hard feelings, and
Speaker 1: even as recently as when you were here a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I know you're still some bitterness does
Speaker 1: just go a long way towards kind of healing or
Speaker 1: whatever happened in the past between you and the team, well,
Speaker 1: that stuff is gone. It's nothing we can do about
Speaker 1: it to change any of those things. And through those things,
Speaker 1: you have to look at the positives of things as well.
Speaker 1: I'm a positive dude, So I try my best to
Speaker 1: look at the positives. One of the positives I still
Speaker 1: live in Denver right now, which is a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: So have not had that not have excuse me, I
Speaker 1: would not be in Denver with my family right now.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of positives that I can bring
Speaker 1: from that. But this place means too much to me.
Speaker 1: It's not about the people to run it. It's about
Speaker 1: the place. It's about the Eagle Green. People can come
Speaker 1: and go, but this will remain the same, and so
Speaker 1: that's what. That's what, that's what, that's what drives me
Speaker 1: to want to do more for this, for this organization
Speaker 1: out there today. That was encouraging. Well, they're just this
Speaker 1: first day is usually get tough because you're knocking off
Speaker 1: that russ getting back used to playing football with pads on,
Speaker 1: which is difficult, and they're learning a lot like off
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side of the ball, defensive letting
Speaker 1: that they were flying around, especially that first une, or
Speaker 1: they were flying around making plays on the Bestie mouth
Speaker 1: Can had a couple of big, big plays today, So
Speaker 1: I think that's something that I was expecting to see.
Speaker 1: The offense struggle a little bit and then the defense
Speaker 1: be ahead of the game once again, offenses are usually
Speaker 1: going to be a little store starting off the defensive group.
Speaker 1: We were talking a loving about the you know, the
Speaker 1: idea of the safeties here, right because Quintin when he
Speaker 1: played in Team Louis sort of talked to Rodney and
Speaker 1: they got to know one another, and you know, when
Speaker 1: Rodney had a choice to come, Quintin kind of talked
Speaker 1: him in the Hey, Philadelphi's a great spot. You led
Speaker 1: Quintin and really kind of talked him in and showed
Speaker 1: him talk a little bit about this full circle as
Speaker 1: it relates to the safeties and the relationship you guys have. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a special bond that you know,
Speaker 1: any of the special guys that I played within the
Speaker 1: secondary safety is not just not just cute, but um,
Speaker 1: you had Tim Offers back, you know, so he's he's
Speaker 1: he's here as well as a coach. So when you
Speaker 1: have a position of strength, and I considered the safety
Speaker 1: position to be a position of strength when I was
Speaker 1: here with my teammates. One of the we have that
Speaker 1: back again, we have a depth at the position. We
Speaker 1: have two quality starters and like I said depth at
Speaker 1: the position. So then when you begin to do that,
Speaker 1: what you do is you you you you build a
Speaker 1: situation where every guy that comes in at the safety
Speaker 1: position where you expect this, we expect you to be this,
Speaker 1: not specifically an individual, but we expected you to handle
Speaker 1: yourself this way at that position. I think that we're
Speaker 1: developing that, especially with Malcolm League. Another thing, what makes
Speaker 1: you think you do through well? I think the one
Speaker 1: thing that you also see as the quality of the
Speaker 1: coaches that he brought guys who've been in the league
Speaker 1: that I've done it before. So he's not doing everything
Speaker 1: by himself the first time. But he's what he is.
Speaker 1: He's to me, he's he's a builder and he's going
Speaker 1: to have this place going back in the direction it
Speaker 1: needs to go for these guys to believe in one another,
Speaker 1: come back together as a team and perform. Thus, I
Speaker 1: love to being in pads. I love the physical part
Speaker 1: coming back to Philadelphia, which is going to be used
Speaker 1: for this team. But I think that you know, the
Speaker 1: decision makers own game day is one that those are
Speaker 1: the things they're going to be a challenge for him.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that because he's
Speaker 1: been through it a little bit in Kansas City, giving
Speaker 1: the range to call some plays, I think that he'll
Speaker 1: he'll be successful. Donk Wizard mean that Doug was here
Speaker 1: as a player, who was here as assistant coach. He
Speaker 1: understands Philadelphia in terms of coming back here as head coach.
Speaker 1: But that's huge because not everybody can have success in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Not every athlete can play Philadelphia. They can't. Some people
Speaker 1: can't handle it. They can't handle the toughness, they can't
Speaker 1: handle the tough love. So I think Doug being going
Speaker 1: through it and and the fact that he's more of
Speaker 1: a even killed copo guy that you know, he can
Speaker 1: handle the things, some of the bump bumps that they're
Speaker 1: probably going to face, especially early on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. All Right, thank you, Thanks guys,