Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome the Inside Training Camp presented by Xfinity.
Speaker 1: I'm Dave spidero Eagles insider along with Chris McPherson, and
Speaker 1: we're just one day away from the Eagles opening the
Speaker 1: preseason against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday, seven o'clock
Speaker 1: kickoff at Lincoln Financial Field, and toward the end of
Speaker 1: this show, we'll tell you how to get caught up
Speaker 1: on everything happening tomorrow on Wednesday. Now, the Eagles having
Speaker 1: their mock game closed to the media, Doug Peterson running
Speaker 1: through all of the personnel groupings and the substitutions in
Speaker 1: advance of the opener. We also want to let you
Speaker 1: know that we are aware of the Lane Johnson reports
Speaker 1: that he will be suspended for ten games in this
Speaker 1: twenty and sixteen season. Per NFL rules, teams not permitted
Speaker 1: to comments on those reports. Any sort of news officially
Speaker 1: comes from the league first, and then the teams can
Speaker 1: speak about it. So we just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you know that we know that there's a story
Speaker 1: out there Lane Johnson. We think we'll play in Thursday's
Speaker 1: preseason game. Now, there are a lot of things to
Speaker 1: get to with this game. In addition to how the
Speaker 1: offensive line is going to look in the quarterback positions,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of players trying to make a
Speaker 1: football team. The roster stands at eighty nine players right,
Speaker 1: trying to get to fifty three players in a month.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of time to make some very very
Speaker 1: important decisions, certainly, And it's also interesting is the fact
Speaker 1: that there are ten players who are missing this game
Speaker 1: due to injuries, so other guys are gonna have opportunities
Speaker 1: to work into the starting lineup that they might not
Speaker 1: have had otherwise. This is the chance where the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, the guys have been going against one another,
Speaker 1: they've seen the same jersey, the same guy across them.
Speaker 1: Finally they're gonna lamp across from someone else, someone of
Speaker 1: a different uniform. In a game situation, the tempo is
Speaker 1: gonna be just a little bit faster, especially with the
Speaker 1: crowd there Lincoln Financial Field emtasy Doug Pearson's head coaching
Speaker 1: debut and to see what this team is going to
Speaker 1: look like here in twenty sixteen, Dave. So let's get
Speaker 1: into some of the players that we want a spotlight here,
Speaker 1: and I'll let you go first. You have someone on offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go offense and then I'll go defense. My first
Speaker 1: player to watch on offense, and we don't know how
Speaker 1: long he's going to play. New Eagles wide receiver Ruben Randall.
Speaker 1: He's been really impressive in this preseason period of training
Speaker 1: camp time and inconsistent four seasons with the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: But he brings to Philadelphia a big body, good strong hands,
Speaker 1: somebody who can go up and get the football. And
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a place for Ruben Randall in
Speaker 1: this offense if Greg Lewis can bring out that consistency,
Speaker 1: can bring out that hunger. We all know that Randall's
Speaker 1: here on a one year contract. He has a chance
Speaker 1: to show the rest of the NFL. But he's a
Speaker 1: big time player and he'll get a chance to start that.
Speaker 1: On Thursday night against Tampa Bay. I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: came out throwing the football. They want to see what
Speaker 1: Randall can do against Tampa Bay's group of cornerbacks. So
Speaker 1: my first player to watch number eighty two, Ruben Randall
Speaker 1: twenty career touchdown. That's something you don't see from allow
Speaker 1: the other receivers when you look at this wide receiver
Speaker 1: Jeff Chart Jordan Matthew has been Gray's first two seasons,
Speaker 1: but not allowed production. Outside of that, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at a different pass catcher. I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 1: tight end position and bring in third year man Trey Burton.
Speaker 1: Back in the spring, the assistant coaches were saying that
Speaker 1: this player could be an X factor. But you already
Speaker 1: had Brent Selle and Zach Ertz locked into long term deals.
Speaker 1: Where did Burton fit in? Well, since it started training camp,
Speaker 1: He's caught pretty much everything his way. He's been a
Speaker 1: fourth down in the red zone, a security blanket for
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. He is someone who played a lot of
Speaker 1: different positions in his college tenure at Florida. He's were
Speaker 1: refined early on in his NFL Career's got a big body,
Speaker 1: but he moves like a wide receiver even though he
Speaker 1: technically is a tight end. So the Eagles want to
Speaker 1: craze many matchups as possible, mismatches as possible, and I
Speaker 1: think they want to get those three tight end sets
Speaker 1: to get Salec get arts. And I think he'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of Trey Burton out there as well this season.
Speaker 1: All right, So those are our offensive players to watch.
Speaker 1: How about on defense? Well, I've got one player to
Speaker 1: watch on defense, and it's for selfish reasons. Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: moves back to a familiar position, hand in the dirt,
Speaker 1: on the edge, go get the quarterback. He told me
Speaker 1: the other day that he has a goal for Thursday
Speaker 1: night of getting three quarterback sacks in ten snaps on defense.
Speaker 1: So that's about as long as we're going to see
Speaker 1: the starting defense play, and Brandon may work in with
Speaker 1: the number two is as well. We don't know the
Speaker 1: rotation specifically at defensive end, but he really has taken
Speaker 1: to that position. He's been physical, he's been fast, He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of moves in his arsenal. I think
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham back at home in this wide nine under
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz, Brandon Graham, can you get three sacks and
Speaker 1: ten snaps? Tune in on Thursday night. The thing about
Speaker 1: Brandon is you feature a starter there, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at someone who you might not see until the second
Speaker 1: half of the game on Thursday night, and as cornerback
Speaker 1: Aaron Grimes. Now every year the Eagles as a slew
Speaker 1: of players just after this season concludes, and one of
Speaker 1: those players was Grimes. He was a CFL All Star
Speaker 1: North of the Border, won a Great Cup last year,
Speaker 1: and typically you expect these guys to be campodies, but
Speaker 1: every day during the summer he continues to make plays.
Speaker 1: He's always around the ball, and he's someone knowing that
Speaker 1: he has a talented safety class behind him getting pressure
Speaker 1: on the corwick up front, that he can be aggressive
Speaker 1: and get after the wide receivers here. So I would
Speaker 1: like to see if he could be the underdog type
Speaker 1: story of someone who can carry over a strong train
Speaker 1: camp performance into the preseason. The key is going to
Speaker 1: be will fans continue to watch. I think that's the
Speaker 1: one thing is you want to find out late in
Speaker 1: the game, who are going to be the matchups, who
Speaker 1: are going to be the highlight guys. Obviously everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of seeing cars and went on offense, Aaron Grimes.
Speaker 1: That's a name to watch on defense, all right, at
Speaker 1: a crowded cornerback position. Speaking of which we are going
Speaker 1: to delve into the cornerback position just a little bit
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Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles had a major turnover at the
Speaker 1: cornerback position in the offseason Byron Maxwell traded out of town.
Speaker 1: A couple of players signed in free agency, one of
Speaker 1: them Leotis McKelvin, a former first round draft pick in
Speaker 1: Buffalo thrived under Jim Schwartz in twenty fourteen, and Chris
Speaker 1: to date, he has been the one cornerback who has
Speaker 1: consistently been with the starting group and has played very
Speaker 1: good football through training camp. It's interesting you see the
Speaker 1: names of Ron Brooks, Don Carol, Jalen Millsey, even and
Speaker 1: those guys are all buying for a starring spot, but
Speaker 1: mclvin has been locked in the one corner spot. It's
Speaker 1: been a certainty to this point in training camp, and
Speaker 1: he thrived under Jim Schwartz in twenty fourteen, was on
Speaker 1: pace suits a number of career highs. The season was
Speaker 1: derailed by injury, but he's hoping to get back to
Speaker 1: that level of play. He's opening by reuniting with Schwartz
Speaker 1: and the style defense. It will bring out the best him.
Speaker 1: A crafty veteran, so it has been the league for
Speaker 1: quite some time, but someone who sells a lot to
Speaker 1: offer a defense. The Eagles need that veteran presence at
Speaker 1: the cornerback position because, as you said, Dave, they did
Speaker 1: so much turnover during the course of the off season,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of great wide receivers on
Speaker 1: this twenty fifteen two sixteen schedule. Now, Leodis mcalvin, you
Speaker 1: may not know a whole lot about him. You're gonna
Speaker 1: find out more right now, Abby Atwater with Leodis mcalvin
Speaker 1: our Eagle in focus. Thanks guys. A nine year veteran
Speaker 1: Leodis mcclevin's under two year deal with the Eagles back
Speaker 1: in March. Originally a first round draft pick of the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, where he spent the entirety of his career,
Speaker 1: he became the highest drafted cornerback team history. McCowan says
Speaker 1: he's excited and feels confident playing on the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: because of the players around him familiar with the defense,
Speaker 1: no familiar with the defense. Um, I feel confidence in
Speaker 1: more on the defensive side of that FI much where
Speaker 1: I play, you know, for it's like the deepest line.
Speaker 1: I feel good with the deepest line that we have here.
Speaker 1: We got some good got some great guys on the
Speaker 1: deepest line. We got some young tatted linebackers back a
Speaker 1: run for side line and sideline, so as that was
Speaker 1: another key point. You know, you guys got some guys
Speaker 1: in sig of there y'all. We may be young, but
Speaker 1: you've got another guys, a pro Bowl guy with Malcolm Jenkins's.
Speaker 1: It would be great to um play play with you
Speaker 1: guys and you could just just learn from the guys.
Speaker 1: McCowen explains why coach schwartz defensive scheme appeals to him.
Speaker 1: Either if your your corners or your sig of there
Speaker 1: guys could play man, or you go go to go
Speaker 1: to zone. I mean it's just that difference. You know,
Speaker 1: just if your guys could play man, you're gonna play
Speaker 1: single high you know you're gonna meet it up like
Speaker 1: that or not you're gonna play cover through your quarters
Speaker 1: or something like that. So it's very simple defense of
Speaker 1: coordinator Jim Schwartz explains his past experiences coaching mccalvin. The
Speaker 1: year I had him, he was playing at a really
Speaker 1: high level before he got hurt. He focus the ankle
Speaker 1: against Miami and really was playing at a high level.
Speaker 1: He's not the tallest guy around, but he could jump,
Speaker 1: he could play the ball in the air. Mentally and
Speaker 1: physically tough. You I don't know if you'd see that
Speaker 1: just seeing his body shape, but he'll he'll go throw
Speaker 1: his body around and hit his first round draft picks.
Speaker 1: He's played at a high level in this league. Mccalvin
Speaker 1: and the Eagles returned to action on Thursday, August eighteenth
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers. For continuing coverage of Eagles training camp,
Speaker 1: keep it right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com or
Speaker 1: visit our official Eagles mobile app. I'm Abby at Water.
Speaker 1: Back to you guys in the studio. Thanks so much, Abby.
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing Leonti's McKelvin and the cornerback
Speaker 1: group on Thursday night against a really good, big, strong,
Speaker 1: and physical Tampa Bay Wide Receiver Corps. Right, Indeed, first show,
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Speaker 1: get to tomorrow night. Our game day coverage will begin
Speaker 1: at six thirty pm, but the game itself kickoff is
Speaker 1: set for seven pm. Eagles Buccaneers. You can watch on
Speaker 1: Comcast Sportsnet or Cozy Television here in the Philadelphia area.
Speaker 1: Scott Gran, Mike Mayock and this man right here, Dave
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Speaker 1: watch it on our digital channels, you can join myself
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Speaker 1: have the halftime report for you live, which will feature
Speaker 1: a great alumni reunion over fifty alum it's expected to
Speaker 1: attend tomorrow night's game, so that's something that you will
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