Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Inside Training Camp, presented by
Speaker 1: Exfinity Eagles insider Dave's Federo along with Chris McPherson. What
Speaker 1: a day it was at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles
Speaker 1: with their first of two open practices and the fans
Speaker 1: came saw and had a great time watching the Eagles
Speaker 1: in full pads for the first time during this training
Speaker 1: camp period. Yes, after all the moves after this offseason,
Speaker 1: finally the fans had their first glimpse and it was
Speaker 1: also you could say, a Hall of Fame edition here
Speaker 1: at Alumni Day as the Eagles honored the four were
Speaker 1: legends who once graced the field and announced that they're
Speaker 1: inducting two former greats into the team's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: We'll get you caught up with everything going on. There's
Speaker 1: a lot happening with the football team circa twenty and fifteen,
Speaker 1: and of course a lot happening with a tribute to
Speaker 1: the past. Let's go to Alex Smith for our Eagles
Speaker 1: three sixty update. Hi everyone, Alex Smith here with your
Speaker 1: three sixty update, presented by Sports Authority. The sun is
Speaker 1: shining here on Lincoln Financial Field as the Eagles host
Speaker 1: their first of two open training camp practices. Today, head
Speaker 1: coach Chip Kelly kicked things off by talking about yesterday's
Speaker 1: injury to outside linebacker Travis Long, who sustained his third
Speaker 1: ACL tear in three years. Today, chip Kelly talked about
Speaker 1: what the outside linebackers group can now expect Without Long.
Speaker 1: We're in a punt return drill and he literally it
Speaker 1: wasn't really a contact drill. He was just getting fed
Speaker 1: up and kind of stepped the wrong way. And I
Speaker 1: think he knew it when had happened, just because it's
Speaker 1: happened to him before, and and I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a real explanation for it, to be honest with you
Speaker 1: just feel awful because we've watched him through the whole process.
Speaker 1: He's been here the whole time, you watched him rehab.
Speaker 1: I think all the players felt the same way because
Speaker 1: they know how much he's got invested in this and
Speaker 1: it's you know, as I when I talked to him
Speaker 1: and you know, on the field, and then when we
Speaker 1: got the final answer last night in terms of what
Speaker 1: it was is, you really can't put it into words
Speaker 1: in terms of what it is. Another note that Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly touched upon today was DeMarco Murray not taking any
Speaker 1: team reps on Sunday, and according to Kelly, that had
Speaker 1: to do with a hydration issue that the team sports
Speaker 1: science department noticed before practice. That was our decision. There's
Speaker 1: a we do have a hydration status test and he
Speaker 1: was a little bit high, and obviously, when you see
Speaker 1: guys that are high from a hydration standpoint thing, you
Speaker 1: kind of pull them back a little bit because that's
Speaker 1: when they're susceptible for an injury. So that was a
Speaker 1: training staff coaching decision. And sticking on the topic of
Speaker 1: sports science today, Kelly mentioned that offensive tackle Jason Peters
Speaker 1: is in the best shape that Kelly has seen him
Speaker 1: in three years, and that goes hand in hand with
Speaker 1: the team sports science program, and he came in in
Speaker 1: the best shape he's come in in his career. You know,
Speaker 1: he's at the best way when you talk to him,
Speaker 1: I think he feels the best. He's worked extremely hard
Speaker 1: on the strength and conditioning aspects, taking care of his body.
Speaker 1: I think, which as you start to get older in
Speaker 1: this league, you know, that's the key to a lot
Speaker 1: of it is. You know, sometimes when you're twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty two, you can do whatever you want, and you
Speaker 1: don't have to get as much sleep, and you can
Speaker 1: do all those things. But as you start to get
Speaker 1: a little bit older, you really got to be conscious
Speaker 1: of everything you're doing. And JP's been great with that,
Speaker 1: and I think he's in the best shape coming into
Speaker 1: camp as he's been this being year three, better than
Speaker 1: year one and better than year two. So we're excited
Speaker 1: to see where he goes. Going back to the Eagles
Speaker 1: outside linebacker situation, we were able to catch up with
Speaker 1: Connor Barwin after today's practice and Barwin spoke about the
Speaker 1: extra work that he's been putting in with Marcus Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've kind of always done that, and I've
Speaker 1: just kind of made sure that he knows that he
Speaker 1: should be doing that with me, and it's just a
Speaker 1: little bit of extra work so you feel like you can,
Speaker 1: you know, gain on people that aren't doing that, and
Speaker 1: it's just kind of slows things down a little bit,
Speaker 1: really kind of hone in on some of the technique
Speaker 1: because Russian the pastor is not something you can really
Speaker 1: work on that much because it's hard to replicate. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think taking ten minutes to kind of
Speaker 1: slow it down and just come. The technique part of
Speaker 1: it can help you. For most fans, today was their
Speaker 1: first look at the two thousand and fifteen roster in action,
Speaker 1: and it was also the first look that some of
Speaker 1: the new acquisitions had on the fans. We caught up
Speaker 1: with Byron Maxwell, who spoke about what he saw from
Speaker 1: today's audience. It was crazy, but yeah, it was different,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, you know, we walked out. It
Speaker 1: wasn't good. We didn't you know, we didn't like what
Speaker 1: we did when we come here about hope that we
Speaker 1: would do that to a lot more teams here. Last,
Speaker 1: but certainly not least, The Eagles announced that two new
Speaker 1: members will be joining the franchises Hall of Fame on
Speaker 1: October nineteenth, as running back Brian Westbrook and linebacker Maxie
Speaker 1: Bonn will join the team's Hall of Fame. Westbrook spoke
Speaker 1: at a press conference today about what his career with
Speaker 1: the Eagles meant to him. I think you have a
Speaker 1: good idea of what you've done, but I also think
Speaker 1: that as time continues, you get a better sense of
Speaker 1: how special winning all those games that we won. You know,
Speaker 1: even before I got here a couple of years before
Speaker 1: the span between two thousand and two, thousand and eight
Speaker 1: or nine, two ten, we were able to win an
Speaker 1: awful lot of games. And so when when your team
Speaker 1: doesn't do as well, they haven't made it to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and won games like that, it makes it, you know,
Speaker 1: what you did in the pass a little bit more special.
Speaker 1: It's a hard feat. You know. We had a really
Speaker 1: good football team and we had guys around me that
Speaker 1: that were great. But at the same time, it's hard
Speaker 1: to do. We did, and I think for us in
Speaker 1: the city, we kind of take it for granted just
Speaker 1: a bit, and we didn't realize how important and how
Speaker 1: easy I mean not not easy, how hard it is
Speaker 1: to get to that point. And now I think because
Speaker 1: of the winning, we haven't won as many playoff games,
Speaker 1: of course as we are expected to. Um, you know it.
Speaker 1: Now you can see a little bit better how special
Speaker 1: that team was. And for continuing coverage on Eagles training
Speaker 1: camp as well as all the latest infut that you
Speaker 1: need on the two newest Eagles Hall of Famers, be
Speaker 1: sure to keep it right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Alex. One of the themes for
Speaker 1: us today, Chris will be the linebacker positions outside and inside.
Speaker 1: The Travis Long injury, certainly things a little muddled in
Speaker 1: terms of depth outside. Certainly Travis Long was in the
Speaker 1: competition along with Marcus Smith for that third outside linebacker role.
Speaker 1: Tough break to see a key to works so hard
Speaker 1: to come back from last year's Asail injury to suffer
Speaker 1: it once again almost exactly a year later. Marcus Smith,
Speaker 1: last year's first round pick. He has all the tools
Speaker 1: in the world, he said last year he was just
Speaker 1: thinking too much on the field. Now he has to
Speaker 1: put it all together. He has to make that proverbial
Speaker 1: jump from year one to year two. But the question,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Dave, the depth behind that. If you
Speaker 1: say Marcus Smith is your number three, who becomes your
Speaker 1: number four? Is it? Brian bram We a long way
Speaker 1: to go in training camp. Nothing has decided. Good competition
Speaker 1: behind Connor Barwin and Brandon Graham. More to get too
Speaker 1: when Eagles return. When we return here to Inside Training
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Speaker 1: Training Camp presented by Xfinity, and we're talking linebackers. We
Speaker 1: mentioned it in the previous segment. Chris about Marcus Smith.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what he needs to do to stake
Speaker 1: his claiming to earn the coaches trust. Talented guy long
Speaker 1: Arms looks for the part, but didn't contribute at all
Speaker 1: as a rookie now, and you know, it's tough for
Speaker 1: passwords or I think a lot of times to make
Speaker 1: that jump from college to the NFL. Now, he was
Speaker 1: a Conference defensive Player of the Year. He played in
Speaker 1: a three or four scheme. So he did everything that
Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to ask of him to do
Speaker 1: at this level. But again, the learning care is a
Speaker 1: little too big for him that first year. You did
Speaker 1: see some other rookies guys like Jordan Matthews make the
Speaker 1: ins and jump, but from that outside linebacker spot, where
Speaker 1: you have to set the edge against a run, drop
Speaker 1: back and coverage get after the quarterback, it can be
Speaker 1: a lot more difficult. You don't always see rookies do
Speaker 1: well in that first year. That's why I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people on the outside were very difficult and
Speaker 1: criticize him. Although you were expecting to see more than
Speaker 1: seventy snaps from him on defense last season, I still
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of promise there. It seems like
Speaker 1: he took the right attitude this offseason. Yeah, now you
Speaker 1: get to diet. Yeah, you know, as stronger, got stronger,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what we're gonna find out in the
Speaker 1: course of not only training camp, but the preseason. Brad
Speaker 1: Jones also taking reps on the outside. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: do have some options and they will keep their eyes
Speaker 1: open for a replacement. They're always looking for depth, and
Speaker 1: they knew coming into training camp that behind Connor Barwin
Speaker 1: and Brandon Graham, a lot of question marks about the
Speaker 1: depth on the edge of this remade Eagles defense. Chris Now,
Speaker 1: it's time to kind of look ahead here. When the
Speaker 1: Eagles get into September and start fighting for the NFC East,
Speaker 1: the team to beat in the division. Let's face it, everybody,
Speaker 1: I hate to say the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, indeed the
Speaker 1: home opener against those hated Dallas Cowboys. And after the
Speaker 1: break we're gonna go behind enemy lines and talk with
Speaker 1: Brad Sham, the voice of the Dallas Cowboys. The Eagles
Speaker 1: got DeMarco Murray. What are the Cowboys gonna do to
Speaker 1: replace Murran Duran? We're gonna find out next here on
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Speaker 1: Enemy Lines. That's Bradsham, the voice of the Dallas Cowboys. Now, Brad.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys may clear that they valued Dez Bryant over
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray this past offseason in free agency. So how
Speaker 1: important was it that they got the long term deal
Speaker 1: done before the start of training camp? You know, well,
Speaker 1: it was important. I think it's a little misleading to
Speaker 1: say that they made it clear that they valued des
Speaker 1: over DeMarco. It's an easy conclusion to reach since they
Speaker 1: didn't sign DeMarco obviously, and they did sign Dez. I
Speaker 1: think they've valued them both. I think the question was
Speaker 1: which one. In fact, I know they valued them both
Speaker 1: a great deal. The question is which one made more
Speaker 1: fiscal sense down the road in a big contract. And
Speaker 1: I think you'd find almost anyone in the NFL would
Speaker 1: tell you that a running back three years what DeMarco
Speaker 1: will be three years from now, that that's going to
Speaker 1: be a little more problematic in a salary cap world
Speaker 1: than a wide receiver. It's not right to say that
Speaker 1: they didn't value DeMarco Murray in twenty fifteen or even
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. They haven't said all that, you know. In
Speaker 1: my mind, this is just me because Dez claims that
Speaker 1: he was ready to sit out game, and I think
Speaker 1: you have to take any person at their word. But
Speaker 1: that didn't make a lot of sense because today, as
Speaker 1: you well know, once you get if you're franchise, once
Speaker 1: you get past the deadline, there's no negotiating it. So
Speaker 1: if you talk about missing games under the franchise tag
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver in twenty fifteen, you're just talking
Speaker 1: about putting a match to three quarters of a million
Speaker 1: dollars a game, Well, that doesn't make any sense. You
Speaker 1: never get that money back. Plus does really really loves
Speaker 1: to play. I mean, all football players like to play,
Speaker 1: but it's in Dez's DNA, So I never thought he
Speaker 1: was going to miss any games. I thought the biggest
Speaker 1: part of the deal from their standpoint, was just not
Speaker 1: having to have that cloud hanging over him going to
Speaker 1: training camp. He'll be enthused, he's all fired up, and
Speaker 1: his teammates don't have to answer questions about what do
Speaker 1: you think des is doing? When do you think Doz's
Speaker 1: attitude will be like when he gets back? And that's
Speaker 1: that's a positive. So, Brad, what is the fallout from
Speaker 1: the running back standpoint? You know, obviously they're not gonna
Speaker 1: have DeMarco Murray. They do have Joseph Randall coming back.
Speaker 1: They signed Darren McFadden this offseason. How do you think
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to sustain the running game
Speaker 1: without last year's league's rushing champion. It is clearly the
Speaker 1: most asked question about their camp, with obvious good reason,
Speaker 1: and the most unanswerable because the answer can't come until
Speaker 1: the end of the year. The short answer is that
Speaker 1: they're gonna I think use a committee. Now someone might
Speaker 1: step forward. We don't know, but likelihood is right now
Speaker 1: they have the two guys you mentioned, and they have
Speaker 1: lands Dunbar. They've got late a strong too. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he'll make the team or not. So we'll
Speaker 1: see who might be able to. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they'll pick up anybody else. I don't think they will,
Speaker 1: but you never know. But you know, the key is
Speaker 1: not in replacing DeMarco Murray's production, because that's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. And I don't know. This is the other imponderable.
Speaker 1: If DeMarco were here, the likelihood based on no evaluation
Speaker 1: of DeMarco Murray, based on all of the research in
Speaker 1: NFL history on running backs. If DeMarco were still here,
Speaker 1: the likelihood is that it would have been difficult for
Speaker 1: him to duplicate that production. Now, he might be the exception.
Speaker 1: He might very well be the exception. But what they
Speaker 1: have to do is run the ball. It doesn't They
Speaker 1: don't have to have one guy get eighty percent of
Speaker 1: their carries in eighteen hundred yards and they don't have
Speaker 1: to have that. What they have to do is run
Speaker 1: the ball. They have to they have to commit to
Speaker 1: the running game the way they did last year, and
Speaker 1: they have to run it enough to be able to
Speaker 1: run their offense and dictate the style of play. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know that that translates into specific numbers, right,
Speaker 1: It would like one quick look at the defense here.
Speaker 1: It performed better than I think most people expected last season.
Speaker 1: This offseason, they signed Greg Hardy, they drafted Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: some Boomer bust type prospects, if you will. Are you
Speaker 1: surprised at all that they took that approach after the
Speaker 1: success that they had last season? You know, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1: And here's why, those of us who sat there in
Speaker 1: Green Bay in January and watched them not be able
Speaker 1: to run down a one legged man. I mean, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is arguably the best quarterback in football. That he
Speaker 1: was on one leg that day and they couldn't get
Speaker 1: anywhere near him. And if they'd had any kind of
Speaker 1: even with the catch or the non catch or whatever,
Speaker 1: they I mean, they're Look, they're in the conversation. I
Speaker 1: don't know how good they are. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're better than the Eagles. I don't know if they'll
Speaker 1: win the East. I don't know if they'll make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But there, but they're certainly in a conversation. And when
Speaker 1: you get close and you have veteran players and the
Speaker 1: windows closing and you see a glaring weakness, you got
Speaker 1: to go address it. So look, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: conversation and a lot of controversy about the signing of Hearty,
Speaker 1: but just from a football standpoint, they're not going to
Speaker 1: have him for four games. But now now Gregory's a
Speaker 1: different guy. That's the evaluation of Gregory and whatever his
Speaker 1: issues were off the field in college should be completely
Speaker 1: separated from Hardy's. Two different things. Gregory is a guy
Speaker 1: who's got a pretty good future, at least a bright
Speaker 1: one as a football prospect. Hardy, just in football terms,
Speaker 1: should be able to help after the first four games.
Speaker 1: They're also gonna miss Rolando McLain for the first four games,
Speaker 1: and he's a little different guy. Their defense looks better
Speaker 1: than last year. Going at this time last year, most
Speaker 1: of us down here thought they might win four or
Speaker 1: five games if they were lucky, because we thought the
Speaker 1: defense was going to be horrific and it wasn't horrific.
Speaker 1: It was just average or a little below average. So
Speaker 1: now they got to try to get up to a
Speaker 1: little above average and keep the offense going. If they
Speaker 1: can do that, then they'll elevate themselves. In that conversation,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned there, Brad McLean and Hardy will miss
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Speaker 1: Dave Spidero, Chris McPherson. Here it's inside Training Camp presented
Speaker 1: by Exfinity and linebacker is a huge theme here and
Speaker 1: it was a huge theme for the Eagles in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Chris the Big Trade, Lashawn McCoy goes to Buffalo, the
Speaker 1: Eagles get back Kiko Alonzo. Your initial reaction, well, surprise,
Speaker 1: obviously to see Lashawn McCoy go Now, you saw his
Speaker 1: role to crease out the course of the year, but
Speaker 1: you also understood that Eagles had to get better, had
Speaker 1: to get more depth of an inside linebacker position. Michael
Speaker 1: Kendrick's vis four games last year. Demiko Ryans missed the
Speaker 1: second half of last season. Naji Good, a player was
Speaker 1: starting potential, pretty much missed the entire season. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles realized they had to get stronger at the insight
Speaker 1: linebacker position, and they think they did that by acquiring
Speaker 1: Kiko Alonso from the Buffalo Bills. Former Oregon duck outstanding
Speaker 1: as a rookie, miss last year with an injury. How
Speaker 1: does he fit in with the Eagles, Well, he's our
Speaker 1: Eagle in Focus with Bo Wolf. Hello Eagles fans, I'm
Speaker 1: Bo Wolf, and welcome to Eagle in Focus. Where our
Speaker 1: focus today goes on one of the more intriguing players
Speaker 1: on this Eagles roster. A week before the NFL league
Speaker 1: year began on March tenth, reports surface that the Eagles
Speaker 1: were ready to ship all time franchise leading running back
Speaker 1: with Sean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for
Speaker 1: linebacker Kiko Alonzo. Kiko Alonso so impressive in his rookie
Speaker 1: season in twenty thirteen, earning defensive Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: honors one hundred and fifty nine tackles, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: Alonso played every single defensive snap for Buffalo in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: We've heard that the Eagles want three down linebackers. Alonzo
Speaker 1: wasn't every down linebacker for the Bills, and then, of
Speaker 1: course there's twenty fourteen seasons lost to a tour in
Speaker 1: ancl Now he is fully healthy and ready to become
Speaker 1: one of the monsters in the middle for a stacked
Speaker 1: trio of inside linebackers for the Eagles. Rick Mincher, the
Speaker 1: inside linebackers coach, has been impressed not only with Alonzo's
Speaker 1: ability on the field, but for his passion for the game.
Speaker 1: We broke him down two years ago, loved have had
Speaker 1: him then, and all of a sudden, you know, as
Speaker 1: I've asked the backer coach. I never thought he'd landed
Speaker 1: my lap this quickly. And so I'm riding home one
Speaker 1: night listening to radio like everybody else, and hey, we've
Speaker 1: made a trade and we gained a linebacker. So my
Speaker 1: ears barked up. That's the first time in two years
Speaker 1: that we'd really been getting any new blood in the room,
Speaker 1: and so I was excited about it. He's a He's
Speaker 1: another bright, smart guy. The thing separates him from a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. He's got physical quality. But I think
Speaker 1: what this guy has his absolute love of the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy brings passion and energy to Jim
Speaker 1: rat you know, kind of comes early, stay late time.
Speaker 1: Guy asked you questions, ask good questions. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a pleasure to coach. In Alonzo, Michael Kendricks and
Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's the Eagles have perhaps the league's best trio
Speaker 1: of inside linebackers, but the question now becomes, how will
Speaker 1: Bill Davis figure out a way to get all three
Speaker 1: players on the field. As long as they are helping,
Speaker 1: we can't wait to find out how Davis doug it
Speaker 1: for Eagle and focus on Bo Wolf. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Bo Wolf were looking for Kiko Alonso all the way
Speaker 1: through this training camp and into the season, expecting him
Speaker 1: to have a huge impact with this defense. Reminder, no
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow. Eagles are off on Wednesday, and that means
Speaker 1: that inside training camp is off as well. We'll return Thursday.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, make sure you check us out. Here
Speaker 1: we go one on one with Walter Thurmont, one of
Speaker 1: the more interesting players suddenly in a spotlight role in
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense. Yes, indeed, you know he was asked
Speaker 1: to go from corner to safety. It's something that Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins did or in his career. Thurmont impressed the coaches
Speaker 1: throughout the spring. He has that rains football IQ. He's
Speaker 1: looking to win that starring job opposite of Jenkins. And
Speaker 1: we'll again keep looking at Walter Thurman. One of the
Speaker 1: many players I mean is there. I think there's every
Speaker 1: player every position. It's just you watch practice today and
Speaker 1: it's like, who's that, Who's that? What's going on over there?
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun at link at Financial Field.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to all the fans who came out,
Speaker 1: all the alumni who came back to say hello and
Speaker 1: to shake hands and sign autographs for the great Eagles
Speaker 1: fans out there. For Chris McPherson, I'm Dave SPIDERO. We
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today an inside training camp
Speaker 1: presented by Xfinity. Have yourselves a great Eagles Day of
Speaker 1: THO