Speaker 1: He's been out here for two weeks, done a really
Speaker 1: nice job. He'll get his first work against the Ravens
Speaker 1: when we get a chance to train with him for
Speaker 1: a couple of days before we play, and he'll play
Speaker 1: in the Ravens game. So Mark Mark will start the game.
Speaker 1: It's just he's been out here just for two weeks.
Speaker 1: I think the other guy's got a little bit of
Speaker 1: base and I just feel more comfortable putting him in
Speaker 1: the Ravens game. So a physical element haven'thing to do
Speaker 1: with it. He can he I think he can go.
Speaker 1: I mean he's I know he's disappointed, but it's just
Speaker 1: my call, you know. I think there's a fine line,
Speaker 1: you know, and then I part of it. You look
Speaker 1: at what happened to Niles Paul last night, you know
Speaker 1: for the Redskins, who's a tremendous football player who's done
Speaker 1: for the year right now. So there's that fine line
Speaker 1: in in uh preseason games where you are so um,
Speaker 1: you know, his first eleven on eleven was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and now going out against a team. It just my decision.
Speaker 1: I've we've been back and forth around it, but I
Speaker 1: made the final call that we're just we're gonna sit
Speaker 1: in this game and he'll be ready to play against Ravens.
Speaker 1: So Marcos start the game. Um, that's the only position
Speaker 1: we've really done right now is just quarterbacks. The rest
Speaker 1: of it we'll all be determined based off of today's
Speaker 1: training and tomorrow's training on what's going to be available.
Speaker 1: But Marco's start, Um won't play very much, and then
Speaker 1: it'll be a lot of Matt, a lot of Tims,
Speaker 1: so we would chance to see those guys in some
Speaker 1: extended play. So you're balance between you know, getting the
Speaker 1: guy out there that has not played a lot over
Speaker 1: the last two years, getting you comfortable one pass rush
Speaker 1: to Sina, and also of course trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that he stays healthy for the lot of Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the decision I had to make. And I think with
Speaker 1: the training sessions with the Ravens next week, I think
Speaker 1: we'll help, you know, because we'll get two real good
Speaker 1: days with them in pads with with uh you know,
Speaker 1: with John's team, and then then we have the game
Speaker 1: against the Ravens and you got the Packers. So um,
Speaker 1: I felt like we had some more opportunities for it.
Speaker 1: So Marco and injury, I gave one more time. Any
Speaker 1: other position besides quarterback won't be determined until after training tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So to Marco's gonna go today. Um, he'll go tomorrow
Speaker 1: and then we'll make determination on all those guys. So
Speaker 1: Sam try to talk you out of not getting anywhere.
Speaker 1: He didn't talk. You know, Sam understands, but I did
Speaker 1: think he's disappointed. But I think he understands. So there
Speaker 1: wasn't a debate out there yesterday. App Yeah, Zach has
Speaker 1: a core muscle injury and he's probably gonna be out
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks now. No, I think he'll
Speaker 1: be back for a week one. But I think right
Speaker 1: now he's out. So Um, he's with doctor Myers today.
Speaker 1: So um it'd be to be a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: with him. Um, but he won't. He's not going to
Speaker 1: play in the preseason. The opportunity, said to him, gives
Speaker 1: you from a schematic standpoint, because of his skill set,
Speaker 1: if you were to make the team, would it be
Speaker 1: fair to say that some of those things that you
Speaker 1: might want to employ him to do, we wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: see in the preseason anyway. Now, I mean that's part
Speaker 1: of our offense and what we do. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think when Tim gets in there, you'll see him
Speaker 1: and run the ball a little bit, you know, that's
Speaker 1: part of what he Uh. We have the ability to
Speaker 1: call plays depending on who's in there, so you'll see that.
Speaker 1: We're not trying to hide anything. I think people know
Speaker 1: we can run zwn me plays in. The quarterback has
Speaker 1: the ability to carry the football, So I don't think
Speaker 1: that would surprise anybody if we didn't do that in
Speaker 1: the preseason. A sudden Tim at an opportunity to played
Speaker 1: during the season and we sprung it on him. So
Speaker 1: like a gadget standpoint, but you wouldn't show gadgets in
Speaker 1: pre season. Yeah, but Tim's not a gadget guy. I
Speaker 1: think Tim's a quarterback and I think he's proven that
Speaker 1: so far when he's been out here. And um for
Speaker 1: all those guys though, and I've said it to begin with,
Speaker 1: they they're in red jerseys. It's a different game when
Speaker 1: we get to Sunday, and I'm excited, you know, we
Speaker 1: really as a coach chef, I want to see Matt
Speaker 1: play awhile and I don't want to see Tim play awhile.
Speaker 1: And we'll see what happens to those guys. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: Jamarco will go, Demko's going, Kendricks will go. Um. The
Speaker 1: only guy who's not going is Arts and Brandon Hepburn
Speaker 1: has an ab a domino. Um, so he's out. I
Speaker 1: don't we don't. I don't have the extension on Brandon
Speaker 1: Hepburn and d J McBride hurt his foot, so he
Speaker 1: won't go. But all those other guys will be back. Loa, No,
Speaker 1: Kiko is out me Yeah, No, he's coming along. He's
Speaker 1: done a lot of different things. We're trying get him acclimated.
Speaker 1: And you know, we also carried the ball more than
Speaker 1: anybody in the National Football League last year, so we're
Speaker 1: just trying to integrate him into Yeah, we look at
Speaker 1: everybody's and where they are from a body standpoint. I
Speaker 1: think we manage every individual player here in terms of
Speaker 1: where they are and what they are. And my job,
Speaker 1: or our whole not my job, our entire coaching staff,
Speaker 1: training staff, sports scien staff, is to get those guys
Speaker 1: ready to play in week one. So Malcolm j Malcolm
Speaker 1: James is busting people's chops and I was laughing because
Speaker 1: he asked me before he did it. Can we get
Speaker 1: those guys, some Mahitos and maybe some fans because they
Speaker 1: got a day off. But um, again, we every player
Speaker 1: is dealt with individual here, so you know what works
Speaker 1: for player A may be different from player B. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the way we've always done it. So he
Speaker 1: goes fine. But I think it's again we know what
Speaker 1: type of football player is, but that's not a position.
Speaker 1: That's not something you need to rush him back into
Speaker 1: doing anything. I think he's he's his legs are healthy,
Speaker 1: you can run around, he can do all those other things.
Speaker 1: But I think and when you deal with an injury
Speaker 1: like that, you're just gonna take your time. We don't
Speaker 1: have a game to play until we play the Falcons
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth. So yeah, now we haven't even put
Speaker 1: him through the protocol. He's where we're just taking him
Speaker 1: along slowly, so why not put him Well, he's doing
Speaker 1: stuff in there, but we haven't asked to get him
Speaker 1: cleared because right now it's not important to us. It's
Speaker 1: just let's just make sure that that he's in meetings,
Speaker 1: he understands everything, he's doing everything in there, and when
Speaker 1: we get ready, he'll be ready to go play against
Speaker 1: Ravens hopefully, So what you meet so many changes this
Speaker 1: all season has to be a point where you do
Speaker 1: what you want to see your guys on the fields
Speaker 1: this game and just closer, closer your part of you
Speaker 1: guys as a fan of this football team and help
Speaker 1: this game, and you want to see all these changes
Speaker 1: how they come together out here. Now, my my job
Speaker 1: is to make sure our team's ready play against Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: So I'm not a fan of anything. My job is
Speaker 1: to make sure that this team is ready to play
Speaker 1: when we go to play Atlantis, I'll say, but not
Speaker 1: playing the streete we play against. We haven't. We haven't
Speaker 1: gotten into that part of it. But you know, usually
Speaker 1: the damo is we're gonna play our Usually our ones
Speaker 1: play eight to ten snaps in game one, it gets
Speaker 1: extended in game two, you play probably a half in
Speaker 1: game three, and then they don't play in game four.
Speaker 1: So um, but a lot of that will depend on
Speaker 1: how everything else falls into place. But Fridge a tight
Speaker 1: ends and obviously with Arks being out for a while,
Speaker 1: you over probably Yeah, I thought, well, it's one of
Speaker 1: those where daily it's it's kind of a different guy
Speaker 1: shows up, you know, Eric Thomlinson came on the last
Speaker 1: two days, made some big catches for us in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Um. All three of them have size. Uh,
Speaker 1: Andrew's a really sharp players, really pick things up very quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: And then justin Twoks is starting to really come along.
Speaker 1: So excited to see those three guys. So one of
Speaker 1: the buy products is not being able to have Zach
Speaker 1: for a couple of games here in the preseason. We'll
Speaker 1: give those guys an opportunity to show what they can
Speaker 1: do because we we have three guys you know and
Speaker 1: sell it, Urts and and Trey that we feel real
Speaker 1: confident in. But you know, really trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who that fourth guy is. And I think it's really
Speaker 1: a toss up. But all three of those guys have
Speaker 1: at times getting like, wow, they got a legitimate show
Speaker 1: of making this football team. Let's see how we can
Speaker 1: do it on a more consistent basis. Offensive weapons acknowledge
Speaker 1: when you signed this way book would be crazy and
Speaker 1: tight end. Were you looking at all for guys who
Speaker 1: were beating? Yeah, outstanding blockers along with maybe if you're
Speaker 1: blocking more than receiving or didn't matter to you that.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes when you get to the undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents immediately after the draft, it's what's available, because you know,
Speaker 1: you say, hey, I really like that guy, and then
Speaker 1: that it happens that everybody. Then someone takes him in
Speaker 1: the sixth and you're, God, I wish we were hoping,
Speaker 1: you know, we get a chance to get him, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit later in terms of where he is.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, those are three guys we liked.
Speaker 1: They all have specific qualities that you kind of like
Speaker 1: in them. But it was just at that point in time,
Speaker 1: you're just what's available in uh and who are you
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring in? And with James Casey
Speaker 1: not here, you know, I think they all felt that
Speaker 1: it was an opportunity to compete and see the fourth
Speaker 1: tight end could be on this team. Four guys are right?
Speaker 1: Did you four slash four? Was it alphabetical aphabetic or
Speaker 1: numeracle alphabetical? All right? Are you looking forward to Yeah?
Speaker 1: We are, you know, and they'll they'll all get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play. Um, but you're excited to see what
Speaker 1: those guys can do when it's when it's live competitions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it shows out here, but it's I think that kind
Speaker 1: of validates it when you get in the game. So
Speaker 1: here I'm one wondering do you think that the place
Speaker 1: for your advantage calling up play and then young I
Speaker 1: try not to bust people's chops when I'm calling plays,
Speaker 1: but not being able to I think it helps, I mean,
Speaker 1: but what we end up doing because of I think
Speaker 1: the thing that helps the most is we've got so
Speaker 1: many reps and we get so many more opportunities to
Speaker 1: be in play calling situations, if that makes sense. So
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of trial and error in terms
Speaker 1: of how we do it because we get so many reps,
Speaker 1: in terms of how we train. I think that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for us employees pick it right, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: But the key is if you run a lot of players,
Speaker 1: you can call crappy ones, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So if you if you're a team that only runs
Speaker 1: fifty to sixty plays a game, you almost have to
Speaker 1: hit on every single one of your play calls. If
Speaker 1: you can get eighty five to ninety play calls, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you know, twenty five thirty not very good calls,
Speaker 1: but they tend to forget about them because the next
Speaker 1: play got your first down. You know what I mean
Speaker 1: now book on game day is I think I just
Speaker 1: think your retention during the week, you know you can
Speaker 1: have That's the fine line I think for any staff
Speaker 1: when you're putting together a game plan is how much
Speaker 1: is too much? You know, we need to have this,
Speaker 1: we need to have this, we need to have this.
Speaker 1: And then for us, you want to have confidence because
Speaker 1: they drilled it. You know, if you go into a
Speaker 1: game and you know, you listen, people say, we have
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty plays up for this game, Well,
Speaker 1: how did you practice them all week on? You only
Speaker 1: have X amount of days. We're getting fifty snaps three
Speaker 1: days in a row. That's one fifty. Did you run
Speaker 1: every play once you know? And did you run it
Speaker 1: to the right, did you run it to the left?
Speaker 1: You know? And did you run it against that defense
Speaker 1: that you were anticipating getting. So that's kind of the
Speaker 1: chess matchup when you try to pare down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Just so our guys when we call things, they're prepared
Speaker 1: for more than one or two offenses. I mean one
Speaker 1: or two defenses. So contract too long time us funny
Speaker 1: bad because they had in your news year. But those
Speaker 1: two guys are outstanding leaders here both you know, Todd
Speaker 1: offensively and Trent defensively, and um economically, it's it's the
Speaker 1: only reason they're on another sideline. But those two guys
Speaker 1: did absolutely everything we asked them here. Um, they were
Speaker 1: two tremendous football players, two great Eagles. UM. So I'll
Speaker 1: be excited to see both those guys see them, especially
Speaker 1: because you know they're both the sumilar situations. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: both those guys again, I thought did a great job
Speaker 1: because they were older veterans in here. Um, they accepted
Speaker 1: our staff and immediately when we got in here. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're both probably two of the hardest working players we
Speaker 1: had and on our team. You know, both in the
Speaker 1: classroom and in the weight room. You know, it was
Speaker 1: evident when you play that many years in this league,
Speaker 1: there's a reason for it, you know, And I think
Speaker 1: it's their dedication. But there you know the quote unquote
Speaker 1: what everybody's looking for, two professional football player in terms
Speaker 1: of how those guys approached it, and I think it
Speaker 1: it really rubbed off on our younger guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you could ask BG, but I know how much he
Speaker 1: looked up to Trent, and Trent kind of took him
Speaker 1: under his wing and trying to bring him along. And
Speaker 1: it's the same thing with Lane being next to Todd
Speaker 1: for such a long you know, for the two years
Speaker 1: that he was with him, how Todd kind of taught
Speaker 1: Lane the rope. So they were both real good mentors
Speaker 1: to our younger players. Here we're saying, at does he
Speaker 1: have limitations at all coming off his injury or seeing
Speaker 1: he's been full going everything. The only limitation as a
Speaker 1: head coach. Yeah, obviously you would rather he'd got some
Speaker 1: game reps in the preseason. How does that set him
Speaker 1: back in terms? You know, the biggest thing for us
Speaker 1: in this situation, to be honest with you, is that, um,
Speaker 1: it's something that we wanted to get cleaned up. So
Speaker 1: it's the reps weren't really important. I think it's in
Speaker 1: a long term thing. He's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: better for it. So we just wanted to get it
Speaker 1: out of the way. I don't know, but we just
Speaker 1: wanted whatever it is. Doctor Meyers said, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and things. He'll be fine by
Speaker 1: the opener. So I said, if we got to shut
Speaker 1: him down now, I'd rather shut him down now then
Speaker 1: have to shut him down sometime in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season, so thanks ro