Speaker 1: There's no comment. Right, all right, well, good morning. First
Speaker 1: of all, Um, let me uh updates you get on
Speaker 1: on our injury report. Um, Alan Barberie left hamstring. We'll
Speaker 1: not We'll not practice today again. It's it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a week to week thing with him can move
Speaker 1: the same way, right hamstring, same thing. Um won't practice,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a weekly deal. And then Taylor Hart
Speaker 1: with the right ankle excuse me, uh strain, will not
Speaker 1: practice again today. Everybody else, Benny Logan will actually uh
Speaker 1: he'll be limited in practice, but he'll practice today. Uh.
Speaker 1: Chris Maragos and Leo McKelvin, both those guys will will practice.
Speaker 1: So you your reaction to Josh's incidental bridge, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously disappointed. Um you know it's uh, um, it's not
Speaker 1: what you want on a on a player day off
Speaker 1: to see happen. Um. He and I spoke about it privately,
Speaker 1: and and uh, um you know it's uh it's it's
Speaker 1: one of the things I talk about all the time
Speaker 1: with players. You know, you just try to eliminate distractions
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, take care of your business
Speaker 1: outside of the building. And uh, he understands and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we just gotta obviously it's out of our
Speaker 1: hands at this point. We just gotta see where it goes.
Speaker 1: Nothing changes in terms of his status on the team.
Speaker 1: Nothing changes right now until until we get it again.
Speaker 1: It's out of our hands. It's a legal matter right now,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get more information on it. We've had
Speaker 1: a lot of these now distractions to use your work.
Speaker 1: What do you do? How do you avoid more of these?
Speaker 1: Where does it end? You know, It's that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of like, uh, I it's
Speaker 1: like you're the you're the father of your house, and
Speaker 1: and you just gotta keep talking to your you know,
Speaker 1: to your tower siblings, and just keep talking to your
Speaker 1: kids and and just keep keep reiterating the importance of
Speaker 1: who you represent, what you represent, your families, the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: and and you got to make smart choices. And it's
Speaker 1: it's all about choices and consequences in life. And and um,
Speaker 1: you know, if you make bad choices, you got to
Speaker 1: suffer the consequences. So we'll we'll just continue to keep
Speaker 1: talking about its from the team we again until until
Speaker 1: I find out you know exactly, Um, you know, the
Speaker 1: severity of it and what's going to happen down the road.
Speaker 1: Right now, nothing, and we'll take it. We'll take it
Speaker 1: one day to time as of right now, yes, say well,
Speaker 1: I mean I would I would assume, you know, if
Speaker 1: you it's hard to speculate, but I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 1: it in the past. I mean there could be fines,
Speaker 1: or could be suspensions, or could be you know, anything
Speaker 1: of that nature. But again, until until we gather all
Speaker 1: the information, we just don't. We just don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. Yeah, I just need to. I just
Speaker 1: need to hear officially, you know, through an investigation, what
Speaker 1: took place and what happened. So TAMAS not enough. I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to just get all the I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to see exactly what happened and
Speaker 1: maybe talk to some people and uh and and find
Speaker 1: out I mean, you know, it's it's outside of the
Speaker 1: building obviously, UM and a lot of times what these
Speaker 1: situations are out of our control. UM. And I just
Speaker 1: want to I want to get everything, get everything tightened up.
Speaker 1: Complex directly coming from here. He was here yesterday morning.
Speaker 1: He came in and watched the game film and then
Speaker 1: and then left from here, so it was some time
Speaker 1: after he left. I said, you said, you wish these
Speaker 1: guys would make smarter decisions after some of the other
Speaker 1: incidents when they're outside of the building. And now this is,
Speaker 1: I believe in the fourth total incident. Do you feel
Speaker 1: there's a necessary situation for a meeting with the team
Speaker 1: to to talk about that again, or for players to
Speaker 1: have a meeting about that outside of the building, You know,
Speaker 1: I do. I think that. You know, it's it's part
Speaker 1: of my message to the team this morning, cause I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen him in a couple of days. So part
Speaker 1: of the message this morning is how we handle our business. Um.
Speaker 1: I also think too that, I mean, you make poor
Speaker 1: choices in life, You're gonna make poor choices on the
Speaker 1: football field, You're gonna make you're gonna make. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's a if it's a constant thing, then eventually
Speaker 1: you suffer the consequences. And and you know, when you're
Speaker 1: dealing with so many guys, coaches, players, office, um, trying
Speaker 1: to keep everybody on the same page as uh, when
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a lot of personalities and a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of backgrounds. Um, you know, my job too,
Speaker 1: sometimes is is to be that father figure for some
Speaker 1: of these players and and understanding their history and and
Speaker 1: and you know where they've come from and how they
Speaker 1: grew up. And it may not be how I grew
Speaker 1: up as as a as a child or as a
Speaker 1: as a you know, an adolescent or a team whatever.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I'm gonna wrap
Speaker 1: my arm around them and love on them and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, try to show them the right direction by
Speaker 1: the fact he brought a gun onto the premise, and
Speaker 1: you think it's a common experience about I don't know
Speaker 1: about I'm not going to speculate that this is quite multiples.
Speaker 1: Not so if people on the outside looking at you
Speaker 1: to say, because Doug Peterson had full control of this team,
Speaker 1: out of your spot, I would say, I would say
Speaker 1: that I do. Um. Again, I can't control what you
Speaker 1: do outside of it. Once you leave here. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna do, and I'm not responsible for you.
Speaker 1: But I can't control what you do once you leave
Speaker 1: these premises. Neither can the Philadelphia Eagles control what I
Speaker 1: do once I leave these premises. I just know who
Speaker 1: I am as a person, and I try to relay
Speaker 1: that to the team and just let them know that, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know you have the spotlight is on us in
Speaker 1: this city, in this market. The spotlight is on everything
Speaker 1: we do. And you have to be smart, you have
Speaker 1: to make right choices, you have to you have to
Speaker 1: do things differently. I mean, you just have to do
Speaker 1: them differently. And and because everything's magnified. Um. But again,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's once they leave here. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's the hardest thing to control. Well, we just keep
Speaker 1: talking about it, Just keep talking about it. We talked
Speaker 1: about the name father figure and wrapping your arms around
Speaker 1: guys and and that kind of thing. But is there
Speaker 1: another part of a discipline? Um? Do you think that
Speaker 1: maybe more discipline needs to come down if you have
Speaker 1: a number of incidents one after the next work guys
Speaker 1: are stepping out of line. I think I think that
Speaker 1: there there there comes a time, um, you know when
Speaker 1: it uh um, when there could be could be some
Speaker 1: discipline like that. I mean, obviously this this could be
Speaker 1: a case again. And and you know, I just I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure that these guys that I'm
Speaker 1: doing right by these players, and then they're doing right
Speaker 1: by themselves. And and that we're we're handling our business
Speaker 1: away from this building, right. Um. And if that means,
Speaker 1: you know, discipline at some point, then then then we
Speaker 1: address it at that point for you, between when you
Speaker 1: discipline players prior to whether they're officially well, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure that well, it's hard to put
Speaker 1: a put a you know, a uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: bullet point sort of you know, a checklist of what
Speaker 1: they do. But um, these are all things that I
Speaker 1: mean is it is it something that that that I condone?
Speaker 1: Is it something that I would expect? No, it's not.
Speaker 1: I mean I would expect them. Again, it goes back
Speaker 1: to being being a man and making making the right decisions.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are these guys are professional athletes.
Speaker 1: They are they're still obviously they're young adults, um, learning
Speaker 1: about life, young marrieds, young kids. These are the things
Speaker 1: that they need to focus on them, that they need
Speaker 1: to see. Um. I've been through that as a player.
Speaker 1: I've seen it with other teammates, Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: and things like that. But at the same time, UM,
Speaker 1: they need to know that that, Um, that the decisions
Speaker 1: and choices they make away from this building are gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna affect it's gonna affect them as a player.
Speaker 1: It's gonna affect eventually the team, and I think eventually
Speaker 1: it's going to affect their future as a player in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Was part of your message. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: Nigel's incident and this one both involved guns. It was
Speaker 1: part of your message specifically addressing issues regarding guns. And well,
Speaker 1: and I have them. I mean I have hunting rifles
Speaker 1: and things like that. I mean, you know, and and
Speaker 1: but they're they're registered, they got permits form they just
Speaker 1: again it. You know, there there's league policies, there's a
Speaker 1: Philadelphi Eagles policy. Those are things that we visit every year. Um,
Speaker 1: and we just need to continue to revisit these things.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily understand why they need guns, um outside
Speaker 1: of you know, maybe sport hunting or whatever. But you know,
Speaker 1: we just continue to educate our players and and uh
Speaker 1: and try to try to curb it the best we can.
Speaker 1: In contact with you about this at all, I would
Speaker 1: expect it at some point, but at this point we haven't.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard anything asked. By the way, No, I
Speaker 1: don't have an explanation for it. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, you know, I don't know why. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, if these things continue to occur, if
Speaker 1: something else happens, when you feel you might have to
Speaker 1: do more, I feel like that. I feel like if
Speaker 1: it if it obviously you know, um, if it continues. Um,
Speaker 1: you know there and again there's this this thing is
Speaker 1: still an open investigation, so I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen even in this case, you know, whether it
Speaker 1: be from the league or the Eagles. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's uh, there's obviously probably more you
Speaker 1: can you can look into and do you know down
Speaker 1: the road injury, what's the trickle down? Good question, thank you. Um, well,
Speaker 1: you know Wisnewsky will we'll step in at left guard. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see where Alan is at the end
Speaker 1: of the week. If he can't go in this game,
Speaker 1: then uh, we'll bring Isaac Will activate Isaac h this week.
Speaker 1: He's ready to go, Isaac, Yes, yes, yes, challenge trying
Speaker 1: to bounce before now, trying to get back on track
Speaker 1: and the division games that challenge this week. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big challenge. Obviously, the guys are very disappointed.
Speaker 1: And uh, um, you know, they hate to lose. UM,
Speaker 1: tough games like we just came through. We're kind of
Speaker 1: going through a tough little stretch even in our schedule
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and we just got to maintain our focus, got to
Speaker 1: maintain our drive and determination. You know, it's one day
Speaker 1: at a time, it's one play at a time. Um.
Speaker 1: The guys very eager to get back out on the
Speaker 1: practice field today later today, and and and sort of
Speaker 1: get the taste out of their mouth. And and it's
Speaker 1: it's no better feeling than to play another division opponent
Speaker 1: and uh, try to try to right the ship, give
Speaker 1: it three of the road and don't have a division
Speaker 1: win yet, does that put a prater importance on this one?
Speaker 1: I think I think the emphasis is greater for sure,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you know, teams that want to
Speaker 1: make the postseason obviously have to handle their division. And
Speaker 1: right now we're we've we've put ourselves in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hole. So yeah, the importance of winning
Speaker 1: this game is is um is probably a must for
Speaker 1: us in the division. We're just saying, how much of
Speaker 1: a distraction is it to the team for you to
Speaker 1: spend your first you know, fifteen minutes today talking about
Speaker 1: a gun and how one bullets and discipline, uh worder forward?
Speaker 1: What what kind of a problem is that it's probably
Speaker 1: more of a distraction for me than than the players. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm the one having to answer and
Speaker 1: field the questions. But UM, I know, once I leave here,
Speaker 1: it's I'm on the I'm on the practice field and
Speaker 1: and and as business as usual. So um this obviously
Speaker 1: was expected and uh um, but there's no greater feeling
Speaker 1: than getting back out on the field and getting to
Speaker 1: work is offensiable chage add bills this week. Well obviously
Speaker 1: at some weapons skill position you know um Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: and uh Shepherd and Cruise. I mean these guys are
Speaker 1: uh dynamic receivers that can be very explosive and so
Speaker 1: obviously understanding the thing is they've got a lot of
Speaker 1: time invested. You know, Eli, they've worked with these these
Speaker 1: guys for the last few years and um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's an offense that ELI is very familiar with. So
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of continuity there. Um. And and
Speaker 1: these games always seem to come down to to you know,
Speaker 1: either who has the ball last or who who takes
Speaker 1: care of the football? You know, and in games like
Speaker 1: this and and uh, um you know it's always a
Speaker 1: tough battle between the Giants and Eagles and and um,
Speaker 1: I just look forward to the to the opportunity again
Speaker 1: day to day. I'm sorry, go ahead, how will you
Speaker 1: rotate your running backs? I mean you're going to continue
Speaker 1: to go with the heavy dose for Darren? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well again we'll see. But Ryan, you know we're going
Speaker 1: in Ryan, Ryan still the guy and and uh you know,
Speaker 1: we're still gotta gotta get him going and feeding him
Speaker 1: and get him, get him a few more touches. And
Speaker 1: in these games, Darren again is uh the guy that
Speaker 1: that would come in next and very situational as as
Speaker 1: we go along. And then we got to continue with
Speaker 1: Wendell and Kenyon and keep keep the you know, keep
Speaker 1: the pipeline coming because we're gonna need all four of
Speaker 1: these guys at some point. There was a moment journey camp,
Speaker 1: but Somala was kind of the next guy up. Um
Speaker 1: that guard what changes in between that? Was it just
Speaker 1: the injury? Um? And what have you seen out at
Speaker 1: him day to day and practice and how much competence
Speaker 1: is yeah, you know, Um, you know, we tried, you know,
Speaker 1: when when Barbarie went out to right tackle and Isaac
Speaker 1: was in there at left left guard, and then we
Speaker 1: had Wiz was kind of the backup center guard in
Speaker 1: that in that combination, and then of course the injury
Speaker 1: set him back just a little bit and and Whizz
Speaker 1: was healthy healthy, h so uh he was able to
Speaker 1: to plug right in there. Isaac has done an outstanding
Speaker 1: job in practice even at center. He's getting some market
Speaker 1: center as well, and um, you know, this would be
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for him now to be active, to
Speaker 1: feel the the game like experience, you know, from from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. But you know, uh, Whizz as a veteran
Speaker 1: guy that's got a lot of a lot of starts
Speaker 1: under his belt, and we feel comfortable with him being
Speaker 1: the starter. Snaps were still still a problem on Sunday. Well.
Speaker 1: A lot of it too, is is how the center
Speaker 1: reacts to certain things. Sometimes if he's going to his right,
Speaker 1: the ball tends to come to the right, or vice
Speaker 1: versa to the left, and just things we got to
Speaker 1: continue to focus on. Um, whether he's rising up at
Speaker 1: the snap, ball stays low, Carson dropping his eyes on
Speaker 1: a couple occasions and dropping actually dropping the snap. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, which is which has happened in the last
Speaker 1: few games. And those are just things we got to
Speaker 1: you know, to continue to work through, continue to um
Speaker 1: you know, talk about in practice and execute it in
Speaker 1: practice so that they they go to a minimum and
Speaker 1: then we don't have any more costly turnovers. That way.
Speaker 1: You always seems so steady. I'm sure that's how you
Speaker 1: want to project yourself. So siph would be disappointed, Are
Speaker 1: you also pissed about how many Deep down? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you're you're obviously disappointed and dejected and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I I don't sit in office all day
Speaker 1: and expect something to happen, you know, I pray that
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. But um, I'm disappointed for the choices
Speaker 1: that they make. And uh, um, you know, we just
Speaker 1: we learned from and move on for a long time.
Speaker 1: What did you learn from him about dealing with stuff
Speaker 1: like this and what do you necessarily handled the same boy?
Speaker 1: Um Again, he was very very cerebral in the way
Speaker 1: that he wanted all the information as well. Um. He
Speaker 1: wanted to find out exactly what had happened, talk to
Speaker 1: people if he could, uh and make a make a
Speaker 1: calculated decision. And again it was kind of the same
Speaker 1: same things when it's when it's outside of the building
Speaker 1: and the outside of our control. Um, it kind of
Speaker 1: gets turned over to the authorities at that point. So
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things are have stemmed from
Speaker 1: me watching him and and learning from him. Wide receiver
Speaker 1: rotation something, any changes in the wide receiver rotation. No,
Speaker 1: Josh say to you when you spoke, how do you cope? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you this. He was. He was very
Speaker 1: dejected and very disappointed. Um, and uh, you know, very
Speaker 1: apologetic obviously, and uh said it wouldn't happen again, apologize
Speaker 1: all the time. Yes, the reports that there were conversations
Speaker 1: about wide receivers at the trade deadline and particularly Torry Smith,
Speaker 1: what's your understanding of of that? How close conversations? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously every team is looking to to maybe
Speaker 1: upgrade or bring in people that can help you. At
Speaker 1: this time, it's so early in the season. We're just
Speaker 1: at the midway point too. And uh, very comfortable with
Speaker 1: obviously the guys we have and want to continue to
Speaker 1: work with them and get them, get them ready. This
Speaker 1: week as well. That's the one guy we talked you
Speaker 1: to see. It was an all gaging conference level about it,
Speaker 1: being flustered about the props and so you talked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And I excuse me, I uh, I approach
Speaker 1: it as if I need to talk to somebody individually,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to him individually, um, collectively, as a group
Speaker 1: or as an entire offense. And I felt that, you know,
Speaker 1: in in in certain circumstances, you just I address it
Speaker 1: with the whole team. I want everybody to hear my message.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it needs to be directed
Speaker 1: directly at you know, one specific. I can go privately
Speaker 1: to you and we can talk, but you know, I
Speaker 1: want I want the whole offense, the whole team to
Speaker 1: hear from me how I feel. Um, and and just
Speaker 1: know that, uh you know, we need to get better.
Speaker 1: And and uh, um they understand, they know, they see it,
Speaker 1: they they hear it, they read it, watch it on
Speaker 1: TV whatever, and and obviously it bothers them as well.
Speaker 1: And uh but uh you know, UM, we just can't.
Speaker 1: We can't allow the outside influences affect what we do
Speaker 1: inside the building. Thank you, guys,