WEBVTT - Press Pass - Carson Wentz.mp3 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:10.640 Appreciate that. How anty are you getting ummy spiting whatever? 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.039 Five six months? Now, how answer you getting you see 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.560 everybody practicing? Now, yeah, I'm always anty this time of year, honestly, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.360 just to finally get back with all the guys today, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.320 finally seeing the guys practice against each other. Um, it's 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.479 always an exciting time. You can really kind of start 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.480 to turn up the competition a little bit, have some fun, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.240 and so I think everyone everyone's excited for it. Ly, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.080 do you have to be careful not to postration because 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.839 everybody's out there You're not figured yet for sure. I mean, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.000 anytime you're rehabbing from any sort of injury, you gotta 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.720 be careful. You know, there's days you feel great and 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.640 you want to push them more, and there's days um 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.479 it's a little source, a little tired whatever. Um. But yeah, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.559 it's just part of the process of coming back from 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.000 an injury. You know, you just gotta trust what the 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.040 trainers are saying, what the doctors are saying, um, and 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.360 again just keeping smart with it. When you were in college, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.440 you were hurt as the established start knowing that when 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.480 you yeah, whenever you got he wanted to come back. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.839 Has this been different at all. Is there anything different 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.200 about what you're going through now versus which right here before. Um, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.600 I mean it's it's a little different than the fact 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.000 that I came back the same year, Um, in college 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.920 when I was heard as a senior, I came back, 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.600 played in the national championship game. UM, so a little different. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.800 But at the same time, you know, I've I've learned, 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.600 you know, how to how to go through these times, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.000 how to handle it. Um, it's never fun. I've never 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.360 obviously had an injury of this magnitude, this type of 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.440 timetable for return and everything. But um, you learn a 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.960 lot in just those little injury moments as well. So 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.360 again I just feel I feel confident with it and 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.720 and everything. I mean, personally, you learn a lot, you know, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.360 you learn a lot about um. You know, I learned 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.320 a lot about my faith, learn a lot about just 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.360 how God's working through these things. And UM, it's not 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.160 always easy, you know, I know I've talked a lot 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.760 about it. But UM, I think on a personal level, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.760 you know, when you're injured is really when you find 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.600 you know the type of man, the type of character 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.600 that you're made of. You won't be involved obviously in 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.360 practice in terms of throwing, etc. But will you be 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.920 in uh the offense as as as things are going 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.840 on with Nick Dare where you could watch and I 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.880 mean run you guys will be out there today, so 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.560 you'll see. I mean, I'll be involved in a handful 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.080 of things. Um, there'll be things I'm not I'm not 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.120 fully cleared to do everything yet, but I'll be involved 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.360 when when I can and and things that I can be. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.239 But again, you'll you'll kind of get to see that 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.359 today as we go. You had romans of a big progress. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.560 Are there are there days where you're like, I really 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.280 had a big breakthrough? Is it kind of really incremental? Yeah, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.040 I mean it's there's there's some of those things and 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.320 in the big picture they might be small, but they're 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.480 again kind of more of those in incremental type of 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 things with the progress and everything, and um, you just 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.640 kind of get it, get a little bit, get'll do 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.040 a little bit more each day, and um, you know 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.320 it's not always like this. There's days where you're sore, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.720 you're tired. Um, it's all part of it, though you'll 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.080 stop by his offers kind of fibor two days or whatever, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.440 how much time have you spend thinking of kind of beings, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.639 all the offense and what have. Those conversations then they're 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.080 always great. You know, those conversations are always great. You know, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.800 coach Coaches does a tremendous job of just being open 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.760 to ideas, open to new things, and you know, and 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.240 he comes to me with things too sometimes. So um, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.280 you know, I think that was kind of documented last year, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.840 just our open lines of communication, our relationship that we have, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.440 and his door is always open for for anybody, and um, yeah, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.200 I'll jump in there every now and then. I've been 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.480 talking about how the motivate. You know, sometimes there's a 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.720 lull after supervivent. But with this team, there are so 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.800 many guys that didn't get to play in that final 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.359 game that you guys are gonna fuel on everyone else. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.720 Can you speak to that, you know as Yeah, I 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.120 mean obviously with injured guys, guys that didn't get a 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.120 chance to play in that game. Um, there's an extra 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.040 sense of motivation, you know, an extra sense of not 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.680 letting everybody be complacent. On the flip side of that, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.360 I know the leaders that we have, you know, I 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.080 know the guys in that locker room, the character of 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.680 that locker room where I don't expect it to be 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.360 an issue regardless. You know, I think, um, anytime we 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.520 have the veteran leadership that we have, that's not really 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.640 a concern of mine or really the rest of the guys, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.520 because nobody's gonna ever settle for anything around here. But again, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.160 I don't think it hurts that we have those other 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.839 guys like myself that are coming back with a little 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.800 chip on their shoulder, you know, a little extra motivation 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.920 to get back there. Imment you guys made last year, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.400 Carson in your red zone and on a third down, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.880 I mean there's a lot of reasons for that. Obviously 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.640 you look at it when you look at the film 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.720 and what are the most important reasons for the improvement? 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.080 You know, I think there's a lot of things that 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.320 go into that, that improvement in third down, red zone, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.000 all of that. Ay, we emphasize it a lot, even 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.159 going back to OTA's last year. You know, we worked 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.200 on in a ton, We spent extra time in the 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.120 film room, you know, just analyzing what we did, and 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.400 then we really emphasized this last year putting the right 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.560 guys in the right spots, you know, bringing a guy 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.520 like Al Sean, getting zach Ertz more involved in the 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.680 right positions, getting Nelson Agiler in the slot where you know, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.560 he made a huge difference in there, and just the 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.400 rest of the piece is just getting guys in the 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.640 right spots I think was a huge part of our success, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:03.240 especially in the red zone. Several weeks ago, the Zacs 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.000 almost impossible to cover in the red zone. Um why, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.200 I mean, what makes him so difficult? I think with him, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.400 you know, especially where we're at in our relationship, you know, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.640 on the field, just our chemistry, our timing and everything 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.080 is just is really dialed in. Um So, I think 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.640 anytime that's that's dialed in, that's hard enough to defend. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.200 But a guy the size that he has, his ability 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.400 to go up and get a ball, and just the 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.400 way he plays with leverage and runs, you know, I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.680 think as good routes as anybody in the league. I 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.719 just think that makes for a tough matchup over the 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.000 last few months. I mean, as they're good to training camp. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.839 You won't be involved in many ways as the starting quarterback, 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.720 but are there little things that you're doing to in 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.760 terms of leadership and also letting the rest of the 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.120 guys know that you're you're still the guy. UM. Yeah, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:50.960 I mean anytime you're Andrew, you know, and I'm not 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.960 the only one doing this. I mean Hicks is doing Americas. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.840 You know, guys that are j Jason Peters, Everyone still involved. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.760 And I think that's. Um. Sometimes a fear is that 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.400 guys might just isolate them elves and just handle their rehab, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.680 their recovery. UM, And I don't think that's really the 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.440 case with most of us, you know, I think we're 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.520 all we want to be involved. You know, we're all 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.040 chomping at the bit to get out there. We might 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.400 be limited to some respect, but um, you know, leadership stuff, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.159 all of those kind of aspects of it. Uh, we're 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.800 involved as much as we can do. You feel like 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.479 you have to do that because of the importance of 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.200 that position. I mean, I just think that's kind of 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.080 who I am, That's kind of how I'm made up, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.960 and so, uh, none of it's really forced. It just 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:35.160 kind of naturally happens as we go nidering. I mean, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.160 obviously I'm mentionested in him as just an offensive weapon. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.800 Anytime we bring in a guy like that, UM, an 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.440 early pick as he was. UM, I got to see 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.280 him in college unfortunately, beat up on the bus and 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.440 a couple of times. So I know he's a heck 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.599 of a player, heck of a talent um obviously, like 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.760 you said, sharing the same agent. I know a little 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.560 bit about him as well. But it'll be fun to 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.680 see him out here in Ota, see how he picks 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.640 up everything that the speed of the game and everything, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.600 and then see where we can mix him in within 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.080 our packages and everything. A lot is made about the 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.599 physical part of your your rehab, but were a mental aspect, 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.160 what kind of progress have made as far as you know, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.760 the movement that you can do with the brace on it, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.480 just kind of understanding your limitations. Yeah, mental aspect is 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.160 probably just as important as the physical. I think when 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.720 you're coming back from these injuries, I'm just learning how 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.520 to trust it, you know, learning how to trust your need, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.400 trust your movement, all of those things, and that comes. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.120 That comes over time. I mean every day is it 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.880 just gets a little better and a little more trust, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.680 a little more faith in it than um. At the 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.520 same time, you gotta be smart. You gotta be smart 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.400 with what the doctors are saying. But I feel that 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.360 I've made made really good strides both mentally and physically, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.880 and I like where I'm at need on anybody Carson 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.800 that's gone through something like this before, and not really 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.920 you know, not really, Um, just the guys around me, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.840 you know. And the other thing is just the guys 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.720 that are in the locker, are in the rehab room 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.080 this whole offseason. We've had to be around here, Hicks, Marigoes, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.360 Jason Peters, Sprowls been around, um. You know, we're kind 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.280 of all just rehabbing together. So it's kind of a 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.800 good little group that we have going in there. So 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.360 I think we've all kind of leaned on each other. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.840 Have you compared yourself at all to the other quarterbacks, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.560 but Ryan Cannibal first get back in dollars now practicing 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.400 you got heard similar to four months reporting that you 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.400 you can even look at that seem like lining up 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.920 timelines and things like that. It's not really not really. 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.800 I don't really. I don't really like to play the 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.960 comparison game and be I think we're all just kind 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.880 of Every injury is a little different, everybody's recoveries a 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.360 little different. Um, And I just really focus on what 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.440 the doctors are telling me in my recovery, find yourself 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.920 just looking at the calendar at four months, three months 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.520 and kind of cheating that way. I mean you do sometimes, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.439 but at the end of the day, Um, you can't 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.280 get caught up in that, even when you are healthy. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.439 You know, it's it's too easy to look ahead and Okay, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.880 week one, you got that circle or whatever. But um, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.600 I think it's it's always just a one day at 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 the time mentality and approach, and especially now I got 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.520 to avoid getting ahead of myself at that stuff. How 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.120 smooth is the transition now with Frank Will we want 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.640 to like getting with the coaches, all fielding, a lot 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.640 of guys who just truck position to everything. It's been great, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.679 you know, it's been great. Obviously losing Frank coachd Filippo 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.120 big losses, you know, especially personally, very close with both 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.640 those guys. But coach grow has been rock solid. Um 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.880 last year he was he was awesome. So far he 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.120 seems awesome. I think everyone's excited to see um kind 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.800 of him take that more of that leadership role and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.640 then press Taylor uh now as our quarterback coach. I 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.440 think you know us four quarterbacks. Hey, we love working 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.280 with him He's a great guy, very smart football mind 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.840 as well. So it's been a very smooth process I 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.800 think so far, will you go to the White House? Um? 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.000 So obviously it's been kind of leaked out there that 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.760 we will be UM going. Um the details aren't fully 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.120 available yet, so we're not sure. I know for me personally, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.320 if the team decides that as a whole most guys 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.000 want to go or be a part of it, I 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.800 will be attending with them. You know. I think it's 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.559 just a cool way to um just receive the honor 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.880 um kind of nationally uh and be recognized. I don't 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.360 personally view it. I don't lot some people do. Everyone 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:02.840 has their own opinion on it. I don't view it 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.840 as a political thing whatsoever. I don't really mess with 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.880 politics very often. But UM, yeah, I think I will 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.680 be involved in going in that. UM. Again, the rest 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:21.320 of the details are becoming out soon. Yeah. So I 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.520 mean I've looked into a little bit UM so far 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.440 it seems fine. UM. Again, I'm still limited to some 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.120 respect as far as what I can do. So the 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.840 brace is something that UM. I never want to use 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.280 it as a crutch UM by any means, but UM 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.800 just to to feel a little more protected, to make 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.719 sure the doctors feel little safer within everything. But it's 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.040 something I'm just now really getting used to, so we'll 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.839 kind of just stay posted on that one. I guess 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.640 we'll see again. It's a fluid thing, just like everything else. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.920 Thanks person.