Speaker 1: Hello Eagles fans. I'm Chris McPherson and welcome to the
Speaker 1: debut of Inside Training Camp, presidented by Fanny. We'll showcase
Speaker 1: the best moments from the rookie and selected vedroom practices
Speaker 1: which wrapped up on Wednesday. Will introduce you to one
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz's newest weapons and wide receiver, Torry Smith.
Speaker 1: But first on today's show, Eagles insider Dave Spadero. He
Speaker 1: goes one on one with head coach Doug Pearson to
Speaker 1: find out his mindset going into his second training camp
Speaker 1: as the man in charge. We welcome you to Eagles
Speaker 1: Training Camp to seventeen at the Novacare Complex on Eagles
Speaker 1: Insider David Spadaro along with the head coach, Doug Peterson.
Speaker 1: Welcome to training camp. Thank you day, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Take us behind the scenes. What what is it like
Speaker 1: from the minute you get up at what time to
Speaker 1: get here and what time do you leave? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's early mornings and uh right now it's
Speaker 1: early evenings until until we get really the vets in here.
Speaker 1: But you know I rolled in here around us, you know,
Speaker 1: five forty five and and just try to get my
Speaker 1: day started, and then the players start coming in. You know,
Speaker 1: practice is a little bit later in the day. It's
Speaker 1: at eight fifty in the morning as opposed to eight
Speaker 1: oh five when the vets coming here in a couple
Speaker 1: of days, and and then we just get going. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that a
Speaker 1: lot of the prep work has been done. Uh, and
Speaker 1: now it's just uh, you know, it's it's it's full
Speaker 1: steam ahead. Doug, did being a player in the NFL
Speaker 1: prepare you for being a coach? And in what ways
Speaker 1: did it? I think so? And playing the quarterback position, um,
Speaker 1: from a mental standpoint and kind of appreciating the process,
Speaker 1: appreciating appreciating the grind and the study. And of course
Speaker 1: as a coach you spend a lot more time in
Speaker 1: that process and a lot more that grind is preparation
Speaker 1: and um, you know, if you want to be successful
Speaker 1: as a player, uh, you prepare yourself for a game day.
Speaker 1: You want to be successful as a coach, the same thing,
Speaker 1: you got to prepare yourself. And then of course, in
Speaker 1: my case now as head coach, you got to prepare
Speaker 1: the team and and um, you know they've got to
Speaker 1: buy into what I'm selling and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: they got to believe in that, do they? And how
Speaker 1: do you know if they do well? I you know,
Speaker 1: you see it when they practice. Um I saw it
Speaker 1: last year all the way through the season, how well
Speaker 1: they played. And they played extremely hard. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: we came up short in a few games, but they
Speaker 1: they continued to play hard and play played to the
Speaker 1: last game. Even when we were out of it, they
Speaker 1: kept playing. And that that's when you know your team
Speaker 1: has really bought into what you're selling. So now it's
Speaker 1: year two and the players know Doug Peterson. So what's
Speaker 1: different about you this year than last year? Well, I
Speaker 1: think I think I'm a little bit more relaxed, Uh,
Speaker 1: just knowing knowing that we've got everything in place, and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I rely on my co my
Speaker 1: coordinators a lot, Frank and Jim and Dave and and
Speaker 1: rely on their preparation as well. And and uh, you
Speaker 1: know that's a big big part of I think for
Speaker 1: me feeling I don't want to say comfortable, because and
Speaker 1: you're never really comfortable. You're always you're always striving to
Speaker 1: be better and do things better. And and um, you know,
Speaker 1: for me now I can focus really on the guys
Speaker 1: and focus on the team, and and uh have a
Speaker 1: chance to interact with him, probably a little bit more
Speaker 1: than I did last year. And uh, it just it
Speaker 1: just feels good to kind of go into that camp
Speaker 1: having that that added pressure off your off your shoulders. Doug,
Speaker 1: do you think you know what you have with this
Speaker 1: football team? I want to say yes, I think I
Speaker 1: do know. Um. Obviously, it's gonna take some hard work
Speaker 1: in preparation, and once we get into camp and begin
Speaker 1: to practice, then things begin to unfold a little bit
Speaker 1: more for you. But I really feel in my heart,
Speaker 1: I think I know the type of football team that
Speaker 1: we can be. Um and uh you know, um, the
Speaker 1: type of coaching staff that I have, and and and
Speaker 1: getting our guys ready. So I'm excited for camp and obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the regular season. I would imagine for Carson
Speaker 1: year two, and now that he is the guy, you
Speaker 1: see a big difference. Do you see the way he
Speaker 1: carries himself, the way he approaches the meetings, what he
Speaker 1: does out here on the field, A big jump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And the thing is for both of us,
Speaker 1: really having gone through sixteen games last year, it's huge
Speaker 1: going into year two, I see more of that confidence
Speaker 1: in him. I see more of the leadership in him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the guy. He knows he's the guy.
Speaker 1: He's out in front, he's leading. He's leading in the
Speaker 1: off season, he's leading now even in rookie camps. As
Speaker 1: we get through these next couple of days. And those
Speaker 1: are things you want to you want out of your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. And uh, the guys really you know, gravitate
Speaker 1: to him on offense, and uh, it's it's for him,
Speaker 1: it's exciting for me. It's exciting because this is what
Speaker 1: you want out of your starting quarterback. If you put
Speaker 1: up a split screen of Carson dropping back twelve months
Speaker 1: ago and him today, would you notice a big difference
Speaker 1: From a technical standpoint, you would? You would one. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see confidence in the drop And that's that's the
Speaker 1: big part of just understanding our offense. That's the first thing.
Speaker 1: And then all the hard work he's put in with
Speaker 1: with our coaching staff, coach d Filippo and Frank and
Speaker 1: and what he's done in the off season to prepare himself.
Speaker 1: You'll see a noticeable we see the noticeable difference. Um,
Speaker 1: And those are things that uh, he continues to work
Speaker 1: work in camp with with John and and UH and
Speaker 1: Frank and UM. Really excited now to get him around
Speaker 1: the guys when the kind of the bullets are beginning
Speaker 1: to fly for real, when the pads come on, and
Speaker 1: see if those mechanics translate over to his game. A
Speaker 1: couple of topics of conversation to clarify here. First, wide
Speaker 1: receiver Jordan Matthews missing a lot of the OTAs with
Speaker 1: the knee tendonitis. What is his status? How is he physically? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he you know, he's been he's been working all off
Speaker 1: season and we just kept him out of drills and
Speaker 1: OTAs just because we weren't playing games. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's another one that win all sixteen games, or you know,
Speaker 1: relatively all sixteen games. He was in all the meetings,
Speaker 1: he didn't play in all of them. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, he he knows what he's doing and he's
Speaker 1: got a really good comfort level with Carson. Carson knows
Speaker 1: exactly where he's going to be, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I decided to keep him out of the os let
Speaker 1: that knee heal and uh, you know, we'll continue to
Speaker 1: monitor that. You know, each and every day, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see where he's at tomorrow when he reports and
Speaker 1: then and then we'll go from there. So by no
Speaker 1: means am I gonna am I gonna pushh you know
Speaker 1: him to to get out there in practice. I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure that his body is one hundred
Speaker 1: percent before he steps on the field. And then Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks had a procedure on his hand, broken bone in
Speaker 1: the hand. Status moving forward, same thing. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go through individual work, he's gonna
Speaker 1: go through group install We'll hold him out of some
Speaker 1: of the team stuff EARLYI again, he's another one that's
Speaker 1: that played all sixteen games last year. He's a veteran player.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. He's a leader of the team.
Speaker 1: And so I don't need him out there this early
Speaker 1: in training camp. And and uh, he knows what it
Speaker 1: takes to get himself ready. So you know, we'll get
Speaker 1: him out there and some of the drill work, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, we'll monitor him and keep him again,
Speaker 1: make sure he's one hundred percent before we put him
Speaker 1: back out there. And Doug at cornerback, what is the
Speaker 1: big picture here? How active are the Eagles as far
Speaker 1: as quote keeping their eyes open looking to add players there? Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think, you know, uh, you have to
Speaker 1: keep your eyes open obviously to add talent to your
Speaker 1: football team and add that competition, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: cornerback is just one of the spots that I think
Speaker 1: this year that that becomes the focal point has been
Speaker 1: kind of in the in the news lately, and so
Speaker 1: you know, you continue to whether it's O line, D line,
Speaker 1: corner line by you're constantly trying to find guys that
Speaker 1: you can bring in that are gonna fit fit your mold.
Speaker 1: So we're going to continue to work with our guys.
Speaker 1: We feel like we got a lot of talented young
Speaker 1: players at corner. Uh. The addition of Patrick Robinson, uh,
Speaker 1: and then picking up Razul Douglas in the draft, um
Speaker 1: really have really kind of helped and get these young
Speaker 1: guys a lot of reps in camp. The theme when
Speaker 1: you address the players veterans win a report, the biggest
Speaker 1: theme is just ownership. We got to own it. We
Speaker 1: gotta own our jobs. We got to own our responsibilities,
Speaker 1: good and bad, and uh, you know, you gotta have
Speaker 1: a passion for this game and going into year two. Uh,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't take our foot off the gas
Speaker 1: and uh uh my messages can We got to continue
Speaker 1: to work and work hard, carry over what we did
Speaker 1: in the offseason, the way we finished strong at the
Speaker 1: end of last season, Live on those moments and keep
Speaker 1: pressing forward. Do you have a depth chart up in
Speaker 1: your office? I keep a depth chart. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: changes a lot, I imagine at this time of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it shuffles, you know, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want the guys to sit there and count numbers either.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's gonna get fair opportunity. Everybody's gonna get,
Speaker 1: you know, a chance to compete and play and play
Speaker 1: in these preseason games, especially a couple couple early ones, Uh,
Speaker 1: get a chance to get themselves on film. And and
Speaker 1: that that thing is a it's a it's a living,
Speaker 1: breathing organism, and it continues to extinues to expand, and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we got to find the best
Speaker 1: fifty three. At the end of camp. Iron sharpens. Iron
Speaker 1: looks like you got a lot of iron out here,
Speaker 1: a lot of ideas. That's the idea, get as much
Speaker 1: iron out here as we can create the competition at
Speaker 1: every position. Um and uh you know again, find the
Speaker 1: best fifty three at the end of camp. Jug thanks
Speaker 1: so much, Thanks Dave, have a great training. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Before Free and See officially kicked off. On March night,
Speaker 1: the Eagles agreed to terms with wide receiver Torrey Smith
Speaker 1: on a three year contract. A four were second round
Speaker 1: draft pick in twenty eleven, Smith has averaged seventeen yards
Speaker 1: per catch in his career, the second best mark over
Speaker 1: the last six seasons. The Eagles struggled to generate big
Speaker 1: plays in twenty sixteen, and Smith was brought in to
Speaker 1: help that. He is a subject of our first in Focus.
Speaker 1: I had to figure out what was best for me
Speaker 1: at the time, and that was here. You know this organization.
Speaker 1: I feel, like I said, in the right direction as
Speaker 1: a great young quarterback, great leadership and coach Peterson. I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that. Torey Smith, wide receiver.
Speaker 1: The driving force to me to sign in Philadelphia was
Speaker 1: simply I wanted to win. I wanted to be in
Speaker 1: a good situation with a good quarterback and a team
Speaker 1: that was trending up with and I felt like that
Speaker 1: was here. I'm looking forward to just continue to grind,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to be as consistent as possible. Because
Speaker 1: of your consistent and practice, he will be consistent on Sundays,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's what suspected of us. I want
Speaker 1: to do my part to make sure that, you know,
Speaker 1: we're the best unit that we can be, you know,
Speaker 1: and that what my numbers called that I go out
Speaker 1: there and I make the play there. That's good. Good there,
Speaker 1: it's good. We're getting better. After being around Carson four,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess a month or so now, I've
Speaker 1: been able to see how talent to the years. You know,
Speaker 1: I see that the hype is real and he has
Speaker 1: a very high ceiling and its potential. And I've been around,
Speaker 1: you know, some good quarterbacks in my time in the league.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of comparisons to Joe Flacco, and
Speaker 1: I can see why in terms of the both big guys,
Speaker 1: very physical, very talented. You can see it. It's on
Speaker 1: us to go out there and make plays and help
Speaker 1: bring it out so he can continue to shine and
Speaker 1: his team can grow. You can face the building, flip
Speaker 1: out of it. Good cash Tory. Some of the knowledge
Speaker 1: that I hope to pass on under the guys are
Speaker 1: simply through my experience, I've been at the top, I've
Speaker 1: been at the bottom. To share the highs and lows
Speaker 1: that comes with this game as well as try to
Speaker 1: set the example, you know, both on and off the field.
Speaker 1: And I'm understand what's wanted here and i know what's
Speaker 1: expected of me, and I'm hoping that, you know, I
Speaker 1: bring all that in more on the field. I'd like
Speaker 1: to bring to the offense. This big plays. You know,
Speaker 1: we have a very balanced offense, a lot of talent
Speaker 1: to guys, so not just a deep three. I can
Speaker 1: do a little bit of everything. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to just making plays and you know, being reliable. Wednesday
Speaker 1: marked the end of the rookie and selective veteran practices.
Speaker 1: Who shine, We'll let you know right after the break.
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Speaker 1: back everyone now. The first three days of training camp
Speaker 1: served as a refresher course for the thirty four players
Speaker 1: in attendance before the veterans take over. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the best highlights from the early part of
Speaker 1: the week. The first full team practice takes place on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and we'll have live coverage of Doug Pearson's press conference
Speaker 1: at two forty five pm here on Philadelphia Eagles dot
Speaker 1: com and the Eagles Mobile app. Don't forget that Saturday
Speaker 1: is the first open practice at Lincoln Financial Field. It's
Speaker 1: also the first time the players will put on pads
Speaker 1: during training camp. The action starts at ten am. Parking
Speaker 1: and admission are free, so you will not want to
Speaker 1: miss out on that. Our next show comes on Friday,
Speaker 1: so we'll hope you join us. I'm Chris McPherson and
Speaker 1: thank you for being here for the debut of Inside
Speaker 1: Training Camp, presented by Expanding. Have a great day, everyone,