Speaker 1: As you guys know, we've made the decision to release
Speaker 1: Josh Huff. The last forty eight hours, we've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time discussing this as an organization, going through
Speaker 1: our process and gathering information James from yesterday to today,
Speaker 1: because yesterday Doug said he didn't anticipate any discipline come. Um.
Speaker 1: For us, we just want to go through a process,
Speaker 1: gather all the information, and then sit down as an
Speaker 1: organization and make a decision that we think is the
Speaker 1: right decision for the Philadelphia Eagles. You know. Um, for us,
Speaker 1: we just felt, based on the circumstances and the facts involved,
Speaker 1: that it was the right thing to do for our
Speaker 1: football team. We met Jeffrey Don myself and coach and
Speaker 1: we made this decision together the statements that he made yesterday.
Speaker 1: Having listening to do with it, joh No m this
Speaker 1: situation was about gathering all the information and trying to
Speaker 1: do what we felt was right for the Philadelphi Eagles
Speaker 1: that came available between the time Doug taught us yesterday
Speaker 1: and when you made the move, we spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time over the last forty eight hours just making
Speaker 1: sure that we had the information and that we weren't
Speaker 1: rushing to judgment, and that we have a process in
Speaker 1: place for these sort of things that could lead us
Speaker 1: to what we think is the right decision. Gone on
Speaker 1: the premises here before you left and was arrested, Josh
Speaker 1: told us that he did not. Did you find out
Speaker 1: that he did? No, you do explore that further. And
Speaker 1: you have a regulation here against that occurring with players.
Speaker 1: It's a league policy about having weapons at the facility,
Speaker 1: a number of its it's the last several months will
Speaker 1: the off field. It's why why Josh Hawk, Well, we
Speaker 1: have to take each of these um separately, examine the
Speaker 1: facts that we have, and go through a process and
Speaker 1: then make a decision that's in the best interest of
Speaker 1: this organization. Was a different one, more severe than that.
Speaker 1: Nigel products that a fact situation and the circumstances and
Speaker 1: this were different than Nigel. You heard any pressure in
Speaker 1: any way for you to do something? Now you mentioned
Speaker 1: were you that sat down and had the discussion? Was
Speaker 1: it a back and forth discussion? And we're all of
Speaker 1: you on board with the decision. Everyone was on board
Speaker 1: and the decision. That's why we made the decision. UM
Speaker 1: And over the last fourty eight hours. When we go
Speaker 1: through our process, we talked to a lot of people
Speaker 1: and again there's no science to this. We have a
Speaker 1: process and we try to do what's right. Did you
Speaker 1: make the discission and what's probably available? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we're comfortable with the information that we had that led
Speaker 1: us to the decision. When you make when Doug came
Speaker 1: here yesterday, did was there a decision to make that
Speaker 1: you're going we were going to keep him? Um? Or
Speaker 1: did you still not know the time? Um? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: as you know that when you look at the timeline
Speaker 1: from Tuesday to now, we were continuing to gather information.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to just rely on media reports. We
Speaker 1: want to be thoughtful in how we were making this decision,
Speaker 1: and so all day yesterday we were really spending a
Speaker 1: lot of time through last night and into this morning.
Speaker 1: When we finally made the final decision. How that would
Speaker 1: make Doug lookdo in terms of I mean, he came
Speaker 1: up here and said he was going to embrace the player,
Speaker 1: He's going to love on him, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden a day later, here you are releasing him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that we all care about Josh Huff. You know,
Speaker 1: we care about the players on our team. That's the
Speaker 1: business we're in. Um. We spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: with them and these decisions are hard, but we got
Speaker 1: to do what's right for the Philadelphia Eagles. He invested
Speaker 1: a third amount picking them, and he's really found a
Speaker 1: nichees a kick return or how disappointing is it, you know,
Speaker 1: here we are in the middle of the season to
Speaker 1: have to do this. Yeah, I think that that's the
Speaker 1: right word. It's disappointing that we have to stand up
Speaker 1: here and do this. But we're trying to build something,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to build something that lasts, and some
Speaker 1: of that means that we're gonna have to make some
Speaker 1: hard decisions and all we can do is do what
Speaker 1: we think is right for the Philadelphiagles. To follow up
Speaker 1: on Jeff's question, do you even did you give any
Speaker 1: consideration to the possibility that by changing the course after
Speaker 1: Doug had laid out it seemed to be a stranchise
Speaker 1: policy that you run the risk of making the head
Speaker 1: coach little pretty weak, pretty ineffectual. Our number one priority
Speaker 1: is to do what's right for this team, and coaches
Speaker 1: one hundred percent on board with this and doing that
Speaker 1: and at the same time, you know, while we're going
Speaker 1: through the process, we also have to do things sometimes
Speaker 1: to protect the outcome, and we don't want to get
Speaker 1: to the outcome without going through that process. How he
Speaker 1: wanted to argue that Josh put himself in this situation sounds,
Speaker 1: according to him, like it's an honest mistate. But but
Speaker 1: you is in charge of this schoolball team. What is
Speaker 1: your level? Just how to say you work? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think again, I'd go back to the word just disappointed
Speaker 1: that we're standing here right now and discussing this as
Speaker 1: we're playing a big game this week. And um, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt that he was coming along as a player
Speaker 1: and that he helps this team. But we have to
Speaker 1: do what's in the best interest of this organization, this building,
Speaker 1: uh and the sixty three guys. We have a responsibility
Speaker 1: to a lot of people here and we don't take
Speaker 1: that lightly. Said, I think that's for you guys to
Speaker 1: infer and discuss. This is going to play in the
Speaker 1: locker room. I know he's got a lot of friends
Speaker 1: in there. Did you talk to them the duck talk
Speaker 1: to them in Well, in the last four or eight hours,
Speaker 1: we've spent a lot of time with a lot of
Speaker 1: people in this building discussing this and going over the scenarios,
Speaker 1: and um, we got a lot of good people in
Speaker 1: this building and we want to do They want to
Speaker 1: do what's right as we're trying to move forward here
Speaker 1: and build something. It's a message coach and I met
Speaker 1: with Josh together this morning, UM, and we just told
Speaker 1: them in person and UM, you know, obviously tough conversation
Speaker 1: for all of us. Reaction what was the conversation? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's important we keep the specifics of the conversation,
Speaker 1: but it's a hard thing to do on all of us.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the hardest part of this business, is
Speaker 1: cumulative effect of the fact that there were is it's
Speaker 1: prior to this from other players that that influential. Thank you. Well.
Speaker 1: We try to take every incident individually, go through a
Speaker 1: process and make a decision that's right for the Philadelphias.
Speaker 1: From Nagel's incident, I mean they're both involving firearms he
Speaker 1: actually hit. The two episodes, yeah, a very different set
Speaker 1: of circumstances, and obviously we have to go through all
Speaker 1: of those when we do that to figure out, um,
Speaker 1: what's the right decision for us. A level of charges
Speaker 1: figure into this the fact that he's quite likely facing
Speaker 1: jail time. Again, we have a process that we go through.
Speaker 1: We look at all the information that we have, and
Speaker 1: then we try to make the best decision for the
Speaker 1: philadelphiveris of the charges, what sets this off? What's the
Speaker 1: one that that really bothered to a decision. I think
Speaker 1: when we went through the whole process, we thought this
Speaker 1: was the right decision for the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't
Speaker 1: know that there's a reason to get in the specifics
Speaker 1: other than we thought this was the right decision for
Speaker 1: the Philadelphi Eagles season. You guys signed some players that
Speaker 1: had character issues in the past, incidence off the field.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a result of that. I
Speaker 1: would just take this specific instance and how we felt
Speaker 1: here and again when we went through the last forty
Speaker 1: eight hours and gathered all the facts and all the information,
Speaker 1: we thought this was the right decision for it. That
Speaker 1: this is an issue in terms of the players that
Speaker 1: you have signed, that this could be something that could
Speaker 1: further happen. No, I mean, obviously I can't predict the future,
Speaker 1: but we feel like we have a good group and
Speaker 1: we're heading in the right direction. En filled yet No,
Speaker 1: it's just been it being filled by Sunday. Yes, I
Speaker 1: on on guns, there's lead policy on guns. Um. But
Speaker 1: again I think that I'd like to just keep it
Speaker 1: to this specific example with Josh and um we wish
Speaker 1: him well as he moves forward here. Thank you, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you,