Eagles 360: Episode 2

Eagles defensive line on Sunday. But we begin the show with a look back at the preseason some of the sounds of those four games players miked up in practice. Let's find out what they have to say on the field as they get ready for this twenty seventeen regular season. Rod micd up, you make up? You okay? Oh? If this leaves us up? Oh hey, you know I know this area. It's like a cloudy hot I don't get it. It's cloudy but sunny at the same time. I feel

great down down like five pounds. Bro, I'm gonna be on one of them testimonies like yeah, I went vegan and got stronger. Let's go, boysh Let's have a good day. Get ready tomorrow. Win this game on Thursday, get better on three? What to take you better? Hey? Just like go left, go left, go left? WHOA? What I would have locked? Hurts? You? And Tory and small? What y'all would have went in and out? You know what I'm saying. That's how I would have played. That's the only way.

If not, then just me and you. Yeah, we were good. The only thing you worry about when you're right behind him isn't just stepping on you. You right behind him. But you're doing good on the set. You're set perfect, perfect. He's too wide. That's good, Stay inside out and punch two to one? Joe, can you run fast on this joke? Can you run fast on this? I've seen you run fast yesterday? The thing you can you do it again? Let me see what you got? Okay? Due, why you

don't wear gloves? Broye out here looking like a cave man. They gonna they gonna come on see oh bay that goal? They go go to the crib. Crib, Oh boy, t be finding a way boy to get that rock though? What that? Thank you? All right? Sada? That was better? Bla blah blah blah. Okay, Oh yeah there you go. When that back because that dude went out to go pick you, pick you and I then I'm free to

just step up, okay and go snatch that fun. It's like, yo, let's your personality show not too much though, and now right now right and learn him going back, learn him going back? Hey I got I got him? Or are you hating bro? Hating bro? At the ground but on knows it seems a frosted like you get that advance and go and then return and then review the review. I can go and complointment to come bright, making an interception, interview the return. Right, that's don't be great, Let's be great.

Let's be great. Let's be great. You're missing that last step like you're stepping and then when you get out here, you're still in the box. And then you're just going you're just turning out and running. You gotta take one mode like watch boom boom boom boom. That lasting that left them that last I'm not getting you ain't you're getting it in, but you ain't stepping in outside the box. They gotta go in the box. Then at the box, Yeah,

you have it. Snatching, snatching, snatching, oh, by the coolers, see to the coolers. To the co don't have a drink. You got even got right here. He got tossed down there. He got tossed down there. They won't even let me go out there because they ain't about getting down there. I promise you that, bro, he ran over there, took a sip of water, and they ain't got not gonna feel y'all saw it. The twenty seventeen regular season just days away. Let's find out what the players are thinking.

I'm Eagles insider Dave Spidero along with defensive end Brandon Graham are one on one brought to you by Bob's Discount Furniture and Brandon. I mean, I think everybody's out there is very excited. What's like in the locker room? Man? This is it's a big excitement, you know. I think today everybody was excited to get out there on the field and uh, you know, just get ready for some red Skins. And the Redskins are a difficult team. I

mean they have given the Eagles fits here. Kirk Cousin plays like he's a superstar against this team, good offensive line. What are the challenges on Sunday getting the Kirk Cousins, Like you say, like we got to disrupt town. On offensive side, we gotta score points, and um we got to make sure that we just take it one day at the time and special teams. We got to play lights out, you know, because we know how important that is.

And um man, just go out there and have fun and trust the preparation because I think you know, we have the team to go in there and get a win. We just got to go out there and prove it. Do you feel like you know what this defense is capable of doing? Oh yeah, I mean I sing a lot of a lot of flashes. But you know, as we all know, it's consistency, and we got to make sure that we come in each and every play and

try not to look too far ahead. We got to make sure we are communicating, and that starts for our leaders up front. We gotta make sure we keep that going. So with Tim Journey here and with Derek Burnet here and Chris Long here, what does that mean for Brandy Graham? I feel like it's not focusing on just me and Fletch and it's a lot of other guys that got to worry about. And I'm excited, man, because you know, we all been like loving the chemistry that's that's been

going on. Now it's time to go out there and start shooting and hitting some people. Brand In the preseason, we see you play sparingly. I know you want to play all the time. So on Sunday, what do you feel the morning of a regular season game. It's a feeling that you never felt. Man, It's like, oh, here it is, it's game time. This is when it counts. I think it's way different than preseason, even though I'm jacked up for any opportunity I get to play out there.

I think it's an excitement that you, as a player, will only get off you if you've been in these type of games. Does that ever change over the course of your career or is that always still this childlike excitement. Well, I think the excitement it's always gonna be childlike, But sometimes you're not. Your body is not gonna be the same. And I feel that's when people say, all right, I'm gonna call it quits because I love the game, but I know my body is not having that Right now,

I'm loving the game and my body's feeling good. So I think it's that childhood excitement of being ready for the game. And knowing that we get to go out there and have some fun. Last year, seventy eight combined sacks, hurries and quarterback knockdowns most in the NFL. What do you do now to take your game to the next level. Just just keep doing what I've been doing and turn them hurries into sacks and go out there and help this team win and win more games than we did

last year and try to get his playoffs. As it always happens, the locker room turns over, some leaders leave and some veterans come in. How is the leadership factor in the locker room? Do you feel like you have a sense of what that's all about? I do. I really think that a lot of people is not scared to step up and say things, and that's what you need. You know, it's not just one leader. It's a bunch of us or everybody. If you see something, call it out,

hold me accountable. You know, I don't care if I'm if I'm supposed to be the leader, you know, I'm supposed to always stay on point and make sure that I'm right so that I can go help someone else. And I think it's it all works together. We all got to help one another because we're not perfect. And at the same time, one day that person who's policing me will be that leader of other room and he's getting good practice. Right now, we all have high expectations.

Do you feel like this team is ready to go to that next step? I'm confident that we're ready to go to the next step. Now. It's all about us tenuously putting that work in every day in practice so that they can show out there in the game. Brandon Graham in studio, brought to you by Bob's Account Furniture Brunt. Brandon Graham, Thanks, man, go get him a shirt Pro Bowl All Pro. Ye. That's the goals, right, that's the goals. We got to get in there on Sunday and at

C East Washington Redskins. Brandon Graham, thanks so much and thanks for joining us. This portion of Eagles three sixty was presented by Santon Dair Simply Right Checking from Santon Dairbank, the checking account that's convenient and gives you more control. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Is it one of our branches or Santon dairbank dot com slash simple to learn more and sign up today with Simply Right Checking from sontin

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one allowed to say that? How many years now? This is twenty one? Welcome, Welcome to the old Man League. Yes, yeah, Prince there, Well, it's good to have you here on Eagles three sixty. We're gonna talk about the Redskins, but first we want to talk about the eagles upcoming schedule and we'll take a look at that. It's presented by NFL Ticket Exchange, powered by Ticketmaster, or the only one verified way to buy or sell NFL tickets visit NFL

ticket exchange dot com. And Mike clearly the Eagles must win on the road in his first month, three games away from Lake A Financial Field. They've won one game on the road last year and that trend has to change. Yes, they have to win games on the road. And I really like starting out with the Redskins going down there in the NFC East. I think both of the home started game against the Giants and then going down to the Redskins. I think that's a great way to start

the season. But you're so right, these games on the road. They have to at least be able to split the season on the road. At least then we will see how much the Eagles have grown up on Sunday when the Eagles go to FedEx Field to play the Washington Redskins. So let's take our first look at the Redskins under Jay Gruden last year eight to seven and one and

Michael A lot of changes. There are a lot of notable changes when you think about some of the players that they've lost to Shawn Jackson, Pierre Garson, some of the players that they've added really on the defensive side, as well as a player who, let's start with him, Terrell Prior at wide receiver, a remarkable story. Hasn't played the position but for a couple of years, but he's

already really good. He's such a good athlete. Played quarterback of Ohio State, but the transition for him was very easy, very smooth to play wide receiver. Big, physical guy. He has a toughness about him that I didn't expect, that I would not normally expect, but he's very polished and he can do all the things that any of these season receivers can do. And it's not just Prior on Sunday that the Eagles have to contend. If it's Josh Doson, who we don't know much about, first round draft pick

last year, didn't contribute a whole lot. Jamison Crowder in the slot is a dynamic issue. We'll talk about that matchup, and then of course Jordan Read at tight end. The Eagles if not having an answer for him, really, the NFL hasn't had an answer for him. How does this Eagle secondary stack up against that group of pass catchers, Well, don't If we get Vernon Davis, you know you got Jordan Read and Vernon Davis. They like two tight end sets as well as the three wide receiver sets. It's

gonna be a tough matchup. The nice thing for the Eagles is they've got these players that are hybrids that can play both corners safety. So when the Redskins are running out their different packages, I think it's it's an easy transition for the Eagles to go from their base set to the subsets with the personnel that they have and all the skill sets that they bring to the game. So that part I think they've really worked out in now season expecting all of these different looks that they're

going to get throughout the season. There's an element of unknown here. Mike though, Dexter McDougall at the nickel cornerback Patrick Robinson as well. Do you see the Eagles matching up maybe McDougal against Crowder, smaller guy on smaller guy. Is that something that they can do? They can do that but I think the way they're going to approach it is having Patrick Robinson in the slot, because in the last part of the camp we saw a lot of him in the slot and he fared pretty well

in there. So I think they want to have it established so that there's going to be the one guy that's a slot guy, not changing from week to week. But that could possibly happen if they feel comfortable enough with McDougal that he's shifty enough, and he is. He has that cat quickness can change directions very quickly, and that's the type of talent you have to have in

that position. And the Eagles really need that slot position answer, that nickel position answer, so that Malcolm Jenkins is free to work on Read or free to work on Vernon Davis, because you're right, they've really caused a lot of problems. Let's talk about up front now. Kirk Cousins twelve touchdown passes, three interceptions, a four and one record as a starter against the Eagles. He looks like an all world player against the Sea. Are the Eagles better equipped now with

Derek Cornett, Chris Long, tim Journey and up front? I think that better equipped with the personnel one, and I think the coaching at that position I think got better. I think Chris Wilson has done one heck of a job and preparing these guys for what he wants them to do, for what Jim Schwartz wants them to do,

that's getting up the field and just wrecking offenses. I think Tim and Jennergan helps a whole lot with Ian Fletcher Cox, But the wave, the eight or nine guys that they have that they're going to keep throwing at offenses, I think that wave is going to really be effective this year. How do you see the matchup? We may have a primetime matchup here with Redskins cornerback Josh Norman and Eagles wide receiver Alshan Jeffrey kind of shadowing him

all over the field. Who wins that bottle? I'm loving that. I can't wait to see that. And even on Rashad Breland's side, I think there's gonna be some matchups in the past games that we're going to really enjoy. Hopefully, the Eagles are going to get the ball down field some and if they're throwing the ball down field, they can open things up. And that's kind of what I'm looking forward to seeing. I like Josh Norman and the skills that he has, but anybody that plays that position,

they can be beaten. And that's what I want to see. I want to see even if it's like he jumps on double moves. So if you can give him a double move him, have him jump on it and get on top of him, that's the kind of thing that I want to see in that game. See. I think first games of the season, Mike, there's so much unpredictability. We really don't know how all these new faces will

come together in Week one. The Redskins have had a pretty tumultuous offseason with coaching changes with the Kirk Cousins contract situation. So early on in the game, Mike, I think it's the key. Eagles have been outscored at FedEx Field the last three seasons twenty three to six. In the first quarter of the games, Mike, final questionnaire, How

did the Eagles get off to a good start? I think they have to start fast and to me, having whenever they get the football and hopefully they win, the Corntells take the football because I think that's important, and I think they then start to take the crowd out of the game by moving the football, pounding the football. And when Carson started a game against the risk and it's particularly the second game, he was very effective throwing the ball on the short passes and they were effective

and pounding the ball somewhat. But the quick passing game, getting him into a rhythm and then taking your shots when they're there. That to me is the key to starting the football game fast and taking the crowd out of the game. Well, that is our first look, presented by whip Fleet, Eagles and Washington. The season opens on Sunday at FedEx Field. The Redskins have five consecutive wins over Philadelphia. It's time to end that street. Let's do that.

Mike Quick, thanks so much for joining us here. And when we come back to Eagles three sixty, Mike Quicken the studio with Ike Greece and he takes a very deep look at Eagles rookie defensive end Derek Barnett. How much of an impact is he ready to make as the regular season arise. This portion of Eagles three sixty was presented by Toyota. Now he's your chance to vote

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go to the Progress Report. Our FanDuel Progress Report takes a look at Eagles first round draft pick defensive end Derek Barnett. We get the breakdown from Mike Quick and I Crease Right. Progress Report brings us to a rookie first round draft pick, Eric Gardnett out of Tennessee. Now we know this guy comes with a lot of accoladsing fanfare Brokee Reggie White's all time sack record of Tennessee. But you watch him here in the preseason. He's a guy who came here. Know him primarily speed rush, but

he's working on counter moves this offseason. Yeah, you're right. The hallmark is his speed and ability to turn on the edge and get to the quarterback. But he spent a lot of time working on not just this. He has this. We know that their ability to get around the tackle and influence the quarterback. And what a great job here getting to the quarterback, for getting him down, But more plays of how he's trying to add counters or more weapons to his archie, no doubt about it.

Now when you watch him on film, opponents, I'm going to say, you got to get the quick step back so that he doesn't beat you around the corner. He's gonna be to use this to his advantage when he sells up the field forces him out. He's gonna do a nice job coming under. But watch how he uses his hands to get on it. This is very suppressing for a young guy. They don't come out being able to was their hands. It's nice by Dard Bartner just

wiping the hands off of him getting inside. Because everyone knows he's got the speed to beat you to the outside. So these tackles now, they're gonna overset expecting him to get around them, and it just sets up the counter moves. One of the things he's gonna have to prove on and we're seeing it early in the preseason. His play against the run game, I think it's a little underrated. You know, watch him here against the tight end. His job is to set the edge and watch how he

re establishes the line of scrimmage back here. That's two three yards off the ball. That is a great job of setting that edge, forcing the run back to the inside, and you see the safety then coming up and making the stop. That's all you want him to do in the run game, to set that edge, forced to play back to the inside. That's watch him here from the left side again, they're gonna do a nice job. He gets to tackle to set quick and again using his hands to sort of get under the that's the chop

he gets under. And this is something that's gonna serve him well throughout his NFL career. Relentless effort to the football, chasing the quarterback down. We're talking ten yards down the field. He's in on that tackle there. See Coach Chris Wilson, the defensive line coach, is spending a lot of time not just on what he has, but adding to what he has. Can't wait to see more of this show and Gay It's such a short time, so impressed well how his pass rushing game has come along. Great progress

from the rookie Dared Barnette. Looking forward to watching a lot of that this year. Oh, look ahead here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com and our official appets are Amosso's on the menu. Look at what's coming your way. Frank Reich, Eagles offensive coordinator in studio with me talking about an offense that was up and down in the preseason. How confident is he in? What's ahead for the Eagles? Merrill Reason,

Mike Quicken our old school All twenty two. They take a look back at a very memorable Eagles Redskins game. Do you remember two and ten and the brilliance of Michael Vick? And then the Eagles Live pod Cats comes your way. Make sure you tune in as we go deep inside this matchup Eagles and the Redskins. We thank

you for joining us here on Eagles three sixty. Make sure you're with us throughout the rest of the weekend of course, on game day, as we've got you covered all the way through the Eagles and the Redskins and beyond the opener of this twenty seventeen season right around the corner. Thanks for joining everyone, have yourselves a great Eagles Day.