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yah ya all that stuff. And no, by the way, the Eagles consummated officially a trade today, sending cornerback Eric Rowe to the New England Patriots in exchange for a

fourth round draft pick in two eighteen. You're rapid reaction, Well, you know, I think the Eagles are just trying to get what value they can for Eric row I mean, obviously it's a it's a disappointment to see a second round pick and what would have been started his second year get traded from first off, not contribute much of the team, and then ultimately get traded for a fourth

round pick. So my reaction is it's it's disappointing to know that's what the ultimate outcome was but you know, obviously the new regime's trying to salvage what they can from a player that you know, obviously picked by Chip Kelly ultimately didn't work out well enough. There we go very quick. Yeah, So that's that. But there's more that has happened on this Wednesday as the Eagles getting ready

for the regular season opener against the Cleveland Browns. And for that we throw it out to Alex Smith or Eagles three sixty Update. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update. The big story here at the Novacare Complex continues to center around number two overall pick Carson Wentz as the rookie quarterback gets set to make his first NFL start on Sunday in the

Eagles season opener against Cleveland. Now, we did hear from Wentz at his press conference inside, but we also heard from some of the veterans around him inside the locker room, including Alan Barber, Jason Kelsey, and Jordan Matthews, as they expressed their confidence in the North Dakota State product. He has a great balance and everything. You know, he's he's a leader, but he one of those guys that's annoying. You know those guys that talk a little bit too much. No,

he talks when he needs too. When he opens his mouth, guys listening because they know that he's going to say something that needs to be heard. I think he's a great player, and we all know he's a great player. We've seen the ability to make big plays. So I think, you know, as a professional, you just gotta go out there and work hard, and you know, take care of what you can take care of it. I don't think everything else will take care of himself. He already knows

the calls. He already knows everything about this offense from training him and everything at that. Now, it's just making sure that we're on the same page. We're on the same page, not just with the calls, but how we're gonna do things to speak against this defense, how he feels comfortable. So I think that those are all things that you always iron out as a center and quarterback. Is more just pupping the communication and making it, making it a point of emphasis at this I am this

week with a new guy back there. The other big news item here at the Novacare Complex was the announcement early this morning that former second round pick in second year cornerback Eric Rowe had been traded to the New England Patriots in exchange for a twenty eighteen fourth round pick. We heard from safety Malcolm Jenkins and head coach Doug Peterson on what this means for both the Eagles secondary and for Roe moving forward. You know, it's just it's just one of those things you hate to see a

teammates teammate go, especially somebody like Eric Um. You know, who's played some good ball for US. Uh, promising young UM player, but you know who has success Um in New England wherever he ends up. It's just been it's been a competitive, competitive off season in that dB room, a lot of guys fighting for position new and old. Um. You know. Unfortunately he was on the back end of that. It was get another good opportunity for our organization to um, you know, to to to make some moves and and

and to to further his career. UM as you know, uh, you know, he he'd like for us possibly the the fourth corner, fifth corner right now going into the season, and this gives him an opportunity to play. And that's that's what you want from your players in the national Football League is to play, and you can hear much more from coach Peterson. And you can also check out the entirety of Carson Wentz's press conference from earlier today right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and the official

Eagles mobile app. And with their three sixty update. I'm Alex Smith. Thanks so much, Alex. We've got a lot to get to on the Eagles three sixty. A bit later on Joe will break down the Cleveland Browns our first look there. But when we returned to Eagles three sixty, the vice president of Player Personnel for the Philadelphia Eagles, Joe Douglas, joins me in studio. I sept to Philly.

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so can you. Novacare the power of physical therapy. In the ever changing world that is an NFL roster, We introduced now the Eagles Vice president of Player Personnel, Joe Douglas, who joins me here in studio to talk about, well, a roster that just doesn't seem to stop changing. Here, Joe, things pretty great. How was the weekend for you? The

weekend was great. You know. We started the process back before the preseason and the starter with our director college or excuse me, director pro Scouting, Dwayne Joseph, and we came together with a watch list of guys. It was all hands on deck mentality, like I mentioned to you Thursday night, and we had a list of guys. We were able to go out and scout them effectively, and we were ready on Saturday. So you put it, give

us a timeframe for fans you don't understand things. The final rosters are to be submitted four o'clock on Saturday, fifty three players. And then what happens. So then at four o'clock when when the final rosters submitted, then you get the waiver wire of all the guys that were cut, and then you implement execute the plan, which is we have our highest created guys. We uh, we decide who we claim and we move on from there. Okay, and then the NFL awards the team the players to the

teams based on the record. So in other words, three players that you we'll get into these three players here, let's talk about them. Yeah, Linebacker Camu Gruger Hill Gruzier Hill. You've got it better than um So. I first laid it odes on him at Northwestern's pro day. He was a small school Eastern Illinois linebacker. He just had an unbelievable pro day. He went to He was drafted by the New England Patriots. Had a great preseason as a special team player and just a guy that we felt

strongly about with helping FIP and helping the special teams out. Okay, wide receiver Bryce Tregs Late of the San Francisco forty nine ers, California wide receiver, very explosive, can take the top off the defense, deep ball threat and also a kickoff return specialist. Okay, very explosive and good. We need that. Yeah,

everybody needs a safety. Terrence Brooks. You drafted him in Baltimore, correct, Yes, Terrence Brooks was a third round pick out of Florida State two years ago for the Ravens, and he brings a physical downhill mentality. He's a striker, he's fast, he has some corner in his pedigree. So he's a versa little guy that can help us on the back end. All right, Joe, It's interesting how the I mean, the job has never done. So the Eagles making more moves here. I'd like to can get a kind of an overview

of what you think this team is all about. Let's obviously start at the quarterback position. Two on the roster with Carson Wentz Chase Daniel. How do you feel about quarterbacks? I feel great about the quarterback position. Carson Wentz is. We all know what Carson Wentz brings at the table. He's smart, he's tough, he's a playmaker, he's a winner. Chase Daniel the same boat more come in as a backup. He's won a lot of games. Um, just an outstanding player.

Big turnover Joe from last year to this year at the cornerback position. Other real Agustin, Nolan, Carroll. I mean, it's a whole new group here with Leotis, with Ron Brooks, with Jalen Mills as well. Let's discuss that group. You know, Leotis and Ron have been great coming in. They've played in Jim's defense before, they've they've both been high level contributors throughout the preseason. It was It's great to see

Nolan come back from injury the way he's done. He had as productive of a preseason as anyone in the National Football League two interceptions. We feel really good about the depth there. Jalen Mills has been a great find out of lsu Very tough, very instinctive. Um he has great eye discipline back there. So we're excited about the corner position. So, Joe, what happened? What do you do now? What does your group do now? From this point through

the rest of the regular season. You know, I think that as the dust settles through the fifty three man process, you know, we're still still going to be actively looking at practice squad players and we're still gonna look at different ways we can possibly upgrade this team. But I think now you're going to see more on the personnel side and more of the tension and start to focus to the college scouting aspect. As the season just kicked off this past weekend, so we're going to roll right

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I'll add my two cents. But first, let's take a look at the Eagles upcoming schedule pretended by NFL Ticket Exchange powered by Ticketmaster. For the only one verified way to buy or sell NFL tickets, visit NFL ticket exchange dot com. Well, Joe, it's Cleveland and then it's a toughie on the road in Chicago. Your thoughts on the Eagles really getting off to a strong start here before

that bye week and week four here? Well, well, obviously you start with, of course Carson Wentz being the starter now and that that changes the dynamic of the season. So it's good to know the Eagles start with one of the more manageable games you can have in the season home versus the Cleveland Browns the team last year there were thirteen and three, so exhire me three and thirteen, So you hope that Obviously Eagles can get off to good start from there. Obviously Chicago on the road thereafter's

a greater challenge, winnable game, losable game. Interesting. Eagles could get to two and oh and then really, I look at that Pittsburgh game and that's the first one when you say, well, that's a really tough one, and that'll give us a measuring stick of where the Eagles are now. If they're on wing two up until that point, then

that'll speak volumes. But hopefully the Eagles have hit the ground running with a win over Cleveland, and then we'll see as they you know, obviously enter the byeweek, what they do in that game versus Pittsburgh later in the year. As we know, this season gets much harder, the schedule, that gets much harder, with a lot of teams deeper in the well. But that's what that's what we think. That's what we think. Do you have expectations for Carson on Sunday light? What will make you happy walking out

of Lincoln Financial Field. I'd like to see them win I'd like to see him win because I think it's a winnable game. The Eagles are a favorite team. I think the Eagles defense puts them in a position to have a great shot in special teams to win the game. You know, I think you want to see Carson Wentz. This isn't as much about just Sunday, but also the season. You want to see him protect himself. Think that's a

really important thing. Obviously is a player that can get out of the pocket and do things with his legs, but also that creates a dynamic where he could take some shots and you want to see him pick his spots. Doug Peterson talked about that today, specifically reference in his press conference that it's not the NFC Championship game this Sunday, So you know, you want to see him obviously protect himself and at times go for the extra yard and

the times not okay. So to do that, we are gonna take a look at the Cleveland Browns and take a look at some of their key players and take a look at some of this big picture of Hugh Jackson's team with the Cleveland Browns. So they come to town, they are young, they are eager, and they are in transition, and we start our story at the quarterback position. Carson Wentz for the Eagles, and how about Robert Griffin the third, the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Who would have

thunk it? Yeah, player, we know, Well, now you got to go back. This is again where the Carson Wentz storyline exists, because essentially they chose Dave Robert Griffin the third instead of Carson Wentz. So that's a huge factor you talk about a storyline for this game, that's big. They made that trade shortly before the NFL Draft, and

that was their choice. Now after they make and that's something that'll go on for five, ten, fifteen years, we can debate based on how good Carson Wentz becomes and how good the Cleveland Browns you know, becomes as a football team. But for right now, after that trade, they go with Robert Griffin the third, which I do think makes some sense for them in light of having made

the trade. You know Dave. Obviously they're in a spot where they're going to look to try to get a veteran quarterback and try to hold the fort down as they develop a lot of young players. So from that standpoint, I do think Robert Griffin the third makes some sense, and obviously they have a player from the Eagle standpoint

in the division that you know the Eagles know very well. Yeah, I think Robert Griffin third makes no sense for the Cleveland Browns, and I'm shocked they clearly didn't think highly enough of Carson Wentz to make him the pick at number two. Well, no, I agree with you. What I was saying is once they made the trade, you know what I'm saying. I think they made the wrong move, to be crystal clear, But once they made the trade, they're gonna plug against someone. It's gonna be a Geno Smith,

it's going to be a Josh McCown. That's going to be grab your guys, and they happen to grab th So who does RG three I have to work with? Isaiah Crowell as is running back, not a bad player,

not as explosive as you like in that position. But they do have a player at the wide receiver position who really bears some watch here their first round draft pick, Corey Coleman out of Baylor, a speed player Joe and you can bind him and Terrell Prior, a converted quarterback who's now the starting wide receiver for Cleveland along with tight end Gary Barnage. And there are some weapons and some diversity there that will give the Eagles some challenges

if they give Robert Griffin the third time to throw. Yeah, and no question, I mean listen to the bottom line is you know they're they're still trying to find their way, but they've got some guys. The tight end in particular, who made the Pro Bowl last year, had a real nice year. And you know, when you when you think about the Cleveland Browns for years, it's it's obviously been

a challenge for them. Now you know what they're coming into with with with this particular team, They're going to lean heavily on Gary Barnet, who made the Pro Bowl with over a thousand yards last year. The first round pick Gary Coleman that that Dave was talking about out a bail or fifteenth pick overall in the draft. So you know, time will tell what he has for his career. This is a team in general, with a lot of transition.

They had a tremendous amount of draft picks. They had the most draft picks of any team in three decades in the NFL, So a team trying to find itself, and I would say one, Dave, it's probably not a great challenge. But as is always the case in the NFL, until you get to week one, you really don't know what teams have. Sure you kind of feel like you

know what they are, but you don't really know. They've got a new head coach obviouly seen the quarterback they got into, defensive coordinator, a lot of new players across both sides of the ball. So until you see it happen, it's hard and definitively what they are. And on defense, Ray Hornton the coordinator, he likes to bring a lot of pressure. Their name marquee players, cornerback Joe Hayden, two times of Pro Bowl Players. That's your first look at

the Cleveland Browns. Will dig deeper into the Browns as we get closer to Sunday's kickoff a little later on, we'll show you what's coming up here. Our Amrosso's on the menu. Look at what's a head for you and for the Philadelphia Eagles. But next up here on Eagles three sixty, Merrill and Mike they go from the radio booth to the TV booth and they look back in time. It's our old school all twenty two. Look at a game the Eagles and the Browns the year two thousand.

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the acquaintances. The Browns have had the better of the Eagles in the series history, but way back when in two thousand, Andy Reid was the second year head coach Donovan McNabb his first full year as a starter, and the Eagles are making a playoff push, standing in their way for the Cleveland Browns, Doug Peterson starting quarterback. It didn't last long as we look back in our Old School All twenty two. Hi everyone, I'm Merl Reese, voice

of the Philadelphia Eagles. Had Welcome to Old School ALL twenty two a unique look at a historic moment or a game in Eagles history as viewed from the coaches tape where you see all twenty two players and with me former All Pro wide receiver Mike Quick and Mike The first game we're looking at, which is appropriate with the Eagles opening the season this week against the Cleveland Browns, is a game that occurred in two thousand that was

Donovan McNabb's second year. It was Week fifteen at the Browns. Yes Merlin. Interestingly enough, the two quarterbacks in that game the Eagles now head coach Doug Peterson and Donovan McNabb making his first year as a full starter at quarterback, and Donovan in that game had a big, big day through for three hundred ninety yards four touchdown passes. Let me show you one that he threw a big one over the top to Charles Johnson. It's first and ten in the third quarter. The Eagles lined up in a

two receiver set just across the midfield. Off of play action fake to running back donne Ill Autrey, McNabb drops back and he stares right at the safety in the middle of the field. By holding the safety in that spot, but just to split second, McNab gives Charles Johnson enough time to win over the top on a vertical route and he places a perfect pass over the shoulder for a thirty eight yard touchdown throw his fourth of the game.

This win over Cleveland was McNabb's best game yet in the NFL and was a you're a sign of things to come for number five in Philadelphia, Mike. I remember in that game, even though Donovan played tremendously, the Browns gave him trouble from time to time, and he had some challenges and he was not surrounded by an exceptional cast.

But what they did have during that time was a great defense, and because that defense was so potent, they were able to give Donovan in that offense lots of opportunities. Doug Peterson is a great guy and he handled that You're in nineteen ninety nine is really cadn't fodder. That's what he was. Andy brought him in until the offensive line was good enough to protect Donovan, and Donovan was far enough along in his development to go out there and know what he was doing, and Doug never resented it.

He knew his job. He went out there and never made an excuse. Well, Doug was coaching even before he started coaching, because in that ninety nine season, it was Doug a lot of his help that helped prepare McNabb for the McNabb era that we all enjoyed in Philadelphia. A huge game from Donovan McNabb, one of many in his Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame career. And always when you look back at Donovan Joey, you always think, well,

there was Donovan, and here's Carson Wentz. And can Carson Wentz ever be as good as Donovan McNabb hopefully, you know. I mean, listen, it's it's the second overall pick in the draft again and we know what that was last time for the Eagles. So you know, you think about early Donovan, I think you think about a lot. He had a lot of help with his defense and his special teams, which is certainly something that Carson Wentz has to his benefit with this team this year defense and

special teams. Early Donovan had some struggles on the outside with the wide receivers. I think that's certainly a challenge for this team this year to try to find who can step up on the outside for the wide receiver spot for the Eagles. But early Donavon also had success in the middle with Deuce Staley and Chad Lewis and Dave When you when you think in terms of this team, you think of success in the middle with Ryan Matthews, with Jordan Matthews, with Darren Sprawls, with Zacher, So you know,

there's there's a lot of similarities. And hopefully Carson Wentz can also do what early Donovan did, which was moved the chains one two times a game, picking up her first down with his legs, picking his spots. So there's there's a lot of some listening. Something that Donovan did very well. He didn't turn the football over and that made a big difference, and that's certainly with the Eagles. One from Carson Wentz on Sunday, all right, we've got

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Look at what's ahead, Joe. You're back on Friday. Between now and then, the Eagles fans are gonna get lathered up here, and I think Sunday is going to be an extremely electric atmosphere at Lincoln Financial Fuld. That's the dawn of a new era. Day were four days away from it. I mean, come on, what error is that? Joe? It's the Carson Wentzarah. It says Dog Peterson era. That's right. Yeah, people are overlooking that. Well. You know what, I think

Dog had had had a real good preseason. You know, I think, you know, things look good as far as the game management. In the game obviously, you never know until you know situation gets real and you're just waiting for it, don't Joe. No, you're waiting at first time out? No, No, But I mean look you look at Andy in ninety nine right and Andy had a tremendous run with the Eagles, ultimately not a super Bowl, but a heck of a run.

But remember that first game, they didn't get the kicker on the field in time, you know, for the for the field goal. So you know, some situations are going to arise, but but hopefully it all works out. Yeah, well we'll see. We got love to talk about me down and Jody. Camera's back with Chris McPherson on Friday. We thank you for coming in today, Joe, and thank you so much for joining us here on Eagles three six. Do you everyone have yourselves a great Eagles Day.