Inside Training Camp: Ertz In-Studio

for the first time. Yeah, so we learn a little bit more about a roster that has changed so much the Eagles, of course, with a roster edition on Monday Day, bringing the total to ninety players, where the roster is full and the depth chart starting to look a little bit more concrete, a little bit, even though Chip Kelly continues to tell us that there's no such thing as a depth chart in early summer. Let's get your caught

up when everything going on with the day. Our three sixty update Alex Smith out on the practice fields here at an overcare complex. Day two of Eagles camp is in the books. Hi everyone, Alex Smith here with your three sixty update, presented by Sports authority. While yesterday it was Chip Kelly, Sam Bradford and the Eagles offense taking center stage, today the spotlight shifted over to the defense.

Eagles defensive coordinator Bill Davis kicked things off with his pre practice press conference, and when he was asked about the recent trade of Brandon Boykin, he spoke about how comfortable he and the rest of the Eagles coaching staff is with the Eagle secondary group. We are going to mix and match and move everybody around, and it's neat to have the ability from both the skill set from the players in the secondary and a football intelligence set.

We've got multiple positions that can move around both from a talented where you know a guy can play corner safety and nickel or corner and nickel or safety in corner, and we'll move them around until we find the best fifth. One of the players that was highlighted by Davis today was Nolan Carroll, who spent most of last season as the Eagles starting dinebacker. This time around, Carol is competing for that outside corner spot and Davis has been very

pleased with what he's seen early in the season. Nolan has all the skill to set to start and he did in Miami, and we're very happy with the all he had. One best offseasons I've been around. He really has from every competition I think he won maybe every competition that we had in the offseason to his technique that he's diving into. Nolan has been a start in the NFL, and we viewed him as a starter last year.

Early on, we kept trying to rotate and he had some hamstring in different issues that the kind of as we went around along, I didn't get him in there enough, and I probably should I that's on me. But we've got all the confidence in Nolan to compete for that other starting corner spot. We also caught up with Carol and self and the veteran spoke about finally getting the chance to compete for that starting spot on the outside.

We just wanted us always to compete every single day and coming with that mindset to always try and get better and make everybody else around you better. Another veteran member of the Eagles secondary is safety Malcolm Jenkins. Today, Jenkins spoke at the podium about the Eagles defense not missing a beat despite all the new faces. I'm very comfortable, you know, when you got guys on the outside that holding their own and you don't mind leaving them on

an island. Um. And then you put Walter Durhman next to me, who's who's making plays and is instinctual and has played a lot of football. Um, it takes a little bit of the burden off of me being the quarterback of the secondary when you got guys that, um, you know, put into work and know what they're doing and you can hold them accountable. So this this spring and then the first couple of practices we have so far have been really good. I think we're starting to

jail a little bit as a as a unit. Um, getting some new guys in that are some young guys too that are getting some reps in and fitting in well. Um, you know, and everybody's everybody's willing to compete day in and day out, And I think that's a good mentality to have when we're trying to be the best unit in this league. And you know, every day we come out here and lay it on the line. But the

Eagles defense can't have all the fun today. So let's switch sides back over to the offense and hear from DeMarco Murray on how he feels through his first few days of training camp as an Eagle. I do, yeah, I definitely do. I've been here for a couple of months and become a part of this team and great team, great group of guys, great group of coaches, and a great organization. So m I said, I definitely feel like an Eagle and working with these guys been been amazing.

So I'm happy and to hear more from DeMarco Murray as well as all the other stories from day two of Eagles camp, be sure to keep it right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Well, good stuff there from Alex Dave And on the other side, we're gonna hear from the fans a little bit. Yeah, it's our Twitter mail bag here at Eagles Shows on Twitter. We'll get to those. We've got Zach ERT's Eagles tight end coming

into studio. We expect a big year from him and Ross Tucker with his first installment, we're breaking down some of the basics of football. That and a whole lot more as we go inside training camp presented by Exfinity here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. How's it progressing with the prisoner? He'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir, as you are where were we nineteen? If your boss stops by, you act like you're working. That's what you do. If you want to say fifteen percent a more on

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Spidero bow Wolf. Time for some of your questions for this twenty fifteen team. It's our Twitter mail bag here on Inside Training Camp. Bow Let's begin with this question from at EJ. Hernan. When new players join the team, what are the top three values slash expectations you aim to instill. Bo. That's a pretty deep question, unless sure

exactly how to begin to answer that. Maybe it's a better question for Chip, but I would say the two biggest hurdles somebody has to overcome when coming into this organization is first of all, you have to learn the nomenclature, the scheme that you're going to play in, and then you have to learn how things run. Athletically, you have to get up to speed physically to be able to

handle the tempo of these practices. From there, once you can overcome that and you can sort of start to play football and not think so much, that's when I think you see the growths being made. I go with values, expectations, teamwork, understanding that you are here, you are not better than anybody else in this locker room or this organization. Then obviously the willingness to work really, really hard, because Chip does work this team extremely hard, and that's something that

takes a bit of getting used to. The tempo is high, and while they don't bring players down to the ground tackling, you understand that you better be in the best shape of your life to be a Philadelphia Eagle. All right, let's go to the second question, Dave. This one's a little more of my speed less theoretical more. Who's it going to be? Who will be the starting cornerback next to Byron Maxwell. That's courtesy of at sergioe Astrada seven. Well,

I'm gonna go right now with Nolan Carroll. I think he's had just a quantum leap from last year to this year. Very physical Eagles want to press successfully, they want to use their technique correctly, and he's been one of the most impressive players in this camp and in the spring. And I give that nod myself right now to Nolan Carroll over some young players who in the long run maybe better players, But right now it's Nolan Carroll. Yeah. I think Eric Rowe is maybe the primary competitor for

Nolan Carroll at that spot right now. And I think you could see a situation where maybe halfway through the season, Eric row makes enough gains, makes enough strides that he overtakes that position. But certainly, right now it's Nolan Carroll's spot to lose. What's so much justest thing is everybody you talk to, Chip Kelly, Bill Davis, Korey Undlin, even some of the players on this team say how outstanding an offseason Roland Carroll had, how leaps and bounds better

than everybody else he was. I don't even it's what does that mean for a player to be that good in the off season. It's hard for me to understanding. It's that when a new coach comes in and says, this is what we want you to do. Go out and show your technique. I think it's something that came very naturally to Nolan, something that he wanted to be

part of when he signed up last year. Remember last year he came in was kind of thrown into that quasi linebacker role, and that really changed things for Nolan Carroll. He's comfortable in this role and we will see him I think early on, certainly in the preseason as the starter cornerback, and when the pads go on and other teams come in, when the Baltimore Ravens come in, we'll get a better feel for just where Nolan is as

a cornerback here all right. Question number three in our Twitter mail bag, why haven't the Eagles incorporated the tight ends into the pass game for greater depth? Well, I reject the notion of this question. I think the tight ends are very much a part of this offense, not only Brent Selleck and zach Ertz, but everybody else who's here.

I mean, zach Ertz had fifteen catches in the game last years and what or incorporation I see a little bit more, but fifteen catches of his fifty eight catches last year, meaning he only had forty three and the other fifteen games. I think what the question really refers to is the way the NFL is working now that these tight ends, the Jimmy Grahams, the Gronks of the world are such dominant pass catchers. To me, the reason

is the Eagles want to spread things around. They've got Darren Sprowles, They've got Jordan Matthews, They've got weapons across the board. I don't think Chip Kelly wants to throw all of his attention into one receiver, one position. I think his preference is to move things around. I would agree with that. And I think the one area where I think maybe you would like to see a little bit more from the tight ends, especially zach Ertz, would be in the red zone, where the Eagles struggled at

times last season. Perhaps that'll be the case. The absolutely struggled last year in the red zones, something they must improve in twenty fifteen. Keep your questions coming, we'll read them here on Inside Training Camp, presented by Exfinity. Go to at Eagles shows on Twitter and hit us up with some questions. We thank you very much for day number one of that. When we return to Insight Training Camper Center by Xfinity, Zacher incidentally in studio. He's had

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Start your journey at TRIPLEA dot com. I scept to Philly, I scept the Philly, the bus, the trolley, regional rail, I supt the Philly, the seventeen to training Rostreet Line to my part boy Marcut, frankfort Line on nine, Eagles insider Dave Spidero with Eagles tight end zach Ertz, who is not only a great football player, is trying to become fit of a journalist. Here zach Ertay six dot com. Make sure you visit it. Really interesting stuff. Let's talk

about that before we talk about football. And then the message you want to get out to fans. Oh, it's just a view, my viewpoint, personal viewpoint, one on one, and I'm able to write down what I want to fantasy, a kind of different perspective from what they get each and every day from the media. So it's a lot of fun to have that side of me. Yeah, it's not easy to be to put things down. Everybody kind of thinks it comes naturally. It's hard to write it

down and then it kind of lives forever there. Oh, definitely. Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of out takes per se, a lot of going back and checking my work and making sure this I wanted to sound each and every time. But it's fun to have the fantasy a different side of us. Zach. This is year number three for you. How much have you grown from way back when to now? Yeah, it's been an unbelievable transformation. I mean that first year I didn't really have an off season. It didn't really

come in till camp for that first year. Last year I had a little hamstring injury throughout those PAS and the mini camp that kind of set me back as well. So this was the kind of the first full year that I had an off season going into this year. So it was a great express for me to have all the OTAs in the mandatory mini camp as well, and I'm really looking forward to this season. And then after that, I knew you were out up in Canada

watching the US Women's World Cup team, your girlfriend Julie Johnson. Congratulations. What was that like to be part of the national pride and to win a gold medal? Yeah, I feel like that's the only sport that are that everyone in the US can kind of truly get around. There's no Eagles versus Dallas to everyone for the country. Um. So it was a lot of fun being out there and supporting her and saying the girls win was an unbelievable achievement. Do you visualize it all? What would be like when

Eagles win the Super Bowl? How all these Eagles fans will yeah go crazy like that. Yeah. Now it's kind of my turn to hold up our end of the bargain. It would be unbelievable experience for us to kind of go out there and one and have a Super Bowl and a World Cup trophy under one room. I like that. And then I know you went to back out to Hollywood and did the NMA again. It's like the guns who looked like a rid Yeah. Try And it was a lot of fun going out there training with Lane

and John Moffatt as well, who we have on the team. Now. I was out there for a little bit down to San Diego with Darren Sprawls and Sanchez and we had Little Nest West out there for about a week, which was a lot of fun. We had about twelve guys down there training, So it was a really good offseason. I got a lot better and I think a lot of guys did as well, all these new faces. Zach, what is the mood in the locker room? What's the camaraderie? Like? Oh,

it's great. I mean, this is what training camps for to build that camaraderie. We have a lot of new guys obviously, so all the camaraderie is gonna be built out on the field and at the hotel and in meetings each and every day. So it's gonna be a lot of fun to see this team grow because where we are now is not where we're gonna be. Uh. Come September thirteenth, early thoughts, as we wrapped this up here with Sam Bradford and he's on the field and

everybody's excited as somebody who's catching passes from him. What's your scouting report? What you see is what you get. I mean, he was the number one overall pick for a reason. He can put the ball wherever he wants it, but the team has to carry Sam as well. It's not Sam carrying us. It's all all twenty two of us kind of building around each other. And I think it's gonna be a lot of fun this year. Zach Ertz,

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Time now to talk a little bit about the basics of the game of football. Yeah, we hope you love our new segment Football one on one with Ross Tucker. And who better to teach you the specifics, the inside football parts of the football game than a former NFL offensive lineman in Ross Tucker. What do you need to know when you're watching the game. How can you be a smarter football fan than your friends? Well let's find out from Ross Tucker, who starts today by talking about

the base defense three to four verses four three. What does that mean and how does it play out on the field? We send it now to Ross. Welcome into the inaugural segment of football one on one here at Philadelphia Eagles dot com. I'm former NFL offensive lineman Ross Tucker, also the host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. We're glad you're here. We're as excited about football starting as you guys are. My job, though, for the next few weeks,

is going to be to educate you. I want to make sure that you know more than any of your buddies, any of your co workers, and especially your father in law and or brother in law if you have them, about the sport of football. We're going to start today by talking a little bit of defense. You hear four three, you hear three four? What really is the difference and why the team's employee Pretty simple? Four three means four

defensive linemen, three linebackers. Three four three defensive linemen, four linebackers. The number one reason why teams run one scheam or the other is pretty simple, and it comes down to personnel. Do they have more good defensive linemen or do they have more good linebackers to employ a three four. There are also other benefits that will get into in terms of a four three and the three four as well. First thing we want to look at is sort of

your base four three over front. What you really want to be looking at to tell the difference between a four three over and a four three under is the defensive tackles. Right there. You've got Marcus Coon, he's on the outside shoulder of Zack Martin. Now look, you've got Jason Witton over here as the tight end. That's the

strong side of the offense's formation. So if the defensive tackles are shifted over like Marcus Coon and Jonathan Hankins are and slanted towards Jason Witton, it is an overfront. Now we'll get into this in subsequent episodes here of Football one oh one. But Marcus Coon is in a three technique on the outside shoulder of Zack Martin, Jonathan Hankins is in a one technique on the backside shoulder

of the center. But really the defensive tackles being over towards the tight end is what indicates that it is a four three overfront. And then of course it's just a little inside run to the left side, and Jonathan Hankins did his job. I used to always love, absolutely love running week side against them. Now we're going to take a look at a four three underfront, and what you want to look at here again is the defensive tackles. Now, once again, you've got to the right side of the formation.

You've got the strength. So both of the forty nine ers tight ends are to the strength of the formation over there. So instead of the Seahawks having an overfront where this defensive tackle Kevin Williams would be on the outside shoulder of the right guard Alex Boon, instead he's on the play side shoulder of the center. The other defensive tackle is on the backside shoulder of the left guard. They call this an underfront, and the Seahawks do it

more than anybody else. The main reason why they do it is because they believe that that nose guard can eat up that center and offense and essentially stuffed any run plays that happened there. We'll take a look and see exactly what happened on this play. So a little power scheme and Rancor cuts it back and the backside defensive tackle is able to get in on the play was a back block I should say, by the center and the backside defensive tackle able to get in and

make that play in the four three under front. Now we'll actually take a look at a three four front. This is a base three four front. And what you want to notice here it's pretty obvious, right You've got three down linemen in their stances. You guys know who they are, Cedric Thornton, Benny Logan and Fletcher Cocks, and

then four linebackers. What makes this a base three four is that everybody's essentially lined up head up, maybe a little bit inside if you see the defensive ends Cos and Cedric Thornton, but essentially head up on the man that they will be combating on that play. That is what makes it a three four front. When they're in a base alignment on the inside show older maybe even head up of that offensive tackle. The job of all those guys up front is to two gap the guy

they're going against. Lynch cuts it all the way back here and Fletcher Cox shows why he is Fletcher Cox. I mean for him to just throw Russell Hacoon and make that play. That's why Fletcher Cox is one heck of a player. Last but certainly not least. Let's look at a three four underfront. And the point to make here is that just because it's a three to four doesn't mean that they always have to be lined up

in a base look. So it's still three four personnel front, but this is really an underlook out of three to four personnel, and the key guy to look at there is number fifty eight Brooks read, the outside linebacker who's

head up on the tight end. So if you remember, this actually looks very similar to the underfront we showed with Seattle, where you've got the defensive tackle to the tight end inside of the offensive guard to that side, but instead of it being a defensive end on the tight end, it's an outside linebacker because the Houston techn is elected to stay in three to four personnel on this play. And we'll again see how this play sorts itself out. Seem like there's a lot of cutting back

going on. It happens more often than you think in the NFL. So now that we have a pretty good idea of a base four to three over, a base four three under three four base as well as a three four under it, you have a little bit of a better idea of where we're going with this thing and what the base fronts are. In the next episode,

we'll actually tell you what those techniques mean. When I say a one technique or a three technique, you're going to know exactly what that means on the next segment of Football one on one here Philadelphia Eagles dot Com, which of course you can always access the archives of this as well, so you can never have to miss an episode. Great stuff, Ross. You can catch Football one on one every other day here on Inside Training Camp.

We thank very much Ross Tucker for that. Now Tomorrow a big day for the Eagles, a big day for the fans, a big day for us here on Inside Training Camp, presented by Xfinity, We're gonna be a Lincoln Financial Field. The public invited. Come on down. The gates open at ten am. It's the first of two public practices and I hope we're gonna get to hear you on the mic at Lincoln Final. I will be on the mike, will also be in studio with Walter Thurman. Make sure you're with us there and Chip Kelly meets

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