Inside Training Camp: July 30

for the Philadelphia Eagles. We remember the day in two thousand and nine when he left Philadelphia to sign with the Denver Broncos as an understricted free agent, and of course the fences have been mended since then. But now Doc comes back on an official capacity. Chris, He's now part of the team, He's part of the family, and everybody thrilled to see him. So Dawkins can find the next Dawkins. That's what the idea is. He will be a scout for Howie Roseman in the next year and

for Brian. You look, it's a bill. We'll start here. Let's start with Brian Dawkins here because it really is a big story with the way he left the kind of player he is. He's a member of the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame. Of course, for him to get back into the NFL after a career in the media, He's giving up ESPN, he's giving up radio. He wants

to learn about the operations of football with the Philadelphia Eagles. Um, well, I think that it's not just scouting, Like I'm trying to grasp the whole gambit of football operations of how a team is run. So I'm not I'm learning about scouting part of it. How I guess the terminology and all those things. But sometimes it's either you have an eye or you don't. And I've been blessed to have an eye to be able to see talent and so if I can help in that respect, love to do that.

But also I want to learn everything about running a football team, being able to bring what I know on what I've learned over the years back to this organization. I just for the guys upstairs, but for the players downstairs. I can have conversations with him from time to time. I'm not going to overdo nothing. I know how to get people to space. But I just feel comfortable. This is the place that I feel comforble, but I just this organization, but the football field, for watching tape, having

those discussions, I feel comfortable doing those things now. Dawkins was a second round pick in nineteen ninety six, and he worked his way up the ladder and became a Pro Bowl and All Pro and eventually will soon be a Hall of Fame safety for the Philadelphia Goles. And he hoped to do the same here in this capacity, hopefully going from a scouting fellowship now to possibly running

a team someday down the line. But the reason he wanted to come back to Philadelphia is you're looking at some of the great moments during his time here in Philadelphia. And is it a coincidence that since the days of Brian Dawkins and Doman McNabb, but the Eagles have not won a single playoff right? Right? You haven't won a playoff games since two thousand and eight. Not a coincidence at all. And I really like the way the Eagles have kind of bridged the past into the present with

an eye on the future. After some seasons here of piecemeal football where it was, as I put in my column, roster musical chairs, the Eagles have signed a core of players, and they're extending that core. They want to keep them here and build some stability. And then they've also got all these very familiar faces, players who have done it in Philadelphia, Greg Lewis and Deuced Staley and Tim Howeck and Brian Dawkins and Quentin Michael. They know what it

takes to win in this culture. They can impart their wisdom on the players of today. And oh, by the way, the Eagles have a young quarterback who today was in his full jersey, his full uniform. The tempo high at practice, and I know that's what you want to talk about here. The Eagles, while they didn't tackle to the ground, had a good practice this morning. Certainly. Now is this the case EVERYR Dave or the defense always starts a little

bit faster than the offense. Well, yeah, I mean I look at today was I thought a sloppy practice at times. I mean, they've dropped a lot of passes. It wasn't as crisp as we will see in the coming days. But clearly the defense playing with the kind of tempo that Jim Schwartz wants is going to take it to a lot of teams, including the Eagles offense today, no

question about speaking of Jim Schwartz and the defense. He addressed the media following today's practice and talked about some key players as well as the importance of keeping a rotation at some key positions there on his side of the football. Yeah, we'll be switching them. Yeah, we'll be switching them. We've already the same time with our corners. You know, we get those guys moved around an awful lot.

You know, with corners, there might be a week where we want to match a certain guy on a certain player and he's got to be used to playing right end left. Maybe an injury forces us to do something like that, And the same thing up front, We'll use rotation up front. You know, we want to try to get as much production as we can out of guys. And I've said this before, it's a little bit like those relievers coming out of the bullpen, you know that

are heating it up ninety eight ninety nine. It's hard to do that for seven innings, but you can do it for you know, a couple innings. And that's what we expect from from those guys. So they have to be able to play multiple positions. Multiple sides if we're going to have that kind of rotation up front, So the hallmarks of the Jim Schwartz defense. Pressure from the front and take the football away on the back end.

The Eagles think that they've got some depth there, they think they've got some ability to change the personnel around, give different looks and cause a lot of havoc. Death is gonna be so important day for this defense. I'm going to look at Schwartz's defense from Buffalo back in

twenty fourteen. Mary Williams, an outstanding defensive end, only played a little more than seven two percent of the snaps on defense, and it wasn't the same volume as we've seen from the Eagles defense during the Chip Kelly era the last couple of seasons. Meanwhile, you look at a player like Fletcher Cox, he played over eighty one percent

of the snaps last season, nearly a thousand total. You look at coming off the edge, Connor Barwin, edge linebacker in the three fourth scheme, he played over a thousand snaps last season. That's just way too many and it's to be critical for the Eagles to find that depth upfront defensive end. You feel good about Vinny Curry getting his long term deal, Brandon Graham, and the four mentioned Barwin. You're hoping Marcus Smith. I know it's a name that fans may not want to hear about right now, but

the former twenty fourteen first round pick. I think we'll do much better in this solid defense where he's just going at the quarterback and not having to drop back into coverage, and he can be that fourth guy they're coming off the edge. That will really really be great for Jim Schwartz and just add a little bit more pressure to opposing Quarterbayeah, you weren't really a hockey analogy. Players coming over the boards to get after the quarterback

and make it easier for those on the back end. Now, speaking of the back end, we've got the iron man at the safety position. We have Malcolm Jenkins who played what twelve hundred snaps in twenty fifteen. Never gets tired, never falters. Malcolm Jenkins will be a player that we're gonna hear from when we return to Inside Training Camp presented by Xfinity. In just a moment, I got tickets. Metro tickets. You need a Metro ticket. Talk to me please.

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Eagles wrapping up their first day on Saturday in pads. There'll be in pads again on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field ten o'clock practice time, gates open at eight am time now to talk a little bit more about the Eagles defense, and we're gonna do so with Malcolm Jenkins, who made the Pro Bowl last year, a leader on this football team. He's got a long term contract, he's feeling good about a lot of things, and he sits down with our Alex Smith. All right, Eagles fans, welcome

back to the Novacare Complex. I am Alex Smith, and I am very pleased to be joined today by Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins. Malcolm house camp. Going so far, it's going well. Today was the first day with pads, so we get to see, you know, what the real football looks like and see who can who can be physical, what guys want to play. So this is our first taste in twenty sixteen and some real football. What's it like for you as a safety to get those pads on. How much of a of a boost is that does

that give? You? Well, I mean it's just that that opportunity to get those real looks. You know, we start to do to nine on seven drills where not only do we fit the run, but you have to actually, you know, put your pads on somebody. You gotta get off a blocks and things like that, which is those are the things you can't practice in the spring when you're just in helmets in Jersey. So that's that the physical part of the game that you gotta start to

get acclimated to, so the pads come on. That's one of the big stories today. One of the other big stories is that Brian Dawkins is back in the building hired as part of the scouting department. What's your relationship with Brian Ben since you came here to Philly. I mean, he's always been somebody, uh that that's reached out and and kind of if you see something, he'll give me a couple of tips here there. Um, he's been a resource for me to kind of reach out to with

any questions that I've had. Um and you know, already this day one, he's been there and we've already had multiple conversations. So he's somebody I know definitely, um, even from two bandage points, from a safety standpoint in developing myself and somebody out I'll lean towards to ask questions. But also his leadership, you know, being one of the leaders on the on the team. Um. You know, he's one of the greatest leaders of all time in this game, and so I'm definitely leaning on him, uh in a

few different ways to better myself. Malcolm, it's been a really busy offseason for you sign a new five year deal here. What does that deal mean to you knowing that you'll be here for five more seasons and to get it out of the way well before you're you're

even in that free agency period. Yeah, I mean it's a little security for me, you know, just like you said, not having to go through the free agency h deal and and just being here knowing I'll be here for for the long hauls and makes it a lot of easier for me to invest everything I have into this Eagles organization. UM. It gives me a botal confidence knowing that they see a future with me here, um, you know, and not only me, but the other guys that they're

trying to build around. UM. And it extended over the offseason. You can see that their their goal is to build something, UM, not just this year, but for the long run. And what does it mean to you to be one of those guys to be part of that core? Uh? What what's being built here right now. How do you see

that this organization moving forward? Well, well, I think the biggest thing is it's like any any successful organization, when you when you build for long term success, you have to start with a core of players, a core, a core group. And so to be part of that core group obviously is an honor, but it's also a responsibility. You know, these are the guys that they're going to call on to not only be the playmakers on the field, but be the leaders in the locker room um, to

set the standard, to set the culture um. And so you know, it's it's a lot of responsibility. But when you look around the lead, all of the teams that have success usually have a core group of guys that they build around for you know, a long, long period of time. The fans have really gravitated towards you in a short period of time. What is it about your style of play that you think has led to that? Well, you know, I'm an East Coast guy. I grew up

you know, an hour away from here. Uh, and I think just embodying that that spirit, that enthusiasm playing hard, um, somebody doesn't complain a lot, you know, that's something that that they can relate to. And I think that's you know, this with this fan base feeds off of a lot of enthusiasm, passion, physicality, and you know it's not necessarily about who's the most talented um, but just having that fighting you And you know that's, like I said, being

from the East Coast, that comes natural. But that's just something that you know, our fan base especially gravitates to. So you kind of have an idea of what this organization is about being an East Coast guy. But what surprised you, if anything about that you didn't know about this team or about this city before you came here. Well, I didn't spend much time in Philly. You know, I

really enjoyed the city. You know, I live here year round, so it's something that I've grown accustomed to really really fast. And obviously, like you said, the fan base has really embraced me as a player, and it's been it's been great. You know, I've enjoyed my time here and I'm excited to sign this extension to keep me here for a little longer. Talking access and those now, I know you've been asked about your impressions about Jim Schwartz's defense. Last

year you kind of a little bit of everything. You played safety, you played nickel corner as well. How do you see your role in this in this system, is it more traditional? I think it's to be determined at this point, and I think we're really and it was similar last year. You know, during training camp, I just played more safety just so we could get a true evaluation on all of the different corners, all of the safeties.

But as we get closer to the season, we'll probably start to formulate, you know, what our best combination the dbs are. Um selfishly, you know, I kind of like I really enjoy playing that nickel position, playing down in the slot m but you know, if that doesn't help us as a team, then I might play a more traditional role. I think we're trying to figure out, you know, who those next guys are. We got a huge battle going on in our right corner spot, a lot of

guys that can play a lot of different positions. And Ronnie McLeod is also a pretty versatile safety as well, so I don't want to take any any tools out of his bag. So right now during training camp, we're just trying to figure out what everybody does best. And then me being the versatile guy that I am. You know, I'll just feel the gaps as we get closer to the season. All right, Malcolm, my final question for you.

I know it's early, only the first day of pads, like we talked about, but what do you think the stamp of this defense is going to be. What's going to be that one thing that really sets this group apart? Well, I think, you know, starting with Jim, it has nothing necessarily do with x's and those. I think it's just going to be enthusiasm and and grit. You know, it's gonna be a defense that flies around that I'll hit you,

you know, and has fun together. And I think we've got a lot of guys that enjoy the game, have fun, talk a little trash, you know, and it's it's that's one of the things that I think, you know, not only us as players, but the fan base has been waiting on. Is just that that defensive mindset that's aggressive, that's in your face, that's having fun um and you know, I think that will be the hallmark of our team.

Malcolm Jenkins, thank you very much for joining us, and the best of luck with the rest of the the Camp. I appreciate it and thank you all for tuning in right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Thanks so much, Malcolm, Thank you Alex. We've got more to go here and inside training Camp presented by Exfinity. We're back in just one moment. Love me tender, love me sweet. The stronger the love, the greater the responsibility. But you don't have

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I was hell of act to Jefferson Hospital and the Rothman doctors did an emergency procedure and fused the vertebrae in my spine. Now I'm back on the bike, I'm enjoying myself, and it's all thanks to the Rothman doctors at Jefferson. Getting into the heat of training camp, Dave Spiderol along with Chris McPherson. Still no full scale tackling that will happen in the week ahead. Chris, We've got a busy Sunday for the Eagles and for Eagles fans,

no question. First it will be the one on one interview that you just saw a few moments ago with Malcolm Jenkins. That will be a will on demand on the Eagles as well as on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Now, we're going to take this show to the road tomorrow and go down the street to Lincoln Financial Field. Head coach Doug Peterson will address the media live at around nine to thirty am. We will bring that to you.

You can read Dave's column about bringing the Eagles home and kind of restoring the foundation of the tradition, the way the link of the past and the present and the future it's all rolled into one, along with the way the Eagles have locked up this roster. I get a little sentimental about it because in the past the Eagles have been accused of not embracing the past, and certainly in the last three years there really hasn't been that that roster foundation built that you kind of look

to the future force. So I like what the Eagles are doing here. I certainly love the intent. So you have the link to the past, and the link is where tomorrow's open practice will be once again. The gates opened at eight am. Parking is free, Admission is free, tons of fabulous activities for Eagles fans of all ages. Do not miss your first chance to see the Eagles in action here in twenty and sixteen. And because of the dicey weather possibilities, make sure you're on social media.

Make sure you check out the website. We will alert all the fans if the inclement weather provides too much of a danger for the Eagles to practice outside, So make sure at seven o'clock in the morning you are ready to go as the Eagles get ready to practice at Lincoln Financial Field. Well, thank you for joining us on inside training Camp presented by Xfinity for Chris McPherson. I'm Dave SPIDERO have yourselves a great Eagles Dead