Him a learning the way here, can you tell us what your role was, what the capacity was, and how that was when for you it was just more consulting stuff, anything that I can help out with some of the guys and some of the guys that they were looking at the frank in from the Ruggers and stuff like that. So I've been doing some of that type of stuff and also some other conversations I won't get into, but so I've been having conversations off and on with these
without the scouting as opposed to coaching broadcasting. 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 running. So I'm not I'm learning about scouting part of it, how the 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 the football team. Talk. You're really good, Oh thank you? How tough is it to kind of man's a cushy job. It's it's you know, how to leave that well, it's not really tough because that opportunity was not there at the moment, and so it's time for me to look for other things. And this is something that I've been thinking about for a while. Like I said, um, didn't I didn't know it would come to fruition as facts.
But here it is. And you know sometimes that I've I've kind of said this that sometimes you got to step out of your comfort zone to really see what you can achieve. And so this is something that I'm really gonna loking forward to seeing that this is something that will move to something even bigger. You'll still be based in Colorado. I will be based in Colorado as of right now. Yes, I know your family is very important to you. You be traveling a lot for a
little well this year. The way the things are out, um, we will get down until as far as the schedule, it's concerned of how much I'll be traveling and how much I'll be able to stay up in Colorado. Would do things remote and so you know we'll have those discussions as we prove forward with this thing. This is a fluid thing to be honest with something bigger. What exactly bigger is bigger? Bigger is bigger? I I don't know what. I don't know what bigger is. I just
know bigger. It's not where I'm standing right now. So so whatever bigger is, then that's what'll push you. And how much she miss just being around the game in this in this kind of way, just on the sidebars. You know, It's one of those things that even when
I'm going different places. For instance, I was in Orlando with my family and we'll passing by, me and my brother in law to go to the gym, and I passed by a football feel and as I passed by, it's nobody in the Stateum, but there's a certain comfort I have when I see football feeds. So just having that knowledge of understanding go for being able to bring what I know and what I've learned over the years
back to this organization. I just for the guys upstairs, but for the players downstairs, I'm gonna have conversations with them from time to time and I'm not gonna overdo nothing. I know how to get people their space. But I just feel comfortable. This is a place that I feel calmor but not just this organization but the football field watching tape, having those discussions I feel comfortable doing, you know, like the evaluation, like making evaluations of players and getting
the normal evaluating them food, who's got it? Who guys? Yeah? And you and the energe played again. You understand that when you as you get up there in age playing the game, you see guys and young guys come in and you're hoping that they can help the team win that year. So you start to evaluate even back then. So now that I'm out of the game, I just take those things that I've learned then and I apply
them now. She evaluating guys to see if they can help this team going forward, to bring this place back to some place that it was when we played and I played here, the energy was completely different. There's expectations every year what we're going to do, and I'm pretty sure that players will tell you the exact same thing. They want to get this thing back there as well.
The challenges of a great player, and we see it in a basketball like a guy like Michael Jordan Man you know struggles till a play magic John too any coaching struggles to apply the greatness that they had to the players. They assess, do you have any of those struggles ever, or you just you can separate what you
were able to do versus what you're looking at. The way that I try to operate is I try to break things down to the at least common denominator for me to understand them, to digest them so I can use them. So I do the same thing when I explained stuff. So whatever I have to do to say in turns that they'll understand because I've done in the high school the same as I've taught the things that I taught on a pro level. If I was teaching them, I do the same thing on the high school level.
I have to even bring it down further for those guys they don't understand. So I've done these things before. I know to communicate and so again for me, I'm a simplistic dude, so I need I need things broken down from I'm a visual cat too, so to be able to explain to these guys. But it grasp it. I don't think that would be a problem. Get you tired of the ESPN thing or not, just want to get back in the field to be around it more than you were. No, I ain't Joe. I enjoyed my
time then, I really did. Um. It was just one of those times that everything kind of fell into place for me to have more freedom to do other things. And this was that opportunity and it presented itself and I jumped on it. And Uh, we're rolling with a fluid situation, working your way up the ladder or something
that excites you, something you're willing to do well. If you like, follow my rookie year, that's that's that's what I did on my career, Like every step with my way in football, I didn't just like that exact same thing. Mone Warner high school, college, pros and now hopefully front office. You work your way up a bit when you left here.
Obviously you've spoken a lot about the hard feelings, and even as recently as when you were here a couple of years ago, I know you're still some bitterness does just go a long way towards kind of healing or whatever happened in the past between you and the team, well, that stuff is gone. It's nothing we can do about it to change any of those things. And through those things, you have to look at the positives of things as well. I'm a positive dude, So I try my best to
look at the positives. One of the positives I still live in Denver right now, which is a beautiful place. So have not had that not have excuse me, I would not be in Denver with my family right now. So there's a lot of positives that I can bring from that. But this place means too much to me. It's not about the people to run it. It's about the place. It's about the Eagle Green. People can come and go, but this will remain the same, and so
that's what. That's what, that's what, that's what drives me to want to do more for this, for this organization
out there today. That was encouraging. Well, they're just this first day is usually get tough because you're knocking off that russ getting back used to playing football with pads on, which is difficult, and they're learning a lot like off especially on the offensive side of the ball, defensive letting that they were flying around, especially that first une, or they were flying around making plays on the Bestie mouth Can had a couple of big, big plays today, So
I think that's something that I was expecting to see. The offense struggle a little bit and then the defense be ahead of the game once again, offenses are usually going to be a little store starting off the defensive group. We were talking a loving about the you know, the idea of the safeties here, right because Quintin when he played in Team Louis sort of talked to Rodney and they got to know one another, and you know, when Rodney had a choice to come, Quintin kind of talked
him in the Hey, Philadelphi's a great spot. You led Quintin and really kind of talked him in and showed him talk a little bit about this full circle as it relates to the safeties and the relationship you guys have. Um, it's it's a it's a special bond that you know, any of the special guys that I played within the secondary safety is not just not just cute, but um, you had Tim Offers back, you know, so he's he's
he's here as well as a coach. So when you have a position of strength, and I considered the safety position to be a position of strength when I was here with my teammates. One of the we have that back again, we have a depth at the position. We have two quality starters and like I said depth at
the position. So then when you begin to do that, what you do is you you you you build a situation where every guy that comes in at the safety position where you expect this, we expect you to be this, not specifically an individual, but we expected you to handle yourself this way at that position. I think that we're developing that, especially with Malcolm League. Another thing, what makes
you think you do through well? I think the one thing that you also see as the quality of the coaches that he brought guys who've been in the league that I've done it before. So he's not doing everything by himself the first time. But he's what he is. He's to me, he's he's a builder and he's going to have this place going back in the direction it needs to go for these guys to believe in one another, come back together as a team and perform. Thus, I
love to being in pads. I love the physical part coming back to Philadelphia, which is going to be used for this team. But I think that you know, the decision makers own game day is one that those are the things they're going to be a challenge for him. But at the same time, I think that because he's been through it a little bit in Kansas City, giving the range to call some plays, I think that he'll he'll be successful. Donk Wizard mean that Doug was here
as a player, who was here as assistant coach. He understands Philadelphia in terms of coming back here as head coach. But that's huge because not everybody can have success in Philadelphia. Not every athlete can play Philadelphia. They can't. Some people can't handle it. They can't handle the toughness, they can't
handle the tough love. So I think Doug being going through it and and the fact that he's more of a even killed copo guy that you know, he can handle the things, some of the bump bumps that they're probably going to face, especially early on the offensive side of the ball. All Right, thank you, Thanks guys,