Press Pass: Doug Pederson

he'll be he'll be fine, but we'll hold him precautionary. UM. On on Wednesday. John dorm boss, as you know, I had to had to wrist. Uh. He he did have surgery on it. Uh last night after the game. And UM, he's definitely out. I are you know he's he's he's done for the seasons. It's gonna be a Uh. He's one of the one of the leaders of the team. So he's he's definitely gonna be missed. Um. Wendell has a right knee MCL sprain. It's grade two. Um. Again, it's a it's a it's a it's a lengthy injury.

So much like a big v's injury there. Um, so we'll have to we'll see what we'll do there. Darren's prowles obviously with the concussion, he's in a protocol, so we'll monitor that day to day. Matt Tobin left knee MCL sprain. It's a Grade two as well. Happened on the next to last play of the game. Uh. Of course in Big V. Big V's doing better. We anticipate probably uh uh here in the near future getting him back obviously. UM, I'm not sure about this week, but

we'll see. We'll see where he's at. And then Jaylen Watkins has a it's on his left hand, the fourth finger, uh tendon. He rubbed the tendon in that finger. So that's another one that we uh, he'll have an MRI and see where he's at. On that so lengthy, lengthy list. Brandon Brooks, DGB, Jordan Matthews, they'll all be good to go for for Wednesday. You find out further what is the issue with Brandon Brooks in terms of his illnesses.

We have not yet. That's something we're gonna continue to explore today with him, um and uh and just see I you know, UM, it's obviously unfortunate but we need to we need to get to the bottom of it and and just find out why history of missing games through the illnesses on the actual day of the game. It's not necessarily actually, I mean it's happened on the

actual day of the game. Um, he has had there is a little bit of history there, but something we have to our medical team will do more to investigate this thing as we go. Ever, has you ever had this on a non game day since he's been here with you guys, as far as I know, No, No, yeah, like at what point, both both times in the morning. Actually it was the day of the game. In the

morning of the game. Yeah, I'm usually in the office, so my my phone rings a thirty nine o'clock eight, you know, him in the morning and usually talking to Padozzi and and going that rap. We have to give sam Allow reps every week now, not really knowing what's gonna happen week to week, which we do anyway. As far as Isaac getting reps, we do put him in there and get reps, just like Toben. We put Tobin in there to get reps. Um we give Whizz Center reps,

you know, So we do that during the week anyway. Uh, just for you know, if some were to get nicked up in the game. Yes, yes, for the two minute morning I'm coming time out wasn't called there trying to get them to run another play before the free stoppage time out there before the halftime last series half time at the end of the game. Oh well at the time the we had would we had we had one left? Yeah,

one left. Um. The conversations that we had into thinking there, um, basically, UM, if if they were to be I was going to use it on third down. It's when I said, I believe it was second down at the time they were going to run a play, um, and then I was going to use it on third down. Uh and save the time in that situation. Um. You know. Unfortunately they you know, they scored with a minute and fifty three, and it really in that case it did benefit because now we had time and timeouts, um to put a

two minute drive together. What's the planet at long snamber? And also, how does Wendell's injury kind of affect you guys are brunning back because seem like he was coming on. Yeah, Winnendell is definitely going to be Um, you know, missed obviously because he was he was definitely having having a good a good season and helping us along the way. Um,

you know, ken Yon obviously was down. So Kenyon will definitely be active, uh, you know going forward along with Ryan, and then we'll see where Darren is at the end of the week. We do have Byron Marshall you know, on our practice squad, so that's obviously a possibility later in the week of maybe activating him as well. Um,

and then getting back to John. Uh, well, we'll have to uh um, probably bring in some guys today tomorrow, work out some guys and and uh and try to try to get along Snapper in here with the team in the camp. But he's he's one of the guys. Yeah, he'll be one of the guys when you when you guys are and is it mental that I don't know. That's something that our medical team will dive into and try to find out. How how difficult is it to I mean, you guys played thirteen games, he's missed two

of them. How difficult is it to kind of week by week not know if you can have your right guard. Well, it's it can be a challenge. Um, you know, I think for us as coaches and as a staff, by giving Isaac, you know, these reps during the week, it definitely prepares for anything. It's it's obviously no different if he were to go down with injuries, saying the first

quarter and he's got to go play. Um, it is a difficult situation, but at the same time, we feel comfortable with Isaac and giving him the time during the week to be ready and uh handle the situation. So it's a Saturday night, there was no indication that Lanny wasn't feeling well. Anything's dad injury. Oh he was fine at the meetings and and uh, you know everything was good.

The why all sixty ends up a Sunday, Well, UM, I felt like we could we could use you know, Stephen Means has been has been a big part of you know, our service team during the week. Uh. He's a guy that we feel like has a has a you know, bright future. He's a he's a UM he's an energetic guy, brings a lot of energy, a lot

of juice to that to that D line. And it's another way of of uh, you know, keeping guys fresh during the game and just one extra guy that that uh can give um can give guys, you know, the added rest they need during the game. About yesterday and what before him on I spoke to him this morning, mh you know, UM, he definitely wants to explore, um, you know the reasons why, you know, and if we can help him. I want to. I want to help him make sure it doesn't happen again again. I medically,

I don't know. I mean, I'm not Brandon, so I can't speak for him. UM, but something we gotta we gotta get to the bottom of it and help him as a as a as an athlete. Pretty I just said that that Sprawls took. I mean, did you get to talk to him afterwards? What was he? You know? What kind of state was he? M? What do you what? Do you know? I talked to him when he was obviously conscious coming off the field. Um, you know he was.

He was fine at that point obviously, but he had to go into the protocol, um, you know, and and that's where he's at. So UM, that's all I can really speculate on that. You know, one Brandon, did he report to the stadium with any plan of playing or was determined before he arrived at the stadium. Oh no, he was. He was playing, you know, and he was there at the stadium, you know, ready to go, you know when all this happened warm ups at all. No, No,

it looked on film like it was illegal. You know, kind of got him kind of right in the shoulder helm and across. Yeah, the the interception of Wentz's first to earth what was supposed to happen on that play and you just you know, again it's something where uh in that case, Uh, I need to communicate really to to to Zach just just anticipate that the coverage there in that situation. Just um, I'll do a better job

of coaching him on that. It was just a quick little um slant um and uh just uh, you know, Carson had he there was one extra guy coming. Uh. Kelsey did a great job of holding two guys off and giving him some time. And you know, I just got to make sure our guys are better prepared for those looks in those situations. Yesterday, well we had Stephen up, you know, and uh we put Camu down, so again wanted to have that added the added pass rusher. You said, Tobin got hurt on the next the last play of

the game. Did you know he was injured on that final play and why not give him some help against Kargan? If so? I did not, uh honestly did not know that he was He was injured on the play before there was a pile and you know he came out of the bottom of the pile, but didn't didn't see anything, um at that time on the last play. Um, you know, yeah, there's there's that would definitely be it. Had I known, maybe I could have done something with with our back

or a tight end over there. The thing is, Matt did a great job that whole drive blocking him and and a lot of times they were they were line gaming, they were stunting, and he would Karrigan was coming inside. It just so happened on that last one that he was a little bit wider and and obviously on film, you know, Matt just an unfortunate situation, just couldn't push off the knee. Well saw upstairs you know that that

he was hobbled after that previous play. Is there some process where one of your guys upstairs is keeping an eye on that or um, I mean and can communicate that to you guys. Yeah, I mean, we're always looking for you know, for those situations and for those uh um, those things. I mean, you know obviously we didn't we didn't catch it, you know, and then we gotta be as coaches, we gotta be a little more in tune to that, and then if we uh, if we see it,

we can either substitute or or help him. I mean, what were your obs? You're just basically down to one guy anyway, Andrews, you see all the guy left right, how would you have handled that? If you haven't had a chance to he probably not back. Well, we would have bumped Isaac out and put Josh Andrews a guard. That would have been that would have been the scenario, all the guys banged up on the Olne and Brooks

kind of being an unknown. Um, you are you gonna need to make any roster moves and Big V you're not sure if he'll be available Sunday? So are you gonna need to add anybody? Or you okay with what you have? Well, um, you know we're looking at all that today. Um. You know, well we'll uh definitely with with Matt Tobin. Um, you know we're gonna have to you know, we still have Dylan Gordon and but there's gonna be probably um opportunity to to work out some guys and bring some guys in, and and and and

try to try to fill those spots. You know, obviously just be with with John in this situation. So, UM, the next couple of days will be big days for us. It's been sacked eleven times and hit almost forty times. Will the last four games? It might also will be bolned issues. UM and the fact that you're essentially out of the playoffs, do you have to even do more to protect your franchise quarterback? Um? Yeah, those are things

to consider these next couple of weeks. But by no means do we want to hamper any kind of uh, you know, aggressiveness on offense. Um. If we need to use backs and tight ends, well we'll consider doing that a little bit more, um, as we do as we go starts on on this team. It's it's a bout those six years now about the playoffs. It looks like, what's the measures to them in the spine re using the season when it's obviously unlikely that that there's a

BLOS season. Well, I think if they just if they just look at yesterday's game and really how um, how well you know they played that. Were there mistakes, Yeah, there were mistakes and there were some costly red zone

turnovers and all of that. But the effort, the energy, the chant, the fact that, uh, with everything that's gone on, um this season, the fact that they were in that game to the end, um, and then and then having another offseason, having another draft, going through free agency again bringing in some more you know, some more competition to

help at every spot. Um. I think that they if they look at that and then that's the message, then um, then when then we're gonna be okay When you look at a guy like like Riot means, you know, hides up in the ups and downs this season like yesterday four cost break ups, but also you know, gave up the long touchdown to de Sean. But like, what does it say about his resiliency? It keeps seems to keep fighting.

And yeah, you know for for it's it's his resiliency is unbelievable because he's he's usually been on this report for most of the season, you know, and he's been fat fighting that that injury and I go and bite you going out to practice every day and and uh, um battling to practice, you know, making sure he's ready to go. And you know, at this time of the season, I think he's finally he's finally healthy, you know. Um,

And and it was it was really good too. I was happy for him yesterday to get that that interception obviously for the touchdown and and uh a couple of PBUs and and you know you've seen teams kind of go after um and go towards him a little bit more than the last couple of weeks. But he really, he really hung in there yesterday and did a nice job. He rose to the occasion. And obviously Deshawn's a you know, he's a great receiver. We got a lot of speed and and just got you know, just got beat. It

was just a one on one and got beat. So um, those things are going to happen. But uh uh he's been he's been a bright spot here towards the end of the season. To be a spoiler over the last over the next few weeks, is that something that you're related to the guys and he is that something that that one more time the chance to be a spoiler. Um for some teams making the playoffs, is that something you guys can kind of get behind or yeah, you know, I just want our guys to go out and compete

and play hard every week. Um, spoiler or not. I mean, you know, um, technically, if you look at it mathematically, we're not out of it. But um, but I think I think if we just go and learn from yesterday and knowing that they can play this well, the beauty of it would have been. I mean, had we pushed through and won that game yesterday, what it does for the psyche of the team, what it does for young quarterback,

young players, I think speaks volumes. But the fact that you know, we took it right to the basically the last play of the game also speaks volumes to this team. And um, you know a lot of times in this situation, you you take less stress off yourself and you really perform.

You know, Sometimes it creates a loose environment. Players are a little more loose and not necessarily in there and they're planning, but in the in the way they play sometimes and the energy levels high and they feed off yesterday. And and because I've been on a couple of teams where we've been out of it, but we actually play our best football at the end of the game because for whatever reason, the psyche of it is, you know, you go out and you just you just enjoy playing

and playing with your with your guys. So um, that's kind of going to be the message these next couple of weeks and and um, you know, we've still got three left and we're gonna we're gonna get ready for these three would be a candidate well of besides dorm Boss. I mean when Delle, Matt, and Jalen would be the three you know, um that that could potentially go on ir um, just because the nature of the injury and the three weeks left. Okay,