Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "There's not a lot that phases this group."

Transcript

Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "There's not a lot that phases this group." · Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: How you said that, Oh, fully, Antonio Tyler would all
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: be evaluated one day. I'm sure obviously you also to
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: see him out a practice field today with any update
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: on those rings.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Antonio still kind of a week or two away, you know,
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: he's still a little bit further away. Don't anticipating him
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: doing much in practice. Fully, Uh is back, you know,
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: he he uh had a nice workout on Monday and
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: and feels good and and we'll get him uh incorporated
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: back in practice. Uh your third one, oh, Tyler, Lacy
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Tyler's another one. We're gonna We're gonna get him back
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: out there and see where he's at and and just
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: sort of monitor monitor him through you know, the first
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: half of practice. When you're going against the rookie quarterback.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: How much do you go back to the college tape
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: to try and get a feel of who he is.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: As a player. You definitely go back and and watch it,
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: you know, just to see, uh who he is and
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: how he operates and you know, and then and then
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: you go back and and watch you know, his preseason tape.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: But then you go back and watch you know, some
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: of the Philly stuff, what they did with Jalen maybe
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: even go back and watch a little bit of Daniel
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: Jones a little bit because you know some of their
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: coaches have worked with him, and you know, and just
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: see how these different QB runs, you know, can can
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: affect the game and uh oh, go ahead. Athletically, how
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: difficult is it to prepare for a guy like Anthony?
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's tough. It's tough. These are you know,
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: you think of him, you think of Cam Newton. These
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: are big, physical, strong quarterbacks that can they can also
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: throw the football and they're athletic, and you know, it
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: is a challenge. You know, it's a it's a quarterback
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: who who can When you watch watch the tape, you
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: know he can break he can break arm tackles, and
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: then he can he can run for fifteen twenty thirty
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: yards and and beat you with his legs. So, you know,
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: we got to stay disciplined. Obviously defensively, we got to
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: be a good tackling football team, you know, against against
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: guys like this.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: Content. Yes.
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, So we talked last year about how challenging it
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: is to come up with a weekly motivation to keep
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: the guys maybe on edge. Is it more challenging when
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: you go from maybe being the hunter to the hunted.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's more for for you guys to
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: talk about it. We stay focused on the moment, We
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: stay focused on ourselves. We prepare, you know, like we
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: do every single week and every single day, and and
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: that's what we have to do. We can't worry about
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: what's going on the outside of the building. And you know,
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: let the let the fans and the media talk about that.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: We just we just got to prepare today. You gotta
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: go win today on a Wednesday. And that's that's how you, uh,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: you know, get your team ready to go on.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: The captains that were chosen announced yesterday and the selections three.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, my philosophy is I let the team,
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: you know, let the team speak and and and you know,
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: I stay out of it. And and I want to
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: see who who they select as the leaders, you know,
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: the men on the football team that they can that
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: they trust and want to represent. You know, the team
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: is captain. So obviously Trevor you know, gets a lot
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: of votes every year. Uh He and actually Foyer are
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: two of the top you know vote getters. And you know,
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Brandon is just a veteran guy who with a lot
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: of experience. I believe this is fifth year, you know,
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: in his career to be a captain and just again
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: a great powerful voice on the team, you know. And
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: then you know, you add Roy Roy on defense kind
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: of new this year, which I'm excited for Roy. You know,
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: he's taken a bit. We've talked a lot about him
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: and in his leadership on the team, and then this
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: reflects that, and and I'm excited excited for him. And
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: and I think you know, Dewey on special teams, you know,
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: just goes without saying he's the he's the leader there.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: He's obviously a captain on the special teams, gets those
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: guys lined up and it's a good group.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Also specifically out the character are of doing particulars or
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: maybe how he was perceived outside of the building but
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: also been the.
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: Building a year ago to where he is now being
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: able to accap I think it it it it speaks volumes, uh,
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: you know, for him personally, you know, he he's been
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: been with this team through the the early days and
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: not not so good days and now to being a captain.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: I mean it just shows his growth and his maturity
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: and and where he's come as a as a player,
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: you know, with this team, and you know, it's you
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: see it every year. There's always those one or two
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: guys that that just sort of emerge as as leaders,
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: you know, and and whether they're voted captains or not,
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: they're they're still great, great men and great leaders of
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: your football team. And you know, Dewey obviously has done
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: some really good things to be in this position. He's
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: worked hard, you know, and he's he's excited. He's excited
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: for himself, he's excited for our team, you know, for
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: this season, and uh, I'm excited for him as you know,
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: as a captain of our team.
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you always want your linebackers obviously to have to
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: play a game and all that, but it's do they
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: have to be how much more do they have to
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: be on point of a game where you've got an
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: RPO threat like Gap and Rich.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it, it's it takes a lot of discipline,
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: you know, your eye discipline, and and it it's almost
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's reactionary obviously, but at the same time,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: you gotta be patient, you know, and and uh, it
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: just comes down through the film study and and understanding
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: how you know, your opponent's trying to attack you. And
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: I I do believe that. You know, linebackers you know
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: in general, who face RPO type teams, it it's it's tough.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: It's tough because they can't be right and you know
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: they go that way. We're gonna throw it right behind you.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: If you stay back there, we're gonna hand the ball.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: So there's it's a tough it's a tough, tough duty,
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: you know, but it's a great opportunity for him, you know,
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: for our guys, and uh, you know we're gonna see it.
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: We're gonna see it all season from these first few teams.
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: Anyway, last year, Doug, is there anything that you don't
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: know about this team or you want to find out
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: about this team or need to find out about this team,
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: or even.
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: Concern about this team, Well, you know, I want to
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: see you know, we're on the road, week one division
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: opponent in a dome. It's gonna be a great atmosphere.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: It's one o'clock game. You know, we didn't handle the
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: road great last year. We didn't handle this opponent on
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: the road great last year, you know, And and they've
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: quite frankly, they've they've beaten us, I think nine out
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: of the last ten, you know, And and so we've
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: got our our work cut out for us. So the
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: unknown is just, hey, how how how are we going
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: to respond to that? You know? And I look forward
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: to this week of preparation to see where the guys
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: are from a headspace standpoint that way, and and listen,
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: we just you stay humble, and you stay in the moment,
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: you stay focused on us hard work and preparation, and
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: and you go play and and you know, hopefully you
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: come out on top. How about to follow up on
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: March's question, did this team meet or exceed your expectations
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: in the off season and the training camp and how
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: they came back.
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: As a team mentally with new expectations.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: You know what I was. I was pleased they met
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: my expectations. I don't think they exceeded them, but they
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: met them, you know. I think, you know, we have
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: a lot of football ahead of us. So if they
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: if they do well, then maybe they exceed. But there's
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: so much confidence right now in that locker room. And
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: and that's the good thing, you know, that part, that
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: part is UH is really good and teams in a
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: good place. At a really good training camp, you know,
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: coming out relatively healthy heading into week one, and again
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: the expectations for us are just we just got to
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: continue to prepare and focus and stay stay in the moment.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: Does that surprise you based on how young this team
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: still really is, But certainly, I mean sometimes you would
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: I think you would say, yeah, you know, it does
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: kind of surprise you young football teams, especially, you know,
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: going into your first you know, your first game of
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: the regular season, second year together. But but there's there's
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of maturity on this on this team, and
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: we have veteran players who've played a lot of ball,
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: and and there's maturity there and and I think that's
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: what kind of puts this team in a little different
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: different level. I guess when it comes to that, it's
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: just that these so many young players have played a
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: lot of football, and it's it's interesting because there's not
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: a lot that really phases this group. You know, adversity
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: we know is going to strike at some point, but
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: it's always been next man up mentality, and this team
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem to waver much at all with that.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: Just because new coaches, new players in certain situations, how
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: do you handle that. How do you account for that,
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: for opening that or do you not even recognize that?
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: I try to stay away from it. Again, I think
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: that's a if you if you start talking about that,
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: the emotions run too high anyway, and now you've built
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: something up that you know sometimes isn't there. We understand
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: now it's it is week one and the emotions that
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: are going to run high. I understand, But I don't
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: put a lot of emphasis on that. I just try
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: to keep these guys just in the moment, right it
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: today Wednesday, focus on today. Let's get better today. Uh,
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: let's let's talk about the first and second getting down
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: game plan today. Let's not worry about Sunday just yet
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: as we go throughout the week. Yes, I will, you know,
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: with some of our young players, new starters, you know,
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Anton Harrison, Harrison, I mean, you know, first time in
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: the NFL starting at right tackle. I mean, his emotions
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: are going to run high, and but he's got a
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: great guy sitting right next to him at right guard
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: that can help handle that. So you kind of lean
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: on the team a little bit, you know, to help,
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: you know, with some of the emotions and and all
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: A coach preparing for a team with a new head
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: coach and a new quarterback and just seems to be
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: spent certainties there. Can you prepare for that or is that.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Just yeah, you can prepare for that, you know, And
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: and it's it's it all comes down to obviously the
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: film study, the history of of their coaches, where they've been,
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: who they who they've coached, you know, and then understanding
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: you know, their personnel. I mean, it's it's it's interesting
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: because we know Gus Bradley on defense, he's you know,
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: he's been there right second year, you know, in that system,
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: and those guys and all of that. And then you
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: know it's the offensive side that might be a little different,
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: might look a little different. Obviously a young ascending quarterback,
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: you know, so that could look a little different. But
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: I think you can prepare just by going back and
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: understanding the history of their coaches and where they've been
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: and who they've coached games. Has been one of the
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: goals throughout the off season. How important is it to
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: see that materialize out on the field this week? Yeah,
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we talk a lot about that.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: You know, starts with the opening kickoff, right Whether it's
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: kickoff or kick cover or kick return, and you know,
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: making a play. Don't go chasing plays, but make the
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: plays that come to you. And just you know, it
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: comes down to just execution and focus on the game
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: plan and again stay within the moment, but you strive
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: on you know, trying to get early early scores if
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: you can, early stops on defense if you can. And yeah,
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: you would love to play, you know, with lead most
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: of the game, but you know sometimes that doesn't happen,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: but we emphasize it a lot, and you know, it's
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: just a matter of execution. Is that a mindset thing?
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Can that be going in that you have to be
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: have that killer instinct to go in and get ahead
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: and with the lead like that. I mean it's something
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: we definitely, you know, address and talk about. You know,
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: sixty minute games a long game, and there's a lot
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: of plays in a football game, and you know the
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: sometimes the way you start's not the way you finish,
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: you know, in a football game. But but you definitely
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: want to start fast and finish faster. I think our
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: guys do understand that. And those are things that we
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: continue to talk about, you know, all season long.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: Really what you remember from that game in the last year.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought that, you know, you look at it. Defensively,
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: there were some third downs we just didn't get off
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: the field, you know, especially late in the game. You know,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: those are things that we try to you try to
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: focus on and and you know, definitely when you get
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: in third third down situations, you try to you know,
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: get off the field, force upunt. We didn't do that
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: well enough in that game last year, you know. Offensively,
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: you know, I thought the first half, you know, we
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: we looking back on it, you know, we take the
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: opening drive and I think Trevor took a sack and
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: knocked us out of field goal range early in that
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: football game. There's there's three points there. The way we
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: started the second half, I mean, you know, there was
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: some explosive, explosive plays, but then there was a couple
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: of drives and there we didn't execute very well. And
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: uls are just again they did a nice job of
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: just keeping everything in front and and you know, forcing tackles,
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: getting the guys on the ground. But you know, we
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: just got to execute better. Really in all three phases.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Took a lot of the stuff underneath, a lot of
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: David mcdondan, how do you like to try that.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: If they come. Yeah, I mean that was obviously it's
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: a different, different offense, but but that was something they
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: did got the ball out of, you know, Matt Ryan
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: at the time, it was his hands and you know,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: they got the ball out quickly and you know, sort
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: of stemy the pass rush that way. And again this
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: is this is a totally different, totally different team, totally
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: different game, different game plan, you know, and we got
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: to be prepared for you know, all of that again,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: you know, especially with a young quarterback, I'm sure, try
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: to get some easy completions early, you know, try to
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: get in a rhythm, use his legs so you and
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: even possibly a you know, a gadget type play you
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: know early. So those are all things that you know,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: we have to be be ready for. Thanks, thank you,