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Ask An Eagle On Patreon: Quintin Mikell Talks Eagles, Playing For Jim Johnson, Brian Dawkins · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The following is a shortened version of our monthly Ask
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  Speaker 1: an Eagle live stream featuring this month former Eagle safety
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  Speaker 1: Quinton Michael. Every month, our Tier two and Tier three
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  Speaker 1: Patreon members get to have a live discussion with a
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  Speaker 1: former Eagles player, coach, or a front office executive as
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  Speaker 1: part of our Ask an Eagle series. It's truly one
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  Speaker 1: of the great perks of being an Inside the Birds
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  Speaker 1: Patreon member. In this episode, Quentin talks about his experience
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  Speaker 1: as playing alongside Brian Dawkins in the Eagle secondary and
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  Speaker 1: being coached by Jim Johnson, along with his thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: this year's Eagles defense. To become a Patreon member for
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  Speaker 2: Two questions.
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  Speaker 3: One with EPs in the secondary working blank and ship,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like the back end has gotten a little
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  Speaker 3: more stabilized. EPs is not quite as gung ho as
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Brown is, so that's my one question is what
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  Speaker 3: do you think of that with epsin there. The second
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  Speaker 3: question relates to something I saw against the Redskins. Is
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  Speaker 3: the old line seemed to be getting stood up on
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  Speaker 3: some places. They mentioned that on the broadcast, and Meryl
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  Speaker 3: also mentioned it on the audio. Does that mean that
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line is getting the jump and forcing them
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  Speaker 3: up or they just the old line is not getting
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  Speaker 3: the push. So there's my two questions.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't spend much time on there. But
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  Speaker 4: so the first question with Epps, you know, I love
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  Speaker 4: the way he plays the game. He he's a veteran,
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  Speaker 4: he's experienced, he came up the hardway, so he's feisty
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  Speaker 4: and and I think there's something to be said for
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's there's something to be said for players
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  Speaker 4: that can control. I don't want to say Sidney Brown
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  Speaker 4: plays out of control, but he he plays you can
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  Speaker 4: play fast, and you can almost play too fast, and
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  Speaker 4: I kind of feel like at times and that and
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  Speaker 4: that comes with experience. And so for me, I think
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  Speaker 4: that veteran presence of Epps, the understanding the game slowed
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  Speaker 4: the game down, yet at the same time still have
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  Speaker 4: the ability to move around still, can you know, make plays,
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  Speaker 4: make calls, make tackles. I think that's really what this
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  Speaker 4: defense needed at this point right now. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: still look at Blankenship as kind of a young guy
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  Speaker 4: as well, So it's kind of tough to have one
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  Speaker 4: young guy and another even more young guy at the
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  Speaker 4: safety to critical positions in the way the NFL is today,
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  Speaker 4: and so you got to have some kind of a
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  Speaker 4: veteran presence there and I think that's exactly what Epps
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  Speaker 4: brings to the table. And as far as the old line, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's a it's a tough it's a tough
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  Speaker 4: one because some of it is snap count, some of
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  Speaker 4: it is you know, uh, the variability of the play calls.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a big mixture of of a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of the system and how it's operating. Some of
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  Speaker 4: it is experience. Again, we got, you know, quite a
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  Speaker 4: few guys that are kind of new to the positions
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  Speaker 4: on the old line, And a little bit of it
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  Speaker 4: is attitude, man like, if you know, if you know
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  Speaker 4: the ball, if you know the ball is about to
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  Speaker 4: be ran, you need to get your butt down and
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  Speaker 4: get ready to go right. Don't let the don't let
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  Speaker 4: the defensive line take the fight to you. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit of an attitude thing. So it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a mixture of all those things. But to me,
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  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is there has to be a little
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  Speaker 4: more very variability in the play calling. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: just too stagnant. I think the the book is kind
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  Speaker 4: of out on our system already and it's it's gotta
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  Speaker 4: it's got to start to change.
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  Speaker 5: So, just like Carl, I have two questions. First question
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  Speaker 5: is if you were the dB coach for the Eagles
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  Speaker 5: right now, given and I don't know how much you've
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  Speaker 5: you've watched the games just as a fan and looked
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  Speaker 5: at any tape or whatever, but of you know between
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  Speaker 5: a Dori Jackson and Bennett and Ringo and the rookie
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  Speaker 5: whatever his last name is, No, not mccoob. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: talking about safety. I'm talking about corner, Mac McWilliams, m
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  Speaker 5: williams and now they have Michael Carter. They have all
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  Speaker 5: these gods.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Just based on whatever little or how much you've seen them,
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  Speaker 5: who would you be playing outside opposite Kill.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question. So early in the season,
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  Speaker 4: I was not an adri Jackson fan. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: I've ever been a fan of his. I've not. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't like him at Tennessee. I didn't think he was
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  Speaker 4: much at at the Giants. But I will say the
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  Speaker 4: last few games he's been he's been stepping his game up.
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  Speaker 4: I will say he's been playing tighter, tighter to the receivers.
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  Speaker 4: He's been playing with more awareness of where he's at.
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  Speaker 4: He's been playing more aggressive. I think earlier in the
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  Speaker 4: in the in the year, maybe he was a little
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  Speaker 4: maybe he was still learning the defense, or he just
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  Speaker 4: looked tentative. Back back there, he looked tentative and scared
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  Speaker 4: and not I don't want to say he's scared, but
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  Speaker 4: just tentative and afraid to take a take a chance
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  Speaker 4: on the play. That makes sense. And so I would
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  Speaker 4: say last couple of games, he's kind of stepped up
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  Speaker 4: and he's kind of won me over. And so right
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  Speaker 4: now I would totally have a lot of confident in
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  Speaker 4: Jackson right now. Across from Q. Cooper obviously is the
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  Speaker 4: man like he's a great player, great young player. So
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  Speaker 4: it's Q blanket ship does what he does. I love
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  Speaker 4: what he's doing in EPs, and I just think that
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  Speaker 4: they found the right combination of experience and youth in
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  Speaker 4: that back end, and that's what we got to work with.
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  Speaker 3: How does the communication work with the other, with the
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  Speaker 3: other safety to kind of patchall hall, so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: Because we never never see that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we how often does that happen? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: also how often does that happen in a given game?
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  Speaker 4: It can happen quite often. Especially it happens more so
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  Speaker 4: on coverages like cover three, where in gym's defense. In
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  Speaker 4: our cover three, you want to roll down to a
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  Speaker 4: certain side. So let's say one week we are playing
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  Speaker 4: the the Chiefs and they put Kelsey. Let say it's
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  Speaker 4: two by two and they put Kelsey in the slot
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  Speaker 4: and then they put whoever in the other slot. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if we practice it all week a certain way, Let's
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  Speaker 4: say we were trying to roll down the Kelsey side.
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  Speaker 4: But if we had a brain farre in the game
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  Speaker 4: and we went down to the wrong side, we would
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  Speaker 4: We'd have two ways to fix it. We would either
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  Speaker 4: slide the linebackers over or the middle safety. You better
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  Speaker 4: start yelling at that guy. Hey, we gotta roll. We
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  Speaker 4: gotta spin it. Spin it, spin it. When you say
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  Speaker 4: spin it, that's all it is. You just roll one
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  Speaker 4: guy back into the other guy down. Another thing we
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  Speaker 4: used to do, and it happened a lot of times
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  Speaker 4: with blitz, is if if we had a blitz and
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  Speaker 4: we showed it and the quarterback saw it and he
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  Speaker 4: starts changing protections. He got it picked up. We would
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  Speaker 4: just go o maha, omaha, omaha, and then we would
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  Speaker 4: just get out of all of it. We get out
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  Speaker 4: of the blitz and then we just played straight coverage.
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  Speaker 4: So we had multiple ways to counter those those type
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  Speaker 4: of situations, But the biggest one is communication and just
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  Speaker 4: checking where each other's at before the snap, which I
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  Speaker 4: often did.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one thing I see with Cooper Dejene and
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  Speaker 3: our linebackers, and we saw it really last year, especially
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  Speaker 3: since nanagain. But you can see it's one thing with
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  Speaker 3: Big Banjo. He is really really big on is you
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  Speaker 3: see them talking to each other and switching things up.
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