The All-Pro Philly Players Show w/ Jeremiah Trotter Jr. -- 9/30/24

Jerrold Colton and Dave Spadaro are LIVE from Chickie's and Pete's in Marlton, NJ and are joined by #Eagles LB Jeremiah Trotter Jr.! They talk all things #Eagles-#Buccaneers from Week 4 as the Eagles fall in Tampa Bay again before their early bye week.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Coming to you live from Chicky's and Pete's in Marlton,
New Jersey, every Monday night. It's the All Pro Philly
Players Show. Now here are your hosts, Gerald Colts and
then Eagles insider Dave Spadero.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It even even welcome.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
They're Chicken and Pizza in Marlton, New Jersey and the
All Pro Philly Players Show. I'm Gerald Colton along with
my co host Dave Spederio of the longtime Eagles Insider.
We are here every Monday in Marlton, and if you're nearby,
please come join us. We will be here until seven
o'clock and at seven point thirty Trey Thomas and Todd
Herman's takeover. So we got two and a half hours

(00:45):
of Eagles talk and a great night. You can come
watch the Mets Braves on TV. And there's two count
of two again Monday, n four games. Anyway, welcome. We
love to have victory Monday. Unfortunately tonight we don't have that,
but that's all right. And two after what will be
the end of September, a bye week coming up at
a good time. Dave, you're just back from Tampa and

(01:08):
I know, other than the game was probably a good trip.
So what's your take on what happened yesterday down in
very hot Tampa Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean, it's only a good trip when you win.
The game was really disappointing. The Eagles just did not
get it going, and Tampa Bay came out with a
great game plan. Offensively, Baker Mayfield was on point and
the Eagles offense before they knew it, they were down
twenty one, twenty four nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Very very difficult game.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I think this is one of those games that you know,
you wash away very quickly and you move on to
the next game. I think the bye week comes at
a great time for this football team. I don't know
if there's a lot to be said for this game
Gerald the Eagles, it was a disappointing performance. They're disappointed,
coaching staff disappointed. You use this week that's ahead, the
bye week to self scout obviously, the offense seeing AJ Brown,

(02:00):
DeVante Smith, Lane Johnson. The defense just beaten by a
really good Tampa Bay game plan and a good execution.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
So one of those games that you want to forget.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
And hopefully at some point the Eagles see Tampa Bay
again this season and take it to him. But two
and two at the bye week. I will tell you
that the Eagles have made the playoffs. Three of the
last four seasons, they've been two and two. They have
made the they've missed the playoffs. I think five of
the last six times they were three and one. So strategically,
it was a really wise no miss kidding, but really

(02:32):
tough loss. And just that's that's all there is to say.
No reason to dwell on it, no reason to beat
anybody up. Team feels terrible. I know the fans are disappointed.
And two weeks from yesterday the Eagles will play the
Cleveland Browns at Link Financial Field and it's on.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it will be nice to have a Sunday one
o'clock game. We went through all of September with that one,
which is really crazy. Anyway, a lot of stuff to
talk about. And look, Dave, when you say sort of
not much you talk about, we keep it so positive.
Here we bleed Kelly Green and Midnight Green mixed together
something like that. I prefer that that Eagles Eagles Green exactly,
and I prefer the Kelly Green myself. And we'll get

(03:09):
into it, but I want to introduce our guest. And
we are so thrilled to have him. You know the
name Jeremiah Trotter, who has been part of Eagles football
now for twenty five years basically, and it started with
Jeremiah Trotter, number fifty four and one of the great
linebackers have ever done in Eagles uniform, Eagles Hall of Famer.
And he gave birth to a son back in two

(03:30):
thousand and two who followed in his footsteps more than
just about any kid could follow in their father's footsteps.
Is unbelievably Now at the age of twenty one years old,
do you have to buy the Fildelph Eagles in the
fifth round from Saint Joseph Prepp which is incredible local
and Clemson University.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Jeremiah Trotter Junior.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Hi, rot How are you, buddy? Guys? Good you guys
to get up on that baby, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
And just bringing a little close to that thing. First
of all, thank you for coming. It is never easy
to come after a loss, and we're not going to
dwell on yesterday, but thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
We appreciate you very much coming.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And it's by weeks and a lot of guys get
the heck out of town, although this is your town,
so you are the first person who ever came to
chickens and pizza. One of these said they had to
use the restroom for the shower and knew where it
was already because you've been in here.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, I'm very familiar with a you know what a
restaurant is in this place.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
So so we love chickens and pizza and just a
couple of things that happened yesterday, and then we're going
to get into your background and the whole history of
growing up as the son of an eagle's legend and
then becoming an eagle yourself and all the great stuff
in between. But you got to touch a football yesterday. Yeah,
that is a rarity. So you know, there weren't a

(04:47):
lot of bright spots, but you recovered a fumble and
a punt that was a very big play or could
have been a big place at the time.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, those things save possession.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
We had a few little botches on the punt on
the punt team, amongst other things.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
So talk about that.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
As you're the your assignment is to block and then
all of a sudden, whoops, here it is the go ahead.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, during the player it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
I was blocking my guy I honestly didn't see if
the ball was touched by uh coop or not, so
I wasn't show over as a fumble. But I was
blocking my guy and all here is the crowd roar,
start roaring, and usually when that happened and you're on putt,
that means something happen. Uh So I looked up and
I saw, you know, the Tampa Bay players. They were
swarming it pretty fast like they're about to grab it,
like it was a fumble.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
So I just it got caught a nice bounce, so
it was an easy catch.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
I just picked it up make sure we could, you know,
get out of that half at a half time with
you know, having something a disaster happened. So I picked
it up, and I was kind of like, oh man,
I forgot to get down.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I gotta tell you, you exhibited pretty good hints. But
I went and checked some statistics. It is rare, and
it had to be like, WHOA, there's a football, but
your father, who had an unbelievable career and and was
amongst amongst the legends of this franchise and Pro Bowls
and All Pros, he only recovered his whole guess how
many recovered his whole NFL career.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Honestly, what one too?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
So he recovered three, but that's a long career. Here
you are in game four and you already got one recovery.
So we're gonna be dad and that.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
But trut did have an I t for a touchdown
against the Cowboys made if I recall correctly.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Dave saw every moment of your father's career.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I've been with the Eagles, yeah, yeah, since that. So
Trot was drafted in ninety eight by Ray Rhodes. I started, Wow,
we started with Eagles Digest in nineteen eighty nine, and
then I joined the organization in nineteen ninety seven. So
and then when Jeremiah went into the Eagles Hall of Fame,

(06:39):
I was the one who with the MC of the ceremony,
and you know, look, I'm just I'm just great.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
I'm I think it's an indication of how old I am.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Number one, but I'm just so it's so interesting your
story of of making it to this point and with
a bright future ahead of you where you know, Jeremiah,
a lot of kids have trouble living in the shadow
of a legend, and any thoughts on that for you.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
For me.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
You know, growing up, I never had that that mindset
of I got to live up to the you know,
live up to the legacy.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
He's leaving and and all that.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
I mean he always taught me or told me and
my brothers just considered, you know, we both were playing
to say sport as him.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Uh, you know, just be your own be your own player.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
You know we're very different and you know, personality is
different than our our style of play. And he said,
you know, we don't have anything that we have to
be worried about. He's about to love us either way.
If we didn't play football, he's gonna love us and
be proud of us. So he always, you know, made
sure that we didn't feel.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Like we had a burden on our shoulders playing a
game and we could just go out there and play free.
I knew Tammy very well. Also, your mother.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Coming home after a day at work, was your pops
Did he bring work home with him?

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Did he did he talk football with you when you
were a kid. Uh? Now, you know when he got
got home.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
He always even after loss, if he had tough loss
or you know just you know hard work fall, you know, practice,
you know, getting better, he always said, you try to
come home and you know, spend time with the family
and leave that you know, work at work.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
And that's one of the things that you know, he
told me.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Just growing up and now being in this position, you know,
just you know, when you come home, try to you know,
forget about football, be around.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
You know, one day.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
I'll have my own family, I have kids, so you know,
just just you know, understanding that, you know, when you
come home, spend time with your family, not don't be
you know, after a lost, tough loss, don't be coming
home and like bringing work home with you.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Let's talk about a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
First of all, you have the shame name as your
father at the junior so he's sitting there calling you
Jeremiah David, and you called your father Trot.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
What do you go by for me?

Speaker 6 (08:41):
You know, friends, most of my friends they go they
go straight to Trot. They do that for my brother,
his friends they call him Trot. Everybody called my dad Trot.
Now now it's confusing.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Now in the house of my mom, you know, she
would always say, you know, little Jeremiah or something like that.
You know, my dad he said, Jeremiah, No, and he's
not talking about himself, but yeah, he tried Jremiah, little Jeremiah.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
A lot of different things would have changed when he
was mad at you.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Noah. Yeah, maybe raised in the tone of voice, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I will say also, you know, knowing your father not well,
but I've known him a lot over the years, and
he's one of those guys who is very, very humble
and down to earth. He was a man of this community.
Had his car washes and and he would have been
out there and you would have never known he was
an Egle star player the way he acted and treated people.
So you've got raised by that. But you also got
to see your father who knew everybody knew. So what

(09:38):
was that like? And and I even want to talk
about you know, do you remember that Hall of Fame
induction ceremony?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah, I definitely remember the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
I was I think around like.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Ten, Yeah, you were around ten at the time, did
I hear you correctly? When he walked up, seels like
who was that? I am seeing it?

Speaker 6 (09:58):
But it was a pretty cool moment for me. Uh,
you know, brought me and my brother on in the
field with him to stand out there. Amazing, you know,
just just seeing it, like all that hard work he
put in during his career, you know, uh be celebrated Jeremia.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
When did you fall in love with the game of football? Man?

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Ever since I started, you know playing, which was which
was one age I started playing at the age of five,
I was. I went, I would have played a year earlier,
but they said I was too young, so I had
to wait a year, and I was Actually my dad
told me. I don't remember too much, but my dad
told him. I was pretty upset, you know, prime because
I couldn't play out there. But I waited a year
and it's and then you know, went out there and

(10:35):
it was you know, from that point on, it was great,
you know, just loving the game of football, run out,
running around, you know, making play other sports. I played
a little bit of baseball like t ball when I
was real young, but football and basketball I played up
until high school.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Now did you take dad to the whole in in basketball?
What age did you beat your pops in basketball?

Speaker 6 (10:57):
I'd probably say around around that age where he was retired,
and you know, he could have really moved too much. Yea,
his knees were a little bit once again to that point.
You know, I was, I was able to get him.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's funny on that because my son Tucker is behind us,
and I remember clearly the first time he beat me,
and I knew I'd never beat him again. Although your
father had to be a tough guy to play against.
He was a wide body, physical and he and competitive
as hell.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
So he wasn't ever going to give into you.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
Oh yeah, no, very competitive. Uh you know, we had
some you know, some battles. He you know, actually you
try to move with me. But I give I give
him his props. Even though he's a big guy. You know,
you think he might be found a lot. He actually
tried to fly to his feet and move around, lew
his feet and played really good defense.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
He was so quick footed at his songs and an
incredible guy as a middle linebacker. And then you see,
I got a little Phillies logoing today because you mentioned baseball.
We had a little rough Damn, you're usually an Eagle stuff.
It wasn't like turning on the Eagles betting means. But
we are now in what's red October starting tomorrow for
the Phillies and hopefully a really good playoff run coming up,
so you know this is this is one of those
things where the teams all jump on board together.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
It seems like there's a swell of positivity in Philadelphia
when the teams. The teams all do well together and
root for each other. So hopefully we have a great
fall coming up.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, I mean, and it's a great sports environment. Jeremiy
When you were a kid, did you play other positions?
Were you always a linebacker? Did did Jeremiah your pop's
ever coach you?

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Uh? I put a little bit of a like full
bat sass running back growing up? Really when uh? You
know in middle school you know that that middle league,
I was playing fullback, but there's more like a running
back in our offense. We played ran in like a
wing tea. So I was getting the ball good amount blocking.
I really loved it. But linebacker, you know that was
that was my my call. Or if you'd rather be

(12:38):
the hitty or the hitter than the hit most deit,
I know the mindset. I had to try to tackle people,
so I'd rather do that than receiver from every.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well, were you born with that physical nature? Did you
develop it? How did you kind of just enjoy being
so physical? You know, I always hear his stories.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
You know, my my parents and my dad, you know,
told me about growing up how knew I was gonna
be tough and like the type of mindset. I don't
remember too much, but you know, if I was like
running around playing around, maybe I you know, felt stretched
at my knee or I got like a big hut cut.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
You know, I'll get it.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
I'll get it passed up and be right back out
there run around and playing. Uh So, my dad always
told me that from a young age, I was showing
the signs of toughness. And one night and I feel
like that really just carried over into my football club.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
You cannot teach that stuff. And that's why your father's
probably looking at it a lot of times. You know,
your father was very successful. You didn't grow up the
same way. I'm sure that he did, and so a
lot of a lot of kids become soft. And he
probably loved the fact that, hey, my kid naturally has
some of that text is tough and that your father had.
But I mean, just we're gonna talk a lot about

(13:43):
it's a great great Philadelphia father's son story, but talk
about your mother and and and obviously it's so sad
that she's no longer with us, But talk about the
influence she was in your life and what she meets
you even now.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
No, Yeah, my mom was a really big influence in
my life really, you know, plays a big part of
the main I today, just everything that she's instilled in me,
as far as you know, the lessons and teaching me
how to you know, uh, you know, be a strong
Christian man. That was a big thing, you know from
her and my dad as well, you know, making sure
that you know, God was a big part of our

(14:15):
family and a part of my life. And I feel
like that's really you know, when when I lost her,
her instilling that into in me and being you know
strong in my faith really helped me, you know, get
through that time, help my family get through that time.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
But she's a big part of you know why I'm
here today, and.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
You know I really wanted to, you know, make it
because not only was this my dream to play at
this level, but you know, this was a dream that
you know, she was a you know, big, big, you know, big.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Part of her dream and what she wanted for me
as well.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
That's powerful and I feel that and I feel the
presence even as you speak of her and all the
best with that, and then just I know, do you
take her with you?

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'm sure everywhere you go and feel her with.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
And she passed during your college years. My mother also
passed during my college. He's very formative. When you lose
your mother, you never forget the love, You never forget
all the lessons that she taught you. I remember that
for me, And this is not about it, but as
she was dying, she called me in and she said, Dave,
I'll never worry about you. You always you're surrounding yourself

(15:12):
with the right people. I and I credit that those
people with helping me get through it. Did you find
that in your life that your friends, your teammates at Clemson, whatever,
they were the other ones who really.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Helped you get through that? Mostly?

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Definitely, I had a very large support group of from friends, family, teammates.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
You know, it really meant a lot. You know, my
teammates and high school teammates, Clemson teammates, they actually showed
it up to her funeral. They took they took a
day off from practice. Coachwene you know, bought a flight,
brought a bus and brought them down there. And that
really meant a lot to me, you know, just seeing
them up there, you know, supporting me, and uh you know,
I you know now you know not only God, but

(15:50):
you know, having friends, family, you know, support me like
that really helps you get through things like that.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Amen, Rip Tammy, but I know she's with you all
the way. And let's go back to your upbringing here
in this area and you wound up playing for what
is an incredible high school football powerhouse in Saint Joseph Prepp.
So talk about how that all came about. And David
answered me for if you ever played for your father,
but I know he coached that team is where he

(16:15):
was just like, oh didn't I should coach there? So,
so talk about how do you get to Saint Joe's Prepp,
How your South Jersey kid, your father's from Texas and
so to talk about that whole background and how that
all happened and obviously the influencer had in your career
in life.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yeah, you know, it really meant a lot to me
being able to go to the school like that and
you know the way that developed me. But you know,
they actually talked to me a little bit coming out
of eighth grade years. So going about to going to
be a freshman high school. And I don't know how
they found out about me, but you know they came
to some of my getting my game.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Where had you played up to that point? Said again,
be up to going into high school? Where had you played?

Speaker 6 (16:53):
I only played. I played Lumberton football, you know, right
around the corner from my house.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
But uh, you know I was I was really good.
You know, uh had a great team.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
There are a lot of winning but they knew, you know,
come to some of my games watching, Like the coaches
uh invited me to you know, come out and watch
some of their games, and I loved it. The first
game I watched was you know DeAndre Swift. He was
he was out there running around making plays and he
was a baller. I they saw like not just you know,
the great players that they had there, but they ran
their program very professionally as far as to play calling

(17:24):
and just everything that they did. So that really, uh
you know, excided me to be there to go there
because not only did they have a great football, but
academic wise, I was gonna be getting the top education
I couldn't around the area.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
So you know, it was just great. Once I got there.
I loved it, and they really God love me as
a as a player, a man, student athlete. So it
was great.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's amazing when you mentioned, you know, you're you're they're
probably his neath.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Great to watching DeAndre Swift, who obviously was a superstar
player there, superstar college player, first round pick in the NFL,
wound up here. Unfortunately not your teammate didn't stick around
long enough for night that happened. But but you do
have some guys you played with in high school, most
notably Marvin Harrison.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Junior, another junior who had a legacy to file. What's
your relationship with him or was it like watching him
in high school? And this guy who's an incredible, incredible talent.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
Yeah, no, you know, ma, he's one of my guys,
you know, still keep in touch, uh, you know, you know,
supporting one another, watching each other's games, you know, And
it really doesn't surprise me he's he's playing at the
level and at the caliber that he is right now,
because I you know, I know the way he worked
throughout high school after practice, you know, just going back
and forth, you know, against each other. I actually covered

(18:34):
him a little bit like we'd have seven on seven practices,
So we.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Go one on one.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
I probably wouldn't be able to get him. Now he's
definitely you know, holing these skills. But you know, we
used to go back and forth. He just he just
really worked hard, uh, you know, day in and day out.
And I knew, you know, once he got his opportunity,
opportunity at Ohio State, he was is going to be
you know, take off from there.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
What's at Saint Jeg's Prep. Did you get a sense
that this is how a college program it is? If
this is gonna be really good training for the NFL?
Tod the NFL even enter your mind at that point,
like what you're playing. You're playing at such a level
where you're traveling and you're playing all these great programs
around the country as if it is a college. It's

(19:14):
literally a college prep for football academics there. Did you
feel like you're on the path to the pros at
that point?

Speaker 5 (19:20):
For me, I was my freshman year high school. I
was just thinking about this playing football.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
Honestly, I wasn't even thinking about college at that point,
but that thought came into my mind when I got
my first After my freshman year, I got my first
offer from uh, I think it was it was either
Rutgers or Temple, and I was like, oh, it's not Lake.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
You know, you got type of Rutgers and you turned
them both down, come on home.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
You know.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I was very excited about that, like they are number
one on my list. And then some other schools started
coming around. I never they never gotten it, never off
from me. But uh, you know I think they were
too good for me. I wasn't good enough for them.
But but uh yeah, you know I wasn't really thinking
about too much until I got that first offer, and
you know, once I did it, it started, you know,

(20:05):
going through my mind.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
But I really saying for me, my mindset is always on,
you know, having.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
My feet planning at where they are, and I was
just kind of focused on, you know, make sure I
was become the best player I could be before I
even got to college. And I just feel like that,
you know, San Jose Prep really helped me develop myself
as a player.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
Amazing.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's an amazing The only thing, the only the last
thing I'll say about Saint Joe's Prep is a little
bit you might not like it. They just shouldn't be
playing in the p I double a staffs against like Coachville.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
It's like it's not fair. Is there just not enough competition?
I mean that's for me, you know when I was there.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
We can't we can't control that.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
I mean, we're we're just we're just we're.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Just their kids having fun playing for ye Yeah, we're
playing against whoever lines up across from us, and you
know whoever that is, it's just gonna have to get
the work.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
We're big friends with Tim, your head coach at Rokers.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, he's great.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
He was EOC when you first got there and then
took over for Game and Ponte when he departed for Temple.
He's he's actually a duke now. Yeah, so round up
at DCC somehow. Also, but your.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Father was part of the coaching staff, so, uh did
you have to.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Get them job?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
How?

Speaker 3 (21:11):
I mean that whole that whole thing is phenomenal and
I can't imagine how great it must have been to
be coached by him.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
No, yeah, it's definitely really cool, you know, uh, just
being there at practice.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
He always give me tips, you know, uh, and not
just you know me, he'd always also try to pour
into my teammates, the other linebackers, uh, you know, help
out with the defensive team a little bit, justiud it.
He was really more like you know, this assistant, you know,
just there in the background, trying to give out help,
you know when asked, and uh, you know, most of all,
just you know, just being you know, at the games
and and coach me up.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
You know, really helped me improve myself as a player.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
I feel like, you know, gave asked you the question
when you realize you could be an NFL player or pro.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Did your father ever tell you, hey, you can do
this at the highest level.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Uh No, he definitely always said told me, me and
me and my brother dad, uh, just saying that we
had everything we needed, all the tools. Really just think
came down to, you know, making sure you you know,
get Lord to God, trust in God. But also you know,
just put into work, do that. You know, there's no
reason why you shouldn't be able to make it to
the next level. No, but for me, I was always

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you know, I would say you know, yeah, yes sir,
and uh, you know listen. But I still was, you
know this shocked and excited you know by when I
got that call from the Eagles be able to actually
make it to the next level and actually happened.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Oh we'll get to that.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, kind of the last one of wrapping up college
or the high school world. Kids can be really mean
to each other. Did you ever have conflicts because you
were Jeremiah Trotter junior?

Speaker 5 (22:41):
Anybody ever say.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh, you're only here?

Speaker 5 (22:43):
Could your drot sun or like ever.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Try to get up here, you know, cause some sort
of friction between you and a person, Oh and starts
something cauld you're Jeremia Trotter junior.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Oh yeah, you know all even in little little league.
You know there's parents, players that you.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Know caused that. But for me, I was, uh, you know,
how to shut it out, you know, I mean getting
mad at him, isn't is this gonna be giving them
what they want? And that's the same thing you know.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
I feel like a lot of players have to deal
with now, even if they're not you know, NFL player's son,
because you know, people getting on them. If you give
a reaction, you're doing what they want. So I just
had to have you know, a strong mentality, strong mindset,
you know, and just you know, understanding the type of
ability that you know, I was blessed with.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
All right, we're gonna have to take a break.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
But that segues into where I want to pick up
when you come back, because it's sort of shutting out,
shutting out the noise, the media, and you you learn
to do it from a very very young lage and
obviously you know, not the easiest weeks right now or
at least days for your team and how you deal
with that kind of stuff. But just great talking about
your formative years here in this area, Saint Joseph Prep

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that led to you ultimately to Clench Center ultimately, and
Phil if he goes.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
When we will go through Lumberton Little League football, shout
out to Lumberton. Who knew any other? Any other who's
other name another great player from Lumberton football, anybody in
the history of Lumberton.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
For one, I'll probably say one of my best friends,
Michael Miller. He's a really good player. But we had
a lot of dogs in our teamv you know, maybe
we could have done it, but we did a little
bit of recruiting around the area to make sure we
got some players get it.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Get over there to make sure we were winning.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
But anybody play college.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
I was the only one that made it at the
big time D one college. But high school was when
I really you know, got a lot of players, talent players.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
That was.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
That's a long ride of Saint Use's prepped from there.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Uh got too bad only like thirty minutes eat. That
is our Jersey football, right, It's it's a hotbed has
been for years. All right.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
We started the early years of Jeremiah Trajedy.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
We're going to take him to Clemson and ultimately back
to Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
We are the All Pro Philly Players Shell.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I'm Gerald, called my co host Dave Berero and our
special special guests.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Jeremiah tried to Junior stick around. We will be back.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
You're listening to Fox Sports to Gambler one or two
point five FM.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Hurt Let's part the Little Run, Hurt, Foller, Hurts, stops, Hurt, fires.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Candle and the Eagles Tawn. Welcome back to the All
Pro Philly Players Show.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
A J.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Brown has a new ruling. If you were paying to.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Your peturopie the third Pete. Little Pete had tell us
that that was coming, but he might not name.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
It was A J.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Brown. I don't know if he don't think so.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
That is now the men.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
You hear a chicken try to try to craft rise
some something like a little little punch.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
What we if he were here, we had tackle you
know something well, and we will bring that up to him.
But so AJ's got his own wing here. Jeremiah is
going to try some wings later. He wasn't quite ready
to experiment, so he's going with what he knows.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
One want to make sure you know, I knew what
I was getting before I tried it.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
And and your father that you said, likes those cheese
steaks here, chickens and pizza and adel little pepperoni, So
I mean he's a he's a veteran chickens and pizza
as well. And we appreciate Pete Cherochi his son, Pete,
the third little Pete who comes here, and we'd appreciate
them having us Pete and Pete.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Pete and Anthony, his other son went to well got
two other sons made the trip to Tampa this weekend.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Had a great time hanging out with them.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
What a what a great road trip except for the game,
but anyway, we'll talk a little more about that.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
But here it is so great in here, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Like, oh, you know It's a great vibe in here,
you know, just seeing the fans interacting with everybody.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Are you a sports fan? Oh yeah, yeah you are
you a sport? You watch football? Oh yeah yeah, I
watched you watch other sports. I watch a little bit
of basketball. I'm I'm a Lebron fan. I'd probably say, uh, so,
wherever he goes, I always you know, that's where I went.
My dad's a big Lebron fan too.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
So let me let me set to stage here and
follow up on that. So we are here chickens and
pizza and Welton, New Jersey. Still plenty of time to
come and join us, and it's Dave Spenero, Gerald Colton
along with Jeremiah Trotted Junior or the Philadelphia Eagles and
and really having some fun talking about his history here
and what led him, uh to Clemson. It's going to
come up and then back to the Philadelphia Eagles. We

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are here every Monday on the All Pro Philly Players
Show on Fox Sports a game, So come join us
or keep tuning in. That was really interesting that you
made reference just now to Lebron James. We talked about
sort of the low key way your father raised you
and obviously instilled so much in you and thought you
could make it, but didn't push you. And now you've
got Lebron James, who you know, Look, he's in the

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argument for the goat number one.

Speaker 8 (27:32):
You go Jordan or you go with lebronn okay, And
I'm well And that's the whole difference of being And frankly,
when you put together the entire body.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Of work of Lebron James, it's absolutely incredible and it
is not over yet and he is still playing at
the highest level as he it's forty. It's incredible. But now,
just like you have the namesake of a very famous
successful father, Lebron James junior, Bronnie James. So and he
crossed my mind when you were talking about how your

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father didn't put.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Pressure on you the same sort of way.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
What do you think of what's going on with Bronnie
and Lebron James.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Now, I think they have the same situation.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
You know, I actually followed follow Brownie games even you know,
growing up and even before he got to the NBA.
And I feel like he's got the same mindset. You know,
he's always things. You know, people are saying about him
even when he were that usc and playing if he
didn't have a good game. But I feel like outside
looking in, it looks like he just tunes it out.
And I feel like that's great. And I feel like,
you know, lebron his dad, he does a great job

(28:31):
of making sure, you know, he understands that, you know,
you don't have anything to live up to, you know,
to be your own player, be you. And I feel like,
you know, Brownie really you know, uh implements that.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
And what And you mentioned earlier that you know, you've
you've had people try to gold you into a reaction.
I think Bronnie's done a great job keeping his focus
not taking a bite, you know, not taking a bite
out of the the people trying to.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Cause a reaction. And I wonder why people just jealous
or are just people? Are people just haters?

Speaker 6 (29:05):
I mean, I feel like it could it could just
be you know, just just like what you were saying,
people are haters.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
But maybe it's just you know, people like to compare.

Speaker 6 (29:13):
And you know, when you see somebody you know has
accomplished as you know Lebron and you kind of you know,
just hoping with that, you know, maybe their son is
gonna be like that, and you don't see that.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Maybe you're you're the critical of it, but h you know,
you just don't really know.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I personally, by the way, Dave and I don't want
to cast as persons. Jeremia is such a nice young
man that he doesn't want to call people haters. I've
been around a lot longer people are haters, And I
see it one of Lebron James, because here's a guy
who's in this spots spotlight and not just locally and
it's sort of almost international spotlight since he was thirteen
or fourteen years old. He's been there for over twenty

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five years, since he was a kid, and he has
he has.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Carried himself so incredibly. He's a chief success way beyond.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
You could have ever hoped for any He's still doing,
is still hungry and still somehow kept his son like
humble and that that is so impossible.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And yet people will always bad mouth the root against.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
So yeah, I mean, and then with the pressure that
you have gone through, I can't imagine you. And then
Michael Jordan had his son and like Scotti, Pippen's kid
plays basketball like there is a It is a bit
of a different life, is it not.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
No, definitely, I feel like it's it's different. You know,
you always got that spotlight on you. Uh, you know,
always can be you know, compared or contractity. There's always
two sides. If you're doing well, it's because oh, you
should be doing that, or if you're doing bad, is like,
oh you should you should be doing this because you
know you're of you know, your your father. But uh,
you know, I feel like when you're in that situation

(30:43):
that you just gotta tone it out and play your game,
you know, just trusting the work that you put in.
Uh and at the end of the day, you know,
trusting good That's really what it comes down to. But
even you know, if you if you know you're not
in that situation, you're gonna have people that are criticize
in you.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
So you just can't. You can't you you know, just
you know, if you hear it, you just ready to
go out in that in one year here and out
the other.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
So Dave, you spend so much time with his father,
Jeremiah Trotter, it's it's it's really interesting to sit next
to this young man raised in South Jersey, in the
Philadelphia and hear or how much you sound like your
father from Texas still, you know, but he.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Doesn't have to trot laugh, cackle, don't work. Let's pick
up on the on the Jeremi Trotter Junior store. You
get your you start the recruiting process. Ultimately after you
consider Temple and Rutgers. How many schools offered you At
the end of my recruiting process.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
I think I had like twenty four, twenty five something
like that, but uh, Clinton would ended up being my
biggest offer, and I committed to them pretty early just because,
you know, I feel like when I told my visit.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
There, you know, everything that how it laid out, it
was it was the right place for me, right there
for me, and you know, I feel like, ultimately, you know,
God blessed me to have a great career there. And
then were you a four star? Five star? What were what?
But how do they determine that?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Did you do?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
You know?

Speaker 5 (32:02):
I'm not sure that they determined it.

Speaker 6 (32:04):
I started off I was, you know, no stars really
maybe like one star, but as I got the Clemson offer,
they bumped it up the four And as of the performances,
I think like some ESPN three hundred games. So I
think that that bumped it up. But uh, for me,
I wasn't really focused on that. I never went to
camp or anything. I just you know, just explainball.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I was a negative one star recruit and I'm still
waiting for my first offer. But anyway, what ultimately he said, Yeah,
you're your biggest offer, and obviously we're in the nil world.
I want to come back to that also, But what
ultimately was the real thing that pushed you over the top?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Or Clemson and personally.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Having been to Clemson, South Carolina and there for football games.
What a fabulous place too, I would think go to
school and to spend those those years there. So what
about it and what really caught you? Who did they
beat out? Who were the closest competitors? U.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
What you know did it for me was.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
They they took a chance on me going through my recruitment.
It's kind of how you know it went for my combine.
Just like you know, I was an undersized I'm an
undersized linebacker. Uh you know, teams you know, really questioned
me that with that, you know they were questioning, you know,
nobody's gonna be able to do it at that level.
Just you know with my size. But Clemson, they brought
me to a camp, uh you know, evaluated me.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
I did.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
I bawled out, you know, whether it's you know, drills
covering one on one and you know, they loved me
on tape and they took a chance on me.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
You know, they they didn't they don't do like uh
at Clemson. At Clemson, at their camp, they them big
on not doing uh like forty yard dashes five, five,
ten fives like so you'll see us some other college camps.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
They really try to you know, evaluate you as a
football player. And so they took a chance on me.
And I really appreciate them, appreciate them to.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
That and that meant a lot to me. And uh,
you know, I really love that.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
And then also you know, just Clempton has so many
other pluses that you know went into it as well,
but for me that.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
I feel like that was the biggest one.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Now, your recruitment took place just before the nil world
opened up. So now what do you think Jeremiah tried
to have been offered to go to school? You say
the biggest offer, but now it would have been real dollars.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
I feel like, Uh, for me, I just the way
that you know, our debt my dad raised both me
and my brother. We would have still I still would
have went to the players that was right for me.
Now if I was paying the most, uh, because at
the end of the day, the goal is and you know,
of course, you know, making nil is great. Uh, you know,
it's and it's really great that I'm really happy no
players are able to do that, But it's to make

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it to the next level.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
You know, you want to be able to make it
to that level. And that's when I feel like you're
really getting paid.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
But but what do you think impact it will have
on college sports in general? Because one of the things
that I look back on and I kind of liked
it actually was the fact that when I was in college,
if I had five dollars in my pocket, and it's
a little before your time, but I can make that
last a while, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
And now a lot of these young.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Men are going to have hundreds of thousands, if not
millions of dollars while they're in their colleges.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Do you think that will have any kind of negative
impact or effect?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
And and and I really thought the beauty of college
or something everyone's at the same stage of life and
no one's got money yet and all that stuff. Do
you think it will affect it and either positively or negative?

Speaker 5 (35:13):
But I feel like it can.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
But you know, at the end of the day, I think, uh,
you know, just allowing the players to bit to have
that opportuneen to make money off their name, name and image, Uh,
is being there. That's that's I feel like that's the
best part about it. And at the end of the day,
I feel like, you know, that can help. What can
help with that stuff like that is you know, implementing
you know, uh, you know, courses or something like within

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the football team, you know, teaching your players how to
speak spart with their money, yep, how to be responsible
with that. And I'm sure there's a lot of parents
in their lives too that you know, are trying to
teach them how to be smart and everything and and
not just go and just blow it. And you know,
I feel like, you know, for me and that being
at Clemson, that was a big part of you know,
what they implemented and making sure that we were all
financially responsible and you know, new I had to go about,

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you know, getting the extra money.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
How did the football go at Clinton.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Jeremiah, how what was the progression to playing time, success
and then ultimately the decision to to come to the NFL.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Yeah. For me, my freshman year, it was really you know,
I was on special teams. They didn't redshirt me.

Speaker 6 (36:19):
They wanted me to be you know, learn from the
veteran guys, being all the meetings, travel with the team,
and really to see how everything would go. But I was,
I was on special teams, and I was doing good,
you know, just you know, working hard, trying to just
do what I can to you know, help the team.
My sophomore year, I was able to you know, compete
for the starting job and ended up starting.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
Had that was really I felt like my breakout year.
You know, I had a really good year. And then
I went into my junior year had had another really
good year. You know, I thank God for and I
feel like after that that third year, I was, I
was prepared and I was ready to you know take
you know, go to that next level.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
And I was, you know, just had the opportunity to
be able to you know, before I know it, I'm
back home and feel it.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
So this is freshman year all over again.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah, you know this is like freshman year, you know,
just trying to do whatever I can, making the most
of any opportunity I get, you know, ultimately, just trying to,
you know, just be that guy that you know shows
the veterans that you know, I'm gonna put, you know,
my effort in everything I do and give you one
hundred and ten percent.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
It can be a distraction coming back to your hometown.
What has it been like for you with friends, with
family hitting you up for tickets, wanting a piece of
you want in your time?

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Has it been tough?

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
For me?

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Not really.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
I mean I had my you know experience from it,
you know, with my dad, and you know, just you know,
trying to you know, being in my corner, helping me out.
But you know, I've got a lot of friends and family.
As far as friends, a lot of my friends they
play football. They understand, they support, but you know they're
not also just you know, hey, can I get this?

Speaker 5 (37:54):
Can I get that? And I really appreciate them for that.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
And then as far as family, they've been through it
with my dad, so they understand how it can be. Uh,
you know, I'm playing at this level and you know
I love them all, you know, for just being understanding
and but you know also still you know, supporting, you know,
you know, I'll get tickets for them to come to
games and everything.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
But they all understand, you know.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
How it is playing at this level. Yeah, you get
two free ones and that's it. Got it by the
rest and they're expensive.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, and he knows it could cost you a lot
of money if you take it and try to take
care everybody. It's nothing wrong with second they I'll get
you the tickets you just got to pay for. But
at least that you hit that second contract. But last
week in this seed and we're so appreciative of all
you you guys, your teammates that come out and then
join us here chickens and pizza Marlton. But but we
Thomas Booker, Thomas Booker went to Stanford. So we the

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big Stanford Clemson game and he told me how to
make a bet with you. Now, obviously Clemson crushed them
this weekend, and I asked him, I said, well, how
many points is jere am I going to give you?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Goes, I don't know anything of East. You took advantage
of that Stanford guy. He came to me.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
I tried to tried to tell.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
I was like, he came to me, you know, he's
talking about the Stanford game, and he was like, hey,
you know, hey, we got we got Stanford.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
You know that's gonna be a tough one.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
I was like, I don't know, man, Clympson has been
the last two games, our offense was going off, our
defense has been going off.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
I don't know if you'll be able to get us.
And uh, you know, it was. It was a pretty
good game at first, you know, but then it ended
up turning ugly towards that third and fourth quarter. But uh,
you know, Book is my guy.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Though he's phenomenal. We love spending the time with him.
But it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Because Stanford, whoever scheduled Clemson, you opened your season with
Georgia tough opener, and but have been crushing it ever since.
And now with the expanded playoff format, it kind of
looks like they got a real good shot to get there.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
Yeah, you know, that season opener, it definitely was a
tough one, but you know, it's different against a very
good Georgia team. But you know, I'm happy how you know,
the team bounced back and it really shows you know
that all in mindset that you know his priests, you
know us said when I was there, and uh, I know,
I still know guys on the team. I know the
type of the way they through their mindset is how

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they're being coached. And I knew that they were going
to bounce back and you know, you know, just keep
a pushing.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
So I wonder Saturday night were you watching? Was it
in the team meal room Alabama Georgia? Was it just
like half the team there talking smack back and forth.
Four hour game, incredible football game.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Did you watch it? Oh? Yeah, I definitely watched it.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
I was stalking a little bit of smack to the
Georgia that we've got a lot of Georgia guys on
the team.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Now.

Speaker 6 (40:28):
I couldn't talk smack after the Clempson Georgia one, but
I was like, we're talking about the president right now.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
So I thank you.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Guys are not looking too good, but I was very surprised,
you know, how they fall back. I feel like I
really showed the mentality of the team that ended up
turned into a really good game.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
You know, it's it's kind of circling back to college football.
You have to play three years in football. At least
be in college for three years before you can turn pro. Clearly,
being physically, you know, mature, you can't come to the NFL.
But to see a seventeen year old kid, oh yeah,
it is unbelievable. Do you think when you were seventeen
eighteen nineteen you were ready physically for the NFL?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (41:05):
Not for me, No, definitely not. You know, I came
in my freshman year in college. Even if I wasn't seventeen,
but I still would have been like two fifteen. I
came into college to two fifteen, I would have been
able to go to a league from then.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
All right, we have to upfortuate to take a break,
just just some my note by the way, because I
followed your career from the outside, I thought you might
wind up as a safety.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Was that ever a thought?

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
For me?

Speaker 5 (41:26):
No, not really.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
I mean I always played linebacker my whole career, but
it never ended up just working out that. You know,
I continue to put on muscle, put on weight, so
I could play it a stale play at the position.
But I guess if I didn't grow to be you know,
the side that I am, you know, that's manageable. To
be able to play the position and actually reasonable that
I probably would have, you know, played a different place.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
You would have found a way to get on the
field some way, somehow, even kicking the ball. Yeah, do
you remember my guy, did you ever know Luke Acres
growing up? Because David David was like client David Acres.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Did you ever Oh?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you guys were you guys were
sons of what wound up being Eagles Hall favors and
guys who were really close and the fellow Christians and
really loved each other. So anyway, we got to take
our last break of the show. This flies by, and
when we come back, it's going to be the tear
jerky parton what we talked about Timmy earlier, and that's
going to be draft Ding Philadelphia and dream Come True.

(42:18):
So you are listening to the All Pro Philly Show.
Gerald Colton, Daves Spadero, and Jeremiah Trotter Junior Live from
Chickens to Pizza.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Marlton New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Come back with the final segment and Jeremiah step back
to Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Welcome back to the All Pro philip Players Show, Live
from Chicken Pizza. Marlton New Jersey. I'm Jermany Culton, my.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Co host, Eagles Insider Daves Federa, and our very special
I guess Jeremiah Trotter Junior, were coming down the home stretches.
You play here at the time keeps on slipping all
skeep Miller action background, and time has slipped by really quickly.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
But there's something I really want to hit before we
let you get out of here. Jeremiah. We appreciate you
being here so.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Much, and that is you so Saint jos Prepper Lumberton,
the Saint Jose Prep, the great upbringing from your father,
Jeremiah Trotter, Eagles legend, Eagles Hall Flamer, you have a
great college career, and that decision go pro.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
So take us through that pre draft workout to Combine
and then drafting.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Yeah, for me, it was it was all kind of
like a blur, and you know, just go through the process.
I still couldn't believe it, you know at the time,
and you know, going through the pro day and the
actually being actually being at the Combine, you know, I
just truly a blessing.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
I just thank God every single day for that opportunity.
And then you know, the draft came you know, uh
you know went and went by, you know, round one, two, three, four.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
What were you expecting and what did you heart? Because
it's all miss information. You never really know.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Uh for me, you know, I never knew what to expect,
you know, even going into the draft.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
You know, uh, you always you're hearing you know, uh,
second round, third round, but you when it comes to
the draft, you never really know.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
And ended up being fifth round for me.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
When I got the call, I was at my.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Brother's spring game, you know, is supporting him, you know,
had the game or had the draft on my on
my lap while I'm watching the game. And then after
the spring game we were heading back to the car.
I ended up getting a call and uh when I
answered it, you know it was it was Howard So
who you knew? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I already knew.

(44:40):
And you know I was talking on the phone with him,
you know, thanking him. Uh, you know, it's very grateful,
and I told I, you know, told my dad, you know,
I'm staying home. Uh you know, you know, shed some
tears and you know we were just you know, celebrating.
I was with some of my uncles too, so you know,
it was it was just it was just a great
time and I was just very grateful.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
And I know even mister Lorie got on the phone
and and everything, and that's gotta be just absolutely incredible
growing up in this area and your dreamcomes true and
it's a filled out the Eagle. Did you want to
be an Eagle or you didn't really care who at
that point drafted?

Speaker 5 (45:13):
You know?

Speaker 6 (45:14):
For me, yeah, it was really wherever, you know, whatever
team took me, I was gonna be happy, you know it.
You know, it's just being having that opportunity to play
at the next level I was. I was grateful for it,
but you know, it.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
Made it even better and even more special that you know,
I was playing for a team I'm already a fan of,
I already loved, and you know, even going to the draft, Bros,
I was like, if I go to a team other
than the Egle, I'm like, how am I going to
support the Eagles? You know, if I'm playing for this
other team? But you know, it worked out well.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
So when it happens, Jeremy, do you immediately look at
the you know website and look at the depth chart
and find out what this what the coaching scheme is
all about the linebacker coaching. You kind of do all
your research right away because everything happened so fast after that.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
You know, for me, I kind of I looked at
really this, you know, the person or the coordinate that
I was coming in because I know we they had
to change. I just want to see you know, just
like where you know, kind of steaming in and everything
like that.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
But other than that, I really was just you know,
making sure I got back to training ready for and
was ready to go for once a.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
You know, I was signed for me to report and everything.
You handled the media so very well. Did you have
training in your life with the media. Uh, you know
I did at Clemson a little bit.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
But also my dad made sure me and my brother
we knew how to you know, answer questions and how
to you know, conduct ourselves when you know, talking to
the media. Uh you know, you come up with some questions,
you know, uh, whatever it was, and then we had
to act like we're talking to a reporter or something.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
So that was just something that was cool.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
A little exercise that.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
We do is every now and then give them what
they give him, just enough that you're not telling them anything,
but they walk away thinking that you've told them a lot.
That's like the Andy Reid and read away to tell
me that, hey, Spudge, I give them just as much
as I want them to have and they think they
know something, but I'm really not saying anything.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
It's really funny Jeremia, coming from a guy who really
started as a member of the media, but it's now
been the Eagles inside or part of the team.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
For a long long time.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
He's telling you, don't say anything, but well, but that's
but that's I mean, you don't you don't want to
be a story.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
You never want to be a story. You want to
let your place speak for yourself. And goes back to
you saying blocking out the noise. You don't you don't
want to create any noise.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
And n day.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
From my standpoint in Jeremiah, I always talk guys or
said you guys, they don't really ever play the question.
So don't really worry what the question is. Get the
message out that you want to. So you know, you're
such a thoughtful, obviously kind, appreciative man, young man, but
you don't have to be respectful that way. Whatever they
ask you, you can just say your own message. It's
always you know, it's always be on point. Look, time

(47:38):
really always flies by here. But I want to close
with this. Any plans first of all for the bye week,
oh for.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
Me, really, I'm gonna stay in town, you know, hang out,
you know, with family, hang out with my girlfriend.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
It really didn't know. Try to uh, you know, rest
my mind, rest my body so we can get ready
for the season coming or the rest of the season
coming up.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
You just broke the hearts of lots of women out there.
But your girlfriend is she something from here or some
of you met at Clemson.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
I met her at Clemson, but he actually rarely is
from the PA area, so I didn't know where we
were going, and we are going all the way up
through high school and going to college.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
I met her at college and worked out. We both
got to stay home really as though.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
My last question, Jeremiah is what was it like the
first time you ran out onto Lake a Financial Field.
Not really the night of the first practice, but the
first game. I know, Brazil was the first game at home,
but the first real home game was Atlanta.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
What did it feel like? Now? It felt great, you know,
it was surreal.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
I kind of ran out there, just took a look around,
real quick and you know, got into the warm up,
but it was it was really cool to seeing it
from a different perspective. You know, I've always been I've
been to.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Games before that games or you know, evening games.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
And.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
But it's always from the stands on the sidelines. But
now I'm actually, you know, out there on the field
and in the Eagles uniform.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
So it's definitely pretty cool. That awesome.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
And I was talking to both of you beforehand.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Dave, you've been with the Eagles now for basically three decades,
and I've spent my whole life in this area.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
One of my favorite things to do is tailgating before
Eagles games. Neither one of you have ever done it,
have you?

Speaker 5 (49:09):
What's it like?

Speaker 2 (49:11):
It's really fun and it's also my days.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
On Eagles days, I'm a little nervous for my guys
and rooting for my team, but by the same token,
it's not stressful. You guys, it's a workday, so it's
a lot of different experience.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
Is it crazy?

Speaker 3 (49:24):
It's crazy, but it's fun. It's one of those things.
This city is just so passionate and it's just such
a great, feel good day. And unfortunately we haven't had
a lot of Eagles home games this year because we
only had the one Monday night and now you have
to buy we come up and finally we'll have the
Cleveland game later on and where you have a Sunday
one o'clock game, which is the best.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
But it's it's you just feels so good. But of
course when the Eagles lose, unfortunately, the move is ruined
for the whole week.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
So give us something positive as we look forward to
the rest of the season. We're two and two, which
is not Yrile Whiting means. It's been a very strange
first four weeks in the NFL season, which will close
with two games. Like but tell me your feelings and
what are the positives we can all take out of this.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
I'm feeling very confident. Uh, you know, we actually watched
the film today. I watched the film. Watched the film
as a team.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
Everything that happened in the game is, you know, things
that can be clean, cleaned up and fixed, just just mistakes.
And when when you're playing at at this high level,
you know when you make mistakes, the opponent's gonna take
advantage of it. And you know there's great players on
both sides of the ball.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
But it's really the team that wins and the team
that dominates the day is the team that has less mistakes.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
And you know, you know, mistakes are good and bad,
you know, but they can get your beat. But the
good thing is mistakes can be cleaned up and they
can be fixed.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
So I have a lot of hope for this team
moving forward, and I know, you know, we're gonna get
everything cleaned up and we're you know, I'm really looking
forward to the rest.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Of the season. You see what a veteran answer that is.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
It'sbelieving.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
He gave you what he thought was a lot, but
he didn't say really anything. It's great, pretty good, and
thank you so much for coming out and listen.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
We appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
All the people here appreciate there's still people who want
to say ell odious. So we'll get you out here
pretty quickly. But there's a lot of people I have
to thank before we get out here. First of all,
back at the studio Showan Brace, he's our program director
post of the Daily Ticket. Thanks for sticking around and
having us on the air. John Jansen here, we got tied.
Mike Powers, Congratulations on your Mets They have.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Us on YouTube and you can check us out every week.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
The cast of thousands here Chickis and Pete's are served today,
Gianna before it, the sure rookies, Pete and Little Pete.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
And all the people that come out. Thanks for coming out.
We'll still be here on a.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Bye week next week and every week for the rest
of the Eagle season and hopefully a lot more victory.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Money's ahead. So on behalf of my partner, Daves Berdero.
I'm Joe Colm.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Thank you, Jeremiah Trotter Junior for coming out, and send
it off with we got Greg Johnson. Fred Johnson will
be here next week. We got to send it with
an E A G L E yes. So ready, all right,
let's let's go.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Hey, hey gee hell Eagles. Thanks for letten so you
What'll see you next week.