December 9, 2024 • 49 mins
Jerrold Colton is LIVE from Chickie's and Pete's in Marlton, NJ with #Eagles LB Nakobe Dean! Jerrold and Nakobe talk about the win against the #Panthers, look ahead to the #Steelers, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Love it here at Marlton and we'll be here the
next hour and Cohen all and say hello. Otherwise, stay
tuned and catch us every Monday night. And we have
had an amazing season. Every Monday for the last nine
weeks has been Victory Monday. As we speak with a
different Eagle visitor and we got week number nine where
my co host, Eagles Insider Daves Federo is at a
function with Connor Barwin, great Ex Eagles, now a big
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part of the staff. So it's just myself today with
a very very special guest. And I can't tell you
how much I appreciate these guys coming out every Monday,
play a hard game the day.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Before and come join us in this one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was getting so much response and we got a
nice packed bar here to say Lodum Number seventeen linebacker
Nick Kobe.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Dan, Hi y'all doing, he says, I have me in.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We appreciate you being here, Kobe. Obviously, it's been a
great season so far. We'll even talk to some Georgia football.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh oh yeah, Godos.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Because it was a pretty good weekend for Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Fo Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So it's things things are going very very well. But
another victory.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I hope you don't really listen or pay too much
attention to the media around here. We do things different
here five words again, but we are friendly and loving and.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I try to keep my eye out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Because in my opinion, Dave's also, as we talk about
every week, it doesn't matter, there's no style points.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
A win is a win is a win and if different,
you can't be a prison to expect tastes. You just
gotta continue to just work to get better.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And to win ninth straight, to go to eleven and two,
still just one game out of the best spot in
the NFC with the second best record.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just been an incredible season.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But Dave says every week when I say something like that,
they haven't done anything yet. And I understand why he
says it. That is the mantra that any coach or
anybody or the players. But we can celebrate this stuff later.
But by the same token, although you can't win the
Super Bowl right now here in early December, you can.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Lose it by losing positions or or whatever itbody be.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So it's just great to get the victory, be mostly
healthy coming out of the game.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And look forward to Pittsburgh, right right, Yeah, it is
it is it, Carolina Zobe. We're looking at and as
all we look to is a day at a time.
Starting them all with the off day, day at a
time makes it our body is right Watson watching a
little bit of family company on Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Working Listen, you deserve an off day. I know that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And by the time you get through twelve NFL games,
and it's a whole lot still more to play. I mean,
we see we still got uh four more actually thirteen
games the regular season you played.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There's four more.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Regular season right at the minimum of three more hopefully.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So there's still a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Of football exactly, let's allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So and so you need that rest.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But every every game, after the game, I pick up
all the different statutes and there's some things that go
right to and playtime is actually one of the first
things I go to, Oh, playtime, play time, because I
think playtime is really significant and it is always of
course with you and your fellow linebackers act going one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Actually, you missed a play yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was the end of the game,
a little different path, I guess to play the general
you were out there every play and you led the
team and tackles with tef tackles, so that's a lot
of collisions out there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So how you feel.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Today, I'm feeling not. I feeling not.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You know, you a little bit bumps and bruises here
and there. But you know, like with the off day
of market, you body right, massages and cold tub hot
tub and all things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
By Wednesday, you'd be good to go.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You you your whole team, but you in particular look
like you're having a lot of fun out there.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh man, I think I'm more happy when the guys
making play in myself, So I'm having a lot of fun.
You're supposed to have fun when you play football. It
just makes the game all better and every sense of
the uh, every sense of the game.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Actually that is in the truth form of your leader,
who unfortunately got hurt a week ago, and Brandon Graham,
I guess two weeks ago now, because that guy celebrates.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Everything everything He on the he was on the sideline
this weekend Saturday, he set and everything.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
He's he talking mess from the sideline the whole time.
You can hear him.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So yeah, he celebrated everything, making everybody like pumped up
and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
He bring the energy on of off the field. So
don't matter.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, your linebacking partner, Zach Bourn was here a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, he told me, and and do you speak highly
of us? He did good? He did good.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was worried you talked you out of coming. So
we loved having him. But he also called brand and
Graham and to me, the best comp point you could
ever give a football player, the best teammate he's ever had.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
One, definitely and definitely uh and and that's in the
true sense of when I first got to Philly, he
was the first one that kind of pulled me to
side and was like, kind of like, uh, I mean,
I'll dropped to the third round.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thought I was gonna be picked a little higher.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But he will get into that history.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He the first one to the first one to pull
me to side and talked to me about it and
and basically just give me words of encouragement like are
you here now this you gotta do. You gotta do this,
and you gotta do that, exchange numbers and whatever you need,
I got you, just he me of. So he was
kind of like the first guy of just even do
they when I got a driving.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, just we'll get off him because I could
talk about him. I could always talk about him, and
what I referred him as is the most genuinely positive
person I've ever met. And I don't know if when
you first met him you felt like I was like
this guy can't be this good, and he is that
he hasn't been interestingly enough though, as you were expected
to probably be a first round pick and didn't work out,
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and at this point three years later, it doesn't matter.
But he was a first round pick. And as people
look at his career now and he's so beloved and
will definitely be an Eagles Hall of Famer, his career
didn't start off well because the expectations are different in
the first round and it's just it's just funny how
that goes. So so the whole things, a lot of
things can turn around. Let's let's take us back to yesterday.
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That's really interesting because I've I met all the home games,
but I'm not always at the road games. And the
road games you can hear all those Philadelphia Eagle fans
and I know you hear him.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
See yeah, hey, I do.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I feel like we got some of the best fans
in the world as far as how they travel and
the noise they make, the noise they talk, they talked
to us and.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The other teams. So I think we got some of
the best fans in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Zoo and I would agree with that. And it's also
funny because the schedule has been so weird that you
you were left with four out of five of the
last week's at home, but you even lost an extra
home game by going to Brazil.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So it's just stut like you haven't had home game
right right. I don't know if it happens for you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, no, it definitely feel like we've been on the
road for Mozart games. Well not as far as the
fan turn out, but as far as having to add
to take a buzz ride or hop on the plane.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We feel like we've been doing that every week.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, you have no playing rights.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Left, no, noft none.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's a beautiful thing. But yesterday it had to feel
good just to be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Back at Lincoln Financial and on what was unless you
came here from the south, right, But normally in mid December,
we don't necessarily expect to have weather that good.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, a beautiful day.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh man.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
We was expected to be way colder because the week
was kind of cold. This was kind of cold, bowned up.
But the game felt great. The game felt amazing nasty,
and so thank God for that weather.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm not really good and cold and I was a
really scared, but it was great. I mean, I just
I took my jacket off out of it. It was
coloded the week before. Absolutely. Yeah, there's so many different
parts of the game leading into the actual game that
that I like.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I love the build up of being an NFL game.
You know, people don't get to the stadium.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You're there early, you're on the field, and I'm sure
you feel that build up, that chriscendo all the way
to open a kickoff. And I know that you are
the son of two military parents. The military means a
lot to you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And just on aside, I spent some time in the
last week.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm not going to bring this down, but I lost
my father a week ago and emulated rest and thank
you and I love him and I'm proud of him.
But he was a proud veteran of the.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Air Force from the Korea Conference, and the.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
National anthem has always meant a lot to me because
it meant so much to him, and you know, the
veterans so and every single everyone when I was a
little kid, and he would so proudly salute and his
civilian closed at the stage and standing there, and so
they naturally took on an extra meeting to me.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And yesterday was a flyover, which always is special.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
For sure, because I mean, we don't never know what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So it's just he was like, oh man, so they
got the they had to just out there flying over,
so that was cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I also I actually caught you on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I filmed it. I'll show you. I filmed you file
in the flyover. But you still you stand alone at
the end in an interesting position. So curious your mindset
as you're waiting for the start of the game.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I'm uh so usually after after you can do the
causes and I go down to the twenty yard line
and I you know, I pray, uh And I had
to kind of hurry up because I can hear the
the ANNANSI saying the prayer, so I can't kind of
came off to the sideline and stood there and through
my mind, I just like to well, doing the doing
the anthem, I life to clear clear.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
My mind a little bit. I like to clear my mind.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And it's almost like I don't even hear it until
until the Rocky is very blair.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
There's number seventeen the flag. And then I went up
and caught the fly over. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh, Yeah, so I just kind of kind of cleared
my mind, take a deep breath, and just basically send
gratitude towards God and my life and everything.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Just to have the opportunity to be playing a game
that I love so.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Much, Nikobe, that's so great.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And you know, as a guy who's never gotten playing
a game, which is not a surprise to you, but
appreciate everything about being an American and the NFL and
the privilege of going to those games. Yeah, and being
here in Philadelphia with the most passionate fans.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh man, I just find.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It an incredible thing for you to actually be part
of the feet playing out there. It's just got to
be so special. I'm glad you actually appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
At all moment.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I mean, coming coming from where I come from, you know,
you got kids, you got kids younger age like that.
I remember when I was young.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The Jersey Warriors here while Who's Jersey.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know, I wanted to from there. You know, you
want to be a professional athlete. You got your favorite
teams and everything like that. So to be living in it,
you just don't want to sometimes you don't want to
miss that the opportunity to be grateful and be in
the moment of where you are just because of the
pressure or or you know, you gotta win the game.
Sometimes you gotta be grateful for the opportunity that you're in, in.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The moment that you are in right at that moment.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No matter even if you have a career as almost
Tom Brady, it still goes fast.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You just got to enjoy your savor every moment.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Now you have been a little spoiled it just a
little bit, but so far.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
As national champion.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Your senior year in Georgia, junior year, you know what,
actually I forgot it was your with your junior was
my last college football year, right right, and then first
year go to the super Bowl, the super Bowl. That
doesn't happen like that every year. No, no, yeah, I
know that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And and and in general, I mean you haven't lost
a whole lot of regular season game.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Cyriana was talking about it today about actually who who
has been with the Eagles for the last four years,
and he was just kind of kind of gave a
little congratulations out as far as making it to the
being able to clinch a playoff birth four years in
a row. You know, there's kind of it ain't too
many teams that he did in the NFL. So for
those guys who've been there in four years to be
able to do it all four years, that's that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And it's incredible that you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And it's one of the things as passionate, as great
as our fans are, I do think at times they
take it for granted and have your your level of
expectation so so high where pretty much anybody in the
National Football can be trade placers with the Philadelphia Eagles
for the most for the most part. So anyway, and
I got to give a little shout out of talking
about how fast I've been an agent for years, and
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one of my clients was David Acres.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You know who that is?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Quarterback actually kicker, oh, coach, David was a where you're
thinking of Fred Acres down in Texas probably was a
good but David Acres was a kicker for the philadelph Eagles.
Actually he's an Eagles Hall of Famer, and until Jake
Ellie came along, he was clear clear cut the best
kicker in Eagles history.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I still think he is. But if Jake's had a
great career. Yeah, and we.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And we know he's had just a few struggles, but
we're with him and today's David and I just want
to talk about how fast this goes.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I first met him as a young man in his twenties.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He had a nice long career, six Pro Bowls, and
it just really fus yep. As a kicker, he's Eagles
all time when he scor is still and and yet
he turned fifty today. I'm like, wow, as we were
talking like you were, you're still always a little kid
or young, not little young in her line. And that's
also someday, hopefully you and your agent can look back
(13:44):
and say you're still playing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But so let's talk about this season.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Also, one other historic note, You're seventeen is very interesting
to me because obviously, until recently you couldn't actually wear
a number like that as a linebacker, right, And and
then I guess short of as you came into the league,
they started allowing that.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Exactly why seventeen.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I always playing no change in it because I'm because
I knew you couldn't really wear a number like that,
uh in the NFL. So to be honest, it's not
really a big backstory behind it. I was in I
was coming from middle school in high school, and they
asked me what number I wanted to be. I wanted
to be like fifty fifty seven or something like that
linebacker number. And they was like, uh no, we want
(14:26):
to play you on offense a little bit, so we
gotta get you a number.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They gotta get the ball in. So I was like,
what numbers it available?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
First number they said seventeen, so and then seventeen. I
just kind of kept it and it kind of rolled
with it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And do you know the history of the number seventeen,
the Philip Eatles hair car marker.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, he he. They definitely let me know as soon
as I came. You know, I got a little I
got a little flat for that, just for being lineback
with number seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But it's all good. It was all good for funny games.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
But I talked to I talked to him plenty of times.
Every time I see him. He called me out and
I I talked to him, I second hand every time.
I remember when I got hurt last year, he kind
of gave me some things. I guess because he had
went through an injury one time when he.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Was in his career.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
He said, he gave me a couple of little old
techniques to do to try to come back fast.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And did his old school stuff work.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Why didn't uh, Well, well, look of course it worked
out here, so I didn't. Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But he basically just telling me go get some seawater,
because he out from Florida.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
He was like telling me.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
He was like, look, I go down to the floord,
I go back home. I got in the seawater and
just walk around in and being there for a little bit.
And he said, by the time I had came back,
I was good to go.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That's amazing, And Harold is one of the nicest shows
you ordered me. He was a six to eight receiver,
came into a tight end and played through post seventy
in the early eighties and it's in the NFL or
From Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So that's a big number to wear, for sure. I
remember I.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Was like, practice your rookie year during your training camp,
and I'm staying with Harold. Look right, all right, I
said that that young fella from from Georgia is where
that number I got I got. How do you feel
about that? He goes, I feel good. I look at him,
and I know he's going to represent.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Really I appreciate him for that. Yeah, he's an.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Eagles Hall Famer, Pro Football famer and a great, great guy.
And interesting enough, also, he comes from the same high
school in Jacksonville that another Eagles Hall of Famer comes from,
Brian Darklin.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Bryan was the.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Same high school. Un they're both and we don't have
a lot of Hall of famers. Yeah, so I'll listen
to his walking in the water thing. We also had
Ledo Shepherd who was the All Pro out of there too,
so it's pretty pretty firm.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah, he just did one high school, that one high
school in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But of course you come from Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And Georgia and got some real, real good football places.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Right, Yeah, I mean to where I came from.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
We had no, no big time NFL guys with my
high school.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They all.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Actually was like it was only one two guys before
me who had mates in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
So I think I was number three in them for.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Surprising to me. Yeah, actually, because I see the athletes
down there.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Oh yeah, I mean schools surrounding me is a lot
of guys that get there. But my high school specifically
is not a lot at all.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So when you were in high school and won the
Buckets Award for high school as well as were a
five star, I mean, listen, I'm not surprised for a
guy from Georgia, but then from your high school, it
was pretty pretty big.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, for sure. I mean so I'm
I mean, I went to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
But but I know, I'm talking in high school that year.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So I'm from Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So coming from my school, like, we had no guys
who was ranked or have any type of stars. So
it was like for me to even be like having
offers to go to a power five D one school,
it was. It was kind of a big deal in
my neighborhood and my community. So for me to actually
win the Buckets Award and everything, which I didn't learn
too much about it until probably three four months before
(17:54):
I even won it, so it was kind of it
was definitely cool to win it, and then to be
able to win it in college too.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I mean amazing. I don't know if it was ever done.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's that's amazing, because you want the national Award as
the best linebacker in college.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I did. I think two other
people have done it before.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We got to take a break.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But I want to ask you one last question on
on the trip down memory lane for the kobe Gan,
and that is your brother went to Mississippi though right.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He went the old miss Okay, so he so he played.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Also he played a year at tight end as a
walk on.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
As far as football said.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He didn't he didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
He played like in high school.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
He only played like his first year and senior year
because because when I got he was a senior when
I was in a first man, he wanted to play
with me, so uh, we wanted to play together. So
he for the last year, for his last year high
school he played.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He played with me.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So and then when you had your choice to make
for college, why Georgia over Mississippi?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Which I know off man uh to be the only say.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It got to the point where I was like, no
matter where I go, I think I'm gonna be good,
like I know wherever I go and handle my business,
I'm gonna do it what it what it takes to
do whatever I need to do, uh.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
To make it to where I want to go. So
it was like it came down to it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I remember I think the two Missipic schools didn't have
any no good stability as far as coaching and everything,
and both it's crazy because both of the coaches was
out of there after my first year of college.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
So uh, and then I kind of just prayed on it.
And then Georgie was stuck in my mind. George was
stuck in my mind, and I mean, I don't think
I made well.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Listen, and Georgia on my mind is a song and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But truly, I gotta say, from the outside, sounds like
you made a pretty good joy.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I'm not complaining about.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It all right, So listen, everything will fly in this
hour because when Julie talking to our special guest EGO
starting line backer Ni Kobe Dan, We've only just begun
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Welcome back to Chickis and Pets in Marlton, New Jersey,
the All Pro Philly Players Show. I'm Gerald Colton with
very special guests Nikobe Dean and we're having a great
time here on what a crowd, Nikobe. They all came
to see you.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm glad they did. I'm glad they did.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Have you hit any Chickis and Pets around the region.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yet, Uh, South Philly, this is it.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I think there's it. I only need South phil So
maybe maybe the Airport, Tiggis and Peace.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But it's how Philly is because it's kind of the
closest to the to the facility.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And he's got him all over and I's got one
in Vegas. He's even got it in Kansas Vegas. He's
got yeah, and he's got it in Kansas City. Okay,
when I say I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Talking to Pete Cherokee Junior Peach Europe the third is.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now involved and all and the family is just absolutely incredible.
I'm actually Pete's wife was an Eagles cheerleader in ninety
ninety seven and just wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And they hoist the players over there.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
So after Yeah, I didn't even know because I didn't
know because I trained in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So I trained in Vegas, like doing the summer time.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
This isn't good training food though, because it's wondering. I
love this stuff. Crab fry too though. Well, actually, when
you're training, you can eat anything.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You got to make a visit next year. It is
oh yeah, definitely take great care. He takes great care
of everybody. And I'm sure you love So I was
over there after the game yesterday and so assault jaylex Son,
and I want to give him a shout, you know,
because when a when a Brandy Graham goes down and
you've had you have a few injuries. One thing that
has become so clear to me about this fem is
your depth is incredible, like incredible. Yeah, and and and
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seeing Jaylex get a lot more playing time to do
his thing was really good.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
So and it's I mean, it's so the confidence that
we got him too, Like we know he can play.
So it's like we try to give him the utmost
confidence and uh and talking and talking up, talking him up,
and and Bz's did right there in his ear, like saying,
yeah you can do it is your time now, and
things like that. So they just give him come just
go out there and play free and not be like,
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not be tense as a rookie.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
And and it shows also, Nikobe.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
One of the things that people on the outside don't
realize is what a premium of the Philadelphia is put on character. Right,
And you got such a great group of guys and
and and I get to see somebody every week here
a chickens and piece, and everyone is so smart and
nice and personal, high characters.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Really, it's always like like you said, I was spoiled
in the sense I do hear a lot of I
got a lot of old teammates from Georgia days, just
around the league. I hear all these different type of
crazy stories. I'm like, man, we never had We don't
have guys like that on all team. Like we got
high carrier of guys. We got our vets are great,
they always helpful, they want to help me, they want
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to they don't want you to make the same mistakes
they made when they was younger and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Things like that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So, I mean it's it's always people, I mean, always
vets and teammates out there.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Is just the help.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And then you got domb in Case.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
We had them the guy, the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So and it's also a testimony to the drafting and
and scouting that they do and signing because you know,
Jayla Hunt went to a school that no one ever heard.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I did, don't know, I said, Houston smer.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It was they changed Houston Baptists and uses something and
yet and here he is and making a real presence
felt and dev I mean, just an incredible athlete out there.
And you see, so let's talk the linebacker position because
when the Eagles, if there were so many people around
here excited that they got you.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I know, I know you didn't want to go third round,
but you're still there. Legles drafted yet oh yeah, in
twenty twenty two, there were a lot of excited people.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I was excited too, And why why did you want
to come here? I mean I was excited because I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I knew the type of organization as far as doing
all the media, I mean the pre draft training and
everything you and then you started talking to guys who's
in the league already that you knew, you hear, you
hear the the good and the bad organizations from the top.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
To the bottom.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
The Eagles was one of the guy the people who
had a good organization, so just the and I was
happy to get drafted here. So other than that, you
hear the type of organization that the Eagles got from
top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
When you go third round, still second day of the draft.
But there's a long couple of day.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was long. It was definitely a
long was probably long than the first actually, but.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
In retrospect, yeah, it's a it's a drop in the buck.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I know, I know your girlfriend uh is up here
going to Villanova Law School, which is there's so many
great things about the area, exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And I went to Records Law School right across the
river from from Philodova.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And to hear her say how much she loves law school,
that boats very very well for.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Her exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's not an easy thing studying today.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's studying the day.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, she's that finals, final season, So for her to
be out here, I'm impressed and love that she came.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And just on your own studies.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You you actually have to me, what's an interesting background
for a football player? You know, Georgia football players. People
don't picture you that you're actually doing academic for shoots,
And I don't mean that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't. I don't mean that anyway. That's fired. But
you you have an engineering degraded background.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Uh, I'm still working to finishing.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You left her early, so it's my ad that all.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, I'm still working to his finished degree. But yeah,
I took a hard route in the sense, and yeah
it was hard. I just I just wanted to do engineering.
I always kind of help academics highly.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It started with my mother, my mother, my father, my brother,
my brother, my sister.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Always it was always academics for us. So I'm like
the first generational athlete in the family. Like nobody really
did athletics. But you know, so to them, sports was
just an afterthought. It was like an extra activity, dude.
And for me, it was like, uh, it had to
become it became like a priority that was with school.
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School was up here, and then sports caught up eventually
when I got probably like when I got my first offer,
that's when it kind of called around.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You could potentially do this exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We had more here last week and I got wh's
coming on and and we talked about his academics and
it's and he's got a Nigerian back on. His father
was with me saying listen, and his father's bigger.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Than he is.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A great guy. We were so happy to have him here.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But he almost his father said, our way of thinking
was almost looking down on sports. So it's so it's
funny how you know, he can't buy another super smart
guy but also playing sports as well. So I think
I think we're probably changing over in the thinking and.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Really the intellectual level.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you cannot make it, in my opinion, in football
unless you're one of those just ridiculous towns.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Unless you're smart.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
There is too much to study and now, yeah, be
disciplined and being a student athlete.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And so hard.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
A lot of people don't know that, but it's a
lot too, Actually it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But so talk to me, because when I talked to
you a while ago, I thought you said something this,
and I might be wrong, but that sort of your
way of looking at things from an engineering standpoint is
also a different way of looking at film. Is there
anything to your engineering background on thought process when you
watch and you're breaking down an offense and study.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Uh, I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Not Now I would say I got so much football
like IQ, And I mean it's still a lot more
I can learn. It's still a lot more to learning
and a lot more to grow from. But I feel
like right now I got so much football IQ. Now
I can just relate everything in football. But at first,
when I was learning, like when I got from when
I got I was smart. I was smart in high school.
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So when I got to college, I didn't know. I
don't play mad, I don't play a game, so I
didn't know like what none of the coverages were cover
zero to cover nine.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I did not know any of that's complex? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It was.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It was complex.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
So when I was learning, when I was first learning
defenses and learning and coverages, I was able to use
that engineering back. Well, I guess I want engineering background then,
but with that school background, that mathematics and everything, just
put okay, this is numb to go with this coverage,
this dropped this quarter quarter half or this quarter quarter
fires on It's like it's different. Uh, But I used
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that to kind of help me kind of mash them
all up together, and it worked out.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And I know that you also involved here in Philly
with the urban youth racing in that group, I.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Mean some really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And I saw you over there a few weeks ago,
just spent a second talking about that because people aren't
familiar with it, and they do a heck of a
job they do.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They do a great job. What they got over there,
what John and them got going on over there, it's.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Just I mean, I'm I didn't know nothing about racing.
I kind of I kind of sewed up at one
of their one of their racing events.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Even growing up in the South, now NASCAR or anything.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Not not not my people, not my peers and everything,
I didn't know nothing about racing.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
So just I kind of sold it to one of
their racing events.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
And ever since then, it's just been like it's been
love from them, you know, I kind of and I
was kind of intrigued by like the whole I didn't know,
Like it was kids, it's the after school program. It's
they trying to get kids who want to get out
of the.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Streets and everything.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Also kids who just want to get into the and
get to the staying with space, not even just racing.
It just the kind of the whole kind of things
just brought me in. So what they doing over there
is great and uh and I mean I love every
bit of it. So anything anytime they asked me to
do something is like, if I can do it, I
do it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It's right over there on sixteenth Street, uh, near Vine
and they have an unbelievable little campus there and they've
got all these racing simulators and really working with real drivers,
n as quarts.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's an incredible thing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Right back to football, there was a time yesterday Nikobe,
and I know you're not thinking about this, you're just
playing play by play and all all the stuff that
comes forward, But there was a series at the start
of the second half, really the first two possessions where
every tackle was tackle made by Nikobe kind of I
don't know if you were aware of that, but it
was there were there was really back to back possessions
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that the Fanthers had that you.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Were just all over.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean, uh, you kind of going into the game,
we kind of knew what they gonna try to do.
And then even with that, they kind of came out
and started doing something that wasn't no part.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But at the end of the day, we kind of.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Was out of position a little bit to throughout the
game to start it. So it was like we had
to kind of lock in, and I mean I was
just able to be in the position to make those
plays and clean them.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Up when we talk about coaching and consistency. So you
got here in twenty twenty two when you were a
Super Bowl fifty seven season. I'm still I'm still frustrated
with that loss. You too, I'll never I'll never get
over that at least, So you got the one coming up.
But we've watched an evolution with this team where you
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came in and your first defensive coordinator was Johnted Again,
Johnaton became a head coach based on the success you
had that season.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Right, and then you got Jasi right.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Who in the middle or late in the season they
replaced with Patricia And now you got Vig Fangios. So
in your third season, you're on fourth defensive coordinat talk
about the ex because obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Big Fani has made a huge difference in this team.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
So it's a big transition as far as the even
just scheme like gaming was like like a no blitz,
sit back and courters type of coach.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
And then like we then last year it was like you.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Can do a little bit more, a little bit more bleaching,
a little bit more cores, a little bit more man match.
And then it's like with Fanser with he got everything
like he got he got every bullet in his in
his repertoire. And it's also Fanser also almost kind of
switched up the way.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Even coach Syriani.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Thinks as far as like we haven't really got no
like victory Mondays where we get off. So usually you know,
we get off victory Mondays. My first two years about
week six, if we won, we didn't come in on Mondays.
So this this year we have not had one victory Monday.
We have came in and watched the family work every Monday.
And at first it was like, oh, like we're gonna
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come in every Monday, and now it's like we expected,
like the guys like look forward to coming in on
Monday to get into corrections and getting better for today.
So I feel like vig Fansiel kind of kind of
shifted everybody mind ever since because he's kind of old school,
and he had us doing like as far as practicing,
we still got one more paddy practice though, and we
usually never used even half of them, so and we've
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been using and we've been using, we have used almost
every single one of them, and we probably gonna he said,
he gonna, he gonna save that one paddy practice.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
That you feel like the weekday he felt like we needed.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So uh yeah, really interesting and probably a little bit
of an old school mixed in with the current exactly.
And we have victory Monday, and we're trying to keep
him going every week right here Chicki's and pizza and
this is our ninth Street and it has just been
a beautiful season so far.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Now, I also want to talk.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
About your linebacking partner going into this season's training camp.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You were coming off of, you know, I'm sure what
was a frustrating year with definitely has liszt Frank, which great. Yeah,
I'm gonna talk to you about for a second.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But back in this day, not that long ago, that
stuff could be career endy.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
And that's the first thing I heard when I had
got it, when they said, oh you got you gotta
Liz Frank, Oh, you know that's a career ended almost
and it's like what like, it's like my my career ended.
It was like, well, you know they got surgery and
everything now, but a lot of guys and we would
come back to do one hundred percent from it was
all negative things I heard from it wasn't it wasn't
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no guys who kind of came back from it, and
it was it was good From me, I'm like like,
so it was like I just took it as another
challenge to to to get over it.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
You know, work day in and day out, gets wrong
and get better.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
From me, well you look a whole lot better and
very very fortunate for you. Portrayed for the Phildelph Eagles
and portrait for.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All the fans here. You are back and doing your thing.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Aggregient.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You got so we gotta take one more break go
so fast. I don't want to let you go. But anyway,
we won't be back for our final segment.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
We are here at Chickens to be to Marlton, New Jersey,
as we are every Monday night, and we'll try to
keep making a victory Monday myself. Gerald called normally Dave
Spide we miss him today and our very special guest,
Ni Kobe Dean. You're listen to the All Pro phillyite
Player Show on Fox Sports A Gambler.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2 (35:21):
Welcome back to Chicks and Pizza, to Marlton, New Jersey,
the All Pro Philly Players Show, Gerald Calton alongs are
very very special guest Nick Kobe Dean, and a whole
lot of people out here. The CEO even got Pete Cherochi,
the third our proprietor here hosting and he and he
he's the Pete and Chickies and peats. He's actually third
generation Pete. The chickens and Peachs were started by his grandparents,
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Chicky and Pete. His father, Pete Junior, has carried on
the torch and I mentioned that his mother was and
he cheerleader. Now Pete's third generation. Think he says defeat
the great host. Now his brother went to Texas, so
we got to talk a bit of Georgia, Texas.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
You your bulldogs had.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Some interesting games down the stretch here, sure, I mean
the Tech game that week Spore was unbelieved with all
the other times and great victors, but in the end
they have shown their true metal at the season that
looked like it might not be theirs and they got
a decent seat and.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Going to the playoffs. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I mean, George Take was a chap game for all
the people who wanted to bet against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
But someone's Carolina for against the Eagles yesterday.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah, I mean, yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
It's like everybody was saying, man, George, not they're good.
They George and Take took them down to the to
the wire, and I'm pretty sure they ain't do nothing
but puts the Bulldogs off because I know how it
was when I was there, and I knew all out
the game like that they're gonna want to come out
and make.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
A statement for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
So uh and then for our quarterback to go down
at the have and instead be able to pull it
off the way we did defense, standing up and everything.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I mean it was great.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So how much fun did you have that Bama didn't
make the playoffs because because there's a whole lot of
Georgia in the locker, but there's some Bama too.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I mean I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I mean after Mema lost against Vanny, I didn't expect
him to do nothing.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I mean, I know they.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Beat us, but uh, they lost against Vandy. So no,
no offense to all my my Vandy people. But when
they do when they lost his vent, I didn't expect
him to make it into the the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Very true, but I mean you got you got Davis
Carter yourself, ringo, ringo, and where those young guys just
get this show what he can do, right, yes?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
And Obama guys, of course you got Dickerson.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Uh Jalen?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Would you consider Jalen Bama?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
When I think of day and I think of Mema,
I don't think of Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
And I don't think most people do as well.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
And then there's ricks even and uh, oh man.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You got Steam there Steam.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
And I know there's a young guy named Young who
I don't really know.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Yeah, he came from Vegas. We got him right after,
right after camp.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
So there's gotta be a lot of smack talk.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I mean, they don't. They've been quiet this year. They've
been kind of quiet. They were talking a little bit
when they beat us, but they've been quiet.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Lately all right, So let's talk linebacker play because, as
I said, when we were going into the season, you
didn't really know who was going to start the Eagles linebackers.
I know you probably thought, hey, I got one of
the spots is mine. But but Devin White was signed,
and you know there was transition a couple of years ago.
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T J Edwards did the show with me every week,
and you know TJ would then gave way if you
and your guys step in into real nice jobs. Last
year and and the position has historically not been treated
as one of the priorities here. They've sort of plugged
different guys in. Now things have come together so.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Well this year.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
And they signed Zach Land, somewhat unknown up here, even
unknown in New Orleans because he didn't really get a
chance to show what he could do it he didn't
play the position he's playing here. So talk to me
about how you guys have had so much synergy together
and at what point you realize that it's really the
two of you and you cannot just be the starting linebackers.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Good linebackers. I think you're both all Pro linebackers.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Yeah, So when if you asked me when we when
we first started training camp when everybody was in the room,
when we had no idea who was gonna be line
who's the linebackers?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
And you know b K which is our linebacker coach.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
He sat there and was like, uh, he spoke his
words and he said, anybody's got something to say? And
I told the guys, I was like, look, man, I
feel like we put in the work, we do the
things the way we're supposed to do, we can be
the best linebackers room in the in the league. And
then that's coming from me who haven't started a whole
season in the NFL, Zach who hasn't started a linebacker
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in the NFL, D White, who was who was solidified there.
But it was kind of like a room but he
had kind of like down your last year, cause like
it was a room for the like unknowns in the
sense for everybody else. But we knew we were and
it's like as long as we put in the work
and do what we did, is.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Like we knew that we can what we can be.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
What made you know that?
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
For me, it's for me, it was my ultimate companies
and myself first of all, first and foremost because it's
like at the start of the camp, you ain't. You
haven't really had too much time put in with those
guys other than O t as uh.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
And then I was hurting.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I was still towards the end of my UH recovery
do O t A, so I still was not I
had not too much time or task put on with
the guys. So for me, it was just the ultimate
companies in myself. It's like, uh, i'm a I know me,
I'm a I'm gonna do the best I can do
to be the best that try to be the best
version of myself. And I feel like I could be
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the best version of myself, then I could be the
best in the world. But then I'll try to also
be an amplifier for other guys in the room also
make try to bring out the best of everybody in
the whole room, in the whole room, in the whole defense.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
It's so interesting you say that, because that's what it
looks like from the outside. I can't hear anything that's
going on, but you show that, and obviously what your
belief in yourself and what you thought you could do
you have made happen. And what it is amazing to
me is how quickly you made it happen, and your
first year playing together, your first year as a starter.
It's kind of time coming off that injury. And you
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mentioned BK. One of the things to me that it's
so underrated the NFL people in the acid. I don't
know what like the players do, right is position coaches. Yeah,
that's the one he was spending most time with being
coached up by.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
And it just it's probably fancy of being over the
whole defense. That position coach means so much, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Yeah, you, like I said, you hear a lot of
stories about position coaches kind of just just being near
like instructing guys, and you know they just kind of
in that position, not not really.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Being a good coach. You hear.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
I had a lot of stories about that. But as
far as BK, he won't he actually wants you to be.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Better, he cared. I don't even know if he care
if he want to move up to be a DC.
One day.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
He cared about linebacker play, he cared about technique, he
cared about he only almost don't care about scheme.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Almost. It's like a good.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Line bankers are gonna play with good technique, They're gonna
flow stacking track and they're gonna be Uh, they're gonna
be the ultimate glue. Uh, they gonna we run with
four to three and we banged week three fifty, so
we want we're gonna be the ultimate glue and the
ultimately heaston this uh to the team and we with
if with that we brought out, we brought the saying
we're gonna be like the amplifiers of the team too.
We're gonna amplify everybody. If yeah, he good, we wanna
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make him better. We're gonna if Zach get ten tackles,
he's gonna be like, hey, hey, you ain't got nothing.
You ain't got you ain't with me this week. So
it's like he pushed me to get better. So it's
like this kind of how we've been rolling with the
whole team, with the whole squad.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Is there any competition between you guys that.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
One, I mean for sure, but I mean kind of
with my ads this year but.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But it's funny because earlier in the show you talked
about the culture of the philadelph Eagles. Even though this
is the only TV ever played for the NFL, you're
hearing it from all the people who go around the
leap and you see the success that the good culture
organizations bring, right and actually you're playing one this week.
Pittsburgh's a very good culture organization, a great head coach.
It'll be a nice test and a nice game at
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Pittsburgh Philadelphia rivalry, interstate and a nice even though it's
not interconference, it will be nice to say.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Yeah, another AFC opponent, you know, definitely with that in
the same division that the Ravens in. So they try
to bring a real physical brand of football, and we
look at ourselves as a physical team, so it's always.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
Great to be to come in.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
He's like, there's real football, and it's probably gonna be
a little cooler than it was this passes. So it's
gonna be a red December NFL football game.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Yeah, that sounds so Pittsburgh Philadelphia. Really, it really does.
And then and then when you look at this team
and you have played on national champions you've played on
a super Bowl team, and you're now sitting at eleven
and two with a few weeks ago in this season,
what does this team have that makes.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
You believe this is a championship team.
Speaker 5 (43:59):
I mean, for me, want the biggest thing that the
team has. I mean, we got all, we got connection piece,
everybody kind of close. But the biggest thing that I
see that points out to that that makes the team
the team that we are now.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
I won't even say because I'm not looking past the
Stealers and I'm not rushing yeah, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
Looking past the Steelers, but the team that has made
a team now, it's just our ability to want to
get better weekend and week out. It's not we don't
go into work like, oh, we had a good game
last week.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
We want to just keep this going. We want to
keep be as good as we are right now now.
We want to get better.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
We want to.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Continue with rise and get better weekend and we got
we want to strive to be one and though at
the end of every day and then want to know
at the end of every week and just continue to
just continue to strive and push like that. So that's
I feel like that's kind of been the biggest thing.
Like the work that everybody put in to get better,
the what coach like to call five hundred shots after practice,
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everybody putting in their five hundred, the extra five hundred shots,
doing the extra whatever you gotta do to make sure
they too right individually to be ready for Sundays.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And Syrianni has a lot of those scenes like for
sure he do. And you enjoy him, don't you? I do?
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I mean because he he loved basketball.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
He a big basketball guy, so he always kind of
relate a lot of things to basketball and basketball players.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
And actually they was in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Trying to figure out what what NBA player are gonna
talk about next? He talked, He always talked about a
lot of a lot of different NBA players, so he's
trying to figure ot.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Who's gonna talk one name.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Well, yesterday Joel and Be finally got back on the court.
By the way, Okay, yeah he actually no, the Sixers
had a game at one o'clock on a Sunday in Chicago,
so nobody saw it because at one o'clock this entire
region and pretty much whole world's watching the NFL. But
glad to see him back on there. But maybe he
should talk a little baseball. Did you see Wan SODA's contract?
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Just off?
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Oh Man? What fifteen seven sixty five, fifteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
A year, three hundred and fifteen thousand a game? Anyway,
oh Man, all guaranteed, but you're doing just fine as
a Philadelphia Eagle. And what does it feel like a
kid from Mississippi by way of Georgia to be here
in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphiagos.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
Man, it feels great. It's a blessing. Like I said,
it's something that you kind of you kind of dreamed about.
Like I always kind of try to take a moment,
like I remember being in la because I remember being
in Georgia thinking, man, I haven't been.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
West of the Mississippi River.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I used to think, I mean other thing like Arkansas.
I was, I haven't been west of the Missisippi River.
So it was like the first time I was able
to go out to l A, or anytime I'm able
to go out to the West coast, I always kind
of take a deep breath and like, man, I'm a
long way from from Mississippi. Because it's like, while was that,
it wasn't a lot of people who wanted to move
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from Mississippi.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
You know, a lot of people was comfortable with staying there.
It wasn't nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
You comfortable with your hometown and everything, and a lot
of people were scared to take flights. It was like,
and it's kind of it's crazy to me now, but
when I was younger, it's like, it seemed regular. It's
regular for people not to leave the area and things
like that. So for me to just be here and
still be living and growing and being able to travel
and get to do what I do, I'm blessed and
I'm thankful.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
I'm grateful.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
You ever been to Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
I have a good friend from him, the NFL player
Fred Bakery, a great guy, but we always joke with
both in Philadelphia. It's a little different. If you've ever
been in Philadelphia, Mississipipi. You know you have a big
week coming up besides the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I can't
believe how old slash young you are. You're about to
turn twenty four.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
I'm about to turn twenty four on Friday.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
You get a moment to celebrate it all.
Speaker 4 (47:40):
I got I think I got some. I got practice
on Friday. Then I gotta sign in and then I
think my mama and my girl.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Will want to take me out. They'll take me out.
But other than that, I'm not really doing.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
The week well.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
We recommend chickies and Peach. We have so many great
restaurants and fildever, so enjoy your birthday. We are so
glad that he traveled outside of Mississippi and Georgia and
joined the Philadelphia Eagles, and hopefully it's just a story
of a long, wonderful career.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
We love having you here. I'm glad you like it
as well.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
So on, behalf of my missing my partner Dave s Perdero.
We'll be back with us next week. For that's all right,
I got it. I got to talk for a change.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I got John jis Backer who's back to the studios.
A Sean Nick Board appreciate him. Mike Powers and our.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Man Matt Schultz here join us today and all the
people that come out to see you and our great
crew here at Chickens and Peach and our host star
proprietor Pete Cheroki the third. So on, behalf of myself
Fox Sports, a gambler. Thank you, Nikobe, thank you for everything,
and thank you for a great hour and joining us.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Everybody number seventeen Nikobe Dean.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
Please says wow, appleaceas.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
And we appreciate you being out here.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
We'll be back here next week and hopefully another victory
money so for Gerald Colton signing off saying thanks for
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
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next hour and Cohen all and say hello. Otherwise, stay
tuned and catch us every Monday night. And we have
had an amazing season. Every Monday for the last nine
weeks has been Victory Monday. As we speak with a
different Eagle visitor and we got week number nine where
my co host, Eagles Insider Daves Federo is at a
function with Connor Barwin, great Ex Eagles, now a big
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part of the staff. So it's just myself today with
a very very special guest. And I can't tell you
how much I appreciate these guys coming out every Monday,
play a hard game the day.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Before and come join us in this one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was getting so much response and we got a
nice packed bar here to say Lodum Number seventeen linebacker
Nick Kobe.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Dan, Hi y'all doing, he says, I have me in.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We appreciate you being here, Kobe. Obviously, it's been a
great season so far. We'll even talk to some Georgia football.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh oh yeah, Godos.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Because it was a pretty good weekend for Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Fo Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So it's things things are going very very well. But
another victory.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I hope you don't really listen or pay too much
attention to the media around here. We do things different
here five words again, but we are friendly and loving and.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I try to keep my eye out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Because in my opinion, Dave's also, as we talk about
every week, it doesn't matter, there's no style points.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
A win is a win is a win and if different,
you can't be a prison to expect tastes. You just
gotta continue to just work to get better.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And to win ninth straight, to go to eleven and two,
still just one game out of the best spot in
the NFC with the second best record.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just been an incredible season.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But Dave says every week when I say something like that,
they haven't done anything yet. And I understand why he
says it. That is the mantra that any coach or
anybody or the players. But we can celebrate this stuff later.
But by the same token, although you can't win the
Super Bowl right now here in early December, you can.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Lose it by losing positions or or whatever itbody be.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So it's just great to get the victory, be mostly
healthy coming out of the game.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And look forward to Pittsburgh, right right, Yeah, it is
it is it, Carolina Zobe. We're looking at and as
all we look to is a day at a time.
Starting them all with the off day, day at a
time makes it our body is right Watson watching a
little bit of family company on Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Working Listen, you deserve an off day. I know that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And by the time you get through twelve NFL games,
and it's a whole lot still more to play. I mean,
we see we still got uh four more actually thirteen
games the regular season you played.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There's four more.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Regular season right at the minimum of three more hopefully.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So there's still a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Of football exactly, let's allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So and so you need that rest.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But every every game, after the game, I pick up
all the different statutes and there's some things that go
right to and playtime is actually one of the first
things I go to, Oh, playtime, play time, because I
think playtime is really significant and it is always of
course with you and your fellow linebackers act going one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Actually, you missed a play yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was the end of the game,
a little different path, I guess to play the general
you were out there every play and you led the
team and tackles with tef tackles, so that's a lot
of collisions out there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So how you feel.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Today, I'm feeling not. I feeling not.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You know, you a little bit bumps and bruises here
and there. But you know, like with the off day
of market, you body right, massages and cold tub hot
tub and all things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
By Wednesday, you'd be good to go.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You you your whole team, but you in particular look
like you're having a lot of fun out there.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh man, I think I'm more happy when the guys
making play in myself, So I'm having a lot of fun.
You're supposed to have fun when you play football. It
just makes the game all better and every sense of
the uh, every sense of the game.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Actually that is in the truth form of your leader,
who unfortunately got hurt a week ago, and Brandon Graham,
I guess two weeks ago now, because that guy celebrates.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Everything everything He on the he was on the sideline
this weekend Saturday, he set and everything.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
He's he talking mess from the sideline the whole time.
You can hear him.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So yeah, he celebrated everything, making everybody like pumped up
and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
He bring the energy on of off the field. So
don't matter.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, your linebacking partner, Zach Bourn was here a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, he told me, and and do you speak highly
of us? He did good? He did good.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was worried you talked you out of coming. So
we loved having him. But he also called brand and
Graham and to me, the best comp point you could
ever give a football player, the best teammate he's ever had.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
One, definitely and definitely uh and and that's in the
true sense of when I first got to Philly, he
was the first one that kind of pulled me to
side and was like, kind of like, uh, I mean,
I'll dropped to the third round.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thought I was gonna be picked a little higher.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But he will get into that history.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He the first one to the first one to pull
me to side and talked to me about it and
and basically just give me words of encouragement like are
you here now this you gotta do. You gotta do this,
and you gotta do that, exchange numbers and whatever you need,
I got you, just he me of. So he was
kind of like the first guy of just even do
they when I got a driving.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, just we'll get off him because I could
talk about him. I could always talk about him, and
what I referred him as is the most genuinely positive
person I've ever met. And I don't know if when
you first met him you felt like I was like
this guy can't be this good, and he is that
he hasn't been interestingly enough though, as you were expected
to probably be a first round pick and didn't work out,
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and at this point three years later, it doesn't matter.
But he was a first round pick. And as people
look at his career now and he's so beloved and
will definitely be an Eagles Hall of Famer, his career
didn't start off well because the expectations are different in
the first round and it's just it's just funny how
that goes. So so the whole things, a lot of
things can turn around. Let's let's take us back to yesterday.
(06:47):
That's really interesting because I've I met all the home games,
but I'm not always at the road games. And the
road games you can hear all those Philadelphia Eagle fans
and I know you hear him.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
See yeah, hey, I do.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I feel like we got some of the best fans
in the world as far as how they travel and
the noise they make, the noise they talk, they talked
to us and.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The other teams. So I think we got some of
the best fans in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Zoo and I would agree with that. And it's also
funny because the schedule has been so weird that you
you were left with four out of five of the
last week's at home, but you even lost an extra
home game by going to Brazil.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So it's just stut like you haven't had home game
right right. I don't know if it happens for you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, no, it definitely feel like we've been on the
road for Mozart games. Well not as far as the
fan turn out, but as far as having to add
to take a buzz ride or hop on the plane.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We feel like we've been doing that every week.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, you have no playing rights.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Left, no, noft none.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's a beautiful thing. But yesterday it had to feel
good just to be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Back at Lincoln Financial and on what was unless you
came here from the south, right, But normally in mid December,
we don't necessarily expect to have weather that good.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, a beautiful day.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh man.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
We was expected to be way colder because the week
was kind of cold. This was kind of cold, bowned up.
But the game felt great. The game felt amazing nasty,
and so thank God for that weather.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm not really good and cold and I was a
really scared, but it was great. I mean, I just
I took my jacket off out of it. It was
coloded the week before. Absolutely. Yeah, there's so many different
parts of the game leading into the actual game that
that I like.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I love the build up of being an NFL game.
You know, people don't get to the stadium.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You're there early, you're on the field, and I'm sure
you feel that build up, that chriscendo all the way
to open a kickoff. And I know that you are
the son of two military parents. The military means a
lot to you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And just on aside, I spent some time in the
last week.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm not going to bring this down, but I lost
my father a week ago and emulated rest and thank
you and I love him and I'm proud of him.
But he was a proud veteran of the.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Air Force from the Korea Conference, and the.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
National anthem has always meant a lot to me because
it meant so much to him, and you know, the
veterans so and every single everyone when I was a
little kid, and he would so proudly salute and his
civilian closed at the stage and standing there, and so
they naturally took on an extra meeting to me.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And yesterday was a flyover, which always is special.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
For sure, because I mean, we don't never know what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So it's just he was like, oh man, so they
got the they had to just out there flying over,
so that was cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I also I actually caught you on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I filmed it. I'll show you. I filmed you file
in the flyover. But you still you stand alone at
the end in an interesting position. So curious your mindset
as you're waiting for the start of the game.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I'm uh so usually after after you can do the
causes and I go down to the twenty yard line
and I you know, I pray, uh And I had
to kind of hurry up because I can hear the
the ANNANSI saying the prayer, so I can't kind of
came off to the sideline and stood there and through
my mind, I just like to well, doing the doing
the anthem, I life to clear clear.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
My mind a little bit. I like to clear my mind.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And it's almost like I don't even hear it until
until the Rocky is very blair.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
There's number seventeen the flag. And then I went up
and caught the fly over. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh, Yeah, so I just kind of kind of cleared
my mind, take a deep breath, and just basically send
gratitude towards God and my life and everything.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Just to have the opportunity to be playing a game
that I love so.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Much, Nikobe, that's so great.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And you know, as a guy who's never gotten playing
a game, which is not a surprise to you, but
appreciate everything about being an American and the NFL and
the privilege of going to those games. Yeah, and being
here in Philadelphia with the most passionate fans.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh man, I just find.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It an incredible thing for you to actually be part
of the feet playing out there. It's just got to
be so special. I'm glad you actually appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
At all moment.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I mean, coming coming from where I come from, you know,
you got kids, you got kids younger age like that.
I remember when I was young.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The Jersey Warriors here while Who's Jersey.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know, I wanted to from there. You know, you
want to be a professional athlete. You got your favorite
teams and everything like that. So to be living in it,
you just don't want to sometimes you don't want to
miss that the opportunity to be grateful and be in
the moment of where you are just because of the
pressure or or you know, you gotta win the game.
Sometimes you gotta be grateful for the opportunity that you're in, in.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The moment that you are in right at that moment.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No matter even if you have a career as almost
Tom Brady, it still goes fast.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You just got to enjoy your savor every moment.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Now you have been a little spoiled it just a
little bit, but so far.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
As national champion.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Your senior year in Georgia, junior year, you know what,
actually I forgot it was your with your junior was
my last college football year, right right, and then first
year go to the super Bowl, the super Bowl. That
doesn't happen like that every year. No, no, yeah, I
know that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And and and in general, I mean you haven't lost
a whole lot of regular season game.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Cyriana was talking about it today about actually who who
has been with the Eagles for the last four years,
and he was just kind of kind of gave a
little congratulations out as far as making it to the
being able to clinch a playoff birth four years in
a row. You know, there's kind of it ain't too
many teams that he did in the NFL. So for
those guys who've been there in four years to be
able to do it all four years, that's that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And it's incredible that you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And it's one of the things as passionate, as great
as our fans are, I do think at times they
take it for granted and have your your level of
expectation so so high where pretty much anybody in the
National Football can be trade placers with the Philadelphia Eagles
for the most for the most part. So anyway, and
I got to give a little shout out of talking
about how fast I've been an agent for years, and
(12:52):
one of my clients was David Acres.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You know who that is?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Quarterback actually kicker, oh, coach, David was a where you're
thinking of Fred Acres down in Texas probably was a
good but David Acres was a kicker for the philadelph Eagles.
Actually he's an Eagles Hall of Famer, and until Jake
Ellie came along, he was clear clear cut the best
kicker in Eagles history.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I still think he is. But if Jake's had a
great career. Yeah, and we.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And we know he's had just a few struggles, but
we're with him and today's David and I just want
to talk about how fast this goes.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I first met him as a young man in his twenties.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He had a nice long career, six Pro Bowls, and
it just really fus yep. As a kicker, he's Eagles
all time when he scor is still and and yet
he turned fifty today. I'm like, wow, as we were
talking like you were, you're still always a little kid
or young, not little young in her line. And that's
also someday, hopefully you and your agent can look back
(13:44):
and say you're still playing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But so let's talk about this season.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Also, one other historic note, You're seventeen is very interesting
to me because obviously, until recently you couldn't actually wear
a number like that as a linebacker, right, And and
then I guess short of as you came into the league,
they started allowing that.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Exactly why seventeen.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I always playing no change in it because I'm because
I knew you couldn't really wear a number like that,
uh in the NFL. So to be honest, it's not
really a big backstory behind it. I was in I
was coming from middle school in high school, and they
asked me what number I wanted to be. I wanted
to be like fifty fifty seven or something like that
linebacker number. And they was like, uh no, we want
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to play you on offense a little bit, so we
gotta get you a number.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They gotta get the ball in. So I was like,
what numbers it available?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
First number they said seventeen, so and then seventeen. I
just kind of kept it and it kind of rolled
with it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And do you know the history of the number seventeen,
the Philip Eatles hair car marker.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, he he. They definitely let me know as soon
as I came. You know, I got a little I
got a little flat for that, just for being lineback
with number seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But it's all good. It was all good for funny games.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
But I talked to I talked to him plenty of times.
Every time I see him. He called me out and
I I talked to him, I second hand every time.
I remember when I got hurt last year, he kind
of gave me some things. I guess because he had
went through an injury one time when he.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Was in his career.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
He said, he gave me a couple of little old
techniques to do to try to come back fast.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And did his old school stuff work.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Why didn't uh, Well, well, look of course it worked
out here, so I didn't. Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But he basically just telling me go get some seawater,
because he out from Florida.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
He was like telling me.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
He was like, look, I go down to the floord,
I go back home. I got in the seawater and
just walk around in and being there for a little bit.
And he said, by the time I had came back,
I was good to go.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That's amazing, And Harold is one of the nicest shows
you ordered me. He was a six to eight receiver,
came into a tight end and played through post seventy
in the early eighties and it's in the NFL or
From Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So that's a big number to wear, for sure. I
remember I.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Was like, practice your rookie year during your training camp,
and I'm staying with Harold. Look right, all right, I
said that that young fella from from Georgia is where
that number I got I got. How do you feel
about that? He goes, I feel good. I look at him,
and I know he's going to represent.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Really I appreciate him for that. Yeah, he's an.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Eagles Hall Famer, Pro Football famer and a great, great guy.
And interesting enough, also, he comes from the same high
school in Jacksonville that another Eagles Hall of Famer comes from,
Brian Darklin.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Bryan was the.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Same high school. Un they're both and we don't have
a lot of Hall of famers. Yeah, so I'll listen
to his walking in the water thing. We also had
Ledo Shepherd who was the All Pro out of there too,
so it's pretty pretty firm.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah, he just did one high school, that one high
school in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But of course you come from Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And Georgia and got some real, real good football places.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Right, Yeah, I mean to where I came from.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
We had no, no big time NFL guys with my
high school.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They all.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Actually was like it was only one two guys before
me who had mates in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
So I think I was number three in them for.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Surprising to me. Yeah, actually, because I see the athletes
down there.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Oh yeah, I mean schools surrounding me is a lot
of guys that get there. But my high school specifically
is not a lot at all.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So when you were in high school and won the
Buckets Award for high school as well as were a
five star, I mean, listen, I'm not surprised for a
guy from Georgia, but then from your high school, it
was pretty pretty big.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, for sure. I mean so I'm
I mean, I went to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
But but I know, I'm talking in high school that year.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So I'm from Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So coming from my school, like, we had no guys
who was ranked or have any type of stars. So
it was like for me to even be like having
offers to go to a power five D one school,
it was. It was kind of a big deal in
my neighborhood and my community. So for me to actually
win the Buckets Award and everything, which I didn't learn
too much about it until probably three four months before
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I even won it, so it was kind of it
was definitely cool to win it, and then to be
able to win it in college too.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I mean amazing. I don't know if it was ever done.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's that's amazing, because you want the national Award as
the best linebacker in college.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I did. I think two other
people have done it before.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We got to take a break.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But I want to ask you one last question on
on the trip down memory lane for the kobe Gan,
and that is your brother went to Mississippi though right.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He went the old miss Okay, so he so he played.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Also he played a year at tight end as a
walk on.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
As far as football said.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He didn't he didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
He played like in high school.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
He only played like his first year and senior year
because because when I got he was a senior when
I was in a first man, he wanted to play
with me, so uh, we wanted to play together. So
he for the last year, for his last year high
school he played.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He played with me.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So and then when you had your choice to make
for college, why Georgia over Mississippi?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Which I know off man uh to be the only say.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It got to the point where I was like, no
matter where I go, I think I'm gonna be good,
like I know wherever I go and handle my business,
I'm gonna do it what it what it takes to
do whatever I need to do, uh.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
To make it to where I want to go. So
it was like it came down to it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I remember I think the two Missipic schools didn't have
any no good stability as far as coaching and everything,
and both it's crazy because both of the coaches was
out of there after my first year of college.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
So uh, and then I kind of just prayed on it.
And then Georgie was stuck in my mind. George was
stuck in my mind, and I mean, I don't think
I made well.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Listen, and Georgia on my mind is a song and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But truly, I gotta say, from the outside, sounds like
you made a pretty good joy.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I'm not complaining about.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It all right, So listen, everything will fly in this
hour because when Julie talking to our special guest EGO
starting line backer Ni Kobe Dan, We've only just begun
with chickens and pizza and marks and you can still
come join us. And wow, look at these these people
want to line up and say hello to you, to Kobe.
So we'll take a quick break. We will be back
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Gerald Colton and Nikobe Dean and the All Pro Philly
(20:10):
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Welcome back to Chickis and Pets in Marlton, New Jersey,
the All Pro Philly Players Show. I'm Gerald Colton with
very special guests Nikobe Dean and we're having a great
time here on what a crowd, Nikobe. They all came
to see you.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm glad they did. I'm glad they did.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Have you hit any Chickis and Pets around the region.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yet, Uh, South Philly, this is it.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I think there's it. I only need South phil So
maybe maybe the Airport, Tiggis and Peace.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But it's how Philly is because it's kind of the
closest to the to the facility.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And he's got him all over and I's got one
in Vegas. He's even got it in Kansas Vegas. He's
got yeah, and he's got it in Kansas City. Okay,
when I say I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Talking to Pete Cherokee Junior Peach Europe the third is.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now involved and all and the family is just absolutely incredible.
I'm actually Pete's wife was an Eagles cheerleader in ninety
ninety seven and just wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And they hoist the players over there.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
So after Yeah, I didn't even know because I didn't
know because I trained in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So I trained in Vegas, like doing the summer time.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
This isn't good training food though, because it's wondering. I
love this stuff. Crab fry too though. Well, actually, when
you're training, you can eat anything.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You got to make a visit next year. It is
oh yeah, definitely take great care. He takes great care
of everybody. And I'm sure you love So I was
over there after the game yesterday and so assault jaylex Son,
and I want to give him a shout, you know,
because when a when a Brandy Graham goes down and
you've had you have a few injuries. One thing that
has become so clear to me about this fem is
your depth is incredible, like incredible. Yeah, and and and
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seeing Jaylex get a lot more playing time to do
his thing was really good.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
So and it's I mean, it's so the confidence that
we got him too, Like we know he can play.
So it's like we try to give him the utmost
confidence and uh and talking and talking up, talking him up,
and and Bz's did right there in his ear, like saying,
yeah you can do it is your time now, and
things like that. So they just give him come just
go out there and play free and not be like,
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not be tense as a rookie.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
And and it shows also, Nikobe.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
One of the things that people on the outside don't
realize is what a premium of the Philadelphia is put on character. Right,
And you got such a great group of guys and
and and I get to see somebody every week here
a chickens and piece, and everyone is so smart and
nice and personal, high characters.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Really, it's always like like you said, I was spoiled
in the sense I do hear a lot of I
got a lot of old teammates from Georgia days, just
around the league. I hear all these different type of
crazy stories. I'm like, man, we never had We don't
have guys like that on all team. Like we got
high carrier of guys. We got our vets are great,
they always helpful, they want to help me, they want
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to they don't want you to make the same mistakes
they made when they was younger and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Things like that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So, I mean it's it's always people, I mean, always
vets and teammates out there.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Is just the help.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And then you got domb in Case.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
We had them the guy, the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So and it's also a testimony to the drafting and
and scouting that they do and signing because you know,
Jayla Hunt went to a school that no one ever heard.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I did, don't know, I said, Houston smer.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It was they changed Houston Baptists and uses something and
yet and here he is and making a real presence
felt and dev I mean, just an incredible athlete out there.
And you see, so let's talk the linebacker position because
when the Eagles, if there were so many people around
here excited that they got you.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I know, I know you didn't want to go third round,
but you're still there. Legles drafted yet oh yeah, in
twenty twenty two, there were a lot of excited people.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I was excited too, And why why did you want
to come here? I mean I was excited because I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I knew the type of organization as far as doing
all the media, I mean the pre draft training and
everything you and then you started talking to guys who's
in the league already that you knew, you hear, you
hear the the good and the bad organizations from the top.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
To the bottom.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
The Eagles was one of the guy the people who
had a good organization, so just the and I was
happy to get drafted here. So other than that, you
hear the type of organization that the Eagles got from
top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
When you go third round, still second day of the draft.
But there's a long couple of day.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was long. It was definitely a
long was probably long than the first actually, but.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
In retrospect, yeah, it's a it's a drop in the buck.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I know, I know your girlfriend uh is up here
going to Villanova Law School, which is there's so many
great things about the area, exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And I went to Records Law School right across the
river from from Philodova.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And to hear her say how much she loves law school,
that boats very very well for.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Her exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's not an easy thing studying today.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's studying the day.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, she's that finals, final season, So for her to
be out here, I'm impressed and love that she came.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And just on your own studies.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You you actually have to me, what's an interesting background
for a football player? You know, Georgia football players. People
don't picture you that you're actually doing academic for shoots,
And I don't mean that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't. I don't mean that anyway. That's fired. But
you you have an engineering degraded background.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Uh, I'm still working to finishing.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You left her early, so it's my ad that all.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, I'm still working to his finished degree. But yeah,
I took a hard route in the sense, and yeah
it was hard. I just I just wanted to do engineering.
I always kind of help academics highly.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It started with my mother, my mother, my father, my brother,
my brother, my sister.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Always it was always academics for us. So I'm like
the first generational athlete in the family. Like nobody really
did athletics. But you know, so to them, sports was
just an afterthought. It was like an extra activity, dude.
And for me, it was like, uh, it had to
become it became like a priority that was with school.
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School was up here, and then sports caught up eventually
when I got probably like when I got my first offer,
that's when it kind of called around.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You could potentially do this exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We had more here last week and I got wh's
coming on and and we talked about his academics and
it's and he's got a Nigerian back on. His father
was with me saying listen, and his father's bigger.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Than he is.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A great guy. We were so happy to have him here.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But he almost his father said, our way of thinking
was almost looking down on sports. So it's so it's
funny how you know, he can't buy another super smart
guy but also playing sports as well. So I think
I think we're probably changing over in the thinking and.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Really the intellectual level.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you cannot make it, in my opinion, in football
unless you're one of those just ridiculous towns.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Unless you're smart.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
There is too much to study and now, yeah, be
disciplined and being a student athlete.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And so hard.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
A lot of people don't know that, but it's a
lot too, Actually it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But so talk to me, because when I talked to
you a while ago, I thought you said something this,
and I might be wrong, but that sort of your
way of looking at things from an engineering standpoint is
also a different way of looking at film. Is there
anything to your engineering background on thought process when you
watch and you're breaking down an offense and study.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Uh, I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Not Now I would say I got so much football
like IQ, And I mean it's still a lot more
I can learn. It's still a lot more to learning
and a lot more to grow from. But I feel
like right now I got so much football IQ. Now
I can just relate everything in football. But at first,
when I was learning, like when I got from when
I got I was smart. I was smart in high school.
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So when I got to college, I didn't know. I
don't play mad, I don't play a game, so I
didn't know like what none of the coverages were cover
zero to cover nine.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I did not know any of that's complex? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It was.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It was complex.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
So when I was learning, when I was first learning
defenses and learning and coverages, I was able to use
that engineering back. Well, I guess I want engineering background then,
but with that school background, that mathematics and everything, just
put okay, this is numb to go with this coverage,
this dropped this quarter quarter half or this quarter quarter
fires on It's like it's different. Uh, But I used
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that to kind of help me kind of mash them
all up together, and it worked out.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And I know that you also involved here in Philly
with the urban youth racing in that group, I.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Mean some really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And I saw you over there a few weeks ago,
just spent a second talking about that because people aren't
familiar with it, and they do a heck of a
job they do.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They do a great job. What they got over there,
what John and them got going on over there, it's.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Just I mean, I'm I didn't know nothing about racing.
I kind of I kind of sewed up at one
of their one of their racing events.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Even growing up in the South, now NASCAR or anything.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Not not not my people, not my peers and everything,
I didn't know nothing about racing.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
So just I kind of sold it to one of
their racing events.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
And ever since then, it's just been like it's been
love from them, you know, I kind of and I
was kind of intrigued by like the whole I didn't know,
Like it was kids, it's the after school program. It's
they trying to get kids who want to get out
of the.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Streets and everything.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Also kids who just want to get into the and
get to the staying with space, not even just racing.
It just the kind of the whole kind of things
just brought me in. So what they doing over there
is great and uh and I mean I love every
bit of it. So anything anytime they asked me to
do something is like, if I can do it, I
do it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It's right over there on sixteenth Street, uh, near Vine
and they have an unbelievable little campus there and they've
got all these racing simulators and really working with real drivers,
n as quarts.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's an incredible thing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Right back to football, there was a time yesterday Nikobe,
and I know you're not thinking about this, you're just
playing play by play and all all the stuff that
comes forward, But there was a series at the start
of the second half, really the first two possessions where
every tackle was tackle made by Nikobe kind of I
don't know if you were aware of that, but it
was there were there was really back to back possessions
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that the Fanthers had that you.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Were just all over.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean, uh, you kind of going into the game,
we kind of knew what they gonna try to do.
And then even with that, they kind of came out
and started doing something that wasn't no part.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But at the end of the day, we kind of.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Was out of position a little bit to throughout the
game to start it. So it was like we had
to kind of lock in, and I mean I was
just able to be in the position to make those
plays and clean them.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Up when we talk about coaching and consistency. So you
got here in twenty twenty two when you were a
Super Bowl fifty seven season. I'm still I'm still frustrated
with that loss. You too, I'll never I'll never get
over that at least, So you got the one coming up.
But we've watched an evolution with this team where you
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came in and your first defensive coordinator was Johnted Again,
Johnaton became a head coach based on the success you
had that season.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Right, and then you got Jasi right.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Who in the middle or late in the season they
replaced with Patricia And now you got Vig Fangios. So
in your third season, you're on fourth defensive coordinat talk
about the ex because obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Big Fani has made a huge difference in this team.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
So it's a big transition as far as the even
just scheme like gaming was like like a no blitz,
sit back and courters type of coach.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
And then like we then last year it was like you.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Can do a little bit more, a little bit more bleaching,
a little bit more cores, a little bit more man match.
And then it's like with Fanser with he got everything
like he got he got every bullet in his in
his repertoire. And it's also Fanser also almost kind of
switched up the way.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Even coach Syriani.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Thinks as far as like we haven't really got no
like victory Mondays where we get off. So usually you know,
we get off victory Mondays. My first two years about
week six, if we won, we didn't come in on Mondays.
So this this year we have not had one victory Monday.
We have came in and watched the family work every Monday.
And at first it was like, oh, like we're gonna
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come in every Monday, and now it's like we expected,
like the guys like look forward to coming in on
Monday to get into corrections and getting better for today.
So I feel like vig Fansiel kind of kind of
shifted everybody mind ever since because he's kind of old school,
and he had us doing like as far as practicing,
we still got one more paddy practice though, and we
usually never used even half of them, so and we've
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been using and we've been using, we have used almost
every single one of them, and we probably gonna he said,
he gonna, he gonna save that one paddy practice.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
That you feel like the weekday he felt like we needed.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So uh yeah, really interesting and probably a little bit
of an old school mixed in with the current exactly.
And we have victory Monday, and we're trying to keep
him going every week right here Chicki's and pizza and
this is our ninth Street and it has just been
a beautiful season so far.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Now, I also want to talk.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
About your linebacking partner going into this season's training camp.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You were coming off of, you know, I'm sure what
was a frustrating year with definitely has liszt Frank, which great. Yeah,
I'm gonna talk to you about for a second.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But back in this day, not that long ago, that
stuff could be career endy.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
And that's the first thing I heard when I had
got it, when they said, oh you got you gotta
Liz Frank, Oh, you know that's a career ended almost
and it's like what like, it's like my my career ended.
It was like, well, you know they got surgery and
everything now, but a lot of guys and we would
come back to do one hundred percent from it was
all negative things I heard from it wasn't it wasn't
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no guys who kind of came back from it, and
it was it was good From me, I'm like like,
so it was like I just took it as another
challenge to to to get over it.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
You know, work day in and day out, gets wrong
and get better.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
From me, well you look a whole lot better and
very very fortunate for you. Portrayed for the Phildelph Eagles
and portrait for.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All the fans here. You are back and doing your thing.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Aggregient.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You got so we gotta take one more break go
so fast. I don't want to let you go. But anyway,
we won't be back for our final segment.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
We are here at Chickens to be to Marlton, New Jersey,
as we are every Monday night, and we'll try to
keep making a victory Monday myself. Gerald called normally Dave
Spide we miss him today and our very special guest,
Ni Kobe Dean. You're listen to the All Pro phillyite
Player Show on Fox Sports A Gambler.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Spratt's totals and all the prop BET's in the twins.
It's the Gambler.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Welcome back to Chicks and Pizza, to Marlton, New Jersey,
the All Pro Philly Players Show, Gerald Calton alongs are
very very special guest Nick Kobe Dean, and a whole
lot of people out here. The CEO even got Pete Cherochi,
the third our proprietor here hosting and he and he
he's the Pete and Chickies and peats. He's actually third
generation Pete. The chickens and Peachs were started by his grandparents,
(35:44):
Chicky and Pete. His father, Pete Junior, has carried on
the torch and I mentioned that his mother was and
he cheerleader. Now Pete's third generation. Think he says defeat
the great host. Now his brother went to Texas, so
we got to talk a bit of Georgia, Texas.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
You your bulldogs had.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Some interesting games down the stretch here, sure, I mean
the Tech game that week Spore was unbelieved with all
the other times and great victors, but in the end
they have shown their true metal at the season that
looked like it might not be theirs and they got
a decent seat and.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Going to the playoffs. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I mean, George Take was a chap game for all
the people who wanted to bet against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
But someone's Carolina for against the Eagles yesterday.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah, I mean, yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
It's like everybody was saying, man, George, not they're good.
They George and Take took them down to the to
the wire, and I'm pretty sure they ain't do nothing
but puts the Bulldogs off because I know how it
was when I was there, and I knew all out
the game like that they're gonna want to come out
and make.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
A statement for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
So uh and then for our quarterback to go down
at the have and instead be able to pull it
off the way we did defense, standing up and everything.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I mean it was great.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So how much fun did you have that Bama didn't
make the playoffs because because there's a whole lot of
Georgia in the locker, but there's some Bama too.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I mean I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I mean after Mema lost against Vanny, I didn't expect
him to do nothing.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I mean, I know they.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Beat us, but uh, they lost against Vandy. So no,
no offense to all my my Vandy people. But when
they do when they lost his vent, I didn't expect
him to make it into the the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Very true, but I mean you got you got Davis
Carter yourself, ringo, ringo, and where those young guys just
get this show what he can do, right, yes?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
And Obama guys, of course you got Dickerson.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Uh Jalen?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Would you consider Jalen Bama?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
When I think of day and I think of Mema,
I don't think of Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
And I don't think most people do as well.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
And then there's ricks even and uh, oh man.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You got Steam there Steam.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
And I know there's a young guy named Young who
I don't really know.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Yeah, he came from Vegas. We got him right after,
right after camp.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
So there's gotta be a lot of smack talk.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I mean, they don't. They've been quiet this year. They've
been kind of quiet. They were talking a little bit
when they beat us, but they've been quiet.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Lately all right, So let's talk linebacker play because, as
I said, when we were going into the season, you
didn't really know who was going to start the Eagles linebackers.
I know you probably thought, hey, I got one of
the spots is mine. But but Devin White was signed,
and you know there was transition a couple of years ago.
(38:30):
T J Edwards did the show with me every week,
and you know TJ would then gave way if you
and your guys step in into real nice jobs. Last
year and and the position has historically not been treated
as one of the priorities here. They've sort of plugged
different guys in. Now things have come together so.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Well this year.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
And they signed Zach Land, somewhat unknown up here, even
unknown in New Orleans because he didn't really get a
chance to show what he could do it he didn't
play the position he's playing here. So talk to me
about how you guys have had so much synergy together
and at what point you realize that it's really the
two of you and you cannot just be the starting linebackers.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Good linebackers. I think you're both all Pro linebackers.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Yeah, So when if you asked me when we when
we first started training camp when everybody was in the room,
when we had no idea who was gonna be line
who's the linebackers?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
And you know b K which is our linebacker coach.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
He sat there and was like, uh, he spoke his
words and he said, anybody's got something to say? And
I told the guys, I was like, look, man, I
feel like we put in the work, we do the
things the way we're supposed to do, we can be
the best linebackers room in the in the league. And
then that's coming from me who haven't started a whole
season in the NFL, Zach who hasn't started a linebacker
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in the NFL, D White, who was who was solidified there.
But it was kind of like a room but he
had kind of like down your last year, cause like
it was a room for the like unknowns in the
sense for everybody else. But we knew we were and
it's like as long as we put in the work
and do what we did, is.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Like we knew that we can what we can be.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
What made you know that?
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
For me, it's for me, it was my ultimate companies
and myself first of all, first and foremost because it's
like at the start of the camp, you ain't. You
haven't really had too much time put in with those
guys other than O t as uh.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
And then I was hurting.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I was still towards the end of my UH recovery
do O t A, so I still was not I
had not too much time or task put on with
the guys. So for me, it was just the ultimate
companies in myself. It's like, uh, i'm a I know me,
I'm a I'm gonna do the best I can do
to be the best that try to be the best
version of myself. And I feel like I could be
(40:42):
the best version of myself, then I could be the
best in the world. But then I'll try to also
be an amplifier for other guys in the room also
make try to bring out the best of everybody in
the whole room, in the whole room, in the whole defense.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
It's so interesting you say that, because that's what it
looks like from the outside. I can't hear anything that's
going on, but you show that, and obviously what your
belief in yourself and what you thought you could do
you have made happen. And what it is amazing to
me is how quickly you made it happen, and your
first year playing together, your first year as a starter.
It's kind of time coming off that injury. And you
(41:15):
mentioned BK. One of the things to me that it's
so underrated the NFL people in the acid. I don't
know what like the players do, right is position coaches. Yeah,
that's the one he was spending most time with being
coached up by.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
And it just it's probably fancy of being over the
whole defense. That position coach means so much, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Yeah, you, like I said, you hear a lot of
stories about position coaches kind of just just being near
like instructing guys, and you know they just kind of
in that position, not not really.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Being a good coach. You hear.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
I had a lot of stories about that. But as
far as BK, he won't he actually wants you to be.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Better, he cared. I don't even know if he care
if he want to move up to be a DC.
One day.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
He cared about linebacker play, he cared about technique, he
cared about he only almost don't care about scheme.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Almost. It's like a good.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Line bankers are gonna play with good technique, They're gonna
flow stacking track and they're gonna be Uh, they're gonna
be the ultimate glue. Uh, they gonna we run with
four to three and we banged week three fifty, so
we want we're gonna be the ultimate glue and the
ultimately heaston this uh to the team and we with
if with that we brought out, we brought the saying
we're gonna be like the amplifiers of the team too.
We're gonna amplify everybody. If yeah, he good, we wanna
(42:26):
make him better. We're gonna if Zach get ten tackles,
he's gonna be like, hey, hey, you ain't got nothing.
You ain't got you ain't with me this week. So
it's like he pushed me to get better. So it's
like this kind of how we've been rolling with the
whole team, with the whole squad.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Is there any competition between you guys that.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
One, I mean for sure, but I mean kind of
with my ads this year but.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But it's funny because earlier in the show you talked
about the culture of the philadelph Eagles. Even though this
is the only TV ever played for the NFL, you're
hearing it from all the people who go around the
leap and you see the success that the good culture
organizations bring, right and actually you're playing one this week.
Pittsburgh's a very good culture organization, a great head coach.
It'll be a nice test and a nice game at
(43:09):
Pittsburgh Philadelphia rivalry, interstate and a nice even though it's
not interconference, it will be nice to say.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Yeah, another AFC opponent, you know, definitely with that in
the same division that the Ravens in. So they try
to bring a real physical brand of football, and we
look at ourselves as a physical team, so it's always.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
Great to be to come in.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
He's like, there's real football, and it's probably gonna be
a little cooler than it was this passes. So it's
gonna be a red December NFL football game.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Yeah, that sounds so Pittsburgh Philadelphia. Really, it really does.
And then and then when you look at this team
and you have played on national champions you've played on
a super Bowl team, and you're now sitting at eleven
and two with a few weeks ago in this season,
what does this team have that makes.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
You believe this is a championship team.
Speaker 5 (43:59):
I mean, for me, want the biggest thing that the
team has. I mean, we got all, we got connection piece,
everybody kind of close. But the biggest thing that I
see that points out to that that makes the team
the team that we are now.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
I won't even say because I'm not looking past the
Stealers and I'm not rushing yeah, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
Looking past the Steelers, but the team that has made
a team now, it's just our ability to want to
get better weekend and week out. It's not we don't
go into work like, oh, we had a good game
last week.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
We want to just keep this going. We want to
keep be as good as we are right now now.
We want to get better.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
We want to.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Continue with rise and get better weekend and we got
we want to strive to be one and though at
the end of every day and then want to know
at the end of every week and just continue to
just continue to strive and push like that. So that's
I feel like that's kind of been the biggest thing.
Like the work that everybody put in to get better,
the what coach like to call five hundred shots after practice,
(44:55):
everybody putting in their five hundred, the extra five hundred shots,
doing the extra whatever you gotta do to make sure
they too right individually to be ready for Sundays.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And Syrianni has a lot of those scenes like for
sure he do. And you enjoy him, don't you? I do?
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I mean because he he loved basketball.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
He a big basketball guy, so he always kind of
relate a lot of things to basketball and basketball players.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
And actually they was in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Trying to figure out what what NBA player are gonna
talk about next? He talked, He always talked about a
lot of a lot of different NBA players, so he's
trying to figure ot.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Who's gonna talk one name.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Well, yesterday Joel and Be finally got back on the court.
By the way, Okay, yeah he actually no, the Sixers
had a game at one o'clock on a Sunday in Chicago,
so nobody saw it because at one o'clock this entire
region and pretty much whole world's watching the NFL. But
glad to see him back on there. But maybe he
should talk a little baseball. Did you see Wan SODA's contract?
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Just off?
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Oh Man? What fifteen seven sixty five, fifteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
A year, three hundred and fifteen thousand a game? Anyway,
oh Man, all guaranteed, but you're doing just fine as
a Philadelphia Eagle. And what does it feel like a
kid from Mississippi by way of Georgia to be here
in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphiagos.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
Man, it feels great. It's a blessing. Like I said,
it's something that you kind of you kind of dreamed about.
Like I always kind of try to take a moment,
like I remember being in la because I remember being
in Georgia thinking, man, I haven't been.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
West of the Mississippi River.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I used to think, I mean other thing like Arkansas.
I was, I haven't been west of the Missisippi River.
So it was like the first time I was able
to go out to l A, or anytime I'm able
to go out to the West coast, I always kind
of take a deep breath and like, man, I'm a
long way from from Mississippi. Because it's like, while was that,
it wasn't a lot of people who wanted to move
(46:47):
from Mississippi.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
You know, a lot of people was comfortable with staying there.
It wasn't nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
You comfortable with your hometown and everything, and a lot
of people were scared to take flights. It was like,
and it's kind of it's crazy to me now, but
when I was younger, it's like, it seemed regular. It's
regular for people not to leave the area and things
like that. So for me to just be here and
still be living and growing and being able to travel
and get to do what I do, I'm blessed and
I'm thankful.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
I'm grateful.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
You ever been to Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
I have a good friend from him, the NFL player
Fred Bakery, a great guy, but we always joke with
both in Philadelphia. It's a little different. If you've ever
been in Philadelphia, Mississipipi. You know you have a big
week coming up besides the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I can't
believe how old slash young you are. You're about to
turn twenty four.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
I'm about to turn twenty four on Friday.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
You get a moment to celebrate it all.
Speaker 4 (47:40):
I got I think I got some. I got practice
on Friday. Then I gotta sign in and then I
think my mama and my girl.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Will want to take me out. They'll take me out.
But other than that, I'm not really doing.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
The week well.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
We recommend chickies and Peach. We have so many great
restaurants and fildever, so enjoy your birthday. We are so
glad that he traveled outside of Mississippi and Georgia and
joined the Philadelphia Eagles, and hopefully it's just a story
of a long, wonderful career.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
We love having you here. I'm glad you like it
as well.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
So on, behalf of my missing my partner Dave s Perdero.
We'll be back with us next week. For that's all right,
I got it. I got to talk for a change.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I got John jis Backer who's back to the studios.
A Sean Nick Board appreciate him. Mike Powers and our.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Man Matt Schultz here join us today and all the
people that come out to see you and our great
crew here at Chickens and Peach and our host star
proprietor Pete Cheroki the third. So on, behalf of myself
Fox Sports, a gambler. Thank you, Nikobe, thank you for everything,
and thank you for a great hour and joining us.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Everybody number seventeen Nikobe Dean.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
Please says wow, appleaceas.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
And we appreciate you being out here.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
We'll be back here next week and hopefully another victory
money so for Gerald Colton signing off saying thanks for
listening to the All Pro Philly Players show on Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
A Gambler, thank you.
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