December 19, 2024 • 48 mins
Jerrold Colton and Dave Spadaro are LIVE from Chickie's and Pete's in Marlton, NJ with #Eagles DB Cooper DeJean! DeJean talks the big win over the #Steelers for the #Eagles' 10th straight victory, the NFC East divisional tilt this weekend against the #Commanders, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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your hosts, Gerald Colton and Eagles inside it Dave Spadero.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good evening everybody, and welcome to Chicky and Pete Sidon
Marvel to New Jersey. We are here every Monday night
for the All Pro Philly Players Show, and you can
hear us live on Fox Sports Again but one of
two point five FM and Abaria's streaming channels. It has
been such a phenomenal Eagle season and every Monday night
we've been having a great time. Ten Street Victory Mondays
we have had. So I'm Gerald Calton. Welcome to my
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co host Daves Spadero. After major duty yesterday, we'll talk
about hopefully you're nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No they of course we do. They might care a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Maybe maybe I'll give them a hint it's wait, that's
good for another Eagles first. How about that you know
back in punt return Island.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, well, our guests will talk to us a little
bit in a couple of seconds about you know, next
man up.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But you were next man up yesterday, got.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And filled out of a PA and got to announce
the eagles tenth straight victory, moving them to twelve and two,
a franchise record.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They're all great wins. That was a particularly great day.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I mean, look, I think that the Eagles have shown
in every instance that they are up for the challenge.
And it's been a remarkable run. And it's it hasn't
gone by so quickly Gerald from two and two to now,
it's it's just blows by.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And the Eagles have done it in a variety of ways,
and yesterday was no exception. The one constant through this
whole thing has been the defense has been nails.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It was It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's the number one ranked defensive league, number two in scoring.
But they just get it done. It that was a lockdown.
While Pittsburgh some stuff happened that I've never seen before.
Pittsburgh ran so few plays in the second half and
it was just just domination. But not only was your
voice heard over the loud speakers at Lincoln Financial yesterday,
you heard a lot of cool and I want to
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and listen. We hear a lot of that sound, that
boo sounding in Philadelphia, but it now has taken a.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Whole other meaning.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And we are joined by an extremely special guest and
he was capturing everyone's attention along with another rookie cornerback
for the Philadelphia Eagles as part of this amazing defense
and what has turned into a fabulous season so far,
although we do remind every week, as Dave says, we
haven't accomplished anything yet. Very much coach speak, very much
locker room speaking, and we know there is an absolute
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lot of truth to that. So we are happy to
welcome today a guy who we are all thrilled is
in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. He
is in his rookie season, but it looks like the
start of what will be in incredible time here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So everybody welcome from Iowa number thirty three, Cool.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Bird Digan, thanks for having me excited to be here.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey, do your friends wonder not even your friends with
people like oh, hey, why are they booing you in Philadelphia?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Has that ever? I mean, I know they did in
Iowa too, but like, does anybody mistake the coop from booze?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
My grandmother first game she she came to, she thought
everybody was.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Bowing Welcome to Philadelphia, son.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Actually I watched the tape of the game again today
and and Kevin what hard.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
No, not hard than the other announcer, but he says, oh,
the coop.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Chan't going out, So I said, oh, at least he
recognizes it that they are not bullying in old Philadelphia fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Welcome Cooper, glad to have you here, Chickens and PiZZ
thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, thank you, thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I we appreciate everybody coming out, but you know, you
just finished the game at around eight o'clock last night.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And you know, we're we've just finished week.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Fourteen or fourteenth game, three more to go and then
obviously we want a whole lot more after that. So
obviously just coming out, taking the time out.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I'm sure after playing an.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
NFL game it's not easy to come and get out,
but the next day it comes to chicken a piece.
So thank you.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, absolutely excited to be here. Hey, so cool.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Let's talk about it, Like, how has it been the
rookie year, Like how it's a major transition. It started
off really bumpy with the injury in training camp, and
here you are just really excelling in everything you're doing.
Take us through the journey of this rookie season.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, Like, like you said, it started off a little
a little bumpy, you know, during during.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Training camp head a head of injury.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You know, played played mostly special teams the first four weeks,
you know, and then kind of kind of got in
the rotation here these these past ten ten weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
You know, it's it's been fun.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I've learned a lot, you know it just from the
older guys in the locker room, from the coaches, you know,
and I'm I'm gonna continue to learn, you know, throughout
throughout the season. And you know, a lot of a
lot of great people around our building, you know, to
to learn.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
From Cooper and also there's other veterans you got.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You got such a good mix of real young guys
and some veterans like a Darius slagh when you talk
about teaching and learning, And I've been really really impressed with.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
This coaching staff.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know, Vic Fangio, and then all the assistants underneath
of Nick Sirianni. You talked about coaching, the adjustment from
playing college football to playing this team for this team
and with the complex defensive scheme.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
How much of an adjustment has been and when you
don't start, when you're not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Healthy to start the season, has it been a good
learning curve as.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
The season is going on?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah, I mean right right when I got in here,
you know, I tried to the good thing about it
was everybody was learning the defense at the same time,
almost you know, with the with the new defensive coordinator.
You know, So when I got in here, the you know,
all the older guys were great to me. You know
that they helped teach teach the defense, you know, the
different techniques within the defense, you know, which which is
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great to have, you know, just just those guys you
know too, that are willing to help along with all
the coaches on our coaching staff. Talk about coach fangiou
what he's done and and and the type of coach
he is. You know, I've enjoyed playing for him, you know.
And then then all all the assistants you know from
you know, the Dbast Coast linebacker's coach, all those guys,
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just just the passion that they have for for our
team and and and for football in general. Just just
getting to play for those guys, it's it's been a
lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Do you feel, uh, And for people who don't know
that you were treated like a rookie? Does that happen
in the NFL? Or are you thrown into the pool
and expected to swim right away?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I wouldn't say it didn't feel like I was. I
was treated like a rookie, you know, not not in
the locker room.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Obviously there's there's your rookie duties that you that you
got to do, you know, for the older guys. But
you know, I think I think everybody really really welcomed
us in into the locker room, you know, and I
think we've got we've gotten really close, you know, over
the season and our time that we've been here.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Gerald is a sports agent, and so.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What the rookie duties are that I've seen are like
carrying Rita's water ice after practice, carrying helmets and pads,
getting popeyes. Well, actually, I don't know if you guys
bring the Popeyes on the road trips, the Popeyes Chicken
on the road.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
You have Popeyes there, so so you'd like to do
that and make us get something else.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Okay, but like in the old days, so Gerald, in
the old days players that you represented, I mean the
Paper Lion movie always comes to mind, where George Plimpton
is like that's waiting up, like wait, wait before your
parents time. But likes taped up to the goal post,
Like what kind of stuff did you do did some
of your clients subjected to They.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Did stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And you know, first of all, they weren't cell phones around,
and there wasn't always media there, you know, so they
were able to do some stuff that is not politically
correct in twenty twenty four, and the Players Association weren't
necessarily so most of it I'd rather not say, but
it was well, I mean, Cooper imagined they would tape
a guide to the goal post after.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I don't think that flies. It does not fly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But Cooper, coming into this season, unfortunately, you were injured
during training camp, and you were even injured at the
end of your senior year or your junior year.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You came out after three years of course.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
As a result of that, you had to miss some
of the preparation for the draft, which is probably part
of why the Eagles were so fortunate to be able
to get you where they did, which was still high
the number fortieth pick, so ninth or eighth pick of
the second round.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean coming out.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You know, I didn't know at first, you know, after
my injury if I if i'd you know, go to
the NFL, or if i'd say for another season at Iowa,
you know, but I thought I thought this would be
the right decision for me. There was you know, I
had to go through a lot, you know, with rehab
and prepare and not not being able to do anything
at the combine, you know, and then having to you know,
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have my own pro day, which right, which was almost
a month before the draft, you know. So but I'm glad.
I'm glad I ended up in Philadelphia. Ye I love
this place already.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'd want to let you go, but I'm ask something else.
But I want to ask one other question related to that.
Because the nil the name image likeness has changed college
football in sports, and now there's actually bidding wars to
keep guys in college or you know, and you have
to make a judgment. Some of these guys might make
more money in college. Did they make a hell of
an effort to try to keep you because obviously they
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didn't want to see you.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Lee Biowa?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, there was. There's there's a great effort to
try to get me, get me to stay, you know it.
It was a tough decision, it was, It really was.
I love I was That's where I grew up, That's
where I always wanted to play, you know, but I thought,
you know, this was the right time, you know, for
me to to make that next step.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
It's the right time for Philadelphia. That's explaining that to me.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Guys like, are you allowed to have an agent at
that point? Like, like literally they can't just camouflage it.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I was being called a marketing agent or something.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You're allowed to actually have legal guidance to make that decision.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I like Cooper answer.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But the answer is basically, yes, all the rules that
you've known that have existed forever no longer exists.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Okay, it's and it's you know, it's learning the NFL. Yeah,
I mean, if you're a professional athlete in college.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
But but what's crazier about it, of course, is that
there's not really contracts per se, so now they have
to transfer portal and there's bidding on all of those players,
so you could you could go play for a different
school every year.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
And and a salary cap. Either did you did you
handle all this to yourself or did you have some assistance? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I had assistance throughout, uh throughout college, which is which
was much needed. Have been been a little overwhelming for
I was handling all that by myself, and then I
can't imagine nowadays what what those college guys are are
going through. If they're handling by theirselves, well, here's what
they're gonna hear about their agents.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Cooper, this is Bill Belicheah. Yeah, I'd like you to
come play for me in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And those kids are making tons of Is that good
for Is that good for young players?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Is it good for college football?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
We just happened to have a young player city with us.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I think to a certain extent, I feel like there's
not enough rules in place to make it kind of
fair game for for everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Of course, now that I'm in the NFL, it doesn't
really affect me. You know, if I was in college,
i'd probably you know, be pretty happy with it, with
the rules the way they are, you know, but I
think pretty soon there might be it might be a
salary cap or or something. You know, coming to college
football turn more like professional football.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It's fantastic. I mean, so, so let's draft weekend. Eagles
pickin round one? Are you thinking that the Eagles are
just like off the board at that point?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I mean a that and then how much.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Did the Eagles show loved you in the whole process?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yeah, after after the first round.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I mean, I had no idea really, you know, I
didn't even know that did.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Because the Eagles straight up so they weren't on the screen.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I don't know when I when I was watching the draft,
so I had no idea until you Actually I declined
the first two calls because I was I was getting
a bunch of prank calls on on draft, so.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
They had to call my agent.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
So I had to pick up a phone for my
agent to to hear hear how he's voice some night.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Right, we got the first guy? Well, I mean the circumstances.
Did you want to hear Harry's voice? How He's voice?
He When I was negotiating with him. Sometimes I didn't
love hearing it, but but I have so much respect
for him, and obviously he's done an incredible jobank phone calls.
So that's why I won't get to So you were having.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
A draft party and I remember seeing video, So and
did you do it for for round one? Because the
way the draft works, you got Round one is the
first night, and then two and through here the next
So you did a Round one party where you didn't
Were you hoping or expecting to go around one?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Obviously hope? I was hoping, Yeah, because that has to
be a terrible it was. That was like my my
biggest fear of having that party. On the first night,
it was not going. But that's alright, it all worked out.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And so tell us about some of the calls you got,
because that is just such an awful, awful thing to do.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I don't know how that could be fun for somebody
who's waiting for the biggest moment of their life and
to tell them to just play a joke.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah, it was. I got.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I got about forty forty different prank calls from from
different numbers, which was so I had to change my
number get a on new phone, all the all that
fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So people are like pretend that they were the general
manager of something.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Holy moly.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So when you finally got the call, your agent had
screened it already.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
He yeah, he was yeah, I think he answered it.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
It was on his phone. Oh he was waking. Yeah, okay,
he was there. He's there, Okay, just to make sure.
And then he added to you and it turned out
to me. And and then how he said.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I think he said, are you ready to be all
you can?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Eagle? Yeah? And you know that's how. Yeah, did you
say that to the b y You guys too, Hey,
the rest is beautiful history in the process of being made.
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm an emotional guy, and I asked this two guys.
It's sometimes when it comes up any tears, I would
be crying like crazy.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
There's there's a lot of tears, especially what was my
family there, you know, being able to have them there
in that moment and all my my close family and
in furnace.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
It was. It was. It was great.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
You know, had you've been to Philadelphia yet at that point?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
So I had a had a Top thirty visit earlier.
A couple of months or probably a month prior prior
to the draft. So I got out here and was able.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
To to talk to the coaches and you know, meet
some of the front office people, which was which was
really great. And know I had five top thirty visits
and and this was, you know, by far my favorite.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
This is so good to hear and have a mock
press conference the press.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah with the voice now we all pieces together now
And what kind of questions you answer.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
That press conference?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
We just asked we prepare them for Philadelphia media that
it's like in the worst case scenario. So, I mean,
which is every day well so and so you you
really what you want to see how these draft prospects
respond in every kind of situation. But if it's what's funny, gable,
that is just Beagles a right now twelve and two.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A week ago they were eleven to two, and we
make a whole media controversy.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Cooper, in your locker room, you don't hear that noise, right,
you tune it out and you got I mean to me,
it looks like such a close team and look like
any family, any team.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
You might have little bumps, but yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And it's how you communicate and overcome, which was overcome
in a great way yesterday on the field.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Yeah, there's there's always there's always gonna be a little
bumps in the road, you know, especially throughout a long season.
You know, it's all about just staying together and continue
to go out on practice field to make things better
and make our team better and grow, you know, as
a team together. And I think I think he saw us,
you know, play well together, you know, last night.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And pretty much every night so far this season. And
of course big stuff still to come. As Dave points out,
we'll be heading to Washington next week, and you know,
clearly you don't look far ahead. But I did notice
one thing. I mean, it's it's kind of hard for
me to believe that you're a twenty one year old
young man in that the maturity you have and how
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you stepped onto the field in the NFL and seemed
completely unphased where you were. I don't know what's going
on inside of you, but that's how it looks from
the outside.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Even even you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Know, catching punts to me is so hard and when
we for all that stuff. But I did notice your
birthday's February ninth, it's just so your twenty second birthday
happens to be on Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I just happened to notice that coy sace a heck
of away to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
But we're not allowed to get far ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You can get as far ahead as you want, as
long as a team not to get far ahead. That's
all in media. Always get far ahead. I mean that's
kind of part of the draw, what makes it fun.
And but yeah, this is look that the Eagles just
made history yesterday, ten wins in a row, and I
don't think people like allow themselves to kind of absorb
what that means, because you're always looking to the next thing,
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and the next thing is beating Washington and clinching the
NFC East.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
And that's the that's the that is the goal in mind, right,
that is the goal.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
It's it's always it's always about you know, learning, learning
from the past game, and then moving on pretty click.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and then it's the story of the season. Teams
generally have the priorities or goals of win the division,
try to get the best record of the conference, win
the Super Bowl. I mean, so you got to get
that first hurdle and hopefully accomplish that first hurdle on Sunday,
But there was some things day yesterday that happened where
it was just great to see. You know, each week
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there's a new test rio and no games are easy,
but you know there have been certain things that come
up on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh, going to l A is going to be real
tough going out a ball and was going to be
tough Pittsburgh coming in, and you've handled them all so well.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
But yesterday you really did dominate, especially on the defense
on the defensive side, and then the offense just did
such a great job spreading the ball out handling everything.
Because today we talked about through the season the great
hallmarks of this team, and I think of any championship
team where that wonderful defense, a great offensive line, and
then the weapons on offensive Saquon Barclay, who's in the
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MVP conversation, and then your great receivers thousands out tight
end and then Calcultara steps in on me and to me,
the best offensive line league. It's just all the great
makings where you don't have to go out and score
fifty points. But they controlled the ball so well yesterday
without even running the ball like crazy. It was unbelievable.
Forty minutes of time possession only.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The last drive was ten minutes, twenty nine seconds off
the clock in twenty one place.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And they didn't have to score because they were running
out the clock, Ky Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Yeah, it's also the one person you did not mention
in that wonderfully eloquent statement was Jalen Hurts, who in
this ten game winning street because accounted for twenty six
touchdowns total, who has thrown I think one interception in
that time, who is never even mentioned in the MVP
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conversation other than by Nick Sirianni. And like, you know,
it's weird. It's I don't know why or what the
expectations are. But when your team is winning that much
and you can directly kind of pint it down to
a bunch of different things, why don't people ever include
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the quarterback he's had and he's had a great season.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
He has and he you know, to me, what the
beauty of him is.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, you mentioned mentioned the touchdowns, but the tush
push is somewhat taken for granted, and he's the best
at that, and the short range he has barely turned
the ball over. Yes, he did have a bubble for
the first time in like ten weeks, and it's just
been he's managed it. He has spread the ball aroun
maybe not always to everybody's looking out there, but it's just,
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you know, it's so so basically he hasn't been mistakes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He's done some great things.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm curious Cooper if you've had to defend the tush
push yourself, because that just looks like the most.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nasty thing to be involve.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
No, I haven't, thank you, thankfully. I'd hate to be
being there to try and try and stop that play
and have all those guys up front coming out to.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
It's on top of you or on anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Dave, on your note on Jalen, I did check some
odds today and after the victory over Detroit yesterday about Bufalo,
which we were all happy to see in Philadelphia. You're
not alloting to look out of town scoreboards, but we're
happy to see.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I did see where Josh Allen is now the prohibited
favorite for MVP, so whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And I don't think and frankly, I don't think Jalen cares.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I don't think Jalen cares. I don't think Saquon cares.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I think the only thing they care about is Lombardi Trophy,
and that's the only thing they should care about. I'm
sure Josh Allen really doesn't care about winning the MVP.
They've been so close to the Buffalo Bills, and he
wants to get the Super Bowl, will win, and that's
that's what makes him a great player too.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And I'm gonna put something else out that the guys
in lock them don't care about.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
And the guy with.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Us odds on favorite to win Defensive Rookie of the Year,
who do you think it is?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Dave? I read that story.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So it's your teammate, your fellow rookie, your fellow quarterback
queeny On Mitchell, who has just been unbelievable, and the
guy next to us is actually fifth odds.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Don't worry about it. I'm just saying, but it is
getting notice, you know around here?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
What's great? What's crazy about these guys like you? Don't?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I mean you hear you hear a little bit, certainly
during the course of the game with with Kop you know,
obviously the tackle of King Henry big headlines, big plays,
a lot of time, a lot of tackles, want of scrimmage,
good defense, Quinnyon. They don't throw to him, and he
doesn't make many plays because you don't they don't want
to challenge him, and you don't hear about him.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And it's like that's like the ultimate compliment. It's the
ultimate comp especially as a as a rookie. But when
he's done, who he's gone up against. I mean, I
don't know that there's ever been a been a rookie
that's playing at this high.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Of a level.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
He's great, though, Like when you want him when you
watch film, is he just she's like just sticking guys.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you turn on the tape, if
anybody turns on the tape, you just just watched twenty
seven out on the field, you can you can see him,
you know, just they're using this technique that we that
we talked about in practice.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You know, you've seen every day and just taking it
to the game.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Quick Cooper, your defense in general, And I'm not watching
the coaches film all the time, but I think you're
all locked down like it is. It is unbelievable how
well everybody's playing everywhere. And you saw, you know, Russell
Wilson's passes weren't near anybody with any chance to.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Be completed because you guys had everybody locked down.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And there was one other point, Dave, before we take
our first break, and that was yesterday was a play
that there was a fight and they were two Pittsburgh
ponies that actually cost them, you know, a touchdown opportunity
and drove them back and you smile.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
A little bit, ad But the queena.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Is being blocked by number eighty, the receiver who took
him like blocked, Yeah, blocked.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And Quenon came in to defense. That's a great teammate.
I thought it was for so I never got a
great great play, it reveal.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
As the PA announcer, I know exactly. You are on
top of binoculars up there. Uh spot her. You don't
have time, You don't have time. Gosh, it's hard. But
so someday maybe you guys will be up there in
the PA booth and I love you with the people.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But anyway, but he was so it was it was
Slay was blocked all the way through about the five yardline,
like he was a blocking slide all the way through
the end zone into to the wall.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
It looked like I don't know if you've ever seen
the blind side.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But Michael Warri said it took the kid all the
way across the field and put him over the fence,
that it was time for him going.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
But obviously that wasn't taking well. It drew two penalties.
I'm just curiously you were right right around there for
what was going on.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I mean, I think, you know, I think if you
if you look at that video and wash watch it back,
you can just see, you know, all the all our guys,
you know, coming coming to his defense. I think it's
just shows, you know, how together this team is, you know,
defending our defending our others, you know, no matter what happens.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Right, We're going to take a quick break. Here we
are at Chickens and Pizza, Marlton, New Jersey. We'll be
here for another half hours, so so come on by.
It's Dave Spanera, Joe Coltman, our very special guests, Eagles
rookie quarterback Cooper Usion.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Stick around. We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
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Speaker 2 (24:35):
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Speaker 3 (24:43):
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Speaker 2 (24:47):
Is our guest today had a lot to do with.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Those ten wins.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And going forward, we'll only play a bigger and bigger
role as he's in only what he's only played, which
is incredible twelve games.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
And it's interesting. It's the nickel cornerback position.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
And you know, Cooper in training camp as we kind
of tried to get to know Vic Fangio, he made
I remember writing a story on Fangio is and I
do sideline recording in the preseason game, so everybody's trying
to do what is Nick all about? And he made
a comment that I found really interesting. You said that
the nickel cornerback position is really not a cornerback, it's
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a linebacker. Has expressed that to you and kind of
explain what that means in your mind.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I think it's it's it's more of a linebacker than
it is a defensive back, just because of of where you're,
where you're placed on the field, and where you have
to fit in within within the defense. You know you
you're you're heavily involved in the run game, but you're
you're involved in the past game a lot too, you know,
so i'd agree. I think it's I think it's more
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of a linebacker than it is a defensive back, just
just the way you have to you have to fit, you.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Know, in the run game, you know, almost just.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
As important as as it is how you're involved in
the past game.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Is that something that Iowa, did you play more outside?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Like?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Is that something you had to kind of you know,
get your mind wrapped around that. You gotta be you're
a big, strong guy, uh, that you're gonna be in
the hole. Man, You're gonna you're gonna make plays with
the line of scrimmage against the run game.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I played a little bit inside in college, you know,
but it was it was mostly outside, you know.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
So it's it's it took.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
A little bit of learning, you know when I when
I got here, learning learning how to play inside and
how to different techniques and how to fit in the
run game and and when I need to, you know,
be true to the passing game.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
You know. So it's it's a tough position to play,
but I enjoy it, Dave.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm gonna followup for that a second, But I also
have to say we're Chicken's piece every Monday, also after
the game yesterday, and a whole lot of other stuff.
And Chickens and Peach restaurants all through the region are
far and away the best sports for and they're.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Not just in this region.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can see them and they even have one because
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Andy Reid. Heaven has one in Kansas City and a
lot of the visiting teams Cooper will ask for takeout
or to go from Chickens and Pezz to take back
to the airport. And he will never let the Dallas
Cowboys buy. And we have Pea Cherokee the third here
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the son of Pete Junior, and he is he comes
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pizza across the region. Spend one hundred dollars to get
a fifty dollars gift card, so basically fifty dollars free
and you'll get all the great food and drink and
atmosphere at Chickens and Piaza.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And by the way, Dave, Yes, at seven o'clock tonight,
your Philadelphia seventy six ers. I used to say, you are,
but I'm a little you.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Can't bail, dude, I know what bail. I was there
through nine and seventy three.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Say yours our I'm a little disappointed. No, Remember the
Eagles are playing the Washington Commander Sunday, right, all right
in our division.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
The owner of the Washington Commander. Here we go back
to Josh Harrison.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, he's the owner of the Sixers. It's really hard
for me to embrace them. We got to go kick
his butt on Sunday as.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Seven o'clock. The Sixers play.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Home tonight, they play at Charlotte. Of course, Joel and
Bean now out with his orbital fracture.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Just so you know, supposedly there's been nine fractured orbitals
suffered during the NBA history.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
He has three.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And then uh, and we've got McCain, our great great rookie.
He broke a fingernail and he's out. I mean, I'm sorry,
toy meniscus and he's out, and as well as our
big signee, Paul George.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's whatever anyhow, we're talking Philadelphia Eagle. But like dude,
he can he can talk basketball. Well, I'm going to
talk fans, right. I mean, that's a great my transitions.
So look, because I know it was your first level,
it was your first leve. Everybody would rather play basketball
than play football, right, baseball?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Right now? Baseball? Oh that's Soto contract.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But but obviously you were a terrific basketball player. If
nobody knows that, go watch Cooper Jean's highlights.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And it is it is were you were you a
great basketball player or just a highlight film?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I was an okay basketball player, not not as good
at basketball as I was at at football.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Okay, what was your game in basketball?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I mean a high flyer for dunk and I saw
I could shoot a little bit though too.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I think you know, most of the highlight tapes have
all my bunks. But I can I can choose who's
a better athlete, Mom or Dad. That's a that's a
good question.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
And they were both both basketball players. My mom's in
there in their college basketball Hall of Fame at.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
At at our school. Wow, so that they were both
they were both really good basketball players.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Dave, I want to interject for one second. All the
great athletes I know or youre athletes, played great athletic mothers.
That gene gets passed on more from the mothers, and
so when you have the combination.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But there's almost there are so many guys whose mothers
were great athletes.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Like I've always wondered how my kids were good athletes.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I just try hard athlete. But anyway, I'm sure I
never signed him studied it. But it's common that great athletes.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
It was there they got more of the chip from
the mother's gene the Schipka. When you got it from both,
it's it's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But at Iowa, while you were there, they had a
pretty good basketball player on the women's side named Kate
and Clark, and you got to know her a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Yeah, yeah, she's she's a great player, great great person too.
You know she's I think she's one of the most
exciting basketball players I'll watch right now, just just what
she's able to do on the floor. She can shoot
it from anywhere, she can create plays, you know, she
can she can do it all on the basketball court.
So I think she's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
How hot was the basket the women's basketball scene there
when when Katelyn played was was Was it just electric
at the arena?
Speaker 7 (30:55):
It was crazy? It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
They sold out all their home games, no matter who
who they were playing against. Everybody wanted to watch her
play and watch them play. They played, they played well together,
you know, and then they went on a couple of
Final four.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Runs there, which was really cool. You'd have people, you.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Know, outside outside the arena almost four hours before before
the game. You can't even get in until till two hours.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
It was Yeah, it was crazy. Could you could you
beat her in a game of horse?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
How about one to one?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
That's well, I mean, we know he would, but he
was asked that question and it kind of went viral
because it was like, oh, really, yeah, we know he could.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I don't want to put him on this boat. We
know he could corse or might be a.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Different story though he could shoot it.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And it's also do you believe you could be Kaitlyn
Clark in a game of one on one?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I personally, I just want to say that I think
Caitlyn Clark may have done more for women's basketball than
anyone else ever.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Hacks.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I've been so amazed by not just her.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Play, but just the maturity and the personality, the demeanor
she exhibits.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And there's a lot of haters of her out there.
She has just held up so well.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
So do you think you can beat her in one
on one?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I could not, okay, But but in back in my day,
I could.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Not have beat her.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That I never because I never really had a day.
But listen, first of all, we are really glad this
football thing worked out well.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And although what I saw, you probably could have done
a lot of things, which includes baseball and track, because.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You you were pretty good as both a sprinter and
a long jumper.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Yeah, I mean at a small school.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
I mean, you know, a lot of a lot of
schools around here, I feel like are bigger, so you
might not see a lot of a lot of forestport athletes,
but at a small school, it's it's pretty common. So
that's that's what I did at at at my school,
and I played all four sports.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
And I enjoyed every single one of them.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I wish I could continue to to play all of them.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
You know, just just keeps you busy. You kind of
just roll from one sports to another in an.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Erow where kids when you're really good at one sport.
The I don't know who makes a decision, to parents
or whatever, they tend to force you to just stay
in that sport and then when you're not playing that sport,
trained for that sport benefits you. Do you think Cooper,
that you continually played different sports, kept things fresh, you know,
you know, challenge different parts of your body, different parts
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of your brain, and just played because you loved it
hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I think, yeah, I wouldn't be the football player I
am without without the other sports that I played.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I think they played at a tremendous.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Impact on on my football game and the way I play.
You know, just just the different things that you do
in each sport and they have to think through things,
you know, and you know, you don't really you know,
get burnt out from just you know, if you're just
playing one sport, you know, you just continue to learn
new things and and move on from one sport to another.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's it's a great question, though, Dave, because I think
it's better for your overall flasism and a whole lot
of other things. But you played quarterback and football along
with the feedback stuff.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Did you like the offense or the defense? Better. I
love playing quarterback.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I think it's it was the most most fun position
to play. I think, you know, in the high school
you ran, we were on a spread offense, so we
threw the ball about thirty times a game, which was
which was a lot of fun. I actually wanted to
play quarterback in college, but I only only I went
offer to play.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Quarterback in college.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And if I'm not mistaken, that was from South Dakota State.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, so that's Dallas. Dallas got it in school.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, and Bactley actually in the in the state you
were born in. So how did you make the decision?
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Just that Ioways was bigger football program, and yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
I was my my only FAIS offer and it's it's
where I grew up in that I was the only
offer FBS FBS.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Wow, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It shows how bad they are judging.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I apologize to you if you I you know, you
know you've done a lot of interviews and I don't
know if you've addressed the topic of being a white cornerback.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Throughout the course of your career.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Uh you know, I mean you guys make fun of it,
like you guys like.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
What I mean.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
The truth is that there has not been a great
white cornerback in the NFL since Jason Seahorn.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
So, uh, like you hear it from guys on the on.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
The field, like every once in a while you will Yeah, well, yeah,
there's there's a lot of there's a lot of jokes
made made in the locker room, which is which is
kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
It's all, it's all funny games. But every once in
a while you'll.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Hear from from guys if they if they're talking talking
crap on the field.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Like can you give it? Can you give you an
example of a trash talking uh wide receiver? Let's say,
who hey, white boy?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
You can't he don't like there's a there's a lot
of in college, there.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Was some some some crazy things.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Well Cooper, you and Read Blankenship, who is also a
guest stars early in the season. We appreciate everybody comes
out and you know, we have such high regard for
reading all of them as people and player.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
But you guys have actually kind of made a joke
of that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
The I was in the mall one day and these two, uh,
these two guys came up to me with some with
some T shirts with I said, exciting whites and me
and Reid on them, so we I told him to
send them send me to and then me and Reid
would wear them pretty pre game walking into the game,
so they kind of kind of blew up a little
bit after we did that.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
A great Christmas presence, by the way.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
All right, we're going to take our final break of
the show and we'll come back for for our last
segment and wrap things up as well as look ahead
to next week. And we are chickens and pizza more often,
but all the chickens and pizza across the region, which
are the best place to watch games where the players
go such as Cooper Jean and his teammates and come
catch any game here.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
We've got college bowl game season going on the championship tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's not one but two and and and one of
them does matter to the Eagles potentially.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
To Minnesota Vakings playing. So do you watch football time? Yeah,
you're a football fan. Yeah, I'm a huge a lot
of guys playing the football. I'll watch it all day.
We're gonna we're.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Gonna ask your pick for the college playoff series, So
we're gonna put you on the record who will win
the national championship.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I was not in it this year, but but but
they are always, you know, in the picture, and that's.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That's a great thing going to school like that. But anyway,
so we'll be back for our final segment.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're listening to the Awful Pro Philly Players Show, Dave Spadero,
Jerrold Cold and our very special guest.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
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Speaker 2 (37:46):
Welcome back to Chicken PiZZ in Marlton, New Jersey. We're
having a great time here, as we do every Monday night,
coming down the home stretch.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
Of the All Pro Philly Players Show.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm Gerald Colton, my co host Dave Spadera, and we're
with an extremely special guest, an Eagles rookie.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
We're back, Cooper the Gene. Listen.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
First of all, we want to know we have to
carry you off. We wouldn't love to have you come
back sometime. So hopefully you're enjoying yourself here. Certainly a
great town, good and certainly the crowd loves you and
you're welcome to Philadelphia has been really welcome you.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You know what, God idea, what's been like, that's exactly exactly. Listen,
and that's part of we gotta give your background just
for one more time. You know, born in South Dakota,
raised and I would go to school in Iowa. And
you're not in Iowa anymore. You're in Philadelphia.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
That's slate.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So talk about that transformation from the Midwest being out
here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Yeah, it's it's been. It's been different.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
I grew up in I grew up in a town
of about just over nine hundred people, so it's uh wow.
And then going to Iowa City. Iowa City is not
I mean, it's not huge, you know. So coming here
to Philadelphia and in the big city, it's it's been.
It's been a little bit of a change. But I
think I think I've enjoyed it. You know, the people
out here, they're great. They're great, great people, great fans,
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very very passionate, you know. So it's it's been good.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
So long.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Are you at the point now, Cooper where like you
can't really go out and just kind of blend into
the crowd.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Not I can still blend in pretty well.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Yeah, so I'm I'm not there yet. Well, just give
it a little time. I don't.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I'm not how it's really go out. You might be
wrong about.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
That's a crowd you're going into where you're playing. It
wasn't a bunch of twenty one year olds who are just.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Like but they're yeah, but they're all everybody.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Have you found, like everybody is a football fan in Philly?
Speaker 7 (39:29):
Isn't it great?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
I mean everybody see yeah, I mean this, Cooper, this
is an amazing sports town.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You use the word passionate, and some people give us
a bad rap a little bit, but nobody cares more
about their teams in Philadelphia, and.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
The whole region is into it.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
It's not just you know, some people, it is everybody,
and how the Eagles do is more important than any
of the other teams.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And you know, it's it's it's it's really it's a
great sports town. But it's mostly an Eagles town, and
you know, the people are just so into your team.
And it's really, to some extend a little scary sometimes
because how you guys do affects the mood of the
entire city for a week and then for for the six.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Months until it strikes up again.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So I would though it was a pretty particularized you
got a mic under a microscope.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Also because you.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
As University i Wall are everything for a big, big region. Now,
Iowa has a really cool thing that happens at the
start of each fourth quarter for their home football games,
and I wanted you to tell people about it, about
what happens with the hospital and the children right there.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yeah, so it's after after after then the first quarter
is when when when the wave is you know that
the children's hospital overlooks the the stadium.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Everybody turns and waves up to the to the stadium.
It's it's it's really cool. You know.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
It's probably one of my one of my favorite moments ever,
you know, you know, playing sports is being able to
to participate in that. If if, if you've never seen that,
I'd recommend looking.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Up a video of it. Is prett It's pretty you know,
inspiring and cool, you know.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
And I was able to you know, we had my cause,
my fleet, so I was I was able to support
that through my cause.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
My fleets was which was really cool.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
I think one of the most important thing athletes can
do is to use the platform that you have to
make a positive impact on whatever cause you believe in.
And it seems like you really embraced that that concept
very quickly.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean I was a special place to me,
and growing up there, you know, growing up in Iowa,
fan and and the Children's Hospital is a big part
of the university and and our football team, you know.
So any chance I get to to support them and
and and do whatever I can.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
For them, I'll always take advantage of that.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Cooper the the art of playing cornerback in the NFL.
I'm gonna try to get this question out the right way.
So is it more difficult to learn the technique to
master the technique you're being taught or is it the
quality of the wide receiver that is so much better
from college to the NFL? But what is the most
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difficult part of making that transition?
Speaker 7 (42:08):
I think I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
A lot of it's tech, more of its technique probably,
you know, and and just understanding the leverage and and
how to move your feet, want to use your hands,
you know, because and then come to the NFL from college.
You know, college you have you have receivers that they
might have one or two, you know, solid receivers.
Speaker 7 (42:27):
You know, when you get to the NFL, everybody's here
for a reason.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
You know, everybody can play, you know, so you got
you gotta be ready to you you gotta be ready
to cover.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
You know, each each and every game.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Has there been one or two receivers who've really kind
of gone, Wow, that guy's that guy's really good.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
I think when I when I covered Adam Feeling against Carolina,
you know, he he's he's a veteran, veteran guy, you know,
and he's he's still playing at a high level.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
You know, I grew up watching.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Him getting to to compete, beet against him.
Speaker 7 (42:59):
You know, I learned a lot, you know, going going
up against him. What's what's so good at doing?
Speaker 6 (43:04):
I think it's just just how he uses uses his body,
and you know how physical he is. You know, he understands,
you know, how to get open. That's that's the key,
you know, is getting open. And and he's done it,
you know, for I think twelve thirteen years, maybe you know,
he's done it for for a long time.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Well, Cooper, I would think that covering a J.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Brown and oh yeah, you know Smith in practice is
as good as you're ever facing.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
That's that's as good as you're gonna get you know,
and and for us as a defense, to have those
guys to to go up and and compete against is
great for us, you know, especially a young guy, you.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
Know, I know, Q and Q and A J And Smyney.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
We're going at it during camp a little bitch, which
is fun to watch. But but those guys only are
only going to make us better. I mean, and we
talked to him, you know occasionally throughout the week. You
know about about you know, defensive backs or receivers and
what they try to do, you know, so they help
us out a lot.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
There's one other thing also, the punt returney to me,
I think it's sort of underappreciated. I don't think anybody
realizes how hard it is to catch a punt. To
look up and this guy catch that ball coming at
you as a missile while everyone's running at you.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
And you know, I don't even know how you pick
up where everybody is. But there's another thing that you do.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
When I was paying attention to close attention to yesterday,
is that you're covering somebody on third down.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
You're running a lot, and then you got to get
back here and turn the punt.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Do you ever think of that does it ever affect you, Nah,
I mean I've done it and since ever since college,
you know, so I just after a third down turns
fourth down, run back there.
Speaker 7 (44:41):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Kind it kind of keeps me in in a good flow,
good flow throughout the game. So I enjoy doing it,
just you know, whenever we get to stop on third down,
just running right back there, and you know, trying to
put our offense.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
In a good position to score. I'm sure it's nice
to touch the ball. And the last part on what
David asked you earlier, sort of the hybrid position of
the slot to me, and especially for the size of
a corner, there's so much more tackling involved, and.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
That whole, that whole linebacker aspect.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
It's just a hard thing that a lot of conage
in the aside don't have to worry about quite as much.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, not not as much
on the outside, but but when you get inside and
you're playing you're playing that nickel position almost right.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
Where the linebackers are. You gotta you gotta be able to.
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Tackle and understand your fits and and not get out leverage.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
And and be able to to make plays.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
In the open field, Does the ball get up on
you much faster? Clearly, the the precision of the NFL
quarterback is far greater than the college quarterback. Is there
a huge difference between a college quarterback and an NFL quarterback?
Speaker 6 (45:44):
There there is quite a bit of a difference, I
think between between college and and NFL quarterbacks. You know,
there's there's been multiple multiple plays where where I've been
on a guy and you know he's he's made a catch,
and then I wonder how how the quarterback even even
fitted in. You know, so just the talent of the quarterbacks,
you know, in the NFL is is is off the charts.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Well, Dave, you mentioned Jalen earlier House sort of underappreciated.
He started the game yesterday with his first throw, and
I was in.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
The end zone. I like this a different place to
get their perspectives. I probably like the end zone the
best stuff I really do you get to You get
to see so much of the field that way, sort
of sort of the view you get as a player
just a little higher. But his first throw was an
uncharacteristic first play call for your team, and it was
a tough ball to Calcatara over the linebacker and in
front of the d back and I just said, Wow,
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that's an awfully great throw to start a game.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
It doesn't show you right there how good the quarterbacks
are in the NFL. They can they can put it anywhere,
you know, to a player, and they put they seemed
to put.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
In in the right spot and most of the.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Time, and then it came a just continued from there.
Speaker 7 (46:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Another challenge is week Jayden Daniels Round two Washington Commander's
NFC East on the line here when and the Eagles
clinched the division, a division that has not had a
repeat winner since two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
the Philadelphia Eagles. So Cooper, we wish you the best
of luck on Sunday again. Thanks for coming in and
keep up the great work. Thanks for having put a
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quick question before, and we're going to get him out
of here.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
But the question is you've played Washington already? Yeah, all right,
do you think it'll make a difference time You played
them once already and you guys did a fabulous job
against their great receiver McClaren in Game one.
Speaker 7 (47:25):
It'll be tough.
Speaker 6 (47:26):
It's always it's always tough to when you play a
team twice, you know, so I'm just the matchup and
the chess match between the two teams. You know, it'll
be a tough game, and so we're gonna have to
prepare all week like we have and you.
Speaker 7 (47:39):
Know, be ready to play on Sunday. Can't thank you
enough for coming out and joining us.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Can't tell you how much we are happy you are
a Philadelphia Eagle and how much we're enjoying the start
of your career and looking forward to everything great that
will come in the future.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
So thanks.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
A few people think around here really thank Tyler for
coming and pinshitting.
Speaker 7 (47:55):
That's another next man up. Our normal video guy wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
He stepped right in, just like Dave Spanero did on
on the loudspeaker last night.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
It wasn't loudspeakers called address, he used speakers. Sounds like
it's in my basement, all right.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
Well, Dave, when I when I was young, it used
to just be a megaphone.
Speaker 7 (48:14):
Chimes of cheek.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
John Jansen is always from being here.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Thank you and all the staff of Chickens and Peach
Pechecherrochi the third coming out and Spencer taking great care of.
Speaker 7 (48:22):
Us, and all the people who show up. We appreciate
you all.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Sorry if we can't always make it happy, but we
tried to and try to come in. We'll be back
here next week with another great guest, and we also
want to thank everybody listening. Of course on Fox Sports
a Gambler, so behalf of my partner Daves Banaro, the
PA announcer, publicand dress announcer for the Philip Eagles yesterday,
and a.
Speaker 7 (48:40):
Whole lot of other things there.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
I'm Gerald called mostly thanking Cooper Jane for coming and
joining us here for an hour.
Speaker 7 (48:48):
Go Cooper.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
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Speaker 7 (48:56):
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It's the All Pro Philly Players Show. Now Here are
your hosts, Gerald Colton and Eagles inside it Dave Spadero.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good evening everybody, and welcome to Chicky and Pete Sidon
Marvel to New Jersey. We are here every Monday night
for the All Pro Philly Players Show, and you can
hear us live on Fox Sports Again but one of
two point five FM and Abaria's streaming channels. It has
been such a phenomenal Eagle season and every Monday night
we've been having a great time. Ten Street Victory Mondays
we have had. So I'm Gerald Calton. Welcome to my
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co host Daves Spadero. After major duty yesterday, we'll talk
about hopefully you're nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No they of course we do. They might care a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Maybe maybe I'll give them a hint it's wait, that's
good for another Eagles first. How about that you know
back in punt return Island.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, well, our guests will talk to us a little
bit in a couple of seconds about you know, next
man up.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But you were next man up yesterday, got.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And filled out of a PA and got to announce
the eagles tenth straight victory, moving them to twelve and two,
a franchise record.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They're all great wins. That was a particularly great day.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I mean, look, I think that the Eagles have shown
in every instance that they are up for the challenge.
And it's been a remarkable run. And it's it hasn't
gone by so quickly Gerald from two and two to now,
it's it's just blows by.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And the Eagles have done it in a variety of ways,
and yesterday was no exception. The one constant through this
whole thing has been the defense has been nails.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It was It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's the number one ranked defensive league, number two in scoring.
But they just get it done. It that was a lockdown.
While Pittsburgh some stuff happened that I've never seen before.
Pittsburgh ran so few plays in the second half and
it was just just domination. But not only was your
voice heard over the loud speakers at Lincoln Financial yesterday,
you heard a lot of cool and I want to
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and listen. We hear a lot of that sound, that
boo sounding in Philadelphia, but it now has taken a.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Whole other meaning.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And we are joined by an extremely special guest and
he was capturing everyone's attention along with another rookie cornerback
for the Philadelphia Eagles as part of this amazing defense
and what has turned into a fabulous season so far,
although we do remind every week, as Dave says, we
haven't accomplished anything yet. Very much coach speak, very much
locker room speaking, and we know there is an absolute
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lot of truth to that. So we are happy to
welcome today a guy who we are all thrilled is
in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. He
is in his rookie season, but it looks like the
start of what will be in incredible time here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So everybody welcome from Iowa number thirty three, Cool.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Bird Digan, thanks for having me excited to be here.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey, do your friends wonder not even your friends with
people like oh, hey, why are they booing you in Philadelphia?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Has that ever? I mean, I know they did in
Iowa too, but like, does anybody mistake the coop from booze?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
My grandmother first game she she came to, she thought
everybody was.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Bowing Welcome to Philadelphia, son.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Actually I watched the tape of the game again today
and and Kevin what hard.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
No, not hard than the other announcer, but he says, oh,
the coop.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Chan't going out, So I said, oh, at least he
recognizes it that they are not bullying in old Philadelphia fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Welcome Cooper, glad to have you here, Chickens and PiZZ
thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, thank you, thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I we appreciate everybody coming out, but you know, you
just finished the game at around eight o'clock last night.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And you know, we're we've just finished week.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Fourteen or fourteenth game, three more to go and then
obviously we want a whole lot more after that. So
obviously just coming out, taking the time out.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I'm sure after playing an.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
NFL game it's not easy to come and get out,
but the next day it comes to chicken a piece.
So thank you.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, absolutely excited to be here. Hey, so cool.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Let's talk about it, Like, how has it been the
rookie year, Like how it's a major transition. It started
off really bumpy with the injury in training camp, and
here you are just really excelling in everything you're doing.
Take us through the journey of this rookie season.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, Like, like you said, it started off a little
a little bumpy, you know, during during.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Training camp head a head of injury.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You know, played played mostly special teams the first four weeks,
you know, and then kind of kind of got in
the rotation here these these past ten ten weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
You know, it's it's been fun.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I've learned a lot, you know it just from the
older guys in the locker room, from the coaches, you know,
and I'm I'm gonna continue to learn, you know, throughout
throughout the season. And you know, a lot of a
lot of great people around our building, you know, to
to learn.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
From Cooper and also there's other veterans you got.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You got such a good mix of real young guys
and some veterans like a Darius slagh when you talk
about teaching and learning, And I've been really really impressed with.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
This coaching staff.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know, Vic Fangio, and then all the assistants underneath
of Nick Sirianni. You talked about coaching, the adjustment from
playing college football to playing this team for this team
and with the complex defensive scheme.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
How much of an adjustment has been and when you
don't start, when you're not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Healthy to start the season, has it been a good
learning curve as.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
The season is going on?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah, I mean right right when I got in here,
you know, I tried to the good thing about it
was everybody was learning the defense at the same time,
almost you know, with the with the new defensive coordinator.
You know, So when I got in here, the you know,
all the older guys were great to me. You know
that they helped teach teach the defense, you know, the
different techniques within the defense, you know, which which is
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great to have, you know, just just those guys you
know too, that are willing to help along with all
the coaches on our coaching staff. Talk about coach fangiou
what he's done and and and the type of coach
he is. You know, I've enjoyed playing for him, you know.
And then then all all the assistants you know from
you know, the Dbast Coast linebacker's coach, all those guys,
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just just the passion that they have for for our
team and and and for football in general. Just just
getting to play for those guys, it's it's been a
lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Do you feel, uh, And for people who don't know
that you were treated like a rookie? Does that happen
in the NFL? Or are you thrown into the pool
and expected to swim right away?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I wouldn't say it didn't feel like I was. I
was treated like a rookie, you know, not not in
the locker room.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Obviously there's there's your rookie duties that you that you
got to do, you know, for the older guys. But
you know, I think I think everybody really really welcomed
us in into the locker room, you know, and I
think we've got we've gotten really close, you know, over
the season and our time that we've been here.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Gerald is a sports agent, and so.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What the rookie duties are that I've seen are like
carrying Rita's water ice after practice, carrying helmets and pads,
getting popeyes. Well, actually, I don't know if you guys
bring the Popeyes on the road trips, the Popeyes Chicken
on the road.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
You have Popeyes there, so so you'd like to do
that and make us get something else.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Okay, but like in the old days, so Gerald, in
the old days players that you represented, I mean the
Paper Lion movie always comes to mind, where George Plimpton
is like that's waiting up, like wait, wait before your
parents time. But likes taped up to the goal post,
Like what kind of stuff did you do did some
of your clients subjected to They.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Did stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And you know, first of all, they weren't cell phones around,
and there wasn't always media there, you know, so they
were able to do some stuff that is not politically
correct in twenty twenty four, and the Players Association weren't
necessarily so most of it I'd rather not say, but
it was well, I mean, Cooper imagined they would tape
a guide to the goal post after.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I don't think that flies. It does not fly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But Cooper, coming into this season, unfortunately, you were injured
during training camp, and you were even injured at the
end of your senior year or your junior year.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You came out after three years of course.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
As a result of that, you had to miss some
of the preparation for the draft, which is probably part
of why the Eagles were so fortunate to be able
to get you where they did, which was still high
the number fortieth pick, so ninth or eighth pick of
the second round.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean coming out.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You know, I didn't know at first, you know, after
my injury if I if i'd you know, go to
the NFL, or if i'd say for another season at Iowa,
you know, but I thought I thought this would be
the right decision for me. There was you know, I
had to go through a lot, you know, with rehab
and prepare and not not being able to do anything
at the combine, you know, and then having to you know,
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have my own pro day, which right, which was almost
a month before the draft, you know. So but I'm glad.
I'm glad I ended up in Philadelphia. Ye I love
this place already.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'd want to let you go, but I'm ask something else.
But I want to ask one other question related to that.
Because the nil the name image likeness has changed college
football in sports, and now there's actually bidding wars to
keep guys in college or you know, and you have
to make a judgment. Some of these guys might make
more money in college. Did they make a hell of
an effort to try to keep you because obviously they
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didn't want to see you.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Lee Biowa?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, there was. There's there's a great effort to
try to get me, get me to stay, you know it.
It was a tough decision, it was, It really was.
I love I was That's where I grew up, That's
where I always wanted to play, you know, but I thought,
you know, this was the right time, you know, for
me to to make that next step.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
It's the right time for Philadelphia. That's explaining that to me.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Guys like, are you allowed to have an agent at
that point? Like, like literally they can't just camouflage it.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I was being called a marketing agent or something.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You're allowed to actually have legal guidance to make that decision.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I like Cooper answer.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But the answer is basically, yes, all the rules that
you've known that have existed forever no longer exists.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Okay, it's and it's you know, it's learning the NFL. Yeah,
I mean, if you're a professional athlete in college.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
But but what's crazier about it, of course, is that
there's not really contracts per se, so now they have
to transfer portal and there's bidding on all of those players,
so you could you could go play for a different
school every year.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
And and a salary cap. Either did you did you
handle all this to yourself or did you have some assistance? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I had assistance throughout, uh throughout college, which is which
was much needed. Have been been a little overwhelming for
I was handling all that by myself, and then I
can't imagine nowadays what what those college guys are are
going through. If they're handling by theirselves, well, here's what
they're gonna hear about their agents.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Cooper, this is Bill Belicheah. Yeah, I'd like you to
come play for me in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And those kids are making tons of Is that good
for Is that good for young players?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Is it good for college football?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
We just happened to have a young player city with us.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I think to a certain extent, I feel like there's
not enough rules in place to make it kind of
fair game for for everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Of course, now that I'm in the NFL, it doesn't
really affect me. You know, if I was in college,
i'd probably you know, be pretty happy with it, with
the rules the way they are, you know, but I
think pretty soon there might be it might be a
salary cap or or something. You know, coming to college
football turn more like professional football.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It's fantastic. I mean, so, so let's draft weekend. Eagles
pickin round one? Are you thinking that the Eagles are
just like off the board at that point?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I mean a that and then how much.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Did the Eagles show loved you in the whole process?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yeah, after after the first round.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I mean, I had no idea really, you know, I
didn't even know that did.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Because the Eagles straight up so they weren't on the screen.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I don't know when I when I was watching the draft,
so I had no idea until you Actually I declined
the first two calls because I was I was getting
a bunch of prank calls on on draft, so.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
They had to call my agent.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
So I had to pick up a phone for my
agent to to hear hear how he's voice some night.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Right, we got the first guy? Well, I mean the circumstances.
Did you want to hear Harry's voice? How He's voice?
He When I was negotiating with him. Sometimes I didn't
love hearing it, but but I have so much respect
for him, and obviously he's done an incredible jobank phone calls.
So that's why I won't get to So you were having.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
A draft party and I remember seeing video, So and
did you do it for for round one? Because the
way the draft works, you got Round one is the
first night, and then two and through here the next
So you did a Round one party where you didn't
Were you hoping or expecting to go around one?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Obviously hope? I was hoping, Yeah, because that has to
be a terrible it was. That was like my my
biggest fear of having that party. On the first night,
it was not going. But that's alright, it all worked out.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And so tell us about some of the calls you got,
because that is just such an awful, awful thing to do.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I don't know how that could be fun for somebody
who's waiting for the biggest moment of their life and
to tell them to just play a joke.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah, it was. I got.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I got about forty forty different prank calls from from
different numbers, which was so I had to change my
number get a on new phone, all the all that
fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So people are like pretend that they were the general
manager of something.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Holy moly.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So when you finally got the call, your agent had
screened it already.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
He yeah, he was yeah, I think he answered it.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
It was on his phone. Oh he was waking. Yeah, okay,
he was there. He's there, Okay, just to make sure.
And then he added to you and it turned out
to me. And and then how he said.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I think he said, are you ready to be all
you can?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Eagle? Yeah? And you know that's how. Yeah, did you
say that to the b y You guys too, Hey,
the rest is beautiful history in the process of being made.
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm an emotional guy, and I asked this two guys.
It's sometimes when it comes up any tears, I would
be crying like crazy.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
There's there's a lot of tears, especially what was my
family there, you know, being able to have them there
in that moment and all my my close family and
in furnace.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
It was. It was. It was great.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
You know, had you've been to Philadelphia yet at that point?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
So I had a had a Top thirty visit earlier.
A couple of months or probably a month prior prior
to the draft. So I got out here and was able.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
To to talk to the coaches and you know, meet
some of the front office people, which was which was
really great. And know I had five top thirty visits
and and this was, you know, by far my favorite.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
This is so good to hear and have a mock
press conference the press.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah with the voice now we all pieces together now
And what kind of questions you answer.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
That press conference?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
We just asked we prepare them for Philadelphia media that
it's like in the worst case scenario. So, I mean,
which is every day well so and so you you
really what you want to see how these draft prospects
respond in every kind of situation. But if it's what's funny, gable,
that is just Beagles a right now twelve and two.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A week ago they were eleven to two, and we
make a whole media controversy.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Cooper, in your locker room, you don't hear that noise, right,
you tune it out and you got I mean to me,
it looks like such a close team and look like
any family, any team.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
You might have little bumps, but yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And it's how you communicate and overcome, which was overcome
in a great way yesterday on the field.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Yeah, there's there's always there's always gonna be a little
bumps in the road, you know, especially throughout a long season.
You know, it's all about just staying together and continue
to go out on practice field to make things better
and make our team better and grow, you know, as
a team together. And I think I think he saw us,
you know, play well together, you know, last night.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And pretty much every night so far this season. And
of course big stuff still to come. As Dave points out,
we'll be heading to Washington next week, and you know,
clearly you don't look far ahead. But I did notice
one thing. I mean, it's it's kind of hard for
me to believe that you're a twenty one year old
young man in that the maturity you have and how
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you stepped onto the field in the NFL and seemed
completely unphased where you were. I don't know what's going
on inside of you, but that's how it looks from
the outside.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Even even you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Know, catching punts to me is so hard and when
we for all that stuff. But I did notice your
birthday's February ninth, it's just so your twenty second birthday
happens to be on Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I just happened to notice that coy sace a heck
of away to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
But we're not allowed to get far ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You can get as far ahead as you want, as
long as a team not to get far ahead. That's
all in media. Always get far ahead. I mean that's
kind of part of the draw, what makes it fun.
And but yeah, this is look that the Eagles just
made history yesterday, ten wins in a row, and I
don't think people like allow themselves to kind of absorb
what that means, because you're always looking to the next thing,
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and the next thing is beating Washington and clinching the
NFC East.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
And that's the that's the that is the goal in mind, right,
that is the goal.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
It's it's always it's always about you know, learning, learning
from the past game, and then moving on pretty click.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and then it's the story of the season. Teams
generally have the priorities or goals of win the division,
try to get the best record of the conference, win
the Super Bowl. I mean, so you got to get
that first hurdle and hopefully accomplish that first hurdle on Sunday,
But there was some things day yesterday that happened where
it was just great to see. You know, each week
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there's a new test rio and no games are easy,
but you know there have been certain things that come
up on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh, going to l A is going to be real
tough going out a ball and was going to be
tough Pittsburgh coming in, and you've handled them all so well.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
But yesterday you really did dominate, especially on the defense
on the defensive side, and then the offense just did
such a great job spreading the ball out handling everything.
Because today we talked about through the season the great
hallmarks of this team, and I think of any championship
team where that wonderful defense, a great offensive line, and
then the weapons on offensive Saquon Barclay, who's in the
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MVP conversation, and then your great receivers thousands out tight
end and then Calcultara steps in on me and to me,
the best offensive line league. It's just all the great
makings where you don't have to go out and score
fifty points. But they controlled the ball so well yesterday
without even running the ball like crazy. It was unbelievable.
Forty minutes of time possession only.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The last drive was ten minutes, twenty nine seconds off
the clock in twenty one place.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And they didn't have to score because they were running
out the clock, Ky Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Yeah, it's also the one person you did not mention
in that wonderfully eloquent statement was Jalen Hurts, who in
this ten game winning street because accounted for twenty six
touchdowns total, who has thrown I think one interception in
that time, who is never even mentioned in the MVP
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conversation other than by Nick Sirianni. And like, you know,
it's weird. It's I don't know why or what the
expectations are. But when your team is winning that much
and you can directly kind of pint it down to
a bunch of different things, why don't people ever include
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the quarterback he's had and he's had a great season.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
He has and he you know, to me, what the
beauty of him is.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, you mentioned mentioned the touchdowns, but the tush
push is somewhat taken for granted, and he's the best
at that, and the short range he has barely turned
the ball over. Yes, he did have a bubble for
the first time in like ten weeks, and it's just
been he's managed it. He has spread the ball aroun
maybe not always to everybody's looking out there, but it's just,
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you know, it's so so basically he hasn't been mistakes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He's done some great things.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm curious Cooper if you've had to defend the tush
push yourself, because that just looks like the most.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nasty thing to be involve.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
No, I haven't, thank you, thankfully. I'd hate to be
being there to try and try and stop that play
and have all those guys up front coming out to.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
It's on top of you or on anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Dave, on your note on Jalen, I did check some
odds today and after the victory over Detroit yesterday about Bufalo,
which we were all happy to see in Philadelphia. You're
not alloting to look out of town scoreboards, but we're
happy to see.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I did see where Josh Allen is now the prohibited
favorite for MVP, so whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And I don't think and frankly, I don't think Jalen cares.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I don't think Jalen cares. I don't think Saquon cares.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I think the only thing they care about is Lombardi Trophy,
and that's the only thing they should care about. I'm
sure Josh Allen really doesn't care about winning the MVP.
They've been so close to the Buffalo Bills, and he
wants to get the Super Bowl, will win, and that's
that's what makes him a great player too.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And I'm gonna put something else out that the guys
in lock them don't care about.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
And the guy with.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Us odds on favorite to win Defensive Rookie of the Year,
who do you think it is?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Dave? I read that story.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So it's your teammate, your fellow rookie, your fellow quarterback
queeny On Mitchell, who has just been unbelievable, and the
guy next to us is actually fifth odds.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Don't worry about it. I'm just saying, but it is
getting notice, you know around here?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
What's great? What's crazy about these guys like you? Don't?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I mean you hear you hear a little bit, certainly
during the course of the game with with Kop you know,
obviously the tackle of King Henry big headlines, big plays,
a lot of time, a lot of tackles, want of scrimmage,
good defense, Quinnyon. They don't throw to him, and he
doesn't make many plays because you don't they don't want
to challenge him, and you don't hear about him.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And it's like that's like the ultimate compliment. It's the
ultimate comp especially as a as a rookie. But when
he's done, who he's gone up against. I mean, I
don't know that there's ever been a been a rookie
that's playing at this high.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Of a level.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
He's great, though, Like when you want him when you
watch film, is he just she's like just sticking guys.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you turn on the tape, if
anybody turns on the tape, you just just watched twenty
seven out on the field, you can you can see him,
you know, just they're using this technique that we that
we talked about in practice.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You know, you've seen every day and just taking it
to the game.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Quick Cooper, your defense in general, And I'm not watching
the coaches film all the time, but I think you're
all locked down like it is. It is unbelievable how
well everybody's playing everywhere. And you saw, you know, Russell
Wilson's passes weren't near anybody with any chance to.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Be completed because you guys had everybody locked down.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And there was one other point, Dave, before we take
our first break, and that was yesterday was a play
that there was a fight and they were two Pittsburgh
ponies that actually cost them, you know, a touchdown opportunity
and drove them back and you smile.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
A little bit, ad But the queena.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Is being blocked by number eighty, the receiver who took
him like blocked, Yeah, blocked.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And Quenon came in to defense. That's a great teammate.
I thought it was for so I never got a
great great play, it reveal.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
As the PA announcer, I know exactly. You are on
top of binoculars up there. Uh spot her. You don't
have time, You don't have time. Gosh, it's hard. But
so someday maybe you guys will be up there in
the PA booth and I love you with the people.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But anyway, but he was so it was it was
Slay was blocked all the way through about the five yardline,
like he was a blocking slide all the way through
the end zone into to the wall.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
It looked like I don't know if you've ever seen
the blind side.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But Michael Warri said it took the kid all the
way across the field and put him over the fence,
that it was time for him going.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
But obviously that wasn't taking well. It drew two penalties.
I'm just curiously you were right right around there for
what was going on.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I mean, I think, you know, I think if you
if you look at that video and wash watch it back,
you can just see, you know, all the all our guys,
you know, coming coming to his defense. I think it's
just shows, you know, how together this team is, you know,
defending our defending our others, you know, no matter what happens.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Right, We're going to take a quick break. Here we
are at Chickens and Pizza, Marlton, New Jersey. We'll be
here for another half hours, so so come on by.
It's Dave Spanera, Joe Coltman, our very special guests, Eagles
rookie quarterback Cooper Usion.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Stick around. We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
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Speaker 2 (24:35):
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Speaker 3 (24:43):
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Speaker 2 (24:47):
Is our guest today had a lot to do with.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Those ten wins.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And going forward, we'll only play a bigger and bigger
role as he's in only what he's only played, which
is incredible twelve games.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
And it's interesting. It's the nickel cornerback position.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
And you know, Cooper in training camp as we kind
of tried to get to know Vic Fangio, he made
I remember writing a story on Fangio is and I
do sideline recording in the preseason game, so everybody's trying
to do what is Nick all about? And he made
a comment that I found really interesting. You said that
the nickel cornerback position is really not a cornerback, it's
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a linebacker. Has expressed that to you and kind of
explain what that means in your mind.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I think it's it's it's more of a linebacker than
it is a defensive back, just because of of where you're,
where you're placed on the field, and where you have
to fit in within within the defense. You know you
you're you're heavily involved in the run game, but you're
you're involved in the past game a lot too, you know,
so i'd agree. I think it's I think it's more
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of a linebacker than it is a defensive back, just
just the way you have to you have to fit, you.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Know, in the run game, you know, almost just.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
As important as as it is how you're involved in
the past game.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Is that something that Iowa, did you play more outside?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Like?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Is that something you had to kind of you know,
get your mind wrapped around that. You gotta be you're
a big, strong guy, uh, that you're gonna be in
the hole. Man, You're gonna you're gonna make plays with
the line of scrimmage against the run game.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I played a little bit inside in college, you know,
but it was it was mostly outside, you know.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
So it's it's it took.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
A little bit of learning, you know when I when
I got here, learning learning how to play inside and
how to different techniques and how to fit in the
run game and and when I need to, you know,
be true to the passing game.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
You know. So it's it's a tough position to play,
but I enjoy it, Dave.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm gonna followup for that a second, But I also
have to say we're Chicken's piece every Monday, also after
the game yesterday, and a whole lot of other stuff.
And Chickens and Peach restaurants all through the region are
far and away the best sports for and they're.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Not just in this region.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can see them and they even have one because
of Peas relationship that's being Peacherochi the proprietor relationship with
Andy Reid. Heaven has one in Kansas City and a
lot of the visiting teams Cooper will ask for takeout
or to go from Chickens and Pezz to take back
to the airport. And he will never let the Dallas
Cowboys buy. And we have Pea Cherokee the third here
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the son of Pete Junior, and he is he comes
and supports us pretty much every week and he wants
everybody to know special day tomorrow all the chicken and
pizza across the region. Spend one hundred dollars to get
a fifty dollars gift card, so basically fifty dollars free
and you'll get all the great food and drink and
atmosphere at Chickens and Piaza.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And by the way, Dave, Yes, at seven o'clock tonight,
your Philadelphia seventy six ers. I used to say, you are,
but I'm a little you.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Can't bail, dude, I know what bail. I was there
through nine and seventy three.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Say yours our I'm a little disappointed. No, Remember the
Eagles are playing the Washington Commander Sunday, right, all right
in our division.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
The owner of the Washington Commander. Here we go back
to Josh Harrison.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, he's the owner of the Sixers. It's really hard
for me to embrace them. We got to go kick
his butt on Sunday as.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Seven o'clock. The Sixers play.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Home tonight, they play at Charlotte. Of course, Joel and
Bean now out with his orbital fracture.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Just so you know, supposedly there's been nine fractured orbitals
suffered during the NBA history.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
He has three.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And then uh, and we've got McCain, our great great rookie.
He broke a fingernail and he's out. I mean, I'm sorry,
toy meniscus and he's out, and as well as our
big signee, Paul George.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's whatever anyhow, we're talking Philadelphia Eagle. But like dude,
he can he can talk basketball. Well, I'm going to
talk fans, right. I mean, that's a great my transitions.
So look, because I know it was your first level,
it was your first leve. Everybody would rather play basketball
than play football, right, baseball?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Right now? Baseball? Oh that's Soto contract.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But but obviously you were a terrific basketball player. If
nobody knows that, go watch Cooper Jean's highlights.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And it is it is were you were you a
great basketball player or just a highlight film?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I was an okay basketball player, not not as good
at basketball as I was at at football.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Okay, what was your game in basketball?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I mean a high flyer for dunk and I saw
I could shoot a little bit though too.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I think you know, most of the highlight tapes have
all my bunks. But I can I can choose who's
a better athlete, Mom or Dad. That's a that's a
good question.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
And they were both both basketball players. My mom's in
there in their college basketball Hall of Fame at.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
At at our school. Wow, so that they were both
they were both really good basketball players.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Dave, I want to interject for one second. All the
great athletes I know or youre athletes, played great athletic mothers.
That gene gets passed on more from the mothers, and
so when you have the combination.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But there's almost there are so many guys whose mothers
were great athletes.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Like I've always wondered how my kids were good athletes.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I just try hard athlete. But anyway, I'm sure I
never signed him studied it. But it's common that great athletes.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
It was there they got more of the chip from
the mother's gene the Schipka. When you got it from both,
it's it's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But at Iowa, while you were there, they had a
pretty good basketball player on the women's side named Kate
and Clark, and you got to know her a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Yeah, yeah, she's she's a great player, great great person too.
You know she's I think she's one of the most
exciting basketball players I'll watch right now, just just what
she's able to do on the floor. She can shoot
it from anywhere, she can create plays, you know, she
can she can do it all on the basketball court.
So I think she's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
How hot was the basket the women's basketball scene there
when when Katelyn played was was Was it just electric
at the arena?
Speaker 7 (30:55):
It was crazy? It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
They sold out all their home games, no matter who
who they were playing against. Everybody wanted to watch her
play and watch them play. They played, they played well together,
you know, and then they went on a couple of
Final four.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Runs there, which was really cool. You'd have people, you.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Know, outside outside the arena almost four hours before before
the game. You can't even get in until till two hours.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
It was Yeah, it was crazy. Could you could you
beat her in a game of horse?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
How about one to one?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
That's well, I mean, we know he would, but he
was asked that question and it kind of went viral
because it was like, oh, really, yeah, we know he could.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I don't want to put him on this boat. We
know he could corse or might be a.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Different story though he could shoot it.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And it's also do you believe you could be Kaitlyn
Clark in a game of one on one?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I personally, I just want to say that I think
Caitlyn Clark may have done more for women's basketball than
anyone else ever.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Hacks.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I've been so amazed by not just her.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Play, but just the maturity and the personality, the demeanor
she exhibits.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And there's a lot of haters of her out there.
She has just held up so well.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
So do you think you can beat her in one
on one?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I could not, okay, But but in back in my day,
I could.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Not have beat her.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That I never because I never really had a day.
But listen, first of all, we are really glad this
football thing worked out well.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And although what I saw, you probably could have done
a lot of things, which includes baseball and track, because.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You you were pretty good as both a sprinter and
a long jumper.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Yeah, I mean at a small school.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
I mean, you know, a lot of a lot of
schools around here, I feel like are bigger, so you
might not see a lot of a lot of forestport athletes,
but at a small school, it's it's pretty common. So
that's that's what I did at at at my school,
and I played all four sports.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
And I enjoyed every single one of them.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I wish I could continue to to play all of them.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
You know, just just keeps you busy. You kind of
just roll from one sports to another in an.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Erow where kids when you're really good at one sport.
The I don't know who makes a decision, to parents
or whatever, they tend to force you to just stay
in that sport and then when you're not playing that sport,
trained for that sport benefits you. Do you think Cooper,
that you continually played different sports, kept things fresh, you know,
you know, challenge different parts of your body, different parts
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of your brain, and just played because you loved it
hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I think, yeah, I wouldn't be the football player I
am without without the other sports that I played.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I think they played at a tremendous.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Impact on on my football game and the way I play.
You know, just just the different things that you do
in each sport and they have to think through things,
you know, and you know, you don't really you know,
get burnt out from just you know, if you're just
playing one sport, you know, you just continue to learn
new things and and move on from one sport to another.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's it's a great question, though, Dave, because I think
it's better for your overall flasism and a whole lot
of other things. But you played quarterback and football along
with the feedback stuff.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Did you like the offense or the defense? Better. I
love playing quarterback.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I think it's it was the most most fun position
to play. I think, you know, in the high school
you ran, we were on a spread offense, so we
threw the ball about thirty times a game, which was
which was a lot of fun. I actually wanted to
play quarterback in college, but I only only I went
offer to play.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Quarterback in college.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And if I'm not mistaken, that was from South Dakota State.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, so that's Dallas. Dallas got it in school.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, and Bactley actually in the in the state you
were born in. So how did you make the decision?
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Just that Ioways was bigger football program, and yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
I was my my only FAIS offer and it's it's
where I grew up in that I was the only
offer FBS FBS.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Wow, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It shows how bad they are judging.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I apologize to you if you I you know, you
know you've done a lot of interviews and I don't
know if you've addressed the topic of being a white cornerback.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Throughout the course of your career.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Uh you know, I mean you guys make fun of it,
like you guys like.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
What I mean.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
The truth is that there has not been a great
white cornerback in the NFL since Jason Seahorn.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
So, uh, like you hear it from guys on the on.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
The field, like every once in a while you will Yeah, well, yeah,
there's there's a lot of there's a lot of jokes
made made in the locker room, which is which is
kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
It's all, it's all funny games. But every once in
a while you'll.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Hear from from guys if they if they're talking talking
crap on the field.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Like can you give it? Can you give you an
example of a trash talking uh wide receiver? Let's say,
who hey, white boy?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
You can't he don't like there's a there's a lot
of in college, there.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Was some some some crazy things.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Well Cooper, you and Read Blankenship, who is also a
guest stars early in the season. We appreciate everybody comes
out and you know, we have such high regard for
reading all of them as people and player.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
But you guys have actually kind of made a joke
of that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
The I was in the mall one day and these two, uh,
these two guys came up to me with some with
some T shirts with I said, exciting whites and me
and Reid on them, so we I told him to
send them send me to and then me and Reid
would wear them pretty pre game walking into the game,
so they kind of kind of blew up a little
bit after we did that.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
A great Christmas presence, by the way.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
All right, we're going to take our final break of
the show and we'll come back for for our last
segment and wrap things up as well as look ahead
to next week. And we are chickens and pizza more often,
but all the chickens and pizza across the region, which
are the best place to watch games where the players
go such as Cooper Jean and his teammates and come
catch any game here.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
We've got college bowl game season going on the championship tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's not one but two and and and one of
them does matter to the Eagles potentially.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
To Minnesota Vakings playing. So do you watch football time? Yeah,
you're a football fan. Yeah, I'm a huge a lot
of guys playing the football. I'll watch it all day.
We're gonna we're.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Gonna ask your pick for the college playoff series, So
we're gonna put you on the record who will win
the national championship.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I was not in it this year, but but but
they are always, you know, in the picture, and that's.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That's a great thing going to school like that. But anyway,
so we'll be back for our final segment.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're listening to the Awful Pro Philly Players Show, Dave Spadero,
Jerrold Cold and our very special guest.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Cooper Digi the Gambling Phillies home for all things sports gambling.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Welcome back to Chicken PiZZ in Marlton, New Jersey. We're
having a great time here, as we do every Monday night,
coming down the home stretch.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
Of the All Pro Philly Players Show.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm Gerald Colton, my co host Dave Spadera, and we're
with an extremely special guest, an Eagles rookie.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
We're back, Cooper the Gene. Listen.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
First of all, we want to know we have to
carry you off. We wouldn't love to have you come
back sometime. So hopefully you're enjoying yourself here. Certainly a
great town, good and certainly the crowd loves you and
you're welcome to Philadelphia has been really welcome you.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You know what, God idea, what's been like, that's exactly exactly. Listen,
and that's part of we gotta give your background just
for one more time. You know, born in South Dakota,
raised and I would go to school in Iowa. And
you're not in Iowa anymore. You're in Philadelphia.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
That's slate.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So talk about that transformation from the Midwest being out
here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Yeah, it's it's been. It's been different.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
I grew up in I grew up in a town
of about just over nine hundred people, so it's uh wow.
And then going to Iowa City. Iowa City is not
I mean, it's not huge, you know. So coming here
to Philadelphia and in the big city, it's it's been.
It's been a little bit of a change. But I
think I think I've enjoyed it. You know, the people
out here, they're great. They're great, great people, great fans,
(38:59):
very very passionate, you know. So it's it's been good.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
So long.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Are you at the point now, Cooper where like you
can't really go out and just kind of blend into
the crowd.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Not I can still blend in pretty well.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Yeah, so I'm I'm not there yet. Well, just give
it a little time. I don't.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I'm not how it's really go out. You might be
wrong about.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
That's a crowd you're going into where you're playing. It
wasn't a bunch of twenty one year olds who are just.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Like but they're yeah, but they're all everybody.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Have you found, like everybody is a football fan in Philly?
Speaker 7 (39:29):
Isn't it great?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
I mean everybody see yeah, I mean this, Cooper, this
is an amazing sports town.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You use the word passionate, and some people give us
a bad rap a little bit, but nobody cares more
about their teams in Philadelphia, and.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
The whole region is into it.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
It's not just you know, some people, it is everybody,
and how the Eagles do is more important than any
of the other teams.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And you know, it's it's it's it's really it's a
great sports town. But it's mostly an Eagles town, and
you know, the people are just so into your team.
And it's really, to some extend a little scary sometimes
because how you guys do affects the mood of the
entire city for a week and then for for the six.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Months until it strikes up again.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So I would though it was a pretty particularized you
got a mic under a microscope.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Also because you.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
As University i Wall are everything for a big, big region. Now,
Iowa has a really cool thing that happens at the
start of each fourth quarter for their home football games,
and I wanted you to tell people about it, about
what happens with the hospital and the children right there.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yeah, so it's after after after then the first quarter
is when when when the wave is you know that
the children's hospital overlooks the the stadium.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Everybody turns and waves up to the to the stadium.
It's it's it's really cool. You know.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
It's probably one of my one of my favorite moments ever,
you know, you know, playing sports is being able to
to participate in that. If if, if you've never seen that,
I'd recommend looking.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Up a video of it. Is prett It's pretty you know,
inspiring and cool, you know.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
And I was able to you know, we had my cause,
my fleet, so I was I was able to support
that through my cause.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
My fleets was which was really cool.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
I think one of the most important thing athletes can
do is to use the platform that you have to
make a positive impact on whatever cause you believe in.
And it seems like you really embraced that that concept
very quickly.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean I was a special place to me,
and growing up there, you know, growing up in Iowa,
fan and and the Children's Hospital is a big part
of the university and and our football team, you know.
So any chance I get to to support them and
and and do whatever I can.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
For them, I'll always take advantage of that.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Cooper the the art of playing cornerback in the NFL.
I'm gonna try to get this question out the right way.
So is it more difficult to learn the technique to
master the technique you're being taught or is it the
quality of the wide receiver that is so much better
from college to the NFL? But what is the most
(42:05):
difficult part of making that transition?
Speaker 7 (42:08):
I think I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
A lot of it's tech, more of its technique probably,
you know, and and just understanding the leverage and and
how to move your feet, want to use your hands,
you know, because and then come to the NFL from college.
You know, college you have you have receivers that they
might have one or two, you know, solid receivers.
Speaker 7 (42:27):
You know, when you get to the NFL, everybody's here
for a reason.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
You know, everybody can play, you know, so you got
you gotta be ready to you you gotta be ready
to cover.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
You know, each each and every game.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Has there been one or two receivers who've really kind
of gone, Wow, that guy's that guy's really good.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
I think when I when I covered Adam Feeling against Carolina,
you know, he he's he's a veteran, veteran guy, you know,
and he's he's still playing at a high level.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
You know, I grew up watching.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Him getting to to compete, beet against him.
Speaker 7 (42:59):
You know, I learned a lot, you know, going going
up against him. What's what's so good at doing?
Speaker 6 (43:04):
I think it's just just how he uses uses his body,
and you know how physical he is. You know, he understands,
you know, how to get open. That's that's the key,
you know, is getting open. And and he's done it,
you know, for I think twelve thirteen years, maybe you know,
he's done it for for a long time.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Well, Cooper, I would think that covering a J.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Brown and oh yeah, you know Smith in practice is
as good as you're ever facing.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
That's that's as good as you're gonna get you know,
and and for us as a defense, to have those
guys to to go up and and compete against is
great for us, you know, especially a young guy, you.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
Know, I know, Q and Q and A J And Smyney.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
We're going at it during camp a little bitch, which
is fun to watch. But but those guys only are
only going to make us better. I mean, and we
talked to him, you know occasionally throughout the week. You
know about about you know, defensive backs or receivers and
what they try to do, you know, so they help
us out a lot.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
There's one other thing also, the punt returney to me,
I think it's sort of underappreciated. I don't think anybody
realizes how hard it is to catch a punt. To
look up and this guy catch that ball coming at
you as a missile while everyone's running at you.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
And you know, I don't even know how you pick
up where everybody is. But there's another thing that you do.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
When I was paying attention to close attention to yesterday,
is that you're covering somebody on third down.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
You're running a lot, and then you got to get
back here and turn the punt.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Do you ever think of that does it ever affect you, Nah,
I mean I've done it and since ever since college,
you know, so I just after a third down turns
fourth down, run back there.
Speaker 7 (44:41):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Kind it kind of keeps me in in a good flow,
good flow throughout the game. So I enjoy doing it,
just you know, whenever we get to stop on third down,
just running right back there, and you know, trying to
put our offense.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
In a good position to score. I'm sure it's nice
to touch the ball. And the last part on what
David asked you earlier, sort of the hybrid position of
the slot to me, and especially for the size of
a corner, there's so much more tackling involved, and.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
That whole, that whole linebacker aspect.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
It's just a hard thing that a lot of conage
in the aside don't have to worry about quite as much.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, not not as much
on the outside, but but when you get inside and
you're playing you're playing that nickel position almost right.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
Where the linebackers are. You gotta you gotta be able to.
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Tackle and understand your fits and and not get out leverage.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
And and be able to to make plays.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
In the open field, Does the ball get up on
you much faster? Clearly, the the precision of the NFL
quarterback is far greater than the college quarterback. Is there
a huge difference between a college quarterback and an NFL quarterback?
Speaker 6 (45:44):
There there is quite a bit of a difference, I
think between between college and and NFL quarterbacks. You know,
there's there's been multiple multiple plays where where I've been
on a guy and you know he's he's made a catch,
and then I wonder how how the quarterback even even
fitted in. You know, so just the talent of the quarterbacks,
you know, in the NFL is is is off the charts.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Well, Dave, you mentioned Jalen earlier House sort of underappreciated.
He started the game yesterday with his first throw, and
I was in.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
The end zone. I like this a different place to
get their perspectives. I probably like the end zone the
best stuff I really do you get to You get
to see so much of the field that way, sort
of sort of the view you get as a player
just a little higher. But his first throw was an
uncharacteristic first play call for your team, and it was
a tough ball to Calcatara over the linebacker and in
front of the d back and I just said, Wow,
(46:36):
that's an awfully great throw to start a game.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
It doesn't show you right there how good the quarterbacks
are in the NFL. They can they can put it anywhere,
you know, to a player, and they put they seemed
to put.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
In in the right spot and most of the.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Time, and then it came a just continued from there.
Speaker 7 (46:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Another challenge is week Jayden Daniels Round two Washington Commander's
NFC East on the line here when and the Eagles
clinched the division, a division that has not had a
repeat winner since two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
the Philadelphia Eagles. So Cooper, we wish you the best
of luck on Sunday again. Thanks for coming in and
keep up the great work. Thanks for having put a
(47:12):
quick question before, and we're going to get him out
of here.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
But the question is you've played Washington already? Yeah, all right,
do you think it'll make a difference time You played
them once already and you guys did a fabulous job
against their great receiver McClaren in Game one.
Speaker 7 (47:25):
It'll be tough.
Speaker 6 (47:26):
It's always it's always tough to when you play a
team twice, you know, so I'm just the matchup and
the chess match between the two teams. You know, it'll
be a tough game, and so we're gonna have to
prepare all week like we have and you.
Speaker 7 (47:39):
Know, be ready to play on Sunday. Can't thank you
enough for coming out and joining us.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Can't tell you how much we are happy you are
a Philadelphia Eagle and how much we're enjoying the start
of your career and looking forward to everything great that
will come in the future.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
So thanks.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
A few people think around here really thank Tyler for
coming and pinshitting.
Speaker 7 (47:55):
That's another next man up. Our normal video guy wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
He stepped right in, just like Dave Spanero did on
on the loudspeaker last night.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
It wasn't loudspeakers called address, he used speakers. Sounds like
it's in my basement, all right.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
Well, Dave, when I when I was young, it used
to just be a megaphone.
Speaker 7 (48:14):
Chimes of cheek.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
John Jansen is always from being here.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Thank you and all the staff of Chickens and Peach
Pechecherrochi the third coming out and Spencer taking great care of.
Speaker 7 (48:22):
Us, and all the people who show up. We appreciate
you all.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Sorry if we can't always make it happy, but we
tried to and try to come in. We'll be back
here next week with another great guest, and we also
want to thank everybody listening. Of course on Fox Sports
a Gambler, so behalf of my partner Daves Banaro, the
PA announcer, publicand dress announcer for the Philip Eagles yesterday,
and a.
Speaker 7 (48:40):
Whole lot of other things there.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
I'm Gerald called mostly thanking Cooper Jane for coming and
joining us here for an hour.
Speaker 7 (48:48):
Go Cooper.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Spreads totals and all the prop that saves a tween.
Speaker 7 (48:56):
It's the Gambler.
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