The All-Pro Philly Players Show w/ Will Shipley - 01/06/25

Jerrold Colton and Dave Spadaro are LIVE from Chickie's and Pete's in Marlton, NJ with #Eagles RB Will Shipley! They discuss the #Eagles' finale against the #Giants, hosting the #Packers at The Linc this upcoming Wild Card Weekend, and more!

Episode Transcript

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(00:36):
Eagles inside it.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Dave Spadero.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hell, good evening and welcome to Chicky's and Peach in Marlton,
New Jersey for what is now our twelfth out of
thirteen Victory Mondays. We have had a fabulous twenty twenty
four season and now we've ticked the calendar over to
twenty twenty five as we conclude, or has been a
glorious season thus.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
For for the Philly off Eagles.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
But my co host, Eagles Insider, three decade member of
the Phials organization. Wait, what did you say? What do
you say about what Dave done so far?

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Yeah, I mean it's been a great turnaround from two
to two, from two to two to you know, fourteen
and three.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
This is a complete team.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I think yesterday was an example of just how deep
this roster is. I mean, step back and understand for
a moment that the Eagles reserves those who don't normally start.
And in terms of the quarterback, the third string quarterback
beat the starting team of the New York Giants, and
that just doesn't happen in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
You know, you look at.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Denver and Kansas City, and Kansas City put their reserves
in and got blown out by the Broncos. So it
is a deep team. Is a team that police and
each other. It is a complete team.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And I can't wait to see what this group does
in the postseason.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Dave, That's not the answer I was expecting. But I
agree with everything you just said.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
What were you expecting?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
As I want to say after I introduce our guests,
because we've kept him waiting enough and he was a
big part of yesterday's victory over the New York Chis.
It took the Eagles to a really phenomenal fourteen to
three record, and it closed out the NFC East champions
number two seed.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
We'll get the home.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Field advantage next week against the Green Bay Packers, and
now we start the postseason, which is a little bit different.
But the big member of the Eagles run backfield, the
running back of yesterday, his rookie year, and he just
completed in a beautiful way. Number twenty eight from Clemson,
Will Shipley.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Befall, y'all have.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Filver thrilled to have you here, and we've been really
fortunate earlier long and we've had a different team in
of yours every week, and we've seemed to time it for.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
The perfect week.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, this one maybe would have been fighting it
last too with you and Tanner mckaye, but Tanner, but
Tier was here earlier. It just it's just been such
an amazing season. And what Dave was touching on is
the depth of your team that you consider. Yesterday, we're
sitting six All pros or Pro Bowlers, and I think
a whole lot more deserve it. And you still really

(02:56):
controlled that football game, and you hadn't had that much exposure,
that much play your whole year, the whole year, So I.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Don't I know, you don't have a lot to compare
on because.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
This is your rookie year, But I believe this is
the deepest filled off Eagles team I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, I'm right there with you.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
You know, it's just been such a great opportunity for
me to come in and learn from such a flourishing
running back room. You know, you've got Saquon Barkley, who's
had a historical year, and you got Kenny Gamwell, who's
who's done his things, so not only in the running
back room, but at every position, you know, And and
we set the starters yesterday or most of them, and

(03:33):
you know, the reserves come in, as you guys have said,
but the standard is the standard, and that was kind
of the message all week long is we're going in
this game to win it, and we were able to
get it done.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
So it's amazing deep over the last three weeks, three
different starting quarterbacks, and then they didn't miss a beat.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
In the division games that were really important to the
football team. You know, you go through a week of
practice and you need to build some timing and some chemistry,
and the fact that the offense was able to function
at such a high level yesterday, it's pretty remarkable when
you consider all the new pieces up front, the new
wide receivers, changing pieces at running back, and there's definitely
got to be some chemistry between Will and Tanner on

(04:11):
their handoffs, on the way they executed it in the
passing game as well. And I mean this team again,
it speaks to how well coached they are, how consistent
they are from a learning standpoint, how they are. You know,
a guy like Will Shipley who comes into the NFL
hot shot, thinks he knows it all from Clemson. But
you come in and you're like, hey man, I am,

(04:33):
I'm here in a room with Saquon Barkley. I can
get so much better this year, And a lot of
the improvement comes from what you do.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Off the field.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
And to me, these last three weeks, actually the whole
season has been an example of players like Will and
just up and down the roster. The way that they've
approached it off the field is just as important as
what they're doing on the field.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
And this team doesn't make mistakes.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
I am I on of course, Oh yeah, yeah, no,
I mean you're hitting it on the head. I think
that's exactly how it goes. And I'd argue to say
that all of your improvement comes off the field.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
You know, Sunday is really your performance.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
You get to go out there and show all the
preparation that you've put in during the week. So yeah,
with the opportunity there, every guy's on the team mindset
is just to take advantage of it.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You know, whenever it comes.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
When you say off the field, your improvement comes during
the week because fans don't see that. I mean you're
practicing basically a walkthrough on Wednesdays and then Thursday you're
out for two hours on the field. Fridays, red Zone, Saturdays,
the game walkthrough. What are you doing to get better?
Like explain to fans where you are improving yourself off
the field.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, as you mentioned, our load gets decreased as the
season goes on, So instead of practicing on Wednesday, we're
usually doing a walk through and Thursdays are really only
you know, helmets practice where we're getting out there and
running around. So the mental reps is so important, you know,
just being able to see plays and our scout team
defense does such a great job of allowing us to

(06:01):
see the looks that we're going to get on Sundays.
So yeah, just taking all those mental reps and making
sure that it transfers over?

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Is it is a play? I'm sorry, Jerald, Is a play?
The verbiage of a play complicated at this.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
Level, Yes, yeah, definitely a lot different than college, especially
my last year. You know, coach Riley coming in. A
lot of the verbiage was really simple. Uh at Clemson
in my junior year. You know, try to keep it
to a minimal with you just a couple words to.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
To like, for example, play at Clemson would be called what.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
A sixty six?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
That tells me my block and responsibility, the routes of
the receivers, quarterbacks read all that good stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's a lot in a few letters exactly.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
It is, though, and that's what you try to do
is simplify it. But you know, at this level, you
you definitely got to be in your book and and
you know you have to know what you're doing. I'm
sure my fiance can attest to it. But you know,
there's a lot of hour study and you know off
the field that that allow you to be successful.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
And take advantity opportunities that come. We'll sit it. Right
in front of us are five people, lovely looking people. Yes,
who do we have here? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (07:06):
So we've got my beautiful fiance Aiden. Then we've got
the Hudson's, uh you know, lifelong family friends. Yes, and
then Gauge, my my best friend from a very young age,
his girlfriend Amanda as well.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Hey, guys, it is great to have you following Will's journey,
isn't it great?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
It's so great.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Maybe we might get your fiance on. Yeah. I love
that she's got no choice. I'm putting her on the spot.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
But so we're Chickis and pizza Marlton And this is
the best sports bar in the region.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
And it's all throughout Philadelphia. A lot of the players
go over to South Philly after games.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Pecheroki, the proprietor, takes such good care of you guys,
and it is just the best place for game, for food,
for drinks.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
You'll be able to.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Watch a six Ers game here at seven o'clock if
you actually were foolish enough to do that. They're hot now,
by the way, No, no, no, here's the thing. Will Shipley
sitting next to us. He's a gamer. I know all
everything I need to see already about his toughness. Guess
who's not playing tonight? Okay for the Sixers. Your favorite guy,
Joel embiid. He only makes fifty million plus a year.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, that's good money, right there, good money.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Which let's get Let me let me come back to
football year and your team, and there's so many different
things I want to touch on about your rookie season.
That's the regular season's just completed, but of course it's
far from over. Hopefully your whole year and you just
got to experience one of the greatest years a running
back ever had in Sequon Barkley, and it was just incredible.

(08:34):
And that was from the outside to watching you were
you were inside if you got drafted in the fourth
round last April, and I dare say, David, you correct.
I know you're not gonna correct me because I'm not
wrong here that had he been drafted somewhere else, you
would have gotten a lot more playing time this year.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
But you happened to come to Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's okay.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean, that's not for you.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
To say, yeah, but in general, I know I see
what I see with my eyes and how good you are.
And being a fourth round pick, you were a guy
could step in and play in a lot of places,
and you just happen to have sae Quon Barkley here,
and I got to give some credit to game Game well,
I thought he had a sensational season as a backup
running back. And I'm sure to talk about what it
is like when they talk about the room and it's

(09:14):
really you three guys and your running backs coach and
some other things. But tell us about what the normal
week goes as a running back.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
And you picking it up, playing scout team all those things.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yeah, you know, it's been a great walk this year,
you know, just really trying to enjoy it while also,
like you said, improving as much as I can.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
And it's been Uh, it's been different for me.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
You know, I think I said in an interview yesterday,
but at every level I've kind of gotten thrust it
into a starting position at the at running back, you know,
from high school to Clemson and you know, you come
here and you get drafted to such a great room
with say Quani Kenny ahead of you, and uh, you know,
instead of maybe taking a role as oh it's negative

(09:57):
that I'm not the starting back or I'm not getting
more reps, I've just had to kind of shift my
perspective to how can I learn? How many questions could
I ask, you know, say Saquon and Kenny to you know,
be my best every single day and what can I
do to serve them and and help them and the
roles that they're in.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
So yeah, that's just what I've tried to embrace this year.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
And uh, you know, to to have a front row
seat to what Saquon has been able to do.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
I get asked all the time, you know, are you
surprised by it? I'm not, because I've been able to
see it. Uh, you know since June and we started
OTAs how hard he works and and.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Just the little details that he focuses on.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Uh, for him to be able to play a full season,
you know, reach two K and and just be historical
is uh is not surprising to me.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
But it's been so fun to watch. Told me that
you taught him how to backflip over a defender. He's
looking out for me. Wow.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
All right on that two K and then the potential
record breaking season, and there.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Was a little debate from me.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
From my perspective, I was like, once he got that
two thousand, that was the last.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Carrie for Sequat in the regular season.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
And I could tell by himself and his teammates. Yeah,
it would have been nice to have that record, but
the ultimate goal is the team here. So from your standpoint,
did it every Was it ever a question of him
playing this week?

Speaker 6 (11:15):
You know, I go back and forth with it, just
trying to put myself in his shoes. I think it's
it's such a hard situation because, like you said, football
is the number one ultimate team sport.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
You know.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
You kind of our mantra this year is you can't
be great without the greatness of others, you know, and
and that that defines football to a t. So you've
got that component, but you've also got the opportunity to
go not that.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
You know, reaching two k is a.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Historical but put yourself in the record books for good.
So I saw both sides of it. But at the
end of the day, you know, guys like coach Sirianni
and and you know, the top people of the organization,
they are in those positions to make those type of decisions,
and I think they.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Did the right one. You know, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
And you know we've got a common goal as a team,
and and that's what we're headed for.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, I like where you are going into the playoffs
with a healthy team and arrested team and ready to
go and take on what matters now.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
And it's but Dave.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Interestingly, I ran into Shady mccooy yesterday, who who was
arguably in the category of the best Eagles running backs
of all time, and a lot of people might have
said he was the best ever.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Prior to this season.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, and he actually felt strongly that he should have
gotten that chit.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
I'm no surprise, and he's a running back and he
understands the importance of getting that record and the the
the allure of getting that record.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I ran into Shady as well over the weekend and that.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
He was around Huh yeah, I mean he's he's part
of the you know, the post the postseason celebration for
the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
So I understand it on both sides.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
I just I know that that when you're it's not
just Saquon who would have had to play. It was
the offensive lineman and it was the wide receivers and
it was a tight end. And so like we saw
what happened in Green Bay, Christian Watson turns his a
cl and that's.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
A bass for the green Bale. Is that worth it
if if you.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
I think Saquan has been very open about from day one,
it's not about him, it's about the team. And so
I mean, I'm sure he would in his heart like
wish he could have done both. But he had opportunities
and against the Giants to stay in and against Jacksonville
to stay in, and like again.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
The late in the season, other games where he could
have stayed in.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
But I think it's important to him for him ultimately
winning the Super Bowl, having the best chance for this
team to win the Super Bowl is what matters. And
I believe ultimately that's what the entire organization believes. And
we all we go systems ahead, all all groups ahead.
So I will I do have a question about Saquon
and you like, yeah, what kind of commerce, Like what
do you think he imparted to you in conversation during

(13:40):
the course of the season that maybe little tips of
the trade, getting his shoulder square or the way you
do division, or I see him before practice a lot
of times like working on the side with I don't know,
a sprint or a burst or whatever kind of little
movements that he has.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
What do you gained from kind of just the talks
that you had with Saquon.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah, I've made huge improvements in my game from from
all the tips and and just how willing he's been
to help me. You know, like you said, it's it's
simple stuff like on inside zone tracks, keep your shoulder square.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
You know, what is he looking at? What's his read?

Speaker 6 (14:16):
How is he trying to manipulate the backers and give
the offensive linement time to come off their double teams?
And you know, just a lot of football talk that
I could go on and on about, but I would
say just how persistent he's been with it. You know,
I feel like some people may think it it would
be very persistent early on during camp and and him
trying to help me out, But even as the season

(14:37):
has gone on and and he's taken such a big load,
you know, he's out there at practice on Wednesday and
Thursday when I may be getting some extra reps to
give him a little more rest, still helping me out
and still pushing me to be my best and and
just holding me to the standard that that he set
in that running back room. So uh yeah, just how
persistent he's been and how much he's he's been able
to help And I try to take away every little

(14:58):
thing he has to say.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Have you hit in any ways? You kind of reflect
on it, the.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Rookie wall when you look back, did you hit any
sort of like, Boy, I've played a lot of football
games this year, you.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Know, I don't think so. I've definitely heard of that,
you know, the rookie wall being a thing. But for
me personally, it's it's something where I just I love
the game of football so much. I feel like I
could if my body allowed me to physically, I could
continue to push. So I think the wall is a
mentality and a mental thing. And you know, for me,

(15:30):
I just I've it didn't come for me, So I've
been lucky for sure.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
How is your body changed in a year? I mean,
you get drafted in April, you blur, it's a blur.
You're going coming ready to mini camp, and then you've
got all these travel arrangements to make and then you're
bull boom, You're in training camp and then the season.
Have you changed your body? Have you changed the way
you eat? Have you gotten stronger? Have you gotten lighter?

(15:55):
Have you gotten heavier? What's what's happened?

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah? I think you have to is the answer to that.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
If you want to keep improving, especially over such a
long regular season compared to to.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
College ball, and you know what I've had in my past.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
So yeah, you know, the Eagles organization does a great
job you know, strength, strength and conditioning. Your department has
has helped me out a ton, giving me plans if
if something's hurting, you know, hot cub told cold tub contrast,
just different things to do to to physically be where
I need to be, and it, you know, differs for
every person. I know that the rookies have you know,

(16:29):
set up plans to be able to help us navigate
through our first year. Uh so, yeah, they've helped me
out of Ton with that. Have definitely you know, gotten
stronger over the course of the season. It's tough because
you know, you come off a game and you're sore,
but you know, they always kind of adapt to to
your needs and you know, they know where you want
to go as well with your body physically, so that
they helped me out of Ton with it.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Who's quatch more you were a squad?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Just kidding.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Definitely definitely say, and I am attorney, I should give
you a chance for the other part, just one you know,
we can spend an hour talking about Saquon.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
He's he's that fabulous.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
In every garden. It was just so fun to watch
him this year.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm sure for you to to just come in and
learn from the work with and get to know. But
he did you a solid because that's Saquon when it
relates back to the whole team orientation where I think
it was Cincinnati, right where where the head coach here
on he comes over and asked him if he wants
to stay in because he was like near two.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
It was the first time we played the Giants.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, it was the first time asked to say is
he said, no, let the other guys eat And and
then you get in and you score what looked like
your first touchdown.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
So I've been waiting for your first touch on You've
come so close to but you got in the end
zone a spectacular run and unfortunately holding back.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
But and then yesterday there were a couple of near
like you you got close to the end zone and
one was getting tripped upright the seven and another one
where it was just lay in the first half. And anyway,
you looked great in there and I appreciate it. You
will be spending a lot of time in the end
zone and the future. Just make sure don't give a
J Brown your first touchdown that was ready for you
to all come in now as you prepare for playoffs?

Speaker 4 (18:11):
What is different about this week? Will there be anything?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
You know?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
I I couldn't really tell you just because I haven't
been through it yet, you know, just uh, in terms
of being my first experience with it, I'm excited to
see what it entails.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
You know.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
I know that coach Sirianni does such a great job
of laying out every week for us and making sure.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
That we are prepared.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
So uh, you know, whatever it entails, I know that
you know, the the guys will be ready to go
and and you know we're ready to face Green Bay
and uh, you know, get the get the first one done.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Today was the first day back. Was there a difference
in the building today? Do you feel anything different? Yeah,
you know, definitely.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
I think you know, you go to the playoffs, and
like we've mentioned, the regular season is long, you know,
so you've got that over with now and you've just
got uh some than really to look forward to, you know,
another game and we're just all so excited, excited for
the opportunity and for us to be able to show
what we've been preparing for and working for all season.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Gerald, do you feel I mean you've been you've been
watching this team for seventy five eighty years.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do you feel like this is has gone quickly? This season?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know, Dave, I actually feel football always goes quickly.
I look forward to it so much as the year
goes on, and then from the time opening day, and
I know, if we just look back to Green Bay, Brazil,
maybe it feels like a while ago. But it doesn't
to me. It just seems to go so fast, and
I can't get enough of it. And the only sad
part at the end is that it's over and you
gotta week.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
But if you're holding a Lombardi Trophy, that's not sad.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
So at the beginning to show, you asked me what
I thought of the season. You said that that was
not the answer you expected.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
What did you expect?

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Oh? When I started the show, and I said, one
day to drive thing.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
He has been around the Eagles for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know, he doesn't well our listeners out there, and
he owned Fox Sports. The gambler in the streaming networks
and every week as this season has progressed, and you
know it start off two and two, but then it.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Was twelve and two, yeah, and wound up fourteen to three.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
He says they haven't done anything yet, yeah, and that
that's kind of what I expected him.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
To know, because I have done.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
But there's actually something to report, like there's something that
is tangibly. The regular season is now over, Eagles have
made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Eagles and the number two seed. Eagles have won fourteen games.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
That is all, of course, in the past, because what
happens next is just survival.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
You just play.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
It doesn't even matter how pretty it is. It doesn't
matter how ugly it is. You just want to win
and stay alive. But to this point, have they accomplished something? Absolutely?
Jeffrey Lorie wins the three hundredth career game since owning
the team in nineteen ninety four, the first one against
you know, I wasn't born yet.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I'm not sure either, I know you weren't.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
It was the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Randall Cunningham had a huge game, Herschel Walker the running
back though Freddy Barnett, Calvin Williams.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
I mean I was there, I said, but there was
no fog, because there was a fog. Bolgains the beer.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Eighty eight, it was. It was a little bit before.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
But Jeffy Nick Sirianny wins his fiftieth career game. He's
been in the playoffs four straight years. He's got the
highest winning percentage of any coach in the history of
the Philadelphia Eagles, fourth.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Overall, and yet all you hear from people.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Is about Nick does this wrong and Nick does I'm like, what,
where's the love for Nick Sirianny.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
The guy's done a great job.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well, I want to throw that to you because it's
so true.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
And I think the perception on the outside doesn't really matter.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
All that matters is what the locker room thinks.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
So and it seems like he's got that locker room
so much behind him.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh he does.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
You know, Like I said, he does such a great
job of preparing us for you know, the the task ahead,
whether it's kind of a coming up with a mantra
for the week and just really finding our identity throughout
the season. Uh, you know, we're gonna be a tough
and the physical team. And he's instilled that in US
through camp.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
And uh, you know, through the the.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Regular season, and just all the good things that that
he does and in getting players ready.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
You know, I don't think anyone does it better.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
And and I think you know, his his record and
and the stats show that as well.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
David's interesting because Nick, and again I'm from the outside,
so I'll defer to both of you guys.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
But he seems very.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
Emotional and energetic but football okay, but football passion and
the same word and and and and energy and and
and intensity, and he brings that all the time from
the outside, so I can only imagine much like on
the inside.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
But but it used to be that wasn't really the way.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
And and for the longest time while you were growing up,
you're watching Bill Belichick in Super Bowls and showing no
like passion. And now we've got the two best teams
of the NFC during the regular season. We're coached by
Dan Campbell, Nick Sirianni. So are we at a different age?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Will you tell me that? Let me say this.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Let's think back to Dick for meal right now. Dick
formeal was emotional, Dick rial was breakdown cry. But you know,
to so Dick Formial was to coach at the Eagles
back in the late seventies early eighties. The team went
to the Super Bowl super Bowl fifteen in nineteen eighty
and that group of Eagles, they are still really tight
with Dick Formil, who's now eighty seven years old, and

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that group of players, they all still love each other.
They all still get together a lot. So I would
call him, in his way passionate.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
He was very much and I thought of him, but
he's kind of been a large gap from Dick for
meal and he burned out even coaching because he's so
passionate to where we are right now, where it's serious, Scorer.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Seems like, yeah, that's that's the movie.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
There's a there's a I believe this like having been
around for so many coaches. There's a college atmosphere kind
of feel at the Novacare Complex. And I think that
is really intentional that Nick knows that this is a
long grind of the season and that he wants it
to be fun. He wants players to have joy when
they come in the building, and he wants them to
just love each other and connect with each other.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
And I think that's ultimately what his whole.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Approach is connecting competing football, IQ fundamentals, accountability, the five tenants,
the five you know, core values of Nick Sirianny. And
to do that you got to just throw yourself into
the job.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Well, well, you're way closer to having been in college
than I am. I not, it's hard to believe.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, but but would you agree with Dave So it's
you're you're literally less than a year off of college
campus and that that it really kind of maintains that
same attitude that you had in college, and it's not
as rigid as.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
You might have expected the NFL to be.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yeah, I don't think I could have said it any better,
just in terms of of, you know, how he runs
his program, and I've been you know, very fortunate, uh,
you know, going to Clemson University.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I'm definitely biased, but just in terms of the.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Way that coach twenty cultivates that culture and and allows
us to grow into what he set, the foundation that
he set, And I think Coach Sirianni does the same
thing as you know, the five core values.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
And and you talk about you know, Vermeil and and
those guys getting together will being together other is is
one of the biggest things is staying after eating dinner
together and and you know, doing things outside of the facility,
and it truly does, you know, grow chemistry, and I
think that's that's what this team has. So yeah, and
in my opinion, from from college to the NFL, it's

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it's been great. And a lot of people have said
to me throughout the process because I'm a question asker,
I ask a lot, a lot more than I probably should.
But yeah, right, Uh, it's it's really just about you know,
it doesn't feel like a job to me, and and
I think that's the most important thing.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
I I love going into the facility every day.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
I have joy playing football, going out to practice, watching film,
doing all those things, and and that ultimately is the
culture that that coaches created, as y'all have alluded to.
So uh, yeah, he's done a tremendous job with it.
And uh, you know a lot of the other guys
I talked to don't don't feel that way about about,
you know, being an NFL player at at other organizations.
So yeah, it's just been amazing and it truly doesn't

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feel like a job to me.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
We got to take a break, but it's an interesting
point you make culture in thirty two buildings is different
in each one of them. And I hear to a
man that everybody loves being a part of the Philadelphia Eagles,
and that's really special. So I'm really glad you're here
and hopefully your career is off to a great start.
We want you around for a long time, and we
want you breaking Saquon Barkley's record that he sets next year.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I love it. I love it. No pressure though, never
than never want to step it. We got a few
things in front of us.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
First, we are taking a pizza miles to New Jersey,
as we are every Monday and have been throughout the
glorious twenty twenty four Philadelphia Eagle season. Still have some
time to get by. Here we are with Eagles star
young running back. A lot to come from him, but
yesterday he got on the field and he has It
was a big part of the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Victory that we and in fact, joeld I was here this.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
I have long believed that this season, the kickoff teams
they were kicking away from Will Shipley.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
So how about that from with you know what.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I want to when we come back, we'll talk a
little special teams with him because he wasn't.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
There's nothing more courageous, by the way, with him returning
a kickoff in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
It's truly on a guys, it'll be more true.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
So we'll be right back here. We're still here for
a while long ago seven o'clock. We'll be here next Monday,
in as long as the season goes. We are Chickens
and Pete, Dave Speredero, Gerald Colton, our special guest, but
Will Shipley.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
We'll be back on Fox Sports a.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
Gambling sprats, totals and all the prop that saves a tween.
It's the Gambler.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Welcome back to Chickens and Pizza and Marlton, New Jersey
and the all pro Philly players.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Shelf on Fox Sports A Gambler.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
This is our wrap up of the regular season, but
we got lots more to go as we head into
the postseason. I'm Gerald Colton along as my co host
Dave s Perera. We've had just an incredible season here.
We appreciate everybody coming out and certainly everybody listening. We
have a very special guest and Will Shipley, who got
his first start in the National Football League yesterday and
accluded himself extremely well, the rookie running back out of Clemson.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
We are now joined by another special guest.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I think Will would agree, maybe even a more special guest,
and that would be his fiance Aiden. Aiden, thanks for
joining us. Just speak into their lab. We just listen.
We love to be able to show the listeners and
the people here, the players behind the scenes and the
personal side. And one of the things that has been
phenomenal this year is gain to know so many different

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players own the team and it's just a special special group.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Dave. Dave's around it all the time.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
And I think you would say that the Eagles emphasis
on culture and the people they bring into the phildelph
Eagles to novacare in the team is really second to none.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
And you just have such a great group of young
men on this team.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, and I think we all can speak to that.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
The pre draft process and the questions they asked him
and what they wanted to know about him, and and
and just you know, the people that they've that he's
met along the way. We are dedicated to the Philadelphia Eagles.
I mean, it's it takes everyone to be great, and
nobody wants to be a weekly.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Nobody wants to.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Be the the the weak chain. And so I mean
like it's been for me, it's been like man growing
up an Eagles fan and then seeing the team struggle
so much and finally get there and then struggle so much,
and then Jeffrey buys the team. And it's been a
year by year just great commitment to being outstanding. And
this football team is no different. The quality of the

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people in the organization. And I know that we'll could
talk to about the those who work with him in
his performance, him those who work with him in his nutrition,
those who work with him, both of you guys with
like getting set up in Philadelphia, where to move, where
to live, all of those things. The Eagles are top notch.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Well, let's turn it on to the real expert now
is going through this this whole year and aiden. So,
first of all, I want to take you back in time.
You did not grow up a Phildelphia Eagles fan. I
presume as you were not from around here.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
So talk about how you met will Shipley.

Speaker 9 (29:43):
So during COVID, I went to a gym about an
hour from my house because everything near me was closing.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
And where were you? He was in the at the gym. Yeah, no,
but what town?

Speaker 9 (29:54):
Oh, Charlotte, North Carolina's yeah, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
You went all the way there just to hunt him down?

Speaker 3 (30:00):
No, No, I didn't know him.

Speaker 9 (30:01):
I didn't know him, but everything near me had closed
and I was training to go to college for soccer,
so I needed to be training.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
And where were you going to school?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Jin Tech?

Speaker 9 (30:09):
Yeah? So I drove an hour and he was there
the first day I saw him, fell in love with him,
and yeah, and then I chased him. I did chase
him for a little bit, and then we ended up
going to different colleges and connected, like stayed connected through
college and now we're getting married in June.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
That is a beautiful story. There's so many questions I
have from that.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
So, so, did you talk to him when you before
you fell in love with him?

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Or was love at first sight? Really? No, it was
love at first sight.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Was he on the bench?

Speaker 5 (30:38):
What was he what was what exercise was he doing?
What was so impressive about will Shipley? The way he
strutted through the through the weight room, through the hollow rocks?

Speaker 9 (30:47):
Yeah, we were doing hollow rocks together? Was that like
an hour workout?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Okay? Okay, Yeah, see, we don't do that.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
We don't do those.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
But but come to chicken, piece of have crab fries. Anyway,
I'm hearing that now. But but Aiden, So, how did
your career go? Your your college career?

Speaker 9 (31:09):
It was definitely interesting. I mean the soccer was like amazing.
The girls and the team was fun. But I didn't
have the career that I thought I would have, especially
coming out of the recruiting that I was in the
high school career that I had.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
But it all worked out for the best.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
So I'm glad that I went to Review Tech.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And will we found out what she thought when she
first saw you. What did will Shiftley see think when
he saw Aiden?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah, I knew she was the one as well, you
know right away. Oh yeah, there was no doubt, you
know it.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
It took me a little while to get there, just
as people say boys are dumb, you know.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
So I had football at the front of my mind.

Speaker 7 (31:50):
I was.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
I wasn't thinking about too much else.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
But you know, God, God has a funny way of
putting people back together, and just just very fortunate that,
you know, he allowed our our past to cross again
and and for me to be smart enough and in
the right position to know that. You know, if I
didn't put a ring on that finger, it'd be a mistake.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I never heard the boys of dumb Gerald. Have you
ever heard of every day?

Speaker 4 (32:13):
I know?

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Really interesting note for aiden, like to be with a
guy who's got designs on being an NFL player and
the and the commitment that he's made. Kind of describe
that from your standpoint what you've seen from Will really
from the time, I guess this last year at Clemson
to now, how much time does he put into that
game when he's not at Novacare, when he's not in
at Clemson on the field like at home? Is it?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Is it a lot of football?

Speaker 9 (32:38):
Yeah, definitely. I mean the film, the calls with the
coaches after the game to see what can be better,
the calls with the players to see how they can
connect better. It's yeah, it's NonStop, honestly. But that's being
an athlete myself. That's what I'm so attracted to with
Will is the grind behind that nobody sees. So I

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think that is what drew me to him at the
gym when we first met, was just how much he grinds,
and yeah, he puts everything into it.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
One hundred and ten percent.

Speaker 9 (33:08):
And he's also very good at coming home and cutting
football off for when I needed to be off. So
that's something I've been very impressed that he's been able
to do.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
And I gotta believe for you will, it's really helpful
having aid and be an athlete as well to really
understand your world and to be able to assist you
with advice.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's really tough coming into
this profession. And like I said, you know, when you're
an NFL player, you want to stick around and that
takes a lot of time, a lot of preparation, and.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
You have to sacrifice a lot.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
So to have someone that understands that and is willing
to aid you and you know, just just chasing to
be great has been such a blessing for me. And
you know, we both make a lot of sacrifices and
at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
So what has it been like for both of you
coming to Philly? And it is a unique culture. It
is an intense culture. It is a big city stepping.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Like, yeah, I'll start first, it's been amazing.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
You know, we were right over the bridge into Cherry Hill,
New Jersey. But you know, anytime we're looking for food
spots or something.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
To do, we'll venture over into the city. And it's
been tremendous.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
You know, my brother did play lacrosse at U Penn,
so we were familiar with it. I'd come up here
a lot, aiden hadn't been up here as much. But
you know, these these months that that we've been here,
we've definitely been adjusting and getting used to living somewhere
different together. But but it's just been so much fun
and wouldn't rather be doing it with anyone else.

Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yeah, I would say, I'm just so glad that we're
doing it together. We both just kind of got thrown
into it and we're like, let's do this, let's see,
let's figure out what's good, what's bad for us, like,
just figure it out together. And yeah, it's been amazing.
I don't like the cold, so that's the one thing
I would complain about, but it hasn't been too bad
compared to other winters I've heard.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
And what about sitting in the stands at a rowdy
link in Financial Field, what's your experience been like?

Speaker 9 (34:59):
It's been I mean, I love the greediness that our
fans have for our team, and just the tailgating and
the drum line and just everyone is Like I worked
with real estate, and like we had a Monday game
and our whole office was just off, like it's like
a national holiday when there's a game, and like, I
just I love that.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
You must be a story of that office right now,
ticket demands.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Oh my gosh, Will how did you ask the question? Yeah?
So great story.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
We talked about it in March while I was combined
training down in Fort Lauderdale, and it's just a quick
conversation like you know, hey, do you want to get married? Yeah,
I would like to get married to you, all right,
And and that was really all we talked about it.
And I knew from that I wanted to be a surprise,
so I didn't mention it, but I was.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
I was setting it up for right before we went
to camp.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
We went down to Foley Beach, Charleston on over July
fourth with my family and Aiden joined us, and on
July fifth, we went out to dinner with a couple
of friends. On my mom was setting up the cabana
right right next to our house that that we were
staying at and got back, went on a little evening
walk and uh led her right to the cabana which

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my my mom had set up and popped the question
there was able to you know, bring her mom and.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Surprise her with that too.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
But yeah, it was an incredible experience, and we've got videos.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
I think both of us kind of blacked out.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
During it, just because it was you know is I
was nervous as hell, so but.

Speaker 9 (36:28):
It was I wish I remember more of it.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Do you really not remember?

Speaker 7 (36:32):
No?

Speaker 9 (36:32):
I only remember the videos, and then I remember like
that night we like celebrated, but from like getting out
of the car from dinner until like going to the
bar that night, Like I I really don't remember anything.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Well you when you have a tremendously memorable life at
Charleston's a factis please?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
So where where's the wedding? Charleston, South Carolina? Beautiful? Where
where should we go? What time do we arrive?

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Right?

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Joernally, I think you takeaway here is for you to
meet miss right, miss right, for you hollow rocks.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Well I'm going I'm going to the gym. I went
the name mad gym, and it's.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
To start working on those apps. But well, I mean
I know you have those apps.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Okay, yeah, I could use a little work anyway. Thank
you eating so much for joining us. I hope you
love Philadelphia because we really love having you in here.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
And and are you.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Guys getting recognized as you go around town?

Speaker 6 (37:22):
He's starting to Yeah, it's uh, definitely not as much
as Clemson, you know, which is is kind of been
a relief to Joy.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, just kind of.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
How was it a Clemson? Was it?

Speaker 7 (37:32):
Was?

Speaker 5 (37:32):
It a very intense environment with the fans. I mean
they love their football obviously.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Yeah, they very do much so love their football. And
and you know, we weren't.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
As successful as they would have liked us to be
over my three years there. But yeah, just just such
great fans. And it is such a small town. You know,
we call it Little Clemson for a reason. So you know,
when you're of big stature in terms of being, you know,
one of the players for for Clemson football team, you
can't really go much anywhere without being recognized.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
So did they express their frustration to you?

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Oh yeah, this couple episodes. We're not that bad.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
No, No, I love.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
It, man, It's awesome.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
You know, it comes and fans are emotional so are
Philly fans. And you know, I think it's just important
to have fans that care and and there's no doubt about.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Both those places that that they do care a lot.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
So and listen, we really hope you do love it
here because being a Philadelphi Eagle, to me, feels like
a really special thing.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
And you get to experience this, to live this life.
And we're glad you have a partner great to live with.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
You have so many young couples on your team, and
the Wise Lounge has to be great. I mean, there's
a whole bend. We've had the stream of guests this year.
Here's a bunch with one year old babies. There's a
bunch that are newly weeds, and a bunch that it
will't be and getting engaged. So great, congratulations and wishing
all the best.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Thank you, thanks for joining us. Aiden.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
When we come back, we'll bring it down the home stretch.
We'll get back to the football field. But that that
really made me feel good. It's nice to see young.
By the way, Dave got married last year on the
fifty yard line at Lincoln Financial.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
How awesome was that?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
It was?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
My It was great. It was the best thing ever
was the only one ever.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah, it sounds like a drink.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
It was was pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
It was interesting because my wife initially proposed it and
I thought it would be cheesy, and then I was like,
it was amazing, and I thought that nobody's gonna want
to come to the wedding, and meanwhile everybody wants to
come to do it.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
It was an amazing as a guest, being an honor
to be there. It was spectacular. His wife's fabulous, She's beautiful,
She's an amazing person. They are a great couple has
come together. I'm so happy to have them in my
life and happy for both of that. But but I
mean that very sincerely. What a setti for that.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
For that wedding, there was a game going on, so
they had to dodge something.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
When when Braiden, when Braiden and then Jake came out,
it was really tough, but otherwise it was great.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Aiden, thanks again, and we really thank you all for joining.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Well how many how many people of the ship Ley
family friends came up yesterday for your first start in
the NFL.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
My brother came down with a couple of friends. Mom
and Dad are almost always there.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
With a couple of friends as well, so I think
we had like ten to fifteen people.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
It was a great experience, you know, for them to
be able to witness me getting some playing time and
getting out there doing my thing.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, it's always good to have support. Fantastic. We're going
to take our final break.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
We are the All Pro Philly Players Show, live from
Chickens and Pizza and Marlton coming down the home stretch
with Will Shipley and his a lovely fiancee aiden who
has joined us.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
We'll be back right after.

Speaker 7 (40:22):
This spreads totals and all the prop that's in the tweens.
It's the Gambler, Welcome back.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
To a Chicken Pizza, Marlton, New Jersey and the All
Pro Philly Players Show. This is our final segment of
the year, the regular season year in show, myself, Gerald Colton,
along with my co host Steve spadera the Eagles insider
and really an incredible voice and knowledge of Eagles football
and Newgles organization, and our special guests, rookie running back
Will Shipley.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Will we are we concluded the regular season.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
And you gotta feel really good personally about how how
it ended. I'm sure you would have felt fine if
you didn't play the last game, but it has to
feel like, really you were really part of a big
victory and that's got to feel special.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
Yeah, you know, that's that's exactly how it feels, you know,
to to just to be able to contribute and and
have something tangible, you know, to be able to say,
I had you know, this many receptions, this many yards,
I was able to help this touchdown drive. You know,
it definitely just just means a little more.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
So, yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
It was great to go in there with with you know,
with all the guys and and get a victory over
the giants.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
That has to be great when you go into a
locker group and now you're a real big part of it.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yeah, you know, it's it's just that, like I said,
that feeling of like you can drive contributed it a
little bit more. Uh, you know, So it was it
was an opportunity, uh, to to be able to go
out there and show everyone, including myself, that that I
can do it, and you know, I feel like I
did a good job. Just so many improvements to make
and and just a starting step for sure, but a

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good one, is it?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
That's the great thing that there's always improvements that you made.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
You'll never play the perfect game, even even for a
Saquon And it's just a great thing about sports and
even everything in life. You can always continue to get
better be motivated to do so.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
It is and I think that's why I've fallen in
love with football is uh, you know, you've you've got
to have that chase in life of of something where
you're trying to be perfect, but we all know that
that perfection is unattainable. So you know, that's exactly what
football has been for me. It's just giving it my
all and you don't know what the product is going

(42:31):
to be sometimes whether it's good or bad, but you've
got to give it your all to to know that
you know, whatever product does come out, you didn't.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Leave anything on the table.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Well, going back to your coge career of Clemson, and
Clemson is one of the leading programs in the country
and has been for a long time. Dabo Sweeney one
of the best known coaches, and they've won national championships
there and unfortunately not why you were there, but you
were still you were still always competitive and always in
the rankings and and you know, winning ACC championships and
all sorts of things like that. Uh, but at what

(43:03):
point did you shift your attention more to preparing for
the NFL because you had weird times you had I
think you've lost your senior in high school because of
COVID and then basically and then you arrived on the
college campus during COVID, so you sort of got teeded
out of two years on either end.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Yeah, you know, it has has been a weird career
for me, just uh in terms of you know, only
playing three years.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
At the high school and collegiate level.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (43:30):
You know, I knew that I wanted to play three
in college. That's kind of what what I went in
with the mindset of. Obviously you always want to play
all four years of high school, but you know, COVID
throw a wrench in that. But was able to get
to Clempson early and and you know, have a productive
freshman year and just tried to continue to build off
that my next two years so that I would you know,
set myself up to uh to to be a prospect

(43:51):
for the for the NFL draft and did a good
enough job to get my name in the hat. And
you know, we wouldn't have had it any other way,
I think if you look back and say, oh, he
could have stayed four years and maybe done something this
or that, but I wouldn't rather be anywhere else, And
the way God's ordained it is perfect, So I'm so
happy with it.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well, you won or were considered for a lot of
national words and obviously recognized as a terrific, rific college player,
but that doesn't mean it translates necessary to the NFL.
So talk about that process and preparing for the drafting
and your Your combine numbers are somewhat jaw dropping. They
may not be Saquon Barkley, but they're pretty darn good.
And I'll say them for you and correct me if

(44:34):
I'm wrong. Four point three nine forty, a thirty nine
inch vertical and a ten to two broad yep, right,
And they're all staggering and showed what tremendous explosion you have.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
Yeah, I appreciate that. You know, the combine process was
interesting for me as well, because I, you know, decide
to play in the bowl game, my last game at
Clemson against Kentucky and actually end up you know, hurting
my my fibular head, dislocating my fibular head on my
left knee.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
So you know, I was out for the month.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Of January rehabbing and getting ready when you know, all
the guys around me preparing were you know, running and
already doing all their stuff. But I was down in
you know, Fort Lauderdale at XPE with Tony Vellani and
Matt Gates, and you know that they got me ready.
Wasn't able to compete at the Combine due to the
leg injury, but knew that I had to be ready
by March fourteenth, Clemsons Pro Day.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
And you know, I'd go as far to tell you
that in terms of all.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
The Combine events I was, I was definitely good, you know,
over ninety percent. But if I got that month of January,
I think I could, you know, pump those those numbers
up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
And then you know that's just.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
The bias side of me, but and just always wanting
to get better and and like you said, those combine numbers,
those don't necessarily translate well either. So you know, you
can put great numbers out there, but you also have
to have all the intangibles like football, IQ and and
the things that do go.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Into you know, being a great football player. It's interesting
how they how the process works.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Certainly it's not rocket science, and there's obviously a whole
lot of mistakes made in the draft process. Yeah it's
but but when they're looking at a player, good scouts
use the combine numbers, the workout numbers as a guide
or to confirm what they see. But it's what they
see on the film with their eyes. And you are
really different to me on the field, and and and

(46:25):
I know, and the differences are from what you do
on a workout, ir vasty. You're not dodging tacklers and
things like that. They called you. I think he called
you shifty. It was Tiki barb but not necessarily my
favorite announcerent. But I go back and watch the tape today,
end of the game, I think he called you shifty yesterday.
I think he was referring to your football building.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
I hope though. Yeah, no, you know, I love that adjective.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
And and anytime you know, someone like Tiki Barbera has
something good to say about me, you know, I always
respect and appreciate that. Uh you know, so so for
me just being able to to be who I am,
you know, And that's another lesson I've learned this year
is you got a guy like Saquon in front of you,
and you can try to emulate him, uh in a
million ways, but you know it's it's hard to do.

(47:07):
And I've just gotta I've got to ride my own
path and you know, be my own player. So I
am very confident in my abilities and and what I
bring to the table, just being.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
A versatile, shifty back, you know. So yeah, I love it.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
I'm just gonna try to continue to grow and and
you know, I don't mean that I'm not gonna grab
a bunch of things I see from Saquon and put
it into my game, because you know, why wouldn't you
with with the amount of success that he's had, but
just also being confident in who you are and what
you bring to the table as well.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Listen, we don't listen to very much of what Tiki
says around here. By the way, after after signed with
the Eagles last year, he actually went out and SAIDU
is dead to me.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
He actually said that, Yeah, I actually I do remember that.
I do remember that.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Yeah, that's uh, definitely not a very nice thing to say,
especially about a fellow New York Giant, But.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
And then yesterday he was, you know, screaming his praises
and what words. It's okay, people switch up. I guess, well,
we don't forget here in Philadelphia, that's for sure. Dave
had made reference before the break about returning kick returning,
and it really.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Is unimaginable for those of us who don't do it.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
But but I do want you to talk about it
for a second because obviously a great way to get
on the field when you're early in your career is
special teams, whether coverage or returning, and you have done
some of both, a lot of both, and can you
just talk about what it's like, because I don't think
most people understand how difficult it is to catch a
ball that's being it's coming down from the sky after

(48:37):
a kickoff.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
Yeah, you know, in terms of punt returning and kick
return you know, it's definitely one of the moost dangerous
plays in football.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
You know, there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
But you know, just also the intricate ways and and
you know the explosiveness that.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Can come from it.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
H you know, for me coming into such a loaded
running back room, I knew that I was gonna have
to contribute on special teams be a four core guy,
and you know that means turning kicks, uh and and
you know, blocking people up on punk return for a
coup and and Covey and the guys back there. So uh,
It's just been a ton of fun for me to
to be able to learn that stuff.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
And I believe it's translated for me and it's helped me.
You know.

Speaker 6 (49:14):
I know a lot of people, including those scouts, said
that I struggle with pass blocking coming out of college.
You know, I believe that I've I've really improved in
that through special teams and being able to learn how
to use my hands and my leverage and all that
good stuff. And I had a lot of fun doing
that yesterday as well, you know, so just the different
values that I've learned from it.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
I see that chip on your shoulder from that common
and that's that's always great motivation.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Tell me what I can't do right, Yeah, exactly, before.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Before we end, I just want to go through what
I think and Dave, you might, I'll see what you think.
But I believe this might be the best Eagles rookie
class ever.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
That is a great question.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
It has certainly been the most immediate impact rookie class
that I can ever remember. Yeah, I mean all the
way through, guys are playing time. But but I just
but to make an to make and I and I
wonder will like the COVID years, how much that helped
these kids staying in school, maybe an extra year bringing

(50:14):
a more mature body, a stronger body to the NFL.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Do you think that helped some of these guys.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
I think so, you know, one, just in terms of
the development and the experience that you gained stay in
an extra year in college.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
You know, it definitely gives you the upper hand.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
And you know, I think not something wrong with the league,
but just the way people are getting thrusted, especially at
the quarterback position, thrust it into UH starting roles early on.
It's so tough on these these young guys to step
into that role and be able to lead a franchise,
you know, and those extra years of development physic for

(50:49):
you know, physically and mentally, and you know, the experience
that you gained from it.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I think there's a huge upside to it.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Much of a rivalry with Clemson, Georgia, Alabama and your
locker room.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Oh yeah, every time there's a game there's some talking
going on, especially, you know, throughout the college football playoffs,
since a lot of the guys you know, come from
you know, teams that are in it. We're bicker and
all day in the locker room. Who's gonna win, why
they're gonna win, who's gonna get in? You know.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
So yeah, we're doing all that stuff all the time.
But no one likes Ohio State right now.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
Now Parris Campbell does. But that's about it. Like just
just looking ahead.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
We are excited for the Green Bay Packers coming here
on Sunday. There have been some great Eagles Packers games
over the years here. Actually the NFL Championship was played
at Franklin Field in nineteen sixty when it was a
different day pre Super Bowl, where the Eagles beat the
Green Bay Packers twenty to seven. It was actually a
Monday because Christmas was on the Sunday, but the Eagles
won their championship and it was their last championship until

(51:49):
they want it in twenty seventeen Super Bowl fifty two.
So hopefully you get to add another banner up there
this year. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves,
but at really exciting times, so I.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Will We'll ship who has been a really great addition
along with the entire rookie class of this team, which
includes to me guys who will be All pros and
Hall of famers.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Amazing, Dave and we and now Will.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
What happens is generally players come here and then they
go out and they have huge games. So we expect
will Shipley to do something spectacular.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Come on next Sunday. I look at financial field. No pressure, right,
not at all, So it's all fun.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Well, thank you John Janssen and all the assists you
give us all year long. The entire crew here at
Chickens and Pete's Pete and his fine staff and my
partner Daves Verair. We also had two special guests today,
will Shipley Eagles rookie running back and the lovely aiden
the future Missus Shipley.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
So on behalf of our entire crew here. We'll be
back here next week.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Let's keep it going.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
It's been an amazing twenty twenty four and not a
reet even to the calendar might say twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
We'll catch you next week on the All Pro Philly
Players Show on Fox Sports. A gambler.

Speaker 7 (52:50):
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