Eagles Press Conference: Jordan Mailata, Devin White, and More | August 17, 2024

Jordan Mailata Pi one guy on the team oh he said that one the time sorry team season based on Camp so far big season Jaylen um I don't want to put any pressure on him but he's just from last year to this year the the growth that I've seen um just from him as a player amazing take control of you know that Playbook and and what's his making sure that he knows you know that everyone is on the same page he's taking a big leap um so I'm excited and I can't wait for you guys to see that what was the big takeaway from last week seeing different pressure and a different defensive structure biggest takeaways uh probably to assess our own procedures and how we like to call it obviously going up against Vic fio for the last know what feels like eternity um has been frustrating cuz Vic is the most exotic you know defenses in the world and um you know to finally see a new look was fun to figure out those answers and and see a fresh fresh new faces fresh new scheme um so for us it was just kind of testing how much of the the new playbook and how much of our protections and game planning around the blitzes the hots the S Blitz everything everything you want that's that's what we tested and I think we did okay wasn't perfect in terms of Mak transitioning what does it say about his adapt to that position what have you seen him how to prepare to do that in case doesn't man I'm so glad we got Makai man he's such a great player um it's come a long way from his days from playing left tackle to now playing right God I think he's done a great job of just saying you know of taking taking a hold of that opportunity that is presented before him and running with it I mean it's a perfect situ scenario it's a perfect situation um you know I think he's just a hungry dog we we have that saying in in the o line room and it's really just like you hungry dogs run faster and maki's just running with it he's hungry he wants you know he sees the connections that we have up front and he's done a great job of you know just fitting in with us like we love Maki what has been the trickiest part about facing Vick's defense every day facing Vick's defense going up against Devon white oh hey there b he's so annoying he's so annoying he's trained so hard and I'm just like got to block this guy and he's trying to he's trying to kill me every play man so it's good fun but the the really the the hardest part about Vick defense is trying to uncover the disguise they disguise everything and it's really hard to know when they're bringing a cat Blitz if you know what cat Blitz is the corner that's the corner um and you know even even like line double linebacker blitzes so just really the disguise and making everything look the same and very vanilla is the hardest part of you know playing against Vic cuz once you think you nailed something he brings out something else so I'm excited Jordan have you noticed all like you guys talked all about like J the way Jays is playing like has interception he's playing uh well none of that really matters but um jaylen's doing a great job of just you know communicating the process going through his his process and making sure that everyone at at front in the o line understands their job you know and I think he's taken control everyone everyone's going to say oh you know we lost Kelsey you know Kelsey was this Kelsey was that well jaylen's taking a big step in in in leading in that role that you know leadership and making sure that everybody knows their points everybody's on the same point everyone knows their routes everyone knows who's hot doing that more than last year like he he's taking a tremendous step in that direction yes I'm sorry what's the biggest difference as a lineman when the quarterback is is the one L thinking less thinking you can just go out there and protect them you can get into your your stance you can get to your spot you know that you don't have to worry you got to trust in in what the QBC and then you just go out there and play football from the o line perspective what's what's the most important part of improving against the blitz what do you guys need to do in particular better than you did a year ago again it's the communication with the QB and the o line and the running backs if we have running backs in who are going to try and pick up the extra their extra man or tight end who's going to pick up the extra man getting that communication down pat and understanding and then it's the QB's job to understand what routes he has off that and once he identifies what's coming you know who does he want in or out and we just have to say yes sir okay we got this all right so the communication aspect has been solid we' seen the guys we've seen guys run a running back screen a couple of times what's it like getting out in space and you having to take one right behind you uh did you see the one today well it didn't look good the one today so um I I don't know I I haven't had the uh the honor of uh running with saqu one behind me m I haven't had the honor do you what over there um I haven't yeah like I said in all seriousness um I haven't run a screen yet with saqua but you know that's a center and guard question right there how how much work do you get with tight ends when they're in line like blocking with them uh we get a a couple reps I mean we do a lot of run blocking reps with them combination blocks um as far as pass blocking and this is like more of a after practice thing just seeing how we can help them a little bit but they do a good job man they do a good job hell of a [Music] job you you're one of the few I guess Devin White starters First Team guys to play play in the second preseason game you what you think about that and were you okay with that uh yeah uh coach Nick came to me and told me he wanted me to get two series and you know just go out there and fly around just keep getting back comfortable being on the field you know I missed a lot of U premising snaps last year so anything that just get me back in that mod tackling and stuff just whatever he need me to do for the team man there no rebuttal for me and I'm happy to do it what's your communication been like with the oh man just all every day just pushing them you know whether it's something big on the field or something little just as far as you know making sure you come out 15 minutes early so we can get a little extra in with our coach you know to just making sure he good mentally you know out the field you know and getting in a good routine because like I say that's my little brother you know I recruited him coming out and I'm still taking that same approach you know just kind of putting them under my wing and just giving them all the knowledge that I got from some great vets or a couple great vets and uh in my past time what stands out most when you watch this game watch the Kobe game uh just it's relentless man the guy fly around man he's very physical on contact he always wants to be the thumper uh the hammer and not the nail so I really uh like that about him and uh you know just a Relentless mindset of just want to go out there and kill we've seen you guys flips a bunch uh I know that's something that you were interested in doing how do you think that's coming together oh I think it's coming together nice uh coach Vic got a great system you know obviously as a linebacker you got to show him that you're capable of bixing so every time that we get our number call we just trying to put it on film and execute so he can be comfortable calling in a real game just showing him we can get the job done we can win our one-on ons those lines like how are you noticing like the way Jaylen Herz kind of handles the blitz like you know his what he does with it and everything I mean right now it's just a lot of new things being thrown at them you know uh we putting stuff in on the Fly and we don't meet before practice uh so they probably don't get a chance to go over certain things but I think the biggest thing he doing is he's being patient in his uh progression as far as getting to the line fast and you know using dummy counts to be able to uh get us to undress ourselves as far as you know uh when a person going to bit they eager to go so if he give you a hard Hut and you kind of you know show show he can kind of point it out so I think that's been that's what he been doing a lot uh lately he's not been rushing trying to you know get to the uh ball and just go set hut you know he's kind of been taking his time and uh really picking the defense part you know and at least trying to so we trying to do a great job of you know we knowing he doing that watching the play coock and we trying to show a dummy disguise just so we can get them and is that a lot different than from what you saw in the playoff game last year you know going against him oh yeah I feel like um timing is very important you know and sometimes when you don't when you don't identify the guy that's coming it can be really hard on you you know to pick anything up so I think he doing a great job with that man and he's taking a lot of uh hus to it you know I I watched him today we put a new Blick in and it kind of worked a couple times first thing he did was go stand by Vic and he asked him questions like you know what is this you know like cuz he got to know you know as a quarterback so you see your quarterback just eager for knowledge you know from a defensive coach and want to be able to pick it up and want to be able to see all right well I need to get to this protection need to do this cuz at the end of the day we're going against each other but we only here to make each other better watching Jaylen on film from the playoff game last year and actually going up against him this year what differences have you seen uh just Health you know just overall man me coming in as a friend in that game and just talking to him and watching him he was banged up you know and you only can do so much if you not your full self so just watching him out here you know him being comfortable taking the ball and running if he have two just so we can get another possession another down and don't turn it over and really having um speed and athleticism about him when he do decide to take off but man other than that I think he's just real comfortable you know and he's probably always been comfortable man he been a hell of a player since he been in the leag but he's just taking it to another level not all linebackers puts well but you and Tampa Georgia Tri and Clemson all have that history what do it take to be a good blitzing linebacker um I think you got to know the system I think that's the first part uh just knowing you know what's designed and then I think uh just having uh techniques when you get to the lineman or the running back and being able to win I think that's what I proud myself on the most is being able to use different techniques on different guys and also being able to study your opponent if I go in knowing that I'm playing Alan CRA he don't really like to cut so I know what moves I can do on him if I'm playing a running back like Josh Jacobs he like to cut so I know what to do on him so you got to go in with that pre that pre uh prep mentality as well it just don't happen on Sunday as you go out there and think you just going to be destined for greatness so you got to really put in the work and I think that's one thing that I did well I can't tell you those guys process but that's mine you always been that way oh most definitely um I really didn't take blissing serious as I do now um until I got the Tempa and played for Coach BS and it just became a staple I just you know just you know took it of under my wing just made hate with it because I was really good at it so I wanted to take it to another level so I sorry so when you said in the spring that Vic needs to see that that you guys can do it to call it what does it take to show him that you do that well so in practice go beat the backs by any means and when we do one-on-one uh pass rush with the running backs and just regular not even in team go win uh you know bring out a series of moves just show him like I can do it any type of way no good is sa in those say it again good at squ in those drills he all right I think I'm up on him but we really do compete in those drills um but I think I'm up on him for sure if he come up here ask them and I don't I got the film it don't lie man they all good in their own way you know we do we go from inside and outside but um I don't know I'll probably give it to Sequin cuz he really stick his face in there cuz that's something that he want to improve in in his game and he come after practice and say hey why why did you use this move what did I do uh to make you do this so that's showing you the accountability that he taking to want to get better because I do the same thing in route uh Concepts like if I have a bad down against I say hey why did you take this leverage instead of this so I'll say probably say coin he's standing out the most biggest difference what's the biggest difference because you were involved in simulated pressures and blitzing in college what's the difference between that and what you've been experiencing in the NFL I think it's all the same I think just since I've been in the NFL it's a little more polished you know you can do it from various ways and uh I could be working with the in I could be working with the three Tech I could be working with the nose you know it it's just various ways I can get a switch call and take the nickel Blicks you know so I I say just you know just a lot leading up to it in college was more so basically like you had your certain simulated rushes cuz you didn't want to put too much on the players but here it's a whole book full of stuff hey Deon Bas on Camp so far if you had to pick one guy who's going to have a big season do what you say offense or defense up to you uh jayen harder what is that cuz he been working extremely hard and dude got his own pass rush moves and man I think he uh really identifying his technique and just becoming great at it awesome all right what do you think you showed on Nakobe Dean Friday night I mean I I go out there and I and I play ball you know that's what I do that's what I supposed to do uh and that's what I'm going to do after the the injuries how long did it feel until you were kind of back to be started I was good when Camp started I was good you know I just for them for the team you know they wanted to see that I was good so uh just continue to throw me out there whatever I need to do uh in practice going through it you know it's a it definitely was a long road uh see the injury I had uh was a tough one but you know I felt good I feel good now feel strong feel like I'm getting it back I think what Ser was talking earlier today about three things for you is block destruction your tling and you're blitzing what do you think about those things how you apply in this defense how you how you feel in those aspects right now I feel like um that's kind of been the emphasis of the whole camp for definitely for every linebacker for BK Bobby King our linebacker coach he kind of he that's been main emphasis uh block destruction um a blissing cuz you know uh Vic been calling our number uh so uh block D blissing and tackling is a a universal thing so uh we we don't want no Miss tackle definitely not at the linebacker position so it's been a kind of universal um topic that we've been on this uh this Camp a year ago you started the season as a starter this year seems like probably just a little little behind sa how have you mentally handle that say what how have you mentally handled that going from I mean I mean of course I want to play and I want to be the first ones out uh that that play but of course I know I can't control it only thing I can control is what I come out here and do every day um and and work hard and continue to get better and and you know I feel like I had the uh the type of camp that I was supposed to have got a few weeks to camp now mobe what's uh what's it like playing for bet oh I like the scheme I love the scheme I love the defense uh everything he do how he like to mix it up um uh and I I like the the action that he gives the uh and the the action and the the um let's see versatility that he give he bring to the linebacker position as far as uh taking on 350 and um running with 4-3 so yeah like do you feel that kind of place to your strength like you able 100% I mean uh me at the type of linebacker I am I feel like you need to be able to do everything you need to be able to cover you need to be able to feel the a gap you need to be able to uh Blitz quarterback and you know and I feel like um those are things I do best and then also like what what kind of things do you learn from Devin Devin White as far as you know the way he's able to a quarterback like yeah it definitely you know uh we we always we we talk uh talk about different moves that he had you know I I remember before they even Camp started I had looked at um basically all his sex that he had in his career you know just kind of how he won and the moves he use and different things like that and see like if I if I either like to incorporate that or just run spin off of just have football talk with him cuz you know we we all football we love football what was it like for you to get back on the field after having the game taken away from oh man it was amazing it was amazing to get back on the field and you know just play football play football it it was a like I said the the the injury that I had it was a hard it was long it was I didn't have a day off I didn't have offseason it was uh at least five days a week all the way up until training camp started as far as getting his foot right getting uh and getting better and it's like I'm not I'm not back I'm better to pick one guy on the team who's going to have a big season what you say say it again to pick one guy on the team who's going to have a big season what you say uh man that's that's a hard question that's a hard question I'm not going to even answer it but um cuz there so many guys out there who been put in a lot of work and who be kind of been showing what they worth this camp or even things that y'all don't see that y'all don't that that we see when we come back and watch uh practice film uh offense and defensive guys that that y'all probably don't even know that they put in a lot of work that uh that I think we have going to have a big season this year you mention how Vick sche asks a lot out of the off ball linebackers in terms of like taking on big blockers but also having the Run uh does it I mean does it in terms comparison to other defenses ask more from the in terms of responsibilities in the past game not necessarily uh not necessarily just because every defense you you going you going to run cover you going to run cover four man you going to run man you going to run Zone you know uh every defense is like that so not really better um better physically better every every bit of every bit of it I'm better I feel like I'm a uh better than I've been my first two years you know how how it was different it was just the work uh had the the injury didn't only help me then help me try to get like get back to myself physically but it it made my made me mentally stronger uh spiritually stronger and everything sing way just kind of kind of locked me in and of course I'm getting older I'm maturing so uh a lot of the little things that I got to do Post practice pre-practice to get my body ready uh to get my body uh ready to endure uh 17 20 Game season uh I'm getting ready 21 Game season so all that when did you feel like you got to that point where you probably uh halfway through summer after after we left OT probably halfway through there's a lot of new faces in your room of course what how do you feel like the competition has just pushed you to play your best it it's pushed all of us it's pushed all it definitely definitely has pushed me um I I can only speak for myself but it definitely has push me just because you know you not I come back and it's not like not what you expect uh right off back it's like it's like you you kind of clawing your way back you kind of you trying to build away so it's like every day every single uh every single thing you do is kind of uh is looked at in the magnifying class so um I just kind of been taking it with he and we all and it's all been uh we all been helping each other feel like every single one of us has made each other better in that room and I love those guys you know the way we work together the way we push each other day in and day out that's what we supposed to do that's what it's about because Vic has said to us that uh in terms of blitzing you want to Blitz when you want to not when you feel like you have to how does that philosophy how do you kind of seen that play out playing in this defense so far in training camp I mean when you when you Blitz when you want to when you got a blitz it's going to be a hell of a lot easier it's just easier how cuz you when you Blitz when you want to it's going to be easier to Blitz when you need to as a as a linebacker what's the what's the value of the or does it matter of of the linebacker playing next to you right because you guys have tried a lot of different pairs does it does it it matter to you who you're next to out there I mean the the the the connection piece between the the two guys out there we got to know cuz you got to know what this guy like what he like to do how he going to play this how he going to play that and US mixing and matching and playing with all different type of guys just now you know you know everybody kind of have uh F each other out pa um to to see kind of how each each of us like to play it the position you uh you had a nice hit today there have been other examples of that throughout camp where typically you aren't supposed to have a lot of contact how have you have you tried to be a little more physical at this Camp than you were in Prior ones or is it and how have like the other team you know guys in offense handle that when you have kind of made I feel like I feel like yeah you it's we gotta I feel like we have been more physical than we have been at prior camps uh I didn't really I me personally uh with block destruction I know BK is big on just uh block destruction so trying to be more physical with guards then uh when you tackling I mean we had we don't get a chance to tackle much and C but uh so you try to th as much you can you can and in the past years it feel like I just kind of two hand touch off but it's like I want a thir and offensive guys have um embraced it you know they embraced the toughness they want to they want to feel cuz you know like the the offensive starters they they didn't play they haven't played preseason so first time they get hit they don't want they don't want that to be week one appreciate y yeah