Eagles Press Conference: Jahan Dotson, Cooper DeJean, and More | September 2, 2024

Jahan Dotson uh it's been smooth um and you know the guys are making it easy um was familiar with the a lot of the guys here um and making it feel like home for me um but yeah it's good to be back home um and you know I'm excited to be here I know last week heard from you it was all about the Playbook that was something you were really focusing on how do you feel going into game week where you are up to speed with that I feel really good um and that that's just a test to how much of work I've been putting in since I got here uh to make sure that you know I'm comfortable when I'm out there and uh I can play as fast as possible um so you know I feel really good about it um as we get into this game week and really dialing in on the Packers um it's been it's been good and I've been learning a lot uh just about the different nuances of the offense um but yeah it's been great um and I feel like I'm getting it pretty well John this is a weird week right and in a sport that really relies heavily on finding a rhythm and kind of having a routine how do you adjust to deal with The Oddities going on going to yeah I mean um coach coach serani has been doing a great job making sure that you know it's like a normal game week uh where we're preparing the same way meetings the same way uh it's just a little longer flight I would say um but at the end of the day you know it's still the same task we're we're going after that's getting the W um so you know he's been doing a great job and I feel like we've been reacting to it pretty well um so yeah here going on um throughout the week it's been good do have you been on a this long you I have never I Haven even time to spend the time sleeping um they said they they might want you guys to stay yeah they do but I don't know how well that's going to work with me um it's a long time 11 hours I've never even taken a flight past Canada so um yeah it's going to be tough NFL game right around the corner Cooper DeJean it's a bit of a weird one but what are the emotions going on I'm excited excited um something new for all of us you know going to a different country um you know but it's my my first NFL game I think I'm just excited as as all these all these guys are you know to to go down there and play play a regular season game so it should be exciting you guys Focus heavily during the season on routine right um and it's I imagine hard to have a routine when things are so strange this week but how um have you and how have the coaching staff really kind of tried to keep normaly throughout all this OD of yeah I think I think just embracing embracing the situation you know it's it's different for everybody it's different for them you know so we just got to embrace you know what we're what we're going into it's a long flight uh different country you know so really that's that's what they've been saying just to embrace our situation and we're going down there at the end of the day to win a football game God and with you missing some reps some games in preseason in training camp where are you with your injury and how ready do you feel for week one I feel great ready ready to go um you know I've gotten gotten more and more rep you know as as I've gotten back you know so I've got more and more comfortable out there on the field which is which has been good and these guys have been helping helping me along and we're still seeing a rotation somewhat on defense what have they told you about your role and how you'll contribute on Friday yeah I think um just being ready to go and whatever whatever position they put me in um you know I've practiced at multiple positions you know so just being ready to go wherever wherever I'm I'm placed and you know be able to do that to best of my ability I know we spoke to you in the immediate aftermath your only preseason game but after you had the time review it what did you learn about that experience I learned a lot um you know I think there's there's a lot of things that you know I need to need to clean up you could tell you know I had played in a little while um you know there's there's some things I did I did good and some things I did didn't do as good um you know but it's it's good to have that tape to to go back and and look at um you know and see see where I can improve and and really focus on that you know throughout the practices what role has Christian Parker played in just getting you up to speed to the NFL game yeah he's been great we we've been meeting a lot he's been um you know coaching and stff making sure making sure that we're ready to go you know if if we're out there on the field you know and he's he's been great in in teaching it um you know really getting us integrated you know out on the field getting us reps you know so so we're ready to go I know uh qu said two of you have been meeting with the coach to go over some other film what do you guys like to look at together and what have you gotten out of the sessions yeah those have been great uh it's not it's not so much just wa watching like the defensive scheme as a whole it's more like watching guys how they move how we can and how we move compared to them and how we can you know really improve our game um in those those areas um you know so we watch guys from all around the league um how they've progressed throughout their careers and where they're at now um just to just just to see how we can get better um what we can add to our game is there you like to watch in particular we w we watched a few few people we watched we watched Seattle when they had the legion of boom way back a few few years ago uh we watched slay when he was younger and how he's progressed throughout his career um you know a couple of the young Corners Pat San those guys you know so it's it's been good to to see see those guys and and you know see you know how how we can get better thank you I'm trying to find something I Jordan Mailata haven't really found it challenging it's okay that's what I'm saying yeah it's okay is it really something that you know can pick out um probably more just the meeting times they they're much longer and you know the longer we're in there more we're we're challenged to retain the information so if I were to pick out something that would be it but it's really you know nothing cuz it's just again you got to make those changes as a professional um for you in particular this is the first game ever in South America um being an international player pathway guy um to have the opportunity to grow the game how was that for you huge opportunity I think it's uh you to Echo what I saw what Jaylen said you know I got to peek back off that because it's true it's a huge uh once in a lifetime opportunity uh to grow the game and expand the sports and essentially be ambassadors of the sports of the sport in other countries and uh now I think we're fired up to uh bring the game down to Brazil one day maybe uh an Australia game we'll see a lot of the guys are complaining uh I see you about the 10hour flight I'm like that's nothing that's light work for me so I'm excited I'm excited just going the plane to be honest are you giving anyone advice about how to handle these long plane flights uh anybody who will listen um you know I think guys just are just going to sleep the whole time and uh you go from there but what is the pro tip though what's the number one pro tip where confy CL and we will be we'll be wearing travel Su no really excited uh Quinyon Mitchell just for me and my teammates just to go out and uh just perform how do you plan to spend this long like how do you plan to spend the long uh probably yeah probably just listen to music and just watch some exra film big say probably going to have a big rooll on Friday night yeah what does that mean to you uh just come and prepare you know just do my job and do doing my how about in terms of confidence your confidence level and you coming in as a rookie and giving me this kind of role what's that say I mean it just means a lot it just means you know I've been working hard stuff like that and I just got to keep my uh my foot on the gas how ready do you feel for what you're going to face you know I feel really ready you know uh I feel like I'm preparing myself and the coach preparing me so I feel really good how challenging is it you know playing inside and outside how challenging is it for you to First learn it now to be able to be wi do both oh yeah I mean it was challenges at first but I feel like I got it down pack now so just ready to go out and perform this what you expected start is this what you expected at the start Camp to have this type of go I mean yeah I mean that's the confidence I put on myself just to go out just work hard every day so yeah how how long did it take during Camp till you kind of I don't know felt like you belonged here and like you really had a good grasp of everything oh you know since I got here I felt like I belong but you know uh the nickel part took me a little while but you know now I'm just ready to go out to play was there a moment that was like aha or like I know I can do this or was there like a moment that in your head something no I wouldn't say just you know every day just tacking up good days and just coming out and Performing coer said you and him watch a lot of tape of other DBS legion of boom ceran what do you what do you learn from from doing that kind of thing yeah just how they uh how they perform their technique you know how they tackle and stuff like that just a little details you know what can you learn um like going against jayen in practice you know when obviously now you got Jordan run the ball and everything what were the challenges I mean just the type of quarterback he is you know he puts the ball in places like you got to have perfect cover so you know uh he been get me right this whole Camp I was ready go and play what what are your early things so far when you're looking at the package receivers what have you know what stood out to you yeah uh speed you know uh good release and stuff like that so you just got to be technical something have you thought about that moment I mean preseason games are one thing but you know it's going to be packed Stadium it's going be loud National TV International TV I guess um have you thought about like just trying to keep your emotions in check and is that going to be a challenge for you no I would to say you know I just take everything like one day at a time so you know when I get out there just like calm and control and just have fun you you'll have that moment of that wow moment no Packers use a lot of play action uh how do you kind of defend against that how do you keep from taking the cheese so to speak yeah just keep my eyes clean keep my eyes on my work and just just play out receiving your first game plan as a prospect of Poss playing position how do you appro that anding that in after train yeah just this week just going hard in the film room you know seeing what I got to do on my job and just seeing what they doing for your first NFL game to be a historical one for the league um how special is that to you I mean it means a lot you know uh not for me but just for my teammates and for the other rookie soers just go out and play hard and represent Eagle well historically you know some some defensive coordinator see like okay he's a rookie we want to try to pick on him especially SL how do you handle that and what are you looking to prove in terms of yeah I just say just doing my job you know if I play technically sound if I keep my eyes in the right place you know I be done be doing any talking I'm be doing some trash talking all right like how you do it yeah the qu but still talking trash that's not going to change yeah I'm extremely excited you Bryce Huff know me and the guys put in a lot of work to prepare ourselves for this season so I'm excited that it's finally here and with training camp and all the Reps you gotten how comfortable are you right now with this defense I'm extremely comfortable you know uh coach Washington coach Vick doing a great job getting me and the rest of the guys in be line prepared for uh the scheme this year and so I'm really excited for it and I know you're probably getting a ton of questions about the travel and we experiened is it almost like we're making too big a deal out this for it it seems like you guys just want to say it's it's just one more football game yeah it definitely is just one more game you know I know um like Brazil is a great place and they have a lot of cool stuff going on on there but at the end of the day we're just going down there to uh win a football game and I imagine the hard part is this game is so routine for you guys is it helpful that it is week one where you almost haven't even been able to get into routine yet uh kind of just going straight from camping to uh traveling and stuff like that I mean we just handle it as it comes and uh we're going to put our best for forward and and prepare uh just like any other game and we didn't see a ton in preseason but if you would have to describe what we can expect on Friday what this defense is going to look like how would you say uh a group a focused individuals that are going out there to uh accomplish one thing and that's when game thank you so much whatever really Slay honestly uh we will see how times tail with that you know what I'm saying how my body still in out because like I said I don't made a lot of money good deal the future what the future footb with oh yeah yeah video gaming streaming uh podcasting uh playing with my kids doing their activities uh good stuff good stuff I got kids in high school and stuff got boys training my daughter Run Track got a lot of stuff so I got a lot to do you mentioned qu how do you know he's ready I even ready yeah like like what did you see this summer ready to stuff out of the mama she came out M you been ready and you you been ready since your since you came out your mama so he been he was already destined for us so uh it's a great opportunity man for him definitely um load at his first game and could be experienced in the link you know what I'm saying cuz it's a home game you know what I'm saying but it going to be SPS in Brazil but we going to have a good time with it you know can you like compare like what you like your your first game uh a little bit uh we just like St only thing different is now he done change his number cuz I was 30 as a rookie and he done changed his number so I'm like dang so uh but uh yeah man I just tring to have fun play Fast play smart trying to do nothing out the ordinary just you know who as we taught and coach and let your ability take over you talk about the trip on the podcast how do you feel about going down there uh it is what it is you know what I'm saying I'm really going down there to focus on getting this dub really you know what I'm saying but I ain't leaving I'm going to be in the room playing the game you know what I'm saying play the game War Sir know might cuz I don't feel like traveling too heavy show cuz we there for a day so I ain't going to bring my travel game system I'm bring the PC okay so you had this is your 12th opener now right I mean I know it's in Brazil how different is this one feeli maybe than the first few well it just D on me because the field is 12 years in and you know what I'm saying I still feel young though I ain't going to lie but 12 years is a long time I'm trying to tell you I probably only see but BG like God least a't got gray hairs yet still work