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I got to sit in a Q&A at Fedex Field today with Chris Cooley and Doc Walker (Thank you comcast!)
One of the questions that had the most entertaining answers had to do with Jordan Reed.
Cooley said (and he's said this on air many times) he firmly believes the TE group is doing the best so far this offseason. He firmly believes that that group received the best grades from the coaching staff after game 1.
The big thing Cooley said was that in practice there are plays that are a certain guy's play. There are routes (specifically option routes) that are given to the better player in the group because it's a route designed to target their position and the staff wants the ball in the best player (in the group)'s hands when they call it.
He joked about how at the end of his career he'd rag on Davis during practice saying 'Fred, you're stealing my CO route' because that was always Cooley's route.
Well, he said Jordan Reid is getting all those plays/routes. Specifically he said "Jordan is getting all the plays in practice."
Walker said that he likes to pick out young guys to mentor, and he specifically picked out Reed because he saw him strolling into hotel. Then Walker went off...
He said he brought a buddy with him. According to Doc "You don't bring a buddy to the job when you're not working there" (in reference to Reed being in a boot and not playing that game.) He said Reed has the worst body posture of anyone he's ever seen. That he strolls around like he's "Already made it." That it was a problem for a lot of young guys. He's taken to mentoring Reed. He loves Reed and thinks he's a good kid and will do really well, he just needs to keep his head on straight and focus on the real goal.
Doc also went on about Xavier Nixon. He loves Nixon. He said he was one of the top 2 high school prospects, started as a freshman for a Florida Gators team that won a championship (Doc was super impressed with that), then he fell off....
He said you don't just become unable to block people at that age like that. He said it's all mental. He's working on mentoring him too. Said the kid is an absolute badass.
The rest was a bunch of off field stuff, it was primarily directed at Cooley (by design), so it was a lot about being an ex player. Cooley told a good story about being on the field for the first preseason game before the game and getting the same feeling he got when he used to play, like he was getting ready to put on his pads. Said his only regret is not getting a super bowl; said that's why he came back last year, he knew they had a chance to be special, he just wanted to be part of the team as it ran on the field for the super bowl.
In a kind of sad moment he went over how hard it was to feel insignificant last year. How he didn't want to try to play football again because he didn't want to be told by the coaching staff that he couldn't do it (again.)
One of the questions that had the most entertaining answers had to do with Jordan Reed.
Cooley said (and he's said this on air many times) he firmly believes the TE group is doing the best so far this offseason. He firmly believes that that group received the best grades from the coaching staff after game 1.
The big thing Cooley said was that in practice there are plays that are a certain guy's play. There are routes (specifically option routes) that are given to the better player in the group because it's a route designed to target their position and the staff wants the ball in the best player (in the group)'s hands when they call it.
He joked about how at the end of his career he'd rag on Davis during practice saying 'Fred, you're stealing my CO route' because that was always Cooley's route.
Well, he said Jordan Reid is getting all those plays/routes. Specifically he said "Jordan is getting all the plays in practice."
Walker said that he likes to pick out young guys to mentor, and he specifically picked out Reed because he saw him strolling into hotel. Then Walker went off...
He said he brought a buddy with him. According to Doc "You don't bring a buddy to the job when you're not working there" (in reference to Reed being in a boot and not playing that game.) He said Reed has the worst body posture of anyone he's ever seen. That he strolls around like he's "Already made it." That it was a problem for a lot of young guys. He's taken to mentoring Reed. He loves Reed and thinks he's a good kid and will do really well, he just needs to keep his head on straight and focus on the real goal.
Doc also went on about Xavier Nixon. He loves Nixon. He said he was one of the top 2 high school prospects, started as a freshman for a Florida Gators team that won a championship (Doc was super impressed with that), then he fell off....
He said you don't just become unable to block people at that age like that. He said it's all mental. He's working on mentoring him too. Said the kid is an absolute badass.
The rest was a bunch of off field stuff, it was primarily directed at Cooley (by design), so it was a lot about being an ex player. Cooley told a good story about being on the field for the first preseason game before the game and getting the same feeling he got when he used to play, like he was getting ready to put on his pads. Said his only regret is not getting a super bowl; said that's why he came back last year, he knew they had a chance to be special, he just wanted to be part of the team as it ran on the field for the super bowl.
In a kind of sad moment he went over how hard it was to feel insignificant last year. How he didn't want to try to play football again because he didn't want to be told by the coaching staff that he couldn't do it (again.)
