Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Notable Player Development After Win Over Titans

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Do you, any injury updates from yesterday? Dino Savage left the game, but came back in. And how's Anton today?

Doug Pederson (0:09)

I haven't seen Anton. The players were just basically in for a lift and then out today. We didn't meet with the players. Just illness from yesterday, just woke up with it. Started, we had a couple of guys actually, Dee Ham was another one that we, you know, was sick Saturday. Anton was a little bit sick and woke up in not too good of a shape, you know, for the, for the game, obviously, and, and, and couldn't make it. But imagine he's feeling better today, you know, just to have was fine today.

Everybody, Evan's going to have a little bit of a shoulder in the game, you know, but everybody else, everybody else came out, came out good.

SPEAKER_3 (0:57)

How about Logan? Is he?

Doug Pederson (1:01)

He made it, made it through. Yeah, made it through. You know, we'll see how he goes this week, but there were no, there were no setbacks with him, him or Ross.

SPEAKER_3 (1:10)

It didn't look like he was hurt.

Doug Pederson (1:12)

No, no, no, he, he, he, I think he had four punts and did a good job.

SPEAKER_3 (1:18)

Is he a pretty tough guy for a punter?

Doug Pederson (1:25)

Sure, as punters go, I guess, yeah. You know, I'll tell you this, I mean, being his plant leg, you know, that's definitely, you know, a little strain, strain on that leg, on that knee. But, you know, he did a nice job, did a nice job. We'll see how he goes this week.

SPEAKER_1 (1:45)

You got Josh chasing the career sack record here, and Brian is chasing the rookie receiving record here. So in a season, you know, like this, is it all right to focus on those individual goals for those guys, you know, going through the rest of the way?

Doug Pederson (2:00)

Yeah, I mean, obviously, the sacks, you know, that's just Josh, being Josh, right, and getting the sack. I can't tell the opponent to let him, you know, hey, he's close, let him get a sack. He can't do that. But, you know, and then Brian, we can control that one, right? You know, the amount of targets and obviously the catches that he gets.

So, yeah, with the way our season's been, I mean, those are a couple of bright spots to, you know, to look at and really, you know, give those guys credit for what they've done.

SPEAKER_1 (2:33)

I think you said something about how he focused on the post game about getting guys involved more early or something like that. I didn't hear the complete quote. You remember? Something about being smarter. I'm here.

Doug Pederson (2:46)

You can't do that, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_1 (2:49)

Like getting Brian and maybe Evan at the ball, or Parker at the ball a little bit more.

Doug Pederson (2:54)

I think we were talking a little bit about, he might have brought up the fact that it felt like Brian didn't get started till later in the game. I think that's kind of the line of questioning. And again, it wasn't for not calling plays his direction because we did. The ball just happened to go a different place or, you know, quarterback had to move. You know, he scrambled early a couple of times. Mac did.

But it was good to see. It was good to get, you know, obviously get BT going. And that was the kind of the gist of the conversation was, yeah, we need to do that more in the beginning, right? You know, kind of maybe focus on that a little bit sooner than later. But again, it's not that we don't do it. It's just sometimes the ball and or the quarterback go in a different direction.

SPEAKER_5 (3:49)

With the way Brian took over the second half, how much better can he keep getting? How high is the ceiling really for him to get?

Doug Pederson (3:56)

I still think it's extremely high. I think he still is learning the game, learning different techniques by corners, DBs, the leverage, just understanding his triangle of coverage, right? It's corner safety and next inside defender and just learning how to run off of that and run routes that way. And then just use his ability with his speed. So I think there's still a lot that he can continue to improve and as good as he is right now, that's exciting, right? That he can continue to get better and potentially be one of the top receivers in this league.