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Doug Pederson Explains Reason for Practice Schedule Changes
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No practice for the Birds today, who are doing a walk through instead.
HEAD BALL COACH Doug Pederson explained why at his midweek press conference, which wrapped up a few minutes ago:
It’s just a couple of things. Number one, with the guys who are a little nicked up, who have a chance to play in this football game, I want them to get the rep in practice. Normally we go with a padded day. Two, we’ve got some young guys that might have to play, and they’re also servicing the defense or the offense, so this way it allows everybody to still practice and maintain their focus and get our work done that we need to get done today.
Doug also provided the following health updates on these guys:
- Tim Jernigan (foot) – “gonna be a little bit longer”
- Dallas Goedert, DeSean Jackson, Alshon Jeffery – “more day-to-day, they’re doing well and we’ll have an update at the end of the week, right now that’s why we’re doing this type of a practice today
Pederson said Carson Wentz is fine and offered up a few more tidbits, which you can listen to after the jump:
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Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com