Part 1: All that running paid off<\/a><\/p>\nMyles Hinton was admittedly a little nervous.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then I got out there,\u201d Hinton said, \u201cand I was like, \u2018It\u2019s just the boys,\u2019 you know? Just do whatever and be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 sixth-round offensive tackle cleared one of the major hurdles of his rookie training camp last week. He got through his rookie performance in front of the entire team. After going back and forth between several song options, Hinton landed on \u201cBetter Together\u201d by Luke Combs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cI like country in general. I got into country probably like three years ago. And Luke Combs is just the GOAT. \u201cBetter Together\u201d is also a great song. I know the lyrics pretty well too. I was trying to stick with what I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hinton humbly said he\u2019d give himself a 6 or 7 out of 10 for his performance. But he also admitted that quarterback Kyle McCord\u2019s rendition of \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d by Sean Kingston was the biggest highlight.<\/p>\n
\u201cKyle\u2019s was funny. Kyle McCord,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cThat was funny. I think that was probably the best one so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Thanks to Nakobe Dean we can see both performances)<\/p>\n
OK, so maybe Hinton isn\u2019t ready to jump into a music career but football has been going pretty well. During the first eight practices of training camp, Hinton has been showing plenty of promise and has even started to get some second-team reps at left tackle.<\/p>\n
When Hinton began to get those second-team reps, there wasn\u2019t any big speech or reveal before practice. In fact, he finds out on the fly from Jeff Stoutland or another coach to hop into the action.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to go,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cI got some second-team reps in OTAs too. So I wasn\u2019t brand-brand new to it. But with pads now, the speed of the game now is different of course. Definitely more bullets flying. It\u2019s fun, though. I\u2019m excited to be out there and get to show what I can do against the second-team defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the reasons Philadelphia was such a great landing spot for Hinton was that he gets to learn from Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata \u2014 two of the best tackles in the NFL. Mailata last week was a part of a group that got to the bottom of Hinton\u2019s biggest on-field issue.<\/p>\n
Last week, Hinton said his goal was to fix his stance and get more square in passing sets. So after a walkthrough one day last week, Hinton, Mailata, Stoutland, assistant O-Line coach Greg Austin and senior personnel director Joe Douglas had a mini summit to address it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy stance was kind of jacked up,\u201d Hinton admitted. \u201cWe figured it out. We squared it away and now I\u2019m pretty much set and square. Total 180. Before I would set square maybe 3 out of 10 times. Now, it\u2019s 7 out of 10, 8 out of 10. It\u2019s a very big difference. I feel better in pass-pro, feel more solid.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only way Mailata and the rest of the veterans want to be repaid? Hinton just has to fulfill his rookie duties.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that means getting Rita\u2019s water ice for them after practice or making a food run. It\u2019s also up to him and the other rookies to keep the offensive line room stocked with snacks, waters and Gatorade. Last week, Hinton had to re-stock a meeting room essential: Sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been good,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cThey\u2019re really good vets.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a couple week of training camp, Hinton is looking forward to playing in his first NFL preseason game on Thursday night, when the Eagles host the Bengals at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to play,\u201d he said. \u201cJust excited to get out there and experience an NFL game. I know it\u2019s preseason so it\u2019s not the whole shebang but it\u2019s still really exciting just to get a taste of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hinton said his mom and dad are making the trip to Philly for the game and he\u2019s really excited to go against his former Michigan teammate Kris Jenkins, who plays defensive tackle for the Bengals. In fact, Hinton said he has former teammates and friends on all three teams the Eagles play this preseason.<\/p>\n
Hinton used to get really nervous before games but has gotten a lot better at managing those nerves over the years. He\u2019s confident in his abilities.<\/p>\n
But will his first NFL game be a little different?<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably a little bit different,\u201d he said with a chuckle. \u201cBut I\u2019m trying to employ the same tactics. Go out there chill and ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goal for next week: \u201cThis past week I did staying square in my pass set \u2026 For this week, I\u2019d probably say just keeping my hands connected in the run game. I feel like a few times this past week, the past few days, I come off the ball and made a good pop but my hands have fallen off. I\u2019ll hit weird, try to re-fit but I\u2019ll never really get re-fit properly. I just need to get out there and get hands on people. I know I\u2019m explosive enough to get the pop in, I need to be able to get hands on them and sustain that drive past a few yards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the next several weeks of Eagles training camp, we\u2019ll be catching up weekly with sixth-round offensive tackle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,21754,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-260922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-eagles-training-camp","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114970229015175871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}