billy davis says first round draft pick marcus smith will have a limited role. foles is opening the season as the starting quarterback for the first time. maclin is ready for his first season opener in two years. he missed last year with a torn acl. he sees foles as becoming a leader. >> this is his team. the confidence will be there. don't judge him if he throws more than two interceptions this year. that doesn't mean he's declining. he has gotten better. he commands the huddle. he is making all the throws on the field. he's the right guy for the job. >> mccoy led the nfl in rushing last season. the only player over the last decade to lead the league in rushing two straight heres, tom lynn son. nfl experts say shady will be the mvp. how about that? >> being the offensive player, would love to have that award. it would be an honor. it's not the main goal i'm looking for. i'm looking forward to be productive and help my team out. >> the cowboys signed michael sam to their practice squad. reports say they plan to market and sell his jersey even on the practice squ

billy davis says first round pick marcus smith will have a limited roll on sunday.k foles is opening the season as the starting quarterback for the first time. jeremy maclin is ready for his first season opener in two years. he missed all of last year with a torn acl. nick is leading the team now. >> this is the team, so obviously the confidence is going to be there, don't judge nick off of -- if he throws more than two interceptions this year, that's not going to mean he's declining as a quarterback. he's gotten better, he commands the huddle. he's making all the throws on the field. he's definitely the right guy for the job. >> you saw in the preseason the huge spike in the number of penalties called on defensive backs for illegal contact and holding. the games were longer, the question is, will officials start and continue to call this tight in the regular season. >> early on, i'm banking on it's not going to change much, i think there's a message they wanted do send. it's been sent. i don't imagine them backing off too much. >> i don't believe they're going to c

it could be more reps for ricky marcus -- rookie marcus smith. >> i'm in the sure if they'll be callingn me more or what's going to happen. i'll just go out there and try to prove myself every day. >> travis is a versatile player and he both inside and outside for us and special teams guy for us. >> another player to keep an eye the new kicker cody parkey. who are in the starter spot with 250 plus yard field goals last week. >> preseason was big for me. obviously there's a lot more on the line for us. we node to win every game we possibly can and i'm going to try to give us the best opportunity to do so. >> friday football frenzy returns this friday night we need your help to determine the game of the week. download you are audio road show app click on friday football frenzy spot poll to vote. this week your choices are conestoga at ridley, west catholic at north penn or abington at plymouth white marsh. we'll have the results on thursday and i'll be live on friday night wherever you tell me to go. we'll be right back. ♪ >> september 5th is the stand up to caps ser tv event a live one h

longer to his acl in the last preseason game and that could mean more playing time for the rookie, marcus smith. >> they will call on me more or what will happen but i was brought here and i have to try to prove myself every day. >> travis was a very versatile player and was a special team guy f travis wasn't hurt he would have made our football team. >> another player to keep an eye on is codey parkey, he earned starter spot the with two, 50-yard field goal in the last practice game against the jets. >> preseason was great for me, so, obviously there is a a lot more on the line for us, wins count, losses count and we need to win as many games as we can and i will give us the the best opportunity to do so. >> birds get down to business this sunday at lincoln financial field begins jacksonville. see week one action right here, on cbs-3. kick off is at 1:00 p.m. there is my music. there it is. are you pumped? lets go eagles nation. >> we have an eagles jersey ready to go. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning take a couple minutes during this next break and try to guess what the drugs

. >> you can tell by the jerseys, marcus smith, number one draft pick there, as well. so, why we were there, it was so cute alex opens her clutch, giant bottle of lemon juice in there, and shot glasses. >> i had been caring it all the whole event. kind of heavy. >> do you always car think around? then i realized what you were to up. >> yes, i wanted to do this favor for our friend pre he will, you might know her story, four year old girl from delaware county diagnosissed when brain cancer. and her family started the lemon shot challenge to raise money for pediatric cancer research. and when she visited our set on monday, you remember this, she issued this challenge. >> and you guys want to challenge someone, right, pre he will? who is our challenge today? >> the philadelphia eagles. >> oh, the philadelphia eagles have now been challenged to take the lemon challenge test. >> so cute. so, last night, we got the eagles to do the lemon shot challenge, take a look. >> watch their faces. >> all right, pre he will, this is for you. >> we have all the eagles players, well, a l

your second round pick, first round pick marcus smith might not play much on sunday. guess what?hat's okay. both of them say when they get in the game, they will be ready. they won't be doing -- they won't be doing a lot of that. they will not be psych out. that's for sure. >> i know it's not going to happen overnight. i know i'm going to make mistakes and i know i'm going to do things that, you know, the coaches might see like that's not the right thing to do like on the football field but i'm getting better each and every day. and i just want to keep working hard. >> don't go try and go out there and say you got to do anything extraordinary. do the regular things correct, be consistent through the whole game and do your job. if do you that the rest of the things take care of themselves. >> two days until it is for real. now, the rookies may have the biggest role this season is also the smallest guy on the team. and he's determined to kick it like never before. when codey parkey made toes long field goals in the season finale. can he do it begun? can he do it again. >> can he do

marcus smith.ets go birds. >>> philadelphia sky line is turning green as city grows with anticipation for start of the eagles season, the boat house's long boat house row were lit up in green last night. beautiful. birds faced those jacksonville jaguars at the link sunday afternoon, there it is, as you can see all of the action, right here, on cbs-3. kick off is at 1:00 p.m. doesn't that just pump you up. >> we have to get that for your ring tone. >> not a bad idea. >> call me. >> put my theme music. >> watch, ukee walks in the room that starts playing. >> it is 6:21. first target and new possible date breach at home depot, coming up what you need to look for if you shopped there in the last few months. >>> as a new school year gets underway many parent worry about their child's i havety on the school bus but now, yeah, there is an app for that. see how you can track the bus from pick up to drop off, tell from pick up to drop off, tell you more on the other side it makes me happy to i like feeling

you work with all the greats, smith, marcus, good for you. and you had 1 years in the nfl. >> 17 years. >> remarkable career. >> thank you. >> good to see you. big fan. first of all, i can't believe -- now, the nfl's responding to this saying if there's a delivery sitting on someone's desk, there are going to be consequences. we didn't see it. i would have a hard time believing roger goodell purposely lied about this. >> exactly. >> knowing that he'd be fired if he did. >> yeah. well, the thing i don't know i necessarily want to call him a liar, but you see the initial tape we saw and she's getting drug out of the elevator, we knew something happened in the elevator. that's the first question, how does the video just surface now? >> made the statement law enforcement doesn't have to turn it over to them. but then tmz got it. >> basically means tmz is greater or powerful than the nfl. i don't believe that at all. >> maybe the guys at tmz would agree with that. >> of course. they break everything. >> but i watch this video and i know there's a