Of the two news conferences held Friday afternoon, it’s impossible to know which will have the biggest impact on the future of the Philadelphia Eagles. Certainly the promotion of Howie Roseman to general manager will have consequences. Roseman will have his hand in personnel decisions big and small for as long as he holds the job. Nevertheless, with Andy Reid’s maintaining final say on personnel, Roseman’s taking over Tom Heckert’s office doesn’t necessarily represent a sea change. A few hours later, in Arizona, Kurt Warner held a news conference to announce his retirement from the NFL. Warner, 38, thus started the clock on his five-year wait for induction into the Hall of Fame (and yes, …
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An odd situation at QB
Somebody at the NovaCare Complex isn’t telling the truth. At least that’s the perception among NFL writers and fans of the Eagles’ public commitment to Donovan McNabb as their starting quarterback in 2010. Head coach Andy Reid has said McNabb will return for a 12th season, team president Joe Banner suggested McNabb would even play without a contract extension, and McNabb told reporters last week that his psychic sees him playing another season in Philadelphia. Somehow, none of it is convincing. Rumors linking McNabb to trades with more than a half-dozen teams since the end of the regular season — some more realistic than others — are rampant. Simply put, the Eagles have a quarterback …
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McNabb rumors: What’s logical?
It’s no secret: Kevin Kolb wants to be the Philadelphia Eagles’ starter. He thinks he’s ready, and he thinks the Eagles know he’s ready after Kolb became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 300 yards in each of his first two starts. But he knows that doesn’t mean he will be the Eagles’ starting quarterback in 2010.”I want to be a starter in the NFL,” Kolb said in a telephone interview Thursday. “That’s my No. 1 goal right now. I want that opportunity. But I’m going to be a team player. I trust [coach] Andy [Reid]. I trust his decisions and his ability to see what’s in the future and plan out my career the right way. Hopefully, we’ll do those things to get me on the field at …
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Team player Kevin Kolb ready to take next step as starter for Eagles
Somebody at the NovaCare Complex isn’t telling the truth. At least that’s the perception among NFL writers and fans of the Eagles’ public commitment to Donovan McNabb as their starting quarterback in 2010. Head coach Andy Reid has said McNabb will return for a 12th season, team president Joe Banner suggested McNabb would even play without a contract extension, and McNabb told reporters last week that his psychic sees him playing another season in Philadelphia. Somehow, none of it is convincing.
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Where will McNabb be in 2010?
Before you ask whether Howie Roseman was the best candidate for the job, you have to ask the more important question: What was the job? If the Eagles were looking for a general manager to come in and evaluate the organization from top to bottom and make hard decisions about the coaching and personnel staffs as well as the roster, well, then, no. A guy who spent 10 years learning the NFL from within the Eagles organization would not be the right person for that job. Roseman was promoted yesterday because the Eagles want to stay the course. Andy Reid made that clear when he volunteered details of the not-exactly-exhaustive search process that led to Roseman’s getting the GM job vacated by …
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Eagles stay course with Roseman
It started with letters mailed out to every NFL football team, every day, with a detailed description of why he belonged in an NFL front office. Eventually, the relentless mail chain helped Howie Roseman wedge his foot in the Eagles’ door that, 11 seasons later, has turned into his dream job. On Friday, the team revealed its worst-kept secret by promoting Roseman from vice president of player personnel to general manager. In his introductory press conference, the team’s newest chief evaluator explained his cross-over from contract negotiations and cap structure to the scouting and procurement sector. RelatedEagles’ QB situation remains murky”When I got here 10 years ago, I was fortunate …
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Eagles’ Roseman gets dream job with promotion to GM
Joe Banner did little to clarify the Eagles’ cloudy quarterback situation Friday. After a news conference to announce Howie Roseman’s promotion to general manager, Banner, the team president, said the Eagles had several decisions to make regarding Donovan McNabb and his backups, Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick. “It’s possible that any one or all three of the quarterbacks could still be here with one year left on their deal, or one guy could get an extension,” Banner said. “I think the status quo is in the cards as a possible outcome.” Status quo, of course, would mean McNabb returning for his 12th season. But without an extension, McNabb would enter his walk year and become a free agent after …
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Eagles’ QB situation remains murky
After a press conference Friday afternon to introduce new general manager Howie Roseman to the media, Eagles president Joe Banner couldn’t escape the wall of reporters that surrounded him in the auditorium to ask about the Eagles’ other pressing issue: the quarterback situation. In the wake of Andy Reid’s season-ending comments that Donovan McNabb would be his starter in 2010, and recent hints this week by McNabb at Pro Bowl practice that he’d like to “finish the job” in Philadelphia and get a long-term deal, Banner acknowledged that the Eagles would soon have to make difficult decisions regarding McNabb and his backups, Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick. But while Reid clearly backed McNabb …
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Banner: QB options could be status quo or change
News of the promotion of Howie Roseman from Eagles vice president of player personnel to general manager traveled quickly south to the nine players representing the organization in the Pro Bowl.Quarterback Donovan McNabb feigned surprise when he was told after yesterday’s practice that the 34-year-old Roseman replaced Tom Heckert, who joined Mike Holmgren in Cleveland as the Browns general manager. Kicker David Akers acknoweldged he knew 2 days ago that Roseman was going to be the man for the job and both of them, along with fullback Leonard Weaver and defensive end Trent Cole, appreciated the fact that the GM job stayed in the Eagles family.”I’ve known Howie for a while, and he’s done a …
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Eagles players approve of Roseman’s promotion to GM
HOWIE ROSEMAN began evaluating football talent 28 years ago. He’s 34 now, which made him 6 at the time. The first guy he scouted?Himself.”My first evaluation was of my own athletic ability,” said Roseman, who was named the Eagles’ new general manager yesterday. “I realized I wasn’t going anywhere with it.”Pessimistic Eagles fans looking for yet another reason for why their team won’t win a Super Bowl under Andy Reid no doubt will latch on to that comment like a dog to a steak bone. But the fact of the matter is there have been plenty of rock-solid personnel men come down the NFL pike who couldn’t play a lick.”This is a bottom-line league,” Roseman said. “The important thing is that you win …
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Eagles’ new GM Roseman confident in his abilities
Andy Reid has told us twice already that Donovan McNabb will be the Eagles’ quarterback next season. Yet most of Philadelphia remains unconvinced. Nothing club president Joe Banner said yesterday is likely to change that. Speaking with reporters following the news conference to announce Howie Roseman’s elevation to general manager, Banner said he, Reid and Roseman really haven’t had any substantive discussions yet about any of the team’s personnel, including its three quarterbacks – McNabb, Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick. “We really haven’t had a meeting to figure this stuff out yet,” Banner said. “Obviously, we have to make a decision at some point. But at this moment, I can tell you we have …
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Banner: No decisions yet on Eagles’ quarterbacks
Howie Roseman knew he had the makings of an NFL general manager when, years ago, he assessed an undersized kid from Brooklyn and decided he had no future playing football.”My first evaluation was on my own ability,” Roseman said yesterday, “and it was pretty clear I wasn’t going anywhere with that.”But there was another path to the NFL, and Roseman forged it, joining the Eagles 11 years ago in an entry-level job and rising to become GM. He said that such a job had been a goal of his since he was 6 and that he made this clear to Eagles president Joe Banner during their initial interview.”He was bright enough and determined enough that I did not find that humorous,” Banner said.A decade …
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