DeSean Jackson injured his back after he caught a pass from quarterback Kevin Kolb in the afternoon portion of Saturday’s training camp practice. The Eagles gave the injury update after practice, but said Jackson was still being evaluated. About a half hour after the update, the receiver, who hasn’t spoken to reports since he arrived at Lehigh two days ago, walked out of the locker room on his own, got into his car and sped away without comment. Teammates and Eagles sources were saying the injury wasn’t serious. Judging by the way Jackson left the practice facilty, they could be right. Kolb was asked if his heart skipped a beat when he he saw his star wide receiver go down. “Yeah,
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After the draft and free agency, it was hard to see how Joe Mays fit into the Eagles’ crowded linebacking picture. Turns out he didn’t. The Eagles traded Mays to the Denver Broncos last night for former Arizona Cardinals running back J.J. Arrington, the team announced. Arrington would have been a really exciting pickup a few years ago, when he looked like a pass-catching back with Brian Westbrook-type potential. But microfracture surgery on his right knee last year changed that picture drastically. Arrington, who didn’t play last season, was quoted this week as saying his knee is “getting better every day,” but the Broncos hadn’t started hitting yet, which Denver coaches said would be a
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Brandon Graham’s lease was up in Ann Arbor, where he was working out with the Michigan football team. Graham had to negotiate an extra week of wiggle room. Meanwhile, he was getting ribbed by his former Wolverine teammates, who had responded to his attempts to bulk up to 278 pounds for the rigors of the NFL by jokingly calling Graham “fat boy.” It was time to go, time to move on. Graham felt it more with every passing day. He made sure agent Joel Segal felt it, as well. Segal “was coaching me through the whole thing,” Graham said yesterday afternoon, following the Eagles’ first full-squad workout of training camp, in which Graham was the second-team left defensive end. “He was just letting
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Ernie Sims is experiencing quite the culture shock coming from Detroit.Instead of hotels, he’s staying in tiny college dorm rooms.Instead of training camp at the team facility, he’s “in the middle of nowhere,” surrounded by mountains.Instead of no fans being able to attend Lions camp during his early years in Detroit, there figures to be quite a few milling around today when the full pads are on for the first time this camp and more is known about what the Eagles have at a number of positions, including Sims’ linebacking corps.Then there’s the new playbook. It’s not more difficult, he said, just different terminology than the one he mastered with the Lions.”I don’t read it as much as I
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DeSean Jackson is not talking, so Andy Reid spoke for his wide receiver. “I think he just wants to concentrate on football,” Reid said Friday after the full team practiced together for the first time at training camp. “He doesn’t want to be disrupted by any, I guess, questions on contracts or anything else. He’s focused in and he’s in a good place.” A day after dodging reporters upon his arrival at Lehigh, Jackson jogged off the field with his head down, football in hand. Asked to stop and talk, the speedy receiver replied, “No, sir, not today.” Jackson is, for the most part, a willing interviewee, so his two-day silence is of note. It could be that he has tired of talking about his
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Eagles’ DeSean Jackson continues silent treatment at training camp
It’s “go time,” as Kevin Kolb said. The first real day of training camp kicks off Saturday at 8:15 a.m. with the full team, in pads, in . . .. Well, we’ll just let the Eagles’ new quarterback explain: “It’s exciting, because we haven’t played in front of fans in a while,” Kolb said Friday. “There’ll be a few ‘live’ periods tomorrow, I think. All the eggs are thrown into one basket. We got our first two-a-days, our first live period, first day of pads, all the guys are here, fans are here. . . . It is go time.” The “live” periods are what camp is all about. It’s when the first-team offense faces the second-team defense and vice versa, and the third teams collide and (almost) anything goes.
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Wide receiver Kelley Washington, who played with the Ravens last season but wasn’t re-signed after the team traded for Anquan Boldin and signed free agent Donte’ Stallworth, has joined the Philadelphia Eagles, according to several reports. Washington played in 15 regular-season games for the Ravens, starting two. He had 34 catches for 431 yards and two touchdowns. Even better than his catches were his celebrations after each one.
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There was all that time, medical staff manpower and money the Broncos put in to get running back J.J. Arrington healthy enough to play, and all that sweat, toil, rehab and sacrifice Arrington did so he could play for the Broncos. And then, just as Arrington was ready to join the Broncos for the start of training camp Sunday, he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for Joe Mays, a special-teams standout and backup inside linebacker. “In this business, you come to expect the unexpected,” said J.R. Rickert, Arrington’s agent. The Eagles had interest in a versatile backup tailback, and the Broncos were searching for an inside backer who could fill the special-teams role vacated by
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Three hundred sixty-odd days ago, Stewart Bradley’s was the torn ACL that sabotaged the Eagles’ defense before it even got started, the knee injury that turned the toughest games of 2009 into ACHell. In the aftermath, the quote from Cowboys tight end Jason Witten was the one that stood out. Here it is, repetition offered as context: “That’s huge,” Witten said, last August. “Playing against that defense last year, he was really the one that made it go. He probably didn’t get as much credit as he deserved. He was as good as any middle linebacker we played last year. I thought he was a really, really good player . . . He’s a smart, physical player. It’s a huge, huge loss for them. I hate it
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Eagles middle linebacker Bradley ‘ready to rumble’ after ACL tear
As we bid adieu to the Donovan McNabb era and blow up the party balloons and pour the champagne to welcome in the Kevin Kolb era, everyone is eagerly waiting to see how the transfer of quarterback power will impact the Eagles’ offense. You can make all the jokes you want about worm balls and puking in the huddle and not knowing the overtime rules and the scarcity of fourth-quarter comebacks on his resume. McNabb wasn’t Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Brett Favre, but he still was pretty damn good during his 11 seasons in Philadelphia. Good enough to help the Eagles make it to the playoffs eight times in the last 10 years. Good enough to help them get to five conference championship games.
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Eagles coach Andy Reid said Wednesday the team determined Alex Hall is better suited to play linebacker in a 3-4 than defensive end in a 4-3. Clearly, the Giants feel differently. The Giants claimed Hall off waivers from Philly Thursday afternoon. The former 2008 seventh-round pick of the Browns was traded from Cleveland to Philly in April as part of the Sheldon Brown deal. The Eagles obviously didn’t like what they saw from Hall in their defensive scheme this spring and therefore waived him before veterans reported to camp in Lehigh. “I think Alex Hall will be a very good outside linebacker in a 3-4 front,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. “We worked
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Giants claim defensive end Alex Hall off waivers from the Eagles
Everybody showed up who was scheduled to, by Andy Reid’s annual 7 p.m. meeting that welcomes veterans to training camp, and then a few hours later, it officially became a full house, when the Eagles and top draft pick Brandon Graham agreed to terms on a 5-year deal. Graham might be able to take part in this afternoon’s first full-squad practice, quite a reversal from where things stood when yesterday began. A Graham deal didn’t even seem to be on the horizon, with only two first-rounders signed in the entire league. But a flurry of other deals got done yesterday, and apparently, Graham lived up to what he’d said in the spring about being determined not to miss much time. “It feels good.
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