Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Eagles’ Maclin goes from holdout to breakout

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JEREMY MACLIN’S job is to make liars out of people. It is a task he approaches with seriousness and with sincerity.When he held out this summer in a rookie contract dispute, there was much tut-tutting in the land. (Truth in advertising: I tutted but didn’t tut-tut.) As the missed practices began to mount, from one to five to 10 to 15, the concerns were obvious enough, that he was only a kid, and the transition from a spread offense at Missouri to a West Coast offense in Philadelphia was going to be hard enough already, and et cetera.Well, what do you think now? Maclin was here for the exhibition games, for the runs of August, and that was plenty. Obviously.When they drafted Maclin in the …

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Eagles’ Maclin goes from holdout to breakout

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  1. Mike says:

    Maclin’s performance on Sunday was very impressive. We all knew he was capable of this type of performance but it was nice to finally see it. As he gets more and more play time, he should only get better and better.

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