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Eagles miss defensive chief Johnson but have faith in fill-in McDermott

IT WAS a typical rookie-camp workout, on a lovely, cool-breeze-and-warm-sun May morning, with the cooking aromas from the NovaCare cafeteria drifting across the NovaCare practice fields.If you had never been to one of these 2-day camps for rookies and “select” (i.e., inexperienced) veterans, you wouldn’t have noticed anything seriously amiss about the opening day of this one.But Jim Johnson’s gruff bark is as much a part of the Eagles’ practice scene as Andy Reid’s all-weather black shorts. And yesterday, Johnson, the Birds’ defensive coordinator since Reid and his shorts arrived in 1999, was not on the field. It was the team’s first workout since the Monday announcement that Johnson would …

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Eagles miss defensive chief Johnson but have faith in fill-in McDermott

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