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Eagles talk of Jim Johnson’s legacy

July 29th, 2009

The Jim Johnson memory that has stuck with Jeffrey Lurie took place inside the visiting locker room after the Eagles’ fall-from-ahead loss in the NFC championship game a little more than six months ago.”The moment I’ll always remember was last January after we had just lost [to the Arizona Cardinals] and we were in the locker room,” Lurie said a few hours after learning that his longtime defensive coordinator had died at the age of 68. “There were a few moments where I was alone with Jim and he came over to me and said, ‘I’m so sorry we didn’t deliver this for us.’”I remember thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my God, Jim, I have the best defensive coordinator in football for the last 10 years.’ I …

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