The Eagles’ interview of Chicago Bears defensive-backs coach Jon Hoke would seem to be yet another indication that we are in the middle of a lengthy process here, as the Birds seek to replace fired defensive coordinator Sean McDermott. A source close to the situation has said the team plans to interview at least one coach from the Super Bowl staffs, who can’t be approached until after Sunday’s game. And the NFL Network reported that the Birds were turned down when they asked permission to speak with Miami Dolphins secondary coach Todd Bowles – a former Temple star – and when they asked to speak to Cincinnati Bengals secondary coach Kevin Coyle. As we contemplate which coaches from the
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Eagles interview Bears assistant for defensive coordinator job
It’s one thing to only have to beat Jay Cutler to get to the Super Bowl, but it’s quite another to only have to beat Caleb Hanie to get to the Super Bowl. The Green Bay Packers aren’t going to toss this one back, however. They’ll take the Super Bowl trip just as if they really earned it, and 15 other members of the National Football Conference would be happy to trade places. The Eagles are among those teams, and among the teams that, with a break here or there, can legitimately say it could have been them hoisting the Halas Trophy on Sunday. If Michael Vick had thrown a touchdown instead of an interception at the end of the wild-card game against the Packers, everything changes. Prior to
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Eagles’ fans: It coulda been us!
Unlike millions of boys and girls who opened their presents Saturday morning, the Eagles will have to wait until Jan. 2 to find out whether Santa brought them what they wanted most for Christmas. Aside from something silver, shiny, and shaped like a football on a pedestal, what they want most is the No. 2 seed in the playoffs. “I want that two seed. I want that bye week. I want home field,” Eagles safety Quintin Mikell said last week. “That’s important, especially the home field. If you get home field this time of year, it’s big.” Several things have to happen for the Eagles to secure the NFC’s No. 2 seed, first of which is beating the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night. The next step would
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Eagles have sights set on No. 2 playoff seed
MOST COACHES who’ve been around long enough to dig a hole and plant a coaching tree will tell you they get little pleasure out of going up against guys who used to call them boss. Andy Reid is no different. He’s coached against former assistants three times since taking the Eagles job back in 1999 – Brad Childress twice and John Harbaugh once – and each time he would’ve preferred root canal to tangling with one of the branches on his ever-growing tree. He was supposed to go up against his good friend Childress again Sunday at the Linc. To make the rematch a little more palatable, Childress’ family was going to make the trip to Philadelphia and spend Christmas with the Reids. But those
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Vikings’ Frazier part of Reid’s coaching family
The Eagles spent the short work week running from practice to meeting back to practice and, well, back to meeting again in the short span between Sunday’s loss to the Bears and Thursday’s game against Houston. All that scurrying around at the NovaCare Complex was enough to make one think that Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg would formulate a game plan that favors the run. Insert obligatory Eagles run-pass ratio joke here. OK, so Reid and his offensive coordinator are unlikely to serve a steady stream of Power-I against the second-to-worst pass defense in the NFL. The Eagles pass to get ahead and then, only with a comfortable margin, do they attempt to drain the clock and run the football
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Eagles’ run-pass ratio remains an issue
Wide receiver DeSean Jackson on Tuesday told reporters that he and Andy Reid are fine despite the head coach’s post-game blowup Sunday and that his only concern is getting the Eagles back into the win column. Jackson and Reid reportedly met Monday to hash out differences that might have contributed to the coach’s locker-room tirade after Sunday’s 31-26 loss to the Bears, but the Pro Bowl wideout stutter-stepped around direct inquiries about the incident. “I’m not here to talk about any of that,” he said. “What we talk about in the locker room is between the team.” Asked whether his contract status or production decline since the Nov. 11 rout of the Redskins had any bearing on his demeanor
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Eagles need Jackson as a deep threat
DeSean Jackson said Tuesday that everything was fine between himself and Andy Reid as the star receiver and Eagles head coach attempted to stamp out any lingering concerns about their reported dustup after Sunday’s game. “Yeah, we’re good,” Jackson said when asked about his relationship with Reid. He declined to discuss any words the two exchanged after the game or in the days since. “I’m here to play football, have fun, go out there and win football games. That’s my job and that’s what I’m here to do.” Reid reportedly dressed down Jackson as he ripped into his team after Sunday’s 31-26 loss in Chicago, but the two met Monday afternoon to smooth things out. Until Tuesday, Jackson had not
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Jackson: Relationship with Reid is fine
Right before Chris Harris changed the game for good, the little voice inside his head told him to be alert. A tip was coming, and the ball was heading straight for him. So when Harris saw his teammate, Chicago Bears defensive end Tommie Harris, deflect a Michael Vick pass intended for Jeremy Maclin, he knew the ball would fall into his hands. Chris Harris bolted from the end zone, returning the interception 37 yards and setting up a Bears touchdown that caused a 14-point swing the Eagles couldn’t overcome. “Hey, that was fun,” Harris said after Chicago beat the Eagles, 31-26. “We knew we definitely needed to get some turnovers and that he hadn’t thrown an interception all season, so we got
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Chicago Bears defense simply had answer to Eagles’ Michael Vick
The Eagles blew their chance to stake their claim as the NFC’s best team by falling 31-26 to the Bears on Sunday afternoon at Soldier Field in Chicago. They fell behind by 10 early, climbed back within one point, and then had their momentum swiped away when Michael Vick threw his first interception of the season in Chicago’s end zone. The Bears then scored 17 unanswered points against an Eagles defense that missed tackles and had coverage issues without Pro Bowl left cornerback Asante Samuel, and held off the Eagles’ late rally. The reason Much like Kevin Kolb’s goal-line fumble against Tennessee on Oct. 24 that sapped away their momentum and propelled the Titans to a 37-19 win, Vick’s
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Vick pick, lousy ‘D’ doom Eagles
I should have some good news these next coming days. Time to get to work! – Tweet from Asante Samuel minutes after the Eagles lost to the Bears. Good news for Asante Samuel means good news for the Eagles, for defensive coordinator Sean McDermott, and, especially, for the Eagles’ defensive backs. Samuel watched the Eagles’ 31-26 loss from his home. A sprained left medial collateral ligament suffered a week earlier sidelined him. Samuel said he hurt his knee returning his second interception of that game, which gave him a league-high seven picks and almost assuredly set him toward a fourth straight Pro Bowl. Samuel might have played last night, but it seemed wiser, surely, to let him miss
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Samuel hoping to return against Texans
Brian Urlacher caught a glimpse of last Monday night’s Eagles- Redskins matchup, but the Bears linebacker didn’t need to study the game closely to figure out what to expect from Michael Vick. “I’m not amazed with anything he’s doing. He’s Michael Vick,” Urlacher said of the Eagles’ superstar. “He was doing that before. I think it’s just now, he’s back in full shape and fully healthy. He’s an elite athlete.” And probably the most dangerous threat this Bears defense will face all season, provided the Giants don’t knock Vick out of action during Sunday night’s NFC East showdown. “It’s not hard to see what he’s doing. He’s the MVP, in my opinion,” defensive end Julius Peppers said of Vick.
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Peppers regards Eagles’ QB as NFL’s most valuable player
What happens when you have the NFL’s worst-ranked defense three years running? You do what the Detroit Lions did this offseason: You break it up and start all over again. The Lions have new starters at almost every position on defense, but the area where they paid the most attention is the defensive line. You can’t have a stout defense if you can’t stop the run and attack the quarterback, which is precisely where defensive-minded coach Jim Schwartz made his most significant upgrades. Bucking the NFL trend of going lighter and faster up front, Schwartz set out to build his front four to resemble the one he coached in Tennessee, where he presided over coach Jeff Fisher’s defense for eight
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