Through reports and members of the media, he heard the news. At some point in the future, they will discuss it. But a day after it was announced that Rob Ryan was hired as the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator, his father, Buddy, said he was thrilled with his son’s new position and employer. “I think it’s great,” Buddy Ryan said Thursday at his home in Shelbyville, Ky. “He’s had four or five other opportunities. And he chose the Cowboys. So, he’s happy there.” Dallas has become Rob’s latest coaching destination, but 20 years ago it was one of the last places where his father would have been welcomed. During Buddy’s tenure as coach of the Eagles from 1986 to 1990, he won eight of 10 games
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Buddy Ryan backs Rob’s move to Dallas: ‘They’re going to love Rob’
The end of the 2010 season still bothers Brent Celek. The lopsided regular-season finale, the first-round playoff knockout, the squandered potential and the team responsible for the Eagles’ collapse. “I think when you go through a whole season and you’re playing real well … we had a chance to be 12-4 and get a bye week and then the whole season was shot down in two weeks, by the same team,” the Eagles’ tight end said. “I think that was the worst part, and then on top of that, it was the Cowboys. “I don’t want this season to go like that did. You work too hard in the offseason, during the season, to have it end like that.” Last year’s 34-14 wild card loss was the most lopsided of coach
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Memories of early exit spur this year’s Eagles
Brent Celek is still bothered by the way the 2010 season ended — the lopsided season finale, the first-round playoff knockout, the squandered potential and the team responsible for the Eagles’ collapse. “We had a chance to be 12-4 and get a bye week and then the whole season was shot down in two weeks, by the same team,” the Eagles’ tight end recalled. “I think that was the worst part, and then on top of that, it was the Cowboys. “I think guys were mad at that. I am. I don’t want this season to go like that did. You work too hard in the offseason during the season to have it end like that.” Last year’s 34-14 wild-card loss was the most lopsided of coach Andy Reid’s postseason career and
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New year, new outcome?
Somebody derived benefit from playing in that regular-season-ending loss to the Cowboys, after all. Eagles coach Andy Reid affirmed yesterday what he first said on his radio show Monday night – that Dimitri Patterson remains the Eagles’ right cornerback. Patterson was benched in favor of Joselio Hanson in the third quarter of the Dec. 28 loss to Minnesota. But Patterson played a strong, assertive game against the Cowboys, particularly as a blitzer, as one of the few starters to see extensive action. He said yesterday that was the most he had ever blitzed; Patterson notched his first career sack, against Stephen McGee. “My thing is just coming out and being confident, aggressive, just what
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Eagles tap Patterson to start against Packers
Behind mostly rookies and backups, the Eagles were winning Sunday with less than a minute to play until Stephen McGee’s four-yard touchdown pass to Jason Witten with 55 seconds to play made it 14-13 and won the game for the Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field in the season finale. It was a meaningless game for the Eagles, who had already secured the No. 3 seed in the playoffs and couldn’t improve their seed. They’ll play the sixth-seeded Packers at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in the wild-card round. The reason The Eagles, who rested most of their starters, held the Cowboys to just seven offensive points but showed why they have the NFL’s worst red-zone defense. They let the
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Kolb, backups flop in finale
OF ALL THE end-game scenarios possible for Sunday night’s Eagles visit to Dallas, the most unlikely might have been the one where the Eagles’ offense saves the battered, tattered defense by holding the ball for the final 4 minutes and 22 seconds, running LeSean McCoy down the Cowboys’ throats. The Eagles are not known as a running team under Andy Reid, you’ll be shocked to learn. The fact that they ranked fourth in the NFL in rushing yards per game coming out of the weekend is often dismissed as the byproduct of Michael Vick’s rambling wizardry. Playing into that perception was that McCoy managed just 15 yards on six carries in the first half Sunday. Afterward, McCoy noted that patience is
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Vick is saying all the right things
A 149-yard rusher, a 210-yard receiver, a 270-yard passer, a clock-draining finale and a guard with a touchdown? For an offensive line, “It couldn’t get any better,” said replacement tackle King Dunlap. It wasn’t always pretty, but the Eagles’ offensive line, remade once again, held it together early and got it together late in the Eagles’ 30-27 win over the Cowboys. Actually, it looked worse than it was. The Birds gave up just two sacks against a Cowboys team averaging just over two sacks per game, among the worst in the league . . . but Michael Vick exited Spaceship Jerry battered, as usual. “It definitely bothers us,” said left guard Todd Herremans, who caught the second TD pass of his
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Eagles’ offensive line just consistent enough to beat Cowboys
This could have been easier, definitely. Michael Vick took a whole bunch of hits and seemed to get rocked into some bad decisions, throwing a pair of picks for the first time since he joined the Eagles. Middle linebacker Stewart Bradley went down with an injury that could be devastating to the Birds’ postseason dreams; Eagles coach Andy Reid said Bradley is unlikely to play again in the regular season. DeSean Jackson limped around the locker room on an injured right foot. But Vick, as has been the case more than once lately, hung in there and brought the Birds back from a blown second-half lead to beat the Dallas Cowboys, 30-27, making them 9-4 this morning. Their best available playoff
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Eagles absorb shots, corral Cowboys
There’s nothing wrong with wanting revenge. It’s a perfectly natural impulse. It’s also tricky. There’s an expiration date with these things. Let’s say you have a beef with someone bigger and tougher, and that someone deals you a beating in public – not once or twice, but three times. After you mend and get stronger and prepare to settle things, you might go looking for the aforementioned foe. But what if, by the time you find your bully, he’s already on life support, badly beaten and breathing through a tube? Sure, you could smother him with a pillow, but where’s the satisfaction in turning payback into a mercy killing? The Cowboys smacked the Birds around last year in the regular season
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It’s hard to take Cowboys seriously as a threat to Eagles
To no surprise, Asante Samuel and Winston Justice were ruled out for Sunday night’s game against the Cowboys and did not make the trip to Texas with the Eagles, the team announced Saturday morning. Neither the cornerback nor the tackle participated in the last two formal days of practice and were listed as questionable when coach Andy Reid released his injury report on Friday. Joselio Hanson will likely start in place of Samuel for the third straight game, with rookie Trevard Lindley taking over for Hanson when he moves inside to play nickel on passing downs. With Justice sidelined, King Dunlap will be responsible for protecting quarterback Michael Vick’s blind side at right tackle.
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Samuel and Justice ruled out for Week 14 game at Cowboys
The Michael Vick redemption tour hits Arlington tonight at Cowboys Stadium. Fans in the Fort Worth-Dallas area finally can come face to face with the conundrum that has swept the nation since the start of the NFL season. How do you appreciate Vick’s Most Valuable Player-worthy play in leading the Philadelphia Eagles (8-4) to the top of the NFC East while still being appalled by his despicable criminal act? Vick has paid his debt to society, spending 21 months in federal prison after being convicted of dogfighting and animal cruelty charges. But there are many who will never forgive and more who will never forget his inhuman crimes of violence against the helpless. James Bias, president and
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Off-field efforts, MVP-caliber play part of Vick’s redemption tour
It’s Cowboys-Eagles time Sunday. That makes it discovery time. For the third consecutive season, these clubs will play more than a game with two meetings in the final four weeks of the regular season. One club will measure itself against the other. Two years ago, the Cowboys found themselves wanting after Philadelphia romped to a 44-6 win to keep Dallas out of the playoffs. That triggered an off-season of wholesale change by the Cowboys. Last year, the Cowboys waxed the Eagles twice in one week – 24-0 in the final game of the regular season and 34-14 in a wild-card playoff game. Eagles president Joe Banner acknowledged there was “a gap” separating the NFC East champion Cowboys and
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