It seemed like such a simple request of the kids at Kevin Kolb’s second annual football camp. Yet, it was with reluctance that the 8- to 11-year-olds did what Kolb asked. “Go Eagles!” was more like “go eagles?” “I can tell you I’m the biggest diehard Cowboys fan there is,” said Kreg Kimple, a Stephenville coach whose son, Payton, was participating in the camp. “But for what Kevin does for the community here, I’m pulling for the Eagles for 14 games a year, and I want him to do well in the two games against the Cowboys. I just hope the Cowboys win.” Kolb might have a harder time converting his hometown into Eagles fans than he will of fulfilling a goal of becoming a Pro Bowl quarterback. The …
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Eagles quarterback Kolb has many fans in heart of Cowboys country
If there was some sort of shift in the Eagles’ war room after the Cowboys drafted wide receiver Dez Bryant, the team’s high command did not show it. General Andy Reid and his lieutenants stuck to their attack even though their NFC East rivals were dropping bombs all around them. The Redskins snatched franchise left tackle Trent Williams. Boom! The Giants plucked explosive defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul. Blast! The Cowboys grabbed Bryant, another tall ball-catcher. Look out below! “This is what we do,” Reid said Saturday after the conclusion of the NFL draft. “We try and take the best football player. I don’t get real concerned with anybody but us and what we need to do to become a better …
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The NFC East and the Eagles’ draft
IT DIDN’T seem like a very smart idea at the time, and it still doesn’t to a lot of people. But the Eagles have absolutely no regrets about the 2007 draft-day deal they made with the Cowboys. The Eagles had hoped University of Miami safety Brandon Meriweather would make it to them at No. 26 in the first round. But when Bill Belichick and the Patriots grabbed him with the 24th pick, the Eagles switched to Plan B. Which was trade down, get some extra picks, and take the hotshot quarterback out of the University of Houston, Kevin Kolb, early in the second round. The best offer they got came from a team in their own division, the Cowboys. Jerry Jones already had traded away his first-round …
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Jury still out on Eagles-Cowboys 2007 deal
In Dallas, 44-6 might as well have been plastered all over the Cowboys’ practice facility. No explanation was needed. The score said it all. Forty-four-to-six was a burden that became a blessing. It was, as Dallas Morning News columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor so often says, a “gutless” performance, but one that led to monumental change. It was because of 44-6 - that season-ending loss to the Eagles in 2008 - that the Cowboys are into the second weekend of the playoffs. It was a loss that led to 12 wins. And Dallas is still counting. “I knew that we, including me, we had to make some changes,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said last week. “We had to send not only different messages, but we had to …
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A few more questions in the aftermath
The gulf between the Cowboys and Eagles looks wider than ever after Dallas beat the Eagles three times this season, outscoring their division rivals 78-30. Still, Philadelphia head coach Andy Reid said Monday that Dallas’ success wouldn’t influence his team’s personnel moves and practice in the offseason. He cited last season’s 44-6 trouncing of Dallas in the season finale as an example. “I think the Cowboys were probably sitting in the same position we are (now) last year,” Reid said. “They were looking at this going, “Dog gone! The Eagles got after us pretty good.’ They went back to the drawing board and they answered that question. “Do I think we can close that gap? Absolutely and we’ll …
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Reid: Eagles will close in on Dallas
The first loss under Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb in an opening playoff game closely resembled the Eagles’ last loss of the regular season — and not just because the opponent, venue and lopsided tempo were the same. The Eagles couldn’t stop the Cowboys from engineering long drives, couldn’t get the ball to their most explosive playmaker and committed more costly turnovers, all of which blended together in one of the worst postseason collapses in the 11-year era of the franchise’s two pillars. The 34-14 wild-card spanking Dallas administered to the Eagles in its grandiose new stadium Saturday night simultaneously brought closure to one tradition while restoring another. The Cowboys broke a …
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Cowboys end Eagles’ season in rout
It was so gruesome that we won’t know the identities of the victims until the autopsies are complete. But one things seems clear: Philadelphia’s demoralizing 34-14 NFC wild-card loss to Dallas tonight means the careers of some Eagles - perhaps many Eagles - are DOA. And one of those departing could be Michael Vick. The Eagles hold a $5 million option on the quarterback for next season. But if their interest in him isn’t any more significant than they displayed this season, why bother? If the Vick experiment in Philadelphia is indeed over, it appears destined to be recalled as one marked by considerable barking and very little bite. In that respect, his performance in the Eagles’ second …
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Vick hits a high note - and a low one
In his 44 years with the Philadelphia Police Department, Vince DeBlasis saw plenty of his hometown’s dark side. When he retired as chief homicide inspector in 2003, he left four sons and one grandson to carry on at the police department. Here’s one safety tip that he, his sons and their families have come to live by: If you live in the City of Brotherly Love, don’t advertise you are Cowboys fans. It seems to bring out the worst in fellow residents. DeBlasis, who followed his sons into rooting for the Cowboys, says his young grandson was beaten up in his Catholic school because he wore a Roy Williams (the former defensive back) jersey. Daughter Lori, decked out in her Roy Williams jersey, …
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Eagles squarely perched as Cowboys’ top rival
Much pregame attention focused on what, if any, changes the Cowboys might make facing an opponent for the third time. As it turned out, the biggest personnel change was Felix Jones. Jones overcompensated for the loss of Marion Barber, running for 148 yards and scoring on a 73-yard run. Both figures put him in the club record book, for longest run and third-most yards rushing in a playoff game. As for their scheme, the Cowboys didn’t make dramatic changes. They used Tashard Choice out of the Razorback formation a couple of times, Roy Williams had five catches, and Marc Colombo looked good starting at right tackle in his first game back from injury. Otherwise, it was pretty much standard …
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Eagles defense gets fill of Felix Jones
The possibility is so outrageous that it could qualify as sheer genius on the part of Eagles coach Andy Reid. But what if the Eagles’ humiliating, 24-0 loss last Sunday was all part of Reid’s master plan to not only send his team to the Super Bowl, but to embarrass the Dallas Cowboys in the process? We all know that the Eagles were awful last Sunday. They couldn’t tackle. They rarely blitzed. They couldn’t, and wouldn’t, run. They couldn’t catch or throw. And they kept Michael Vick inactive for a second straight week with a quadriceps contusion, even though he practiced each day leading up to the game. So why not lull the Cowboys into a false sense of security heading into their rematch …
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Maybe it’s all part of Reid’s clever plan
It has been 13 years since the Dallas Cowboys won a playoff game. But Wade Phillips is convinced the drought is going to end tonight. “I think we’re going to win,” the perpetually embattled Cowboys coach told reporters earlier this week. “I think we’re going to win this football game. This is a tough league. But I don’t know that anybody’s going into the playoffs stronger than we are.” He might be right about that, at least in the NFC, where the Cowboys (11-5) head into tonight’s wild-card game against the visiting Philadelphia Eagles (11-5) riding the wave of a just-clinched NFC East title and three straight wins. Those included a 24-17 upset of the previously unbeaten Saints in New …
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Dallas Cowboys and coach Wade Phillips aim for season sweep of Philadelphia Eagles
I’m curious about the Dallas Cowboys as we get set to kick off wild card weekend tomorrow in the NFL. Since we saw them head down to New Orleans and pull off an upset of the Saints in the Superdome, Wade Phillips’ team has played like a playoff team - a good playoff team. Last week’s 24-0 win over Philly to win the NFC East was another example of where this team is going from a football perspective. And now, as we get ready to watch the Cowboys take on the Eagles again Saturday night in the NFC wild card, I’m wondering if we can label them sleepers. And in saying that, label them a sleepers to go all the way to Miami. Now, I don’t buy into “statement games” at the NFL level. Pro players …
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With Romo playing at a high level, Cowboys are playoff sleepers
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