The Eagles made sure they’ll go into training camp with at least one experienced option in case center Jamaal Jackson or right guard Stacy Andrews aren’t ready to reclaim their starting jobs. Nick Cole, the versatile linemen who started at three positions last year, signed his restricted free-agent tender and will be back for the 2010 season for $1.759 million. He and right tackle Winston Justice were the only offensive linemen to start all 16 games last season. Cole, 25, is likely to enter the spring camps and training camp as the team’s No. 1 option at center while Jackson, the Delaware State product, rehabs from surgery to repair a knee ligament torn in December.
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Eagles re-sign durable OL Cole
There seems to be a mixup here. The Eagles insist they are not rebuilding whenever you ask them, but Donovan McNabb says, “They’re rebuilding, and they’re going young. So I never knew 33 years old was old, but I guess I’m too old.” There really seems to be a mixup here. The Washington Redskins, after signing a bunch of older free agents and trading for a 33-year-old quarterback named McNabb, seem to be going for a super-quick turnaround but new coach Mike Shanahan says, “That’s completely false . . . It’s a rebuilding process.” We are now into the game of managing expectations. The Eagles really don’t get to play that one anymore, by the way. New quarterback Kevin Kolb is going to have to …
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Will McNabb be as super as Elway?
SO, DONOVAN McNABB is out and Kevin Kolb is in, and you no doubt are wondering what effect the quarterback change is going to have on Andy Reid’s pass-happy ways going forward. Strictly from a numbers standpoint, the answer is very little. Reid firmly believes you win in the NFL by throwing the football, regardless of whether your quarterback is a six-time Pro Bowler with one of the best touchdown-to-interception ratios in league history (McNabb) or a young gun with two career starts (Kolb). But while the Eagles likely will be throwing the ball as much as ever next season, you can expect some changes in the way they’ll be throwing it with Kolb at the controls. “No two players are exactly …
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Kolb is better fit for Eagles’ West Coast offense
THE EAGLES have banned the R-word: rebuilding. You cannot say it, or hint at it, or insinuate it without being corrected by someone on the team, even as they make the change from Donovan McNabb at quarterback to Kevin Kolb. They are very sensitive about the subject, and the word, from coach Andy Reid on down. But they need not be. Because they are going to compete for a wild card this season, which is what they did last year and the year before that. They were not ready to win a championship then and they are not ready to win a championship now. But with Kolb at quarterback, with whatever other changes they have made, the Eagles are going to compete for the exact same prize that they …
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Why this really isn’t rebuilding for Eagles
Michael Vick had hoped to be somewhere else by now, preparing for an opportunity to compete for a starting job. The Eagles also had hoped that Vick would be somewhere else by now. The team that had once managed to sweet-talk the Dolphins out of a second-round pick for A.J. Feeley felt fairly confident a few months ago that Vick would be able to fetch them at least a midround pick in a trade with one of the league’s many quarterback-starved teams. But the offers for the soon-to-be-30-year-old former Pro Bowl quarterback never came. While that still could change at some point, right now, it looks like Vick will be spending the 2010 season backing up the Eagles’ new starter, Kevin Kolb, and …
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Vick says he will be good soldier for Eagles
Donovan McNabb walked into his introductory press conference today with two Washington Redskins helmets at a table next to the podium and told a packed audience that “I’m a Redskin now.” If that sounded strange, so did this response when McNabb was asked what it’s going to be like for him walking into Lincoln Financial Field next season to play against the Eagles. “I don’t look at it any differently than playing the Giants or Dallas,” he said. McNabb had spent the first 11 years of his career with the Eagles, leading them to five NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl. But the Eagles never won that Super Bowl. He vowed to win one with the Redskins. “Through 11 years, I can’t say I …
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McNabb: ‘I’m a Redskin now’
Booooooooooooooo! The same sound that greeted Donovan McNabb on his way into Philadelphia will follow him as leaves. Booooooooooooooo! The baffling deal that shipped McNabb, the greatest quarterback in Eagles history, to the division-rival Washington Redskins should leave most Birds’ fans booing their own front office, just as they did back on April 17, 1999, when the Eagles selected McNabb in the NFL draft. Booooooooooooooo! It’s one thing to trade McNabb. With his contract in its last year, and with Kevin Kolb the designated heir apparent, no one should be surprised that McNabb is on the move. Under the decidedly unsentimental Andy Reid regime, the Eagles have always determined that it’s …
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Eagles make the wrong move by trading Donovan McNabb within the NFC East
Andy Reid was so desperate to get rid of Donovan McNabb in a market that never developed that he traded him Sunday night within the NFC East to the Redskins. It’s not the first time the Eagles have traded their quarterback to the Redskins. In 1964, they sent Sonny Jurgensen to Washington. The Redskins made it to the Super Bowl once when Jurgensen was with them, but it was Billy Kilmer who started and lost against the Dolphins. McNabb’s time in Philly had run out and he had to go, but it’s inconceivable that the Eagles mismanaged this so poorly that they had to trade him within the division. The Eagles sat on this so long, or were so unrealistic in what they wanted, that potential trading …
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Washington Redskins nab Donovan McNabb from Philadelphia Eagles
In their boldest move since Mike Shanahan took over as head coach, the Washington Redskins acquired quarterback Donovan McNabb on Sunday night in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, shaking up one of the National Football League’s most competitive divisions. McNabb instantly changes the face of the Redskins’ offense, simultaneously casting uncertainty on quarterback Jason Campbell’s future and the team’s plans for this month’s draft. McNabb’s arrival also means Redskins fans can expect a new starting quarterback at the start of a 2010 season that already had promised plenty of change. “Donovan is an accomplished quarterback who has been a proven winner in the National Football League,” …
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Redskins acquire quarterback Donovan McNabb from Philadelphia Eagles
The Redskins offered DT Albert Haynesworth in trade talks for Donovan McNabb, according to league sources. Haynesworth, who clashed with coaches in Washington last season and has not made a good first impression with new coach Mike Shanahan, is someone who could be had in a trade, and he was offered to the Eagles. Other coaches said that they expect the Redskins to continue attempts to move Haynesworth, who is bucking attempts to play nose tackle with Washington playing more 3-4 now, according to sources. Haynesworth just received a $21 million bonus at the start of the month, and his salary would make dealing him very difficult. The Eagles had no interest in him outright, according to a …
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Source: Redskins offered Haynesworth to Eagles
Longtime Redskins player Brian Mitchell said Sunday night he had spoken to Donovan McNabb and relayed that the new Washington QB was intent on sticking it to his old team in the 2010 season. Mitchell said he could hear “revenge” in McNabb’s voice after the six-time Pro Bowler was dealt from the Philadelphia Eagles to the Redskins, their NFC East rival. McNabb was Mitchell’s teammate in Philadelphia from 2000-2002.
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Ex-teammate: Donovan McNabb had ‘a little revenge’ in his voice after trade from Eagles to Redskins
Now, Eagles fans who blamed Donovan McNabb for every incomplete trip to the playoffs in the past 11 seasons will see if their gripes are legitimate. And the McNabb supporters who refuse to pin an entire franchise’s shortcomings on one right arm will have their theories tested, too. Of course, if the supporters have their way, another season without the Lombardi Trophy is exactly what’s in store for the Eagles. The late Easter Sunday trade that sent the greatest offensive player in team history to the NFC East rival Washington Redskins is shocking only because star players — franchise pillars, especially — are rarely traded within the same NFL division. But the Eagles ushered in the Kevin …
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