IF I WERE a fan, I don’t think I would’ve paid $10 to attend last night’s preseason finale between the Eagles and the New York Jets. But the generally held belief that this game is meaningless is probably the farthest thing from the truth. Yes, the starters were given the night off, but the middle and final pieces of this roster are still in flux. For some of the guys who played in the Eagles’ 21-17 loss, it wasn’t just their final chance to leave an impression with the coaches; it was the only extended chance. For guys fighting to move up the depth chart or grab one of those last roster spots, every snap was crucial. After a long training camp, when most of the time you were used as
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For some Eagles, final preseason game was chance to show they belong
Now that Thursday night’s charade brought a merciful end to the exhibition games, there is nothing but a short expanse of practices separating the Eagles from the start of the regular season. Ready or not, here it comes, and much more than in recent seasons, there is good reason to wonder if the Eagles will be ready or not. It is a question that goes beyond whether they will be ready for the Green Bay Packers, one of the best teams in the conference. The Eagles might lose that game, perhaps soundly, and still emerge from the rubble with a chance for a productive season. “We’ll get those things fixed and it starts with me,” Andy Reid would no doubt say. At least, that is what he has said
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Now it’s reality for Birds
On a scorching-hot weekday morning at Eagles training camp, retired running back Duce Staley was flanked by a half-dozen active running backs at Lehigh University. The temperature was boiling over into the low 90s - humid enough to warrant a lighter workout in the second of two-a-day practices that afternoon. But the Eagles pushed to close out the morning session strong. Near the end zone, Staley draped his thick arm around players’ shoulders, pointed to the field, and offered directions on making cuts during this noncontact drill. The first attempt was unsuccessful, so Staley called it back for another try. Even during the days of camp when the weather betrays players and practices seem
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Eagles running backs benefit from Staley’s expertise
Ask defensive coordinator Sean McDermott what a player has to do to impress, and he has a simple answer: Make big plays. Kurt Coleman did that Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field to add a jolt of energy to an otherwise forgettable preseason finale. Coleman, the Eagles’ rookie safety who scored one touchdown in his college career at Ohio State, took two fumbles back to the end zone. In his last opportunity to make an impact before the real season begins, Coleman stood out in a game contested by second- and third-stringers for both the Eagles and New York Jets. Coleman, a seventh-round draft pick, the last of 13 players the Eagles selected in April, had four tackles and an assist and
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Eagles drop preseason finale
TWICE, KURT COLEMAN was just kinda standing there, minding his own business, and, hey - a football! Coleman is a seventh-round rookie from Ohio State whose hard-hitting style and special-teams savvy probably had earned him an Eagles roster spot even before his scintillating two-touchdown first half in last night’s preseason finale, a 21-17 loss to the visiting New York Jets. But Coleman might play a long time in the NFL without fortune ever smiling on him again the way it smiled in this game. First time, the Jets were running the 12th play of a drive that had started on their 2. Running back Joe McKnight careened into one of his blockers on first down from the Birds’ 35, and the ball
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Coleman’s two touchdowns the only highlight from Eagles preseason loss to Jets
Center Jamaal Jackson could be the opening day starter after all. During an interview on last night’s broadcast of the preseason finale, Jackson said that the chances of him playing on Sept. 12 against Green Bay are “99.9 percent.” Jackson said his knee “feels great” following ACL surgery last December and said “they have been working me out hard this week,” in order to see whether he was ready to play. “Hopefully, no setbacks leading up to this,” he said. “And hopefully, I’ll be out there with my team.” He conceded rust could be a factor, but said he thought his experience could overcome that. Jackson, with the Eagles since 2003, would be the most experienced starter on offense.
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Jamaal Jackson: ‘99.9 percent’ chance he plays in opener
The Eagles confirmed reports that they have traded with Arizona again (former Eagles personnel guy Jason Licht works there now), this time getting 29-year-old reserve guard-tackle Reggie Wells for an undisclosed pick, reportedly a sixth-rounder.
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Eagles Trade for O-Lineman from Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals have traded guard Reggie Wells to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for an undisclosed draft choice. Wells (6-4, 314) was with the Cardinals for seven seasons. He played in 104 games and made 90 starts, including all six playoff games over the last two seasons.
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Cardinals trade offensive lineman Reggie Wells to Eagles
Jorrick Calvin was minding his business bright and early Monday morning - the business of trying to make the Arizona Cardinals’ roster - when he was pulled from a defensive backs meeting and told the head coach wanted to see him. Calvin is a rookie, 23 years old, and he might not know much about the workings of professional football yet, but he knew that Ken Whisenhunt probably wasn’t going to give him a good-conduct medal. The walk through the corridors seemed endless, with the pit-of-the-stomach emptiness that accompanies any unexpected trip to the principal’s office. But Calvin received a mixture of good news along with the bad when he arrived. The Cardinals, the team that drafted him
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Eagles’ Calvin a necessary part or extra cargo?
Andy Reid has tried to sell you on the fourth preseason game. The Eagles coach insisted recently that some final job battles are up for grabs tonight when the Eagles and Jets have their final tuneup before the Sept. 12 season opener. “There’s a couple of different (open) spots,” Reid said. “I’m not going to get into those. I think it’s important that all the guys that have an opportunity to play, play like they have an opportunity to make this football team. In essence, they do.” Nonsense, we say. The coaches know exactly who stays and who goes Sunday, when the NFL mandates that teams cut down to a 53-man roster. But since we can’t inject Big Red with truth serum, we’ve taken it upon
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Roster seems to be in order
At the start of every Eagles training camp, there are 80 players and a lot fretting over who will make the 53-man roster six weeks later. But, somehow, after dozens of practices, four preseason games, and hours of watching film, coach Andy Reid and his crew end up with very few tough choices when final cuts must be made by Saturday afternoon. With various places to stow and sometimes protect players - injured reserve, the physically-unable-to-perform list or the practice squad - picking the final roster essentially comes down to two or three players. Final, of course, is a relative term. Reid and general manager Howie Roseman will continue to tinker with the roster in the week leading up
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A look at the likely Eagles roster
MACHO HARRIS can count, and he knows that getting moved from cornerback, where he’d played all spring and summer, back to safety for the final week of the preseason probably was not a great omen for his continued employment with the Eagles. Harris talked this week about the opportunity to “showcase my talent” in tonight’s preseason finale against the visiting New York Jets. Translated, that means the rest of the NFL will see the film, and if last year’s rookie starter at free safety is a victim when the Birds trim from 75 to 53 this weekend, he at least can enhance his chance of getting a job somewhere else. For what it’s worth, Harris said he felt his conversion back to safety has been
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Macho Harris gets final shot to impress Eagles
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