For a moment, Andy Reid, the coach who holds the hopes of Eagles fans in his playbook, sounded like the rest of us. He said he was curious to see how the sweeping makeover of the team plays out. Talking to reporters from a podium next to the practice fields at Lehigh University, Reid acknowledged that despite all the planning that goes into putting together a football team, there are many “unknowns” facing his youthful squad, adding to the anticipation as he gets ready to see what the revamped Eagles look like when the hitting begins Tuesday. “There’s a little bit of unknown, which I kind of like. . . . I think it’s a great challenge,” Reid said on the eve of his first training camp
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I cannot believe the season is already upon us. The offseason went by extremely fast. It seems like we just left Dallas. I am grateful for the many opportunities I had the past few months. I had a wonderful chance to serve in Haiti at the Mission of Hope orphanage helping the men, women, and children rebuild after the devastating earthquake. I also attended an amazing youth camp, as an honorary counselor in Branson, Mo., at Kids Across America. The camp runs programs for inner-city youths by teaching sports and providing Christian outreach. In both of these experiences, I was reminded how much a gift playing football is and how athletes can inspire so many people just by playing a sport.
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Amazing what you can find out when you finally get to talk to a guy. Reporters covering the Eagles have wondered what Ellis Hobbs thought about being named the starting right corner, after the team traded Sheldon Brown to Cleveland last month. Through the Eagles, Hobbs had declined requests to be interviewed, but he was more than willing to talk yesterday, after taking part in individual drills as a few more “select” vets joined rookie camp at NovaCare. Turns out Hobbs never knew, he said, that general manager Howie Roseman designated him as the starter in the wake of the Brown trade. “That’s my first time hearing you say that, that Howie said that,” Hobbs, 27, said. “I don’t get involved …
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Nine months ago, Cornelius Ingram sat on a trainer’s table at Lehigh and cried. The Eagles tight end had just found out that he had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee he had injured a year earlier. On Thursday, after practice at the NovaCare Complex, Ingram was beaming. He is in only about phase five of a 10-step process designed to get the second-year player back on the field in game action for the first time in more than 21/2 years. But after two days of running, cutting, catching - and falling - during organized team activities, Ingram declared his left knee fit and his prospects bright. “I know I can play this game,” he said. “I know if my knee’s healthy, I can play …
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Nine months ago, Cornelius Ingram sat on a trainer’s table at Lehigh and cried. The Eagles tight end had just found out that he had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee he had injured a year earlier. On Thursday, after practice at the NovaCare Complex, Ingram was beaming. He is in only about phase five of a 10-step process designed to get the second-year player back on the field in game action for the first time in more than 21/2 years. But after two days of running, cutting, catching - and falling - during organized team activities, Ingram declared his left knee fit and his prospects bright. “I know I can play this game,” he said. “I know if my knee’s healthy, I can play …
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Get out your calendar and circle Oct. 3 in burgundy.That’s when Donovan McNabb returns to Lincoln Financial Field wearing No. 5 and a Washington Redskins helmet.It will surely be an emotional night for the former Eagles quarterback and the team’s fans, who will have the chance to vocally take sides in the great divide of the McNabb era: the appreciation of the five conference championship games or the frustration that he never delivered a Super Bowl title.The game highlights a 2010 Eagles schedule that features only five games against teams that reached the playoffs last season, though it is projected as the ninth toughest based on 2009 records.The comparison between new Eagles starter …
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Whatever the Philadelphia Eagles decide to do with their quarterback situation, they need to remember that old Kenny Rogers song, “The Gambler”: know when to hold ‘em, and know when to fold ‘em. Assuming that Donovan McNabb will be leaving … which still doesn’t quite sound right, does it? All he’s done with the Eagles is been a close-to-Hall of Fame quarterback, but if Brett Favre can wear Vikings’ purple again, McNabb can play for the Bills or Rams or whomever. Anyway, back to the previous train of thought … the Eagles should make sure they don’t overvalue McNabb. If he has to go, get a good-enough deal and take it. Don’t wait for the ultimate package and not get it, and then either: a) …
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THE HORSE in the hotel lobby. How many memorial services inside the century-old First Presbyterian Church in Ardmore, before someone told a story about a horse in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel? Pat Summerall was talking about Tom Brookshier’s zest for life yesterday. “We had dinner in New York,” Summerall said. “And we were asked to leave. “And then we saw this horse and carriage that looked like a stagecoach. We rented it. Brookie said, ‘I’m not sure about this driver . . . I’m gonna ride shotgun.’ So he climbed up to sit alongside the driver. “We’re going down Sixth Avenue and Tommy falls off. People were worried, saying, ‘He’s hurt, he’s hurt.’ And I said, ‘He’s not hurt, he landed on …
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HOWIE ROSEMAN began evaluating football talent 28 years ago. He’s 34 now, which made him 6 at the time. The first guy he scouted?Himself.”My first evaluation was of my own athletic ability,” said Roseman, who was named the Eagles’ new general manager yesterday. “I realized I wasn’t going anywhere with it.”Pessimistic Eagles fans looking for yet another reason for why their team won’t win a Super Bowl under Andy Reid no doubt will latch on to that comment like a dog to a steak bone. But the fact of the matter is there have been plenty of rock-solid personnel men come down the NFL pike who couldn’t play a lick.”This is a bottom-line league,” Roseman said. “The important thing is that you win …
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Agent Drew Rosenhaus avoided the question as well as his top Eagles client evaded pass coverage during the season. Asked about DeSean Jackson’s contract situation, the agent said he wasn’t inclined to discuss it as he continued to head upfield yesterday after the NFC squad’s Pro Bowl practice at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Comcast SportsNet cited two sources as saying Rosenhaus is getting ready to approach the Eagles about an extension for the star wide receiver. Two Eagles sources said yesterday that no discussions have taken place between Rosenhaus and the team. One of the two indicated that the team had a lot of issues to deal with and that Jackson’s contract …
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A year ago, Lito Sheppard spent most of the Eagles’ 32-25, NFC Championship Game loss to the Arizona Cardinals standing on the sideline. The former Pro Bowl cornerback was so deep in the late Jim Johnson’s doghouse that he didn’t get onto the field for a single defensive snap. His only action came on special teams. When he finally was traded to the New York Jets in the offseason for a couple of draft picks, he viewed it as liberation. Free at last, free at last. But there was Sheppard yesterday, in another conference championship game but in a very similar situation to the one he was in a year ago. Sheppard, who started nine games for the Jets this season, was benched, replaced by Dwight …
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Brett Favre performed a number of amazing feats yesterday, including putting Donovan McNabb in the Pro Bowl. After the Vikings’ 34-3 victory over Dallas, Minnesota’s Favre and New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees will play next week for the NFC title in New Orleans. You have to think one of them is going to win. That QB will not be playing in the Pro Bowl, to be held the Sunday before the Super Bowl in Miami. McNabb is the NFC’s first alternate, so unless he turns down the gig, he will become a six-time Pro Bowler. The only way that wasn’t going to happen was if Dallas and Tony Romo had gone to the Super Bowl - Romo was the second alternate. This is a huge irony for McNabb, who played the …
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