Ron Jaworski has carved out quite a niche more than 20 years after he retired as a professional football player. The former Eagles quarterback has been an analyst at ESPN for more than two decades, the last four on Monday Night Football. Jaworski is also part owner of the Philadelphia Soul, CEO of his own golf management company, and recently penned the NFL book The Games That Changed the Game. The Medford resident has also remained a vital part of the Philadelphia community through his local foundation, which benefits the United Way, and his ubiquitous presence. The recently turned 60-year-old, in an interview with Inquirer staff writer Jeff McLane, answered questions about the NFL
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Jaworski on the Eagles, the Soul, and the NFL lockout
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has had football taken away from him once before. The biggest difference this time, he said, is that he still has the freedom to practice the game, even if he can’t actually play it. And Vick does intend to practice during the NFL’s work stoppage. He made that clear Saturday after visiting a prison in Avon Park, Fla., where he said he delivered a message of hope and encouragement to the inmates. “Being a veteran I think it’s important that I take on a leadership role here and gather the young guys together and make sure we’re being responsible and taking care of our bodies for whenever we do get back to work,” Vick said. “We don’t know how long this [work
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Vick returns to prison with a positive message
The official National Football League Game Summary for the Oct. 4, 1987, meeting between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles is preserved deep within the league’s archives, a scanned copy of a document that originally was executed on an electric typewriter late in the afternoon of what the cover sheet insists was a sunny, 50-degree day at Veterans Stadium. Those who were on hand for the loud, scary scene in which a fleet of revving, horn-blasting tractor trailers driven by Teamsters ringed the stadium fender to fender to dissuade customers from entering the building remember the day as anything but mild and pleasant. The first page of the summary lists the attendance as 4,074 and,
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In this game, the NFL owners hold all the cards
Sometimes, the protocol clearly fails. Kevin Kolb yesterday offered empirical evidence to that reality on “The Dan Patrick Show.” He told the radio host that not only was he knocked unconscious after Clay Matthews sacked him in the Eagles’ opener at Green Bay, but that he also fooled team medical personnel into letting him return to the game. “When I got to the sidelines, I felt the effects coming on. Like most football players do, I tried to hide it,” Kolb said. Mission accomplished. Kolb returned to the game. “I went back out the next series . . . and actually forgot the snap count,” Kolb said. “If you go back on film, you can see me, standing there, and the ball surprises me.” Even
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Kolb forgot snap count after hit by Matthews in Eagles’ season opener vs. Packers
Even Mr. Humorless himself, Bill Belichick, took time on Sunday to speak to Michael Vick. Before the Pro Bowl turned into a 55-41 NFC rout, as Vick was warming up throwing passes to Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White, the New England Patriots coach crossed the field at the 50-yard line, approached Vick, and shook his hand. Belichick spoke to the Eagles quarterback for at least a minute, a one-way conversation toward the end of which Vick draped an arm around Belichick’s shoulder in a gesture that let observers know that whatever Belichick was saying, it had meaning and Vick appreciated it. It seems everyone within the tight-knit National Football League community is pulling for Vick.
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Vick’s skills, personality make him popular within NFL fraternity
David Akers was dealing with a lot more than just kicking field goals on Sunday. The Eagles’ kicker missed two crucial field goals in the Eagles’ 21-16 playoff loss to the Packers. But Akers’ mind may have been elsewhere. Several of his teammates said after the game that the kicker was dealing with personal matters in the week leading up to the game. His agent, Jerrold Colton, said Monday that the matter was a “family health concern.” “David makes no excuses,” Colton said. “He is an intensely private person when it comes to his family. It was a family health concern with one of his family members. That’s all it is.” Akers missed a 34-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter that would
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Akers had a lot on his mind
In the game’s final minutes, David Akers just kept kicking. Over and over, the Eagles kicker would line up and boot another ball into the practice net along the sideline, one after the other. It was all he could do. The Eagles trailed by five points, making his role in the remainder of the game a moot point. The two field goals he had missed earlier in the game, however — those meant everything. “We can all count,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said after his team’s 21-16 loss to Green Bay in the wild-card round of the playoffs. “Those points would have helped.” Akers will be the NFC’s kicker in the Pro Bowl this year, and he missed only two kicks in his last nine games. But Sunday, in what
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Akers’ bad day may be his last
Stars shine, as the saying goes, when the spotlight is at its brightest. Think Michael Vick against Washington on Monday Night Football, toying with the Redskins with a near-perfect performance and announcing to millions of prime-time viewers that he is indeed back and better than ever. Think Aaron Rodgers needing to break a fourth-quarter tie against Chicago or the Packers’ season would be over. So what does he do? He looks for another star – receiver Greg Jennings – and they hook up for a 46-yard pass that sets up the game-winning touchdown. Vick and Rodgers are just two of the stars that will be colliding for the Eagles and Packers when the teams meet Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field
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Eagles, Packers both have star power
MAYBE MICHAEL VICK was just trying to project confidence yesterday. What came across was closer to cluelessness. It was hard to leave Vick’s brief session with reporters at NovaCare feeling like the Eagles’ quarterback understands and appreciates the adjustments defenses have made over his last half-dozen games, or that he plans to do anything differently. “I don’t think we have to make changes,” said Vick, who threw no interceptions in his first seven appearances this year, then threw six in his last five. His passer rating was over 100 in four of his first six games, but only once in his final six. “I don’t have to do nuttin’. I’m still going to be me. I’m still going to play my game,
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Vick must adjust to defenses
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
Michael Vick took a trip down memory lane last night. And it wasn’t a good trip. After playing like a legitimate league MVP candidate most of the season, after leading the Eagles to eight wins in the nine games he had started and finished, Vick turned into a pumpkin in his team’s costly 24-14 loss to the Vikings, which blew their chance of gaining a first-round playoff bye to smithereens. Eagle Mike became Falcon Mike. He was careless with the football, losing two fumbles, including one that was returned for a touchdown and another that effectively destroyed a potential scoring drive. His decision-making, so good much of the season, was poor. He had trouble recognizing blitzes, which were
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Vick plays like an old bird — a Falcon
IT DIDN’T FEEL like anything special. Once the game started, “Tuesday Night Football” felt the same as “Sunday Night,” “Monday Night” or “Thursday Night Football.” The extraordinary circumstances that brought us to Lincoln Financial Field last night for the first NFL game played on a Tuesday since 1946 remained, but in the end it was football. And, frankly, considering the lackluster fight the Eagles put up against a Minnesota Vikings team that’s been waiting for weeks for the season to end, this game certainly isn’t going to find its way into Eagles lore. In fact, after a 24-14 loss that officially locked the Eagles into the No. 3 seed in the NFC playoffs, most fans are probably wondering
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Eagles weren’t ready for ‘Tuesday Night Lights’
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