To borrow a baseball phrase, one more strike and Michael Vick is out. The Eagles’ controversial backup quarterback admitted Monday that he’s “on thin ice,” even after the team and NFL have cleared him to play in the aftermath of last month’s shooting at the Virginia nightclub where Vick had been partying for his 30th birthday. “I’m definitely on my last chance. I know that,” Vick said Monday, the day rookies and selected veterans reported to training camp. “I was just hoping that the truth would come out, and everybody could see I didn’t have anything to do with the (shooting), but I know I’m on thin ice. “I know this is it for me. I know I have to walk a fine line, just the smallest thing
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It’s fourth down, and Vick knows it
This has gotten really simple. If the security video from Guadalajara restaurant contradicts anything Michael Vick told police, the Eagles, or the NFL about the night of his disastrously ill-conceived “birthday party,” the Eagles must cut ties with Vick immediately. Not because that would prove Vick was involved with the shooting of his old pal and codefendant Quanis Phillips. Not because it would mean Vick is likely to be suspended again by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The Eagles must drop Vick because their owner, Jeffrey Lurie, set very high standards for the convicted dog killer’s continued employment with the team. For Lurie to have any credibility, he absolutely must hold Vick and …
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THE EAGLES will be bringing a version of the halftime show you can watch at home to Lincoln Financial Field. As part of an NFL initiative, the league is making its highly popular NFL RedZone Channel available in every stadium this season. Each team can decide whether and how often it wants to use the live video. The Eagles have built a studio inside the Linc and will air a live halftime show on the video boards and television monitors inside the stadium, according to Tim McDermott, an Eagles senior vice president and the team’s chief marketing officer. McDermott said the show will have first-half highlights from the Eagles game, league highlights from the RedZone Channel, and a package …
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Eagles get into the Zone
When Joselio Hanson reported to Lehigh University four summers ago for his first training camp with the Eagles, his goal was just to play well enough to make the team. When the 28-year-old cornerback arrives back there again next month, though, it will be with a much more ambitious goal: He wants to be a starter. Hanson, a former NFL Europe refugee who was once cut by the San Francisco 49ers, has carved out a very nice living with the Eagles the last few years as one of the league’s better nickel corners. The team valued him enough to give him a 5-year, $21 million contract in February 2009, just days before he was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. But the early-April trade …
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Eagles’ Hanson aiming for right corner position
Martell Mallett went through his checklist of strong points the way most running backs would: sharp cutter, elusive in the open field, hard to corral, explosive first step. “I can do it all,’ Mallett said after another afternoon of Organized Team Activities for Eagles rookies and selected veterans. Except that Mallett isn’t your typical rookie or veteran. He spent his first professional season north of the border. Starring for the BC Lions coach Wally Buono, Mallett won the league’s award for top rookie on offense and made the all-star team after putting up more than 1,500 combined yards. “I’m very explosive once I get the ball,’ he continued. “The first 10 steps, you’ll see. You just have …
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From CFL to NFL, Mallett aims high
It happens fast in the NFL. One year you’re a rookie. The next year you finally get a chance to play. By the third year you’re playing for your professional life. That timeline essentially sums up Joe Mays’ career to this point. Of course, the Eagles linebacker hasn’t made it to Year Three just yet. “They say that the average life span of an NFL player is three years,” Mays said Tuesday. (It’s actually 3.5 years, according to the league’s players association.) “I’m going into my third year. So I think this is make-or-break for me. The Eagles have given me every opportunity. They’re just waiting to see me emerge.” Players often have a hard time knowing what their coaches think. On this …
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NO ONE DARED utter the “W” word in the presence of Max Jean-Gilles. For as long as he was old enough to step on a scale, it seemed as if he had been a prisoner of what could only be called an All-Pro appetite. As his weight ballooned to close to 400 pounds, he became so annoyed with his inability to shed the extra pounds he had accumulated that he banned it as a topic of conversation in his household. No one could ask him what he weighed, give him casual recommendations on how to reduce, or even express concern that he was placing not just his career but his life in jeopardy. The Eagles guard had heard enough of it. But his wife Maggie had become concerned. Jean-Gilles had told her last …
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Eagles guard Jean-Gilles losing weight after lap-band surgery
A year after his release from prison, Michael Vick is probably worth less now - in terms of football value - than he was after serving 18 months for dogfighting crimes. The quarterback, who received hardly a nibble from other NFL teams this off-season as the Eagles dangled him on the market, said that the tepid interest did not come as a surprise. “Actually, I understood because I’d been out of football,” Vick said Monday after a workout at the NovaCare Complex. “I didn’t play behind a center for three years. I know how good I am. The [Eagles] coaches know how good I am. I know I could have landed some place, but it wasn’t meant to be.” Instead, Vick is the backup to newly christened …
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Michael Vick still wants to start
A rumor spread among the NFL’s top executives yesterday: Donovan McNabb to Buffalo for draft picks. Turns out that the trade rumor was false, or perhaps just not yet true. Still, after the NFL’s new overtime rule, approved yesterday by a 28-4 vote, the hottest topic at the league’s meeting here was what the Eagles would be willing to accept for one of their three quarterbacks. The Eagles certainly aren’t divulging their plans, but it’s growing ever unlikely that they’ll have McNabb, Kevin Kolb, and Michael Vick by the time next month’s draft is complete. Coach Andy Reid told me yesterday that the team is entertaining offers for the quarterbacks, and despite his assertions after the last …
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Andy Reid: Eagles taking offers for QB’s
DeSean Jackson is one of the best bargains in the NFL, and from the looks of things, he’s going to continue to be one for a while longer. The Eagles’ Pro Bowl wide receiver and punt returner wants a contract extension. He deserves a contract extension. To borrow a term popularized by his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, DeSean clearly has “outperformed” the 4-year, $3.47 million contract he signed with the Eagles 2 years ago when character, work ethic and size questions were responsible for him sliding to the Eagles in the middle of the second round of the 2008 draft. Since then, all he has done is establish himself as one of league’s top big-play threats. Last year, he caught 63 passes, averaged …
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Eagles’ DeSean Jackson deserves extension that he probably won’t receive
He has lost millions. He has been out of federal custody only since July and is still seeking some semblance of redemption. One would think the last thing Michael Vick would do is tarnish his image any more than he already has. But then that would be assuming that the Eagles’ reserve quarterback gave a shred of thought to what he was doing during a trip to Atlanta over the weekend. How Vick is clueless to this reality after all he has been through is beyond comprehension. The same guy who begged for a second chance from everyone from the National Football League to any dog-loving American decided to revert to his clueless ways in a different variety this time around. The “Gangsta Grillz” …
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Michael Vick clueless again
At one point, Troy Vincent was a candidate to be the executive director of the players union. Now, Vincent has joined the league office. The former Eagles cornerback was named vice president of player development for active players yesterday. He begins Monday. He will oversee a number of support programs for players and their families, including the rookie symposium, conduct management program, and LifeSkills, as well as design new programs, the league said in announcing the hiring.
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NFL hires Troy Vincent as VP of player development
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