At the time, the 2009 draft-day trade that landed Jeremy Maclin in an Eagles uniform seemed curious. Sure, the projected top-10 pick had slid to the middle-bottom of the first round — great value for the draft position. But the Eagles had already addressed their annual wideout problem the year before when DeSean Jackson, a second-round pick, become a sensation by the end of his first professional game. Now, it’s hard to believe the Eagles could have made the playoffs last year without Maclin. He subbed almost immediately for an injured Kevin Curtis and seized control of the starting job. This year, with an entire season under his belt and without swimming mental laps though a strange and …
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Maclin looks to get better
For the first time since DeSean Jackson exploded out of the chute as a rookie, the Eagles will find out what their team is like without the greyhound-quick wide receiver. Because he has experienced post-concussion symptoms and perhaps because of the sharper focus on those types of injuries in the NFL, Jackson will not play tomorrow at Atlanta. Eagles coach Andy Reid said that his leading receiver “felt pretty good” yesterday, but that he had experienced headaches as late as Thursday. Jackson underwent testing yesterday, but the team had not received the results by the time Reid met with reporters. Still, the team’s medical staff had seen enough to keep Jackson, who hadn’t practiced all …
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Eagles’ Jackson out of Falcons game
For years, Eagles fans begged coach Andy Reid to give Donovan McNabb just one wide receiver good enough to get the franchise over its Super Bowl hump. Reid gave them Terrell Owens, but that relationship didn’t last. Now, it appears that Reid has delivered something they never imagined, something that only seemed to be solely for the fans of Arizona, Indianapolis and New England: two upper-echelon wide receivers. Jeremy Maclin’s 142-yard, two-touchdown effort against the Bucs on Sunday in his second start not only helped sink Tampa Bay 33-14, but also gave a potential glimpse into the future of the Eagles’ offense. The Cardinals have Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin; Tom Brady has Randy …
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McNabb gifted with dynamic WR duo
It was like one of those one-on-one drills they run countless times at training camp: wide receiver lines up opposite cornerback - may the best man win.On Sunday, on the Eagles’ second play from scrimmage, Jeremy Maclin won that real-time duel. The wide receiver claimed a few more face-offs, but it was his 51-yard touchdown reception that set the tone for his record-setting performance and the Eagles’ 33-14 stroll past Tampa Bay.In the first three games of the season, DeSean Jackson made the big play. All three of his touchdowns covered more than 60 yards. But on a day in which Jackson was held to just one reception, Maclin and quarterback Donovan McNabb hooked up for two long scores.He …
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Eagles Rewind: Eagles rookie Maclin coming of age
JEREMY MACLIN’S job is to make liars out of people. It is a task he approaches with seriousness and with sincerity.When he held out this summer in a rookie contract dispute, there was much tut-tutting in the land. (Truth in advertising: I tutted but didn’t tut-tut.) As the missed practices began to mount, from one to five to 10 to 15, the concerns were obvious enough, that he was only a kid, and the transition from a spread offense at Missouri to a West Coast offense in Philadelphia was going to be hard enough already, and et cetera.Well, what do you think now? Maclin was here for the exhibition games, for the runs of August, and that was plenty. Obviously.When they drafted Maclin in the …
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Eagles’ Maclin goes from holdout to breakout
Opportunity knocked twice for Jeremy Maclin, and both times the Eagles wide receiver greeted opportunity with arms stretched wide.Like the many passes thrown in his direction, Maclin did nothis chances.Opportunity No. 1 came when an injured Kevin Curtis was held out for the second straight game and Maclin started. Opportunity No. 2 came because No. 1 receiver DeSean Jackson was double covered for most of yesterday’s game.Maclin did not disappoint, making a team-high six receptions for 142 yards and two touchdowns as the Eagles coasted past the Buccaneers, 33-14, at Lincoln Financial Field. Maclin and quarterback Donovan McNabb hooked up for two long scores: a 51-yard strike - Maclin’s …
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Maclin makes most of opportunity in Eagles’ win
Jeremy Maclin played his first NFL game in the season opener and caught his first NFL pass last week against New Orleans. Now it looks like the Eagles’ first-round pick could be making his first NFL start Sunday against Kansas City. Head coach Andy Reid said Maclin would get the start against the Chiefs if wide receiver Kevin Curtis can’t play. Reid also said former starter Reggie Brown would be active for the first time this season if Curtis is sidelined, but would serve as a backup. Curtis has been nursing a sore knee since training camp and played through sporadic pain but was withheld from practice Friday. Curtis is listed as doubtful, but Maclin didn’t sound overly enthused about the …
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Maclin to start if Curtis ailing
Eagles receiver Kevin Curtis continues to slowly try to work his way back from a couple of groin surgeries and a recent knee injury. Meanwhile, No. 1 draft pick Jeremy Maclin is eagerly awaiting his opportunity to show what he can do. “That’s pretty much how it goes,” Maclin said. “If one guy can’t go, the next guy has to step up and try and take advantage.” In reality, neither Maclin nor Curtis has been able to contribute much. After playing only a few plays in his NFL debut vs. Carolina, Maclin caught two passes last week against New Orleans for 12 yards. Curtis has caught five passes for 70 yards, but he admits he hasn’t been himself since he sustained a sports hernia and needed two …
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Maclin gets a chance
Jeremy Maclin can still see the play in his mind. The speed, the grace, the dominance. It was a classic NFL moment, the time the quarterback outran a team’s entire defense. “Informants have come forward saying they can link Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to dog fighting.” - The Associated Press, May 31, 2007 The Philadelphia Eagles’ rookie remembers it so vividly. It was 2002. Maclin was 14 years old then, a young football player whose skills would fit into the NFL’s future. The man on the television helped make it that way. A league once ruled by size and power was being redefined by unpredictable speed. “In pleading guilty, one of the most exciting and polarizing figures in …
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Eagles’ Maclin glad that Vick is getting back on the field
ANDY REID SCRIPTS the first 15 plays of each game. So it was no accident that Jeremy Maclin, who got on the field for only a handful of snaps and didn’t have a reception in the Eagles’ Week 1 win over Carolina, was part of the three-wide-receiver grouping Reid sent out for the first offensive play Sunday against the Saints.And it also was no accident that the first play was a quick pass to the rookie first-round pick, who gained 6 yards on his first NFL catch.The fact that Mac-lin’s mother flew in from Missouri to watch her son play probably had a little bit to do with Reid dialing up his number right out of the chute. But mainly, the Eagles’ head coach just wanted to let the kid know that …
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Maclin’s goal with Eagles: More field trips
The two fumbled punts were concern enough for Eagles special-teams coordinator Ted Daisher to pull his rookie returner, Jeremy Maclin, aside for a meeting Saturday.Daisher has seen young, electric returners struggle initially but prosper later, like Cleveland’s Josh Cribbs. Yes, there is a learning process. But Daisher needed to set the record straight with Maclin right away.”You can’t make a big play every time you touch the ball,” Maclin recalled Daisher saying. “Sometimes you have to do the right thing.”The right thing would involve hanging on to the football, a task that has eluded the Eagles’ top draft pick in the first two preseason games. Against New England, Maclin muffed a punt. …
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Rookie needs to get a grip
Jeremy Maclin has confidence. The coming days and weeks will show how much of that confidence is based on ability, and how much is just a 21-year-old guy not knowing any better. When Maclin spoke to reporters after finally signing a contract yesterday, he was asked how much he thought he had missed, in the 8 days from when rookies were supposed to arrive at Lehigh until team management and agent Jim Steiner agreed on a 5-year deal with $9.5 million in guarantees, that could earn Maclin as much as $15.5 million if he reaches all the incentives. “I have no idea. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow morning,” said Maclin, who was in St. Louis when the agreement was reached Monday night and did not …
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Eagles, Maclin hope wideout is quick study after finally signing
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