There was all that time, medical staff manpower and money the Broncos put in to get running back J.J. Arrington healthy enough to play, and all that sweat, toil, rehab and sacrifice Arrington did so he could play for the Broncos. And then, just as Arrington was ready to join the Broncos for the start of training camp Sunday, he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for Joe Mays, a special-teams standout and backup inside linebacker. “In this business, you come to expect the unexpected,” said J.R. Rickert, Arrington’s agent. The Eagles had interest in a versatile backup tailback, and the Broncos were searching for an inside backer who could fill the special-teams role vacated by
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Broncos deal Arrington to Eagles
Wide receiver Kelley Washington, who played with the Ravens last season but wasn’t re-signed after the team traded for Anquan Boldin and signed free agent Donte’ Stallworth, has joined the Philadelphia Eagles, according to several reports. Washington played in 15 regular-season games for the Ravens, starting two. He had 34 catches for 431 yards and two touchdowns. Even better than his catches were his celebrations after each one.
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WR Kelley Washington signs with Eagles
Donovan McNabb said it. Brian Dawkins said it. Year after year, decade after decade, NFL players land at training camp and make bold proclamations about winning a Super Bowl or bust. Of course, only one team will make good on such a declaration. But there was tight end Brent Celek, the Eagles’ newly crowned leader, saying it Thursday upon his and the rest of the veterans’ arrival at Lehigh University. “If I didn’t think we could win the Super Bowl I wouldn’t be standing here,” Celek said as he stood outside the dorms that house the Eagles during camp. “I would take my butt back home and sit on my couch because all this is for nothing. “We’re out here to win a ring, and 31 [other] teams
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Eagles veterans report to camp
Eagles coach Andy Reid said Wednesday the team determined Alex Hall is better suited to play linebacker in a 3-4 than defensive end in a 4-3. Clearly, the Giants feel differently. The Giants claimed Hall off waivers from Philly Thursday afternoon. The former 2008 seventh-round pick of the Browns was traded from Cleveland to Philly in April as part of the Sheldon Brown deal. The Eagles obviously didn’t like what they saw from Hall in their defensive scheme this spring and therefore waived him before veterans reported to camp in Lehigh. “I think Alex Hall will be a very good outside linebacker in a 3-4 front,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. “We worked
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Giants claim defensive end Alex Hall off waivers from the Eagles
The Eagles have changed. Since the end of the 2008 season, the team has parted ways with the building blocks that took it to regular playoff appearances and one Super Bowl. In their place is a team that is young and light on experience, but, according to several players, also closer, energized, and eager to make a new mark in Philadelphia. As with any big change, there are fewer bedrock certainties - such as near-annual playoff appearances - but also fresh possibilities for individuals and the team. “This is a time when you want to make a name for yourself,” safety Quintin Mikell said. “You want to create a legacy.” Of the 80 players on the training-camp roster and two draft picks waiting
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The young and the restless characterize Eagles’ new era
When it comes to facing ridiculously high expectations, Warren Moon can relate to Kevin Kolb. In 1985, the rebuilding Houston Oilers gambled on Moon’s cannon right arm and burgeoning legend when they signed him away from the Canadian Football League, where he’d led Edmonton to five straight championships. They made him the league’s highest-paid quarterback before he’d thrown his first NFL pass, sending a clear and powerful message to his teammates that a new sheriff had arrived. “Nobody knew who I was,” Moon recalled. “Now, all of a sudden, this guy’s coming to Houston — an African-American at the same time; the only African-American quarterback in the league in ‘85. There was a lot of
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Can Kolb chisel his own legend?
There isn’t anyone outside of Michael Vick himself who really knows if Vick is a changed man. You can look him in the eyes, as Andy Reid and Jeffrey Lurie did last summer, or study his actions, which has been a media parlor game since he signed with the Eagles, but the truth is that a person’s thoughts are his or hers alone. Vick was smart enough to know that, whether factual or fanciful, his “change” had better look genuine. He had a whole lot of old white men sitting in judgment on his future, and that isn’t an equation that always went well previously. Broke and out of work, Vick needed a job and he played the interview game well enough to get one. Whether he played the actual game well
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Biggest question about Eagles’ Vick is on the field
Michael Vick has more than just the support of the Philadelphia Eagles front office. He has the team’s starting quarterback by his side. Kevin Kolb and Vick, fast friends since the Eagles acquired the former Falcons quarterback last August, have been texting back and forth since the June 25th shooting that occurred outside a Virginia Beach nightclub that was hosting the backup quarterback’s birthday bash. Kolb’s words: “I just told him that it was unfortunate what he had to go through,” the Eagles’ new starting QB said recently. “I just said, ‘If there’s anything I can do, whatever is I don’t care, just holler.’ And, of course, he said, ‘I appreciate it.’” Vick is not a suspect in the
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Kolb supports Vick
It might generate sympathy for jilted organizers but it seems unlikely that the latest twist in Michael Vick’s road to legitimacy will affect his football career. The Eagles are unconcerned. It probably shouldn’t be a surprise that, in the wake of a shooting at a nightclub where he threw himself a pay-to-party birthday bash, Vick’s travel reportedly has been restricted - especially since all of Vick’s travel has been subject to approval by his probation officer since he got out of jail last year. Ever since he joined the Eagles last summer as a gimmick quarterback, Vick had to apply for approval for all of his movements outside of Philadelphia, including Eagles road games. That will
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Report: Vick’s travel restricted during probe
Eagles training camp starts in 15 days. As of now, Michael Vick will be reporting to Lehigh University with the rest of his teammates. But behind the scenes, the team is said to be preparing for life without the controversial quarterback. Despite the June 25 shooting at a Virginia Beach nightclub where Vick had been celebrating his 30th birthday, the Eagles publicly have stood by their troubled backup quarterback. Vick was questioned but not a suspect in the shooting of Quanis Phillips, Vick’s co-defendant in the dogfighting trial that landed the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback in a federal penitentiary. The Eagles released a statement refuting a report that Vick could be headed for
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Michael Vick’s future in Philadelphia hazy
Following an Associated Press report this morning that indicated that they were close to parting ways with quarterback Michael Vick, the Philadelphia Eagles released the following statement refuting that such a move is imminent… “Under normal circumstances, we would not issue a public statement regarding a matter still under investigation. However, due to the intense speculation that exists, we believe it is important to make a statement this afternoon regarding Michael Vick.
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Eagles release a statement refuting claim that Vick will be cut soon
According to an Associated Press report, the Philadelphia Eagles are seriously considering cutting quarterback Michael Vick. The report says that the team is thinking of making this move no matter what the findings are in the current investigation into a shooting that happened at Vick’s birthday celebration last week. However, a source close to Shutdown Corner with knowledge of the situation believes that the $5.2 million the team owes the quarterback this season may play a larger part in the final decision, and that releasing Vick would be financially prohibitive unless NFL discipline was a factor. With former star quarterback Donovan McNabb off to the Washington Redskins, and Kevin Kolb …
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Are the Eagles about to cut Michael Vick?
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