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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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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It’s “go time,” as Kevin Kolb said. The first real day of training camp kicks off Saturday at 8:15 a.m. with the full team, in pads, in . . .. Well, we’ll just let the Eagles’ new quarterback explain: “It’s exciting, because we haven’t played in front of fans in a while,” Kolb said Friday. “There’ll be a few ‘live’ periods tomorrow, I think. All the eggs are thrown into one basket. We got our first two-a-days, our first live period, first day of pads, all the guys are here, fans are here. . . . It is go time.” The “live” periods are what camp is all about. It’s when the first-team offense faces the second-team defense and vice versa, and the third teams collide and (almost) anything goes.
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DeSean Jackson is not talking, so Andy Reid spoke for his wide receiver. “I think he just wants to concentrate on football,” Reid said Friday after the full team practiced together for the first time at training camp. “He doesn’t want to be disrupted by any, I guess, questions on contracts or anything else. He’s focused in and he’s in a good place.” A day after dodging reporters upon his arrival at Lehigh, Jackson jogged off the field with his head down, football in hand. Asked to stop and talk, the speedy receiver replied, “No, sir, not today.” Jackson is, for the most part, a willing interviewee, so his two-day silence is of note. It could be that he has tired of talking about his
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Ernie Sims is experiencing quite the culture shock coming from Detroit.Instead of hotels, he’s staying in tiny college dorm rooms.Instead of training camp at the team facility, he’s “in the middle of nowhere,” surrounded by mountains.Instead of no fans being able to attend Lions camp during his early years in Detroit, there figures to be quite a few milling around today when the full pads are on for the first time this camp and more is known about what the Eagles have at a number of positions, including Sims’ linebacking corps.Then there’s the new playbook. It’s not more difficult, he said, just different terminology than the one he mastered with the Lions.”I don’t read it as much as I
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Brandon Graham’s lease was up in Ann Arbor, where he was working out with the Michigan football team. Graham had to negotiate an extra week of wiggle room. Meanwhile, he was getting ribbed by his former Wolverine teammates, who had responded to his attempts to bulk up to 278 pounds for the rigors of the NFL by jokingly calling Graham “fat boy.” It was time to go, time to move on. Graham felt it more with every passing day. He made sure agent Joel Segal felt it, as well. Segal “was coaching me through the whole thing,” Graham said yesterday afternoon, following the Eagles’ first full-squad workout of training camp, in which Graham was the second-team left defensive end. “He was just letting
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After the draft and free agency, it was hard to see how Joe Mays fit into the Eagles’ crowded linebacking picture. Turns out he didn’t. The Eagles traded Mays to the Denver Broncos last night for former Arizona Cardinals running back J.J. Arrington, the team announced. Arrington would have been a really exciting pickup a few years ago, when he looked like a pass-catching back with Brian Westbrook-type potential. But microfracture surgery on his right knee last year changed that picture drastically. Arrington, who didn’t play last season, was quoted this week as saying his knee is “getting better every day,” but the Broncos hadn’t started hitting yet, which Denver coaches said would be a
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DeSean Jackson injured his back after he caught a pass from quarterback Kevin Kolb in the afternoon portion of Saturday’s training camp practice. The Eagles gave the injury update after practice, but said Jackson was still being evaluated. About a half hour after the update, the receiver, who hasn’t spoken to reports since he arrived at Lehigh two days ago, walked out of the locker room on his own, got into his car and sped away without comment. Teammates and Eagles sources were saying the injury wasn’t serious. Judging by the way Jackson left the practice facilty, they could be right. Kolb was asked if his heart skipped a beat when he he saw his star wide receiver go down. “Yeah,
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The average age of the Eagles’ roster has tumbled into the lower 20s, but expectations haven’t changed. At least not for tight end Brent Celek, who reported to camp Thursday with the rest of the “veterans” and insisted the mission hadn’t changed with the men. “If I didn’t think we could win the Super Bowl, I wouldn’t be standing here,” he said. “I’d take my butt back home and sit on my couch because all this is for nothing. We’re all here to win a ring, and 31 other teams are here to do the same thing. We have just as good a shot as everyone else. So we’re here to prove it.” Skeptics have said the Eagles, whose players average about 24 years of age, are too young and too inexperienced to
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Stewart Bradley just wants to hit somebody. Standing outside his temporary residence at Lehigh University as he gets ready for the Eagles’ 2010 training camp, the linebacker doesn’t sound like a bloodthirsty man ravenously awaiting prey. His style of play is another story. “I’m looking forward to a little contact,” Bradley said, a fourth-year player who missed the 2009 season with a torn anterior-cruciate ligament. “It’s been awhile since I’ve hit somebody, and you don’t realize how much you miss that until you can’t do it.” Bradley had entrenched himself as the starting middle linebacker heading into last season. His sophomore campaign saw him make 151 tackles and one interception.
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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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A note of caution to Eagles running backs and tight ends: Stewart Bradley said he feels ready to run, and the one thing he’s aching to do after a year on the sidelines is pound someone. “I’m just looking forward [to] a little contact,” Bradley said when asked Thursday about getting back on the field. “It’s been a long time since I hit somebody, and you don’t realize how much you miss that until you can’t do that,” he added, sounding wistful about blasting ballcarriers. Bradley’s return after missing all of last season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee is one of the most anticipated stories of training camp and could prove critical to the success of the Eagles’ 2010
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