Nick Cole knows what it’s like to be counted out. Undrafted coming out of New Mexico State in 2006, Cole was at the back of the pecking order when it came to practice repetitions and had to work his way onto the Eagles by showing what he could do in preseason games. “It’s a lot tougher than it is just getting drafted,” said Cole, a bowling-ball-shaped lineman who also plays guard. “You’ve got a lot more to prove.” Four years later, Cole will enter training camp next week as the favorite to be the Eagles’ Week 1 starter at center, a critical position for the offense and new quarterback Kevin Kolb. Much of the offense’s success depends on the team finding a capable replacement for Jamaal
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NORMALLY, TRACY Leinen arranges travel for the Eagles. Yesterday, she was trying to prevent it. Leinen, the Birds’ director of travel operations, was dispatched to chase down Marlin Jackson as the free-agent defensive back was walking out the NovaCare front door yesterday afternoon, headed for a planned visit with the Jets. Leinen told Jackson to come back - his representatives had reached agreement with the Birds on a 2-year deal that makes Jackson your starting free safety, heading into the spring. “They held the limo up and we hammered it out, got it done,” said agent Doug Hendrickson, who felt it was more a matter of hashing out details than of resolving huge differences, at the end of …
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Fourteen years ago, a rookie free safety broke into the Eagles’ starting lineup a week after the season opener in Washington.Brian Dawkins replaced Eric Zomalt and for the next dozen years he was the Eagles’ only opening-day starter at the position.Now, shockingly, another rookie has emerged as Dawkins’ replacement.When the Eagles returned to practice yesterday to start preparations for Sunday’s season opener against the Carolina Panthers, Victor “Macho” Harris lined up with the first-team defense.That news was revealed by a disappointed Quintin Demps, who had the starting free safety job through the team’s spring camps and most of the preseason.”I’m disappointed in myself,” Demps said. “I …
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Eagles rookie Harris to start at safety
THERE ARE TIMES when Quintin Demps surprises you, and yesterday was one of those times.Demps can be brash and boastful. He can say the exact wrong thing, as he did last week, when the second-year free safety seemed annoyed that he was still competing with Sean Jones and Macho Harris for the starting job. He said he would have worked harder if he’d known there was going to be a competition.Ouch.But the thing about Demps - other than his size and speed, which probably would keep him in the NFL regardless of how many unfortunate quotes he authored - is that he reflects and repents. (And he does seem to work hard, whatever he says.) Demps seemed genuinely sorry for that late hit on Kurt Warner …
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It will be Harris, not Demps, at safety for Eagles
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