If the lockout drags on, the NFL has a built-in mechanism to delay the start of the season until what is now scheduled to be the fourth week and still play 16 games and a full postseason. Here’s how they will make up those three weeks if necessary: – In a bit of creative scheduling, teams playing each other in the third week of the season have the same bye week later in the year. For example, the Giants are scheduled play at Philly on Sept. 25. The Jets are in Oakland. The Giants and Eagles each have their bye in the seventh week. The Jets and Raiders each have their bye in the eighth week. So, if the third week gets cancelled, the makeup games will move to the bye week. Of course, it
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Plan in place to delay Super Bowl if lockout drags on through season
The NFL lockout is now in its 11th week. Yet just 10 weeks from this Sunday, the 2011 season is slated to officially begin when the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears kick off the preseason with the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 7. But how many weeks can pass until the league’s current calendar of events will be seriously jeopardized? The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the lockout will remain in place until it hears further arguments pertaining to its legality June 3 … though it could be several more weeks before a subsequent ruling is issued. Barring resumption of talks between the league and players toward a new collective bargaining agreement, the
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NFL lockout clock ticking with season opener approaching
Jackson has done several interviews this week, promoting his gala tonight that will raise funds for pancreatic cancer research. Yesterday, he was on with Jon Marks and Dan Schwartzman of 97.5 The Fanatic. Jackson touched on several topics: how he supports Kevin Kolb and feels for him; how Michael Vick has become like a big brother to; how his Mom monitors his Twitter account; and so on. Jackson was asked about Asomugha and the possibility of wooing him to Philly. “When I leave here, I’m gonna make a call,” Jackson said with a laugh. “During the Pro Bowl, I was actually telling him ‘C’mon man, you know we need you over here.’” What was Asomugha’s response? “He has a lot of options,” Jackson
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DeSean Jackson recruited Nnamdi Asomugha
The end of the Eagles’ 2011 season has the makings of great sports debate. The cynics might observe that Michael Vick had his worst two games in his last two starts, that the offensive line buckled against Green Bay’s pressure in the playoffs and that another Super Bowl run ended short of a parade down Broad Street. The pragmatics might see Vick’s potential with another year under the same coaching staff, a rash of injuries that couldn’t possibly be duplicated and a five-point loss to the Super Bowl champs that ultimately came down a botched pair of makeable field goals. Neither side would be wrong. It just depends on whether you’re a glass-half-full or half-empty type. There’s no doubt
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Lockout threatens Reid’s draft recipe
Compared with Eagles president Joe Banner’s media tour last week, general manager Howie Roseman’s session with reporters yesterday at the NFL scouting combine was kind of tame. Roseman didn’t set any deadlines for coaches to win the Super Bowl, he was reluctant to even acknowledge the possibility of trading Kevin Kolb, and he drew no parallels between the Birds and any other franchises. Roseman did strongly indicate that the Eagles, who neglected the offensive line in last year’s draft, won’t do so again, given what Roseman and many other observers consider a much deeper pool of o-line talent. He also talked a little about Kolb and Mike Vick, a little about the coaching staff shake-up, and
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GM Roseman indicates Eagles’ eyes will be on offensive linemen in draft
Kevin Kolb could not sleep Sunday night, not after watching the player he looks up to more than any other stand on a platform, the Lombardi Trophy in hand, as the Super Bowl’s most valuable player. Aaron Rodgers is Kolb’s guy. They share a brotherhood, each traveling a uniquely complex path to become a starting quarterback in the National Football League. Rodgers made it to the top. He waited. He endured. He held on when, after three years as Brett Favre’s understudy, his confidence was shaken in 2008 after Green Bay’s faithful booed him and doubted him and frankly didn’t want him. Rodgers survived in 2009 when Favre beat him twice, giving unhappy Packers fans more ammunition in the
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Kolb sees hope in Rodgers’ triumph
Kevin Kolb could not sleep Sunday night, not after watching the player he looks up to more than any other stand on a platform, the Lombardi Trophy in hand, as the Super Bowl’s most valuable player. Aaron Rodgers is Kolb’s guy. They share a brotherhood, each traveling a uniquely complex path to become a starting quarterback in the National Football League. Rodgers made it to the top. He waited. He endured. He held on when, after three years as Brett Favre’s understudy, his confidence was shaken in 2008 after Green Bay’s faithful booed him and doubted him and frankly didn’t want him. Rodgers survived in 2009 when Favre beat him twice, giving unhappy Packers fans more ammunition in the
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Kolb sees hope in Rodgers’ triumph
When Andy Reid fired Sean McDermott, one of first people he called was Ron Rivera. Four days after the season ended with a playoff loss to the Packers, the Eagles’ coach decided that McDermott’s two-year reign as defensive coordinator had run its course. But Reid wanted to buy his young protege some time to find another job. So he contacted another of his former charges, who had just landed the Carolina Panthers’ head-coaching position. “When all that was going down, I talked to Coach Reid, who was very candid about it,” said Rivera, who was in North Texas for Super Bowl XLV. “He said, ‘Ron, Sean’s in a tough, tough position. He’s following [the late] Jim Johnson.’ ” If Rivera hadn’t left
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Panthers coach fills in blanks on firing and hiring of McDermott
John Bunting, an Eagles linebacker for 11 seasons who played on the franchise’s first Super Bowl team under coach Dick Vermeil, wants to come back. Bunting contacted Eagles coach Andy Reid about the team’s linebackers coach vacancy, according to a source close to the situation, and the two spoke for about a half hour. Bunting, who has eight years of NFL coaching experience and was also the head coach of nearby Rowan University, was the defensive coordinator for Vermeil with the Rams from 1997 to 1999 and won a Super Bowl ring with St. Louis in 1999. University of Delaware coach K.C. Keeler was on Bunting’s staff at Rowan. Bunting last coached at his alma mater, the University of North
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Bunting wants to coach Eagles linebackers
John Bunting, an Eagles linebacker for 11 seasons who played on the franchise’s first Super Bowl team, wants to coach in Philadelphia. Bunting spoke over the phone with Eagles coach Andy Reid for about a half hour regarding the team’s vacant linebackers coach position, according to a source close to the situation. Bunting, who has eight years of NFL coaching experience and was also the head coach of nearby Rowan [N.J.] University when it was called Glassboro State, was the defensive coordinator for the Rams from 1997-1999 and won a Super Bowl ring with St. Louis. He last coached at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, where he compiled a 27-45 record in six seasons as head
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THE FIRST time Andy Reid did the Philadelphia podium thing, it was 12 years ago last month at the Marriott in Center City. The day he was hired as the Eagles’ coach, the unknown quarterbacks coach from Green Bay was faced with a barrage of negativity, about his new roster and his crumbling stadium and his lack of a practice facility and the perception around the NFL that this was a lousy franchise. Oh, and welcome to town. Reid batted away the questions and pushed back at the cynicism of the questioners. Along the way, he offered approximately zero in the way of information – really, about anything. Nobody expected a detailed blueprint on the first day, but after 4 years of Ray Rhodes’
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Reid a fumble machine at the podium
Another day, another candidate. The Eagles interviewed Minnesota Vikings defensive backs coach Joe Woods yesterday for their vacant defensive coordinator position, a league source confirmed. The interview was first reported by WIP’s Howard Eskin. The team had interviewed Chicago Bears defensive backs coach Jon Hoke on Monday. Everybody interviewed so far has coached defensive backs, including Dennis Allen, who was hired by the Denver Broncos as their defensive coordinator. A team source has said the Eagles intend to interview at least one coach from the Super Bowl staffs, who can’t be approached until after Sunday’s Super Bowl.
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Eagles interview Vikings DBs coach
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