He turned down World Series rings for national championships. He traded lazy fly balls for tightly thrown spirals. The Phillies once made Riley Cooper an offer they didn’t think he’d refuse. They’d make him their third first-round pick, shower him with millions and promote him to the majors as the franchise headed toward unprecedented success. Better yet, they were based each spring in Cooper’s hometown of Clearwater, Fla. At least one month every season he’d spend in his backyard. Who could say no? “(I gave it) serious thought,” Cooper, the Eagles’ rookie receiver, said Wednesday after morning training camp practice. “I love baseball. They were offering me a lot of money. They had the
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Cooper’s challenge
The Eagles signed another draft pick Wednesday, announcing an agreement with third-round pick Daniel Te’o-Nesheim on a four-year deal. Only three of the draft picks remained unsigned. The team hopes Te’o-Nesheim, a defensive end from the University of Washington, emerges into a pass rusher from the interior line in nickel packages, the role formerly occupied by Darren Howard.
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Eagles agree with another draftee
A YEAR AGO at this time, Moise Fokou was a seventh-round face in the crowd just trying to make an NFL roster. The Eagles linebacker dressed in a temporary stall in the middle of the locker room along with most of the other late-round picks and undrafted free-agent riffraff, and spent every waking moment desperately trying to get his arms around this strange new defense that was a thousand times harder than the one he played at the University of Maryland. “It’s like night and day between now and last year at this time,” Fokou said yesterday after the first of eight voluntary full-squad OTAs at the NovaCare Complex. “Last year in the camps, I was just running around to run around. I was …
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Fokou a prominent face in crowd for Eagles this year
THE FIRST THING you notice about Eagles rookie receiver Riley Cooper - well, maybe the second, after the hair that flows out the back of his helmet - is his size. I know that big receivers are a rage in the NFL, but this dude is big - like tight-end big. At 6-4 and 220 to 225 pounds, Cooper sizes up favorably with the current tight ends on the roster, Brent Celek, Cornelius Ingram and Clay Harbor. It’s not a stretch to think that, at some point, one of his coaches considered having Cooper gain 10 to 15 pounds and putting him at the end of the line of scrimmage. But those coaches obviously were smart enough to recognize that in addition to his size, Cooper had speed. Not DeSean Jackson or …
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Cooper could be big target at wideout for Eagles
Blue Cooper did his best to downplay last month’s NFL draft. Despite catching 84 passes last season at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and finishing ahead of Terrell Owens on the school’s all-time reception list, and despite an impressive Pro Day workout in which he outperformed many of the draft’s top wideouts in a number of drills, he watched most of the draft in the solitude of his off-campus apartment, accompanied only by his fiancée, Maci Gault. “It was one of those things where I had seen a lot of guys make a big deal of it and hype it up to be something a lot bigger than, in my opinion, it is,” Cooper said. “It’s like you’re expecting something to happen and you’re …
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Cooper not Blue about being with Eagles
DeSean Jackson is one of the best bargains in the NFL, and from the looks of things, he’s going to continue to be one for a while longer. The Eagles’ Pro Bowl wide receiver and punt returner wants a contract extension. He deserves a contract extension. To borrow a term popularized by his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, DeSean clearly has “outperformed” the 4-year, $3.47 million contract he signed with the Eagles 2 years ago when character, work ethic and size questions were responsible for him sliding to the Eagles in the middle of the second round of the 2008 draft. Since then, all he has done is establish himself as one of league’s top big-play threats. Last year, he caught 63 passes, averaged …
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Eagles’ DeSean Jackson deserves extension that he probably won’t receive
It’s been a few years since Chad Hall last played football, but the former Air Force Academy star running back and receiver showed enough skills in Monday’s “pro day” workout at the University of Utah that the Eagles signed him yesterday. Hall, 23, projects as a wideout/returner for the Birds, perhaps along the lines of Danny Amendola, the free agent they kept on their practice squad last season who eventually was signed away by the Rams. Amendola ended up returning kicks and punts for St. Louis, and also caught 43 passes for 326 yards. For the time being, though, as Hall counts down the remaining days in his 2-year service commitment, he said he’s working 10- to 12-hour days at Hill Air …
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Eagles sign Air Force’s Hall as wideout/returner
As suitors for wide receiver Antonio Bryant began to gather Monday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took their first step toward replacing the dispatched playmaker. In their first move of the free-agency signing period, the Bucs traded a sixth-round draft pick in 2011 to the Philadelphia Eagles for former starting receiver Reggie Brown. Brown, 29, has 177 catches for 2,574 yards and 17 touchdowns in his career, but only nine of those catches came last season as Brown was edged out of the Eagles lineup by rookie Jeremy Maclin and second-year pro DeSean Jackson. A product of the University of Georgia, Brown was a second-round pick of the Eagles (35th overall) in 2005 who quickly stepped into the …
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Bucs acquire WR Reggie Brown from Eagles
An Eagles spokesman did not respond to requests for comment last night as reports circulated that the Birds are hiring ex-Bills and Bears head coach Dick Jauron to coach their defensive backs. NFL.com, an arm of the league that rarely reports anything teams haven’t authorized, was among those saying Jauron would replace Brian Stewart. Stewart is the former Cowboys defensive coordinator who spent one season with the Eagles before recently becoming defensive coordinator at the University of Houston. Jauron, 59, crossed paths with Eagles coach Andy Reid on Mike Holmgren’s Green Bay staff in the 1990s.
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Reports: Eagles to hire Jauron as defensive backs coach
The Eagles have hired former Buffalo Bills head coach Dick Jauron to coach their defensive backs, according to a report by NFL.com that broke late Tuesday night. Jauron replaces Brian Stewart, who coached defensive backs last season but left to become defensive coordinator at the University of Houston. Jauron was fired in November in the midst of his fourth season in Buffalo. He was also head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1999-2003 and has ties to Eagles coach Andy Reid. Jauron coached defensive backs in Green Bay from 1986-1994. Reid was the Packers’ quarterbacks coach from 1992-1994. Eagles sign punter The Eagles signed a punter Tuesday to either challenge the inconsistent Sav Rocca or …
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Ex-Buffalo head coach Jauron to join Eagles defensive staff
NFL.com reported last night that former Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears head coach Dick Jauron will join the Eagles as the defensive backs coach. Jauron, 59, will replace Brian Stewart, who left the Eagles to become the defensive coordinator at the University of Houston. In nine seasons as a head coach - 1999 to 2003 in Chicago and 2006 through nine games this season in Buffalo - Jauron had a record of 60-82. Jauron worked with Eagles coach Andy Reid from 1992 to ‘94 as assistants in Green Bay. The longtime NFL coach also served stints as a defensive coordinator in Jacksonville and Detroit. He finished the 2005 season as the Lions’ interim coach after Steve Mariucci was fired. Birds sign …
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Birds reportedly set to hire Jauron
IT DIDN’T seem like a very smart idea at the time, and it still doesn’t to a lot of people. But the Eagles have absolutely no regrets about the 2007 draft-day deal they made with the Cowboys. The Eagles had hoped University of Miami safety Brandon Meriweather would make it to them at No. 26 in the first round. But when Bill Belichick and the Patriots grabbed him with the 24th pick, the Eagles switched to Plan B. Which was trade down, get some extra picks, and take the hotshot quarterback out of the University of Houston, Kevin Kolb, early in the second round. The best offer they got came from a team in their own division, the Cowboys. Jerry Jones already had traded away his first-round …
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Jury still out on Eagles-Cowboys 2007 deal
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