Interestingly, Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg started his Thursday press conference by saying he thought LeSean McCoy, DeSean Jackson and Brent Celek had played well against Detroit. Obviously, McCoy played well. He rushed for a career-high 120 yards and three touchdowns in the 35-32 win. In doing so, he became the first Eagles running back to rush for three touchdowns in a game in 15 years. Jackson, a receiver, also played well. He caught four passes for 135 yards and a touchdown, and the third-year pro’s 45-yard touchdown catch was the 12th of his career to cover 35 or more yards. He has 19 career touchdown catches. However, Celek only caught three passes for 27 yards in
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Stats don’t show how Celek contributes
It’s going to be the Battle of the Backups at Ford Field today, despite the fact that both quarterback backups — Shaun Hill of the Detroit Lions and Michael Vick of the Philadelphia Eagles — have more starting experience than the players they’re replacing. Hill takes over for Matthew Stafford, who suffered a shoulder injury last week. “It’s exciting. Everybody plays this game to actually play it, not just practice it,” said Hill, who is 10-6 as an NFL starter. That’s encouraging news for the Lions, who were 0-6 last year in games that Stafford did not start. Stafford was 2-8 as a starter in his rookie season. “I know it’s pretty tough on them, because when you talk about the Lions,
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Detroit Lions’ Shaun Hill, Eagles’ Michael Vick more than just your typical backup quarterbacks
Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb and linebacker Stewart Bradley are out for Sunday’s game at the Detroit Lions, coach Andy Reid said. Both players suffered concussions Sunday against the Packers and did not practice all week. Reid said that they passed the written part of an exam and will next be examined William Welch, an independent doctor at the University of Penn. There are still several stages that Kolb and Bradley have to pass before they are cleared to return to practice. Both players were at the NovaCare Complex Friday morning, but left before practice, Reid said. The coach said that Bradley was slightly ahead of Kolb in their recoveries. With Kolb out, Michael Vick will get his first
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Vick will start for Eagles on Sunday
If he could have, Kevin Kolb would have followed Art Briles to this south Texas town, home of Baylor University. Twice before in the life and football times of Kolb, he trailed after this Svengali-type coach – first to Stephenville High School and then to the University of Houston. On both occasions, Kolb had to make gut-wrenching decisions. But the road shared by these two Texas slingers, separated only by time and now thousands of miles, had to eventually hit a fork. Kolb was slated for the NFL – and eventually the Eagles – while Briles was to continue his climb up the coaching ladder to where he resides now at Baylor. But the bond remains. Both were decorated Texas high school
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One coach a constant in Kevin Kolb’s football development
IT’S HARD TO believe another season us upon us. Training camp is not my favorite part of the year. All players dread the day the camp schedule is released. Finding out whether training camp lasts 3 or 4 weeks is critical to your sanity the rest of season. We have to prepare ourselves mentally for the grind that follows. This year was a long one, but luckily the weather was on our side for the first time in my 5 years with the Eagles. I’d like to thank all of the fans who came out to Lehigh to cheer us on as we prepared for 2010. We definitely feed off your energy. One of the secrets of camp at Lehigh is that we all fight over who gets the best parking spot. If you haven’t been to Lehigh,
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With young, talented players, no parking it at Eagles camp this year
There is an interesting dynamic at an NFL training camp. Room assignments usually are determined by position. A running back bunks with another running back. A linebacker bunks with another linebacker. A tight end bunks with another tight end. You get the picture. Anyway, this often means that players competing for the same job are thrown together in the same cramped, little dormitory room. Sort of a football version of sleeping with the enemy. Only the enemies often become friends. Sometimes out of necessity, sometimes because, well, they just happen to take a liking to each other. Eagles tight end Clay Harbor wasn’t sure what to expect when the fourth-round rookie arrived at Lehigh 3
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Eagles’ backup tight ends don’t harbor any resentment
Cornelius Ingram still looks the part. He still stands 6-feet-4, with a chiseled 250-pound body and a powerful grip that can swallow footballs or an extended hand. The question is, can he still play the part of the standout athlete, the kind good enough to play varsity basketball as a seventh grader, become a legend in his tiny Florida home town, go to the University of Florida for basketball and football and wow training camp observers as a rookie in 2009 before suffering his second devastating knee injury in two years? The Eagles are trying to find out. But they also have added another challenge for Ingram: Clay Harbor, another athletic tight end who can run and catch. While Ingram
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In battle to be Eagles’ second tight end, two similar players with similar stories
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
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