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Reid Still Waiting on Talks About a Contract Extension
Philly.com reports that Eagles coach Andy Reid is still waiting for the club to talk to him about a contract extension, which so far has yet to happen.
Coach Andy Reid’s agent, Bob LaMonte, said yesterday that no talks have taken place so far, but agreed that it seems unlikely the man who has [...]
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June 19, 2009
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Eagles Dump Assistant Secondary Coach Otis Smith
The Daily News has the story today of the Eagles dumping assistant secondary coach Otis Smith:
Eagles assistant secondary coach Otis Smith no longer is with the team, an Eagles spokesman confirmed yesterday. No further information was offered. Smith, a 13-year NFL cornerback who played for the Birds early in his career, joined the coaching staff [...]
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June 18, 2009
Restructured Deal for McNabb Done
The rumored raise for QB Donovan McNabb is finally done. McNabb and the Eagles have agreed to restructure the final two years of his contract. McNabb’s new deal is worth $24.5 million over the next two seasons, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The report says that a “significant” portion of [...]
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June 12, 2009
Guard Max Jean-Gilles Hires Rosenhaus to Work Out a New Deal
It appears that guard Max Jean-Gilles may be looking to play hardball with the Eagles, as reports are he has inked a deal with Rosenhaus Sports as his representative. Drew Rosenhaus announced the inking of Jean-Gilles on his Twitter account.
“With the position that I’m in, I just needed someone with more experience,” said Jean-Gilles, [...]
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June 11, 2009
Restructured Deal for McNabb Getting Close to Done
There has been a lot of talk as of late about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb getting a deal restructured, and now CSNPhilly reports that a deal appears to be close to happening. The report states that the club and McNabb are close to getting the final two years of his contract changed.
Under McNabb’s current contract, [...]
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June 11, 2009
Two 7th Round Draft Picks Sign Four-Year Deals
The Eagles today signed a pair of seventh-round draft picks to four-year contracts. Offensive guard Paul Fanaika (Arizona State) and linebacker Moise Fokou (Maryland) agreed to terms. With the set of transactions, the Eagles have reached deals with five of the eight players in their draft class.
Fanaika was an honorable-mention All-Pac 10 Conference [...]
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June 09, 2009
Eagles Ordered to Pay the City of Philly $8 Mil
KWY reports that the Eagles have been ordered to pay the city of Philly $8 mil. Here’s the report:
Common Pleas Court judge Albert Shepherd ruled on Monday that the Eagles’ football organization must immediately pay the City of Philadelphia $8 million. That’s the amount the city had been claiming it was owed as its [...]
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June 08, 2009
Eagles Come to Terms with Three Draft Picks
Scout.com reports that the Eagles today signed three of their 09 draft picks:
The Philadelphia Eagles they have agreed to terms on four-year contracts with three of their 2009 draft class selections, the team announced on Saturday: DB Macho Harris, OT Fenuki Tupou, and WR Brandon Gibson. Harris and Tupou were selected in the 5th round, [...]
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June 06, 2009
Westbrook To Have Ankle Surgery Friday
After sitting out a practice session, it turns out that Eagles running back Brian Westbrook will have to have surgery on his right ankle Friday. Dr. Mark Meyerson will perform the operation in Baltimore. The Eagles called the procedure “a debridement” of the ankle.
Westbrook missed one game last season with a high ankle sprain. [...]
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June 04, 2009
Westbrook Suffering From Ankle Problem
Eagles RB Brian Westbrook was not been at the teams voluntary offseason practice, and many thought it was due to the running backs surgically-repaired knee. Turns out according that Westbrook’s issues are due to an ankle problem. “His knee is feeling good,” coach Andy Reid said, according to Bob Brookover of the Philadelphia [...]
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June 03, 2009
McNabb and Eagles Talking About Adjusting Last Two Years of Contract
PFT.com reports that the Eagles and QB Donovan McNabb are chatting about doing something with the final two years of his contract. Here’s the story:
A trusted reader (who despite being Amish still uses a computer) advises us that Derrick Gunn of Comcast SportsNet in Philly reported earlier tonight that the Eagles and quarterback Donovan [...]
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June 02, 2009
Will Brown Show Up for OTA’s?
The Philadelphia Daily News’ Eagles blog throws it out there about what exactly is going to be the stance of veteran corner Sheldon Brown, and if he’s going to show up when OTA’s begin today for the Birds:
It will be at least mildly interesting to see whether veteran corner Sheldon Brown, shows up for the [...]
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June 02, 2009
Eagles Sign P Ken Parrish, Release P Sam Swank
The Eagles have signed P Ken Parrish and have released P Sam Swank, the team announced on Thursday. A rookie free agent signee of San Francisco in 2007, Parrish (6-1, 210) spent that training camp and preseason with the 49ers before being released prior to the start of the regular season. A first-team, all-conference selection [...]
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May 28, 2009
Eagles Ink Undrafted Free Agents DiMchele and Jackson
Scout.com reports that the Eagles have signed two undrafted free agents - QB Adam DiMichele and DT Jervonte Jackson. The Temple Owls’ team MVP in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons, DiMichele finished his career ranked fourth in school history with 5,024 passing yards, adding 40 passing touchdowns and five rushing scores. The brother of [...]
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May 26, 2009
If Brown Doesn’t Play; Will He Want Out?
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that wide out Reggie Brown is okay for now, but if he doesn’t start seeing the ball more in Philly, he might start thinking about wanting out. Here is the report:
Reggie Brown is happy to be in Philadelphia, for now. The Eagles wide receiver said he’s out to prove himself [...]
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May 20, 2009
Eagles Won’t Let McDermott Interview Elsewhere
With defensive coordinator Jim Johnson not coming back to the team for awhile, it makes Sean McDermott all that more important to the Eagles. With the announcement that McDermott would be running the defense in Johnson’s absence, the Philadelphia Daily News reports that McDermott will be going nowhere soon:
Eagles secondary coach Sean [...]
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May 19, 2009
Eagles Sign Two Undrafted Free Agents
Scout.com reports that the Eagles have inked two undrafted free agents:
The Philadelphia Eagles signed two undrafted free agents QB Adam DiMichele and DT Jervonte Jackson, the team announced on Monday.
The Temple Owls’ team MVP in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons, DiMichele (pronounced di-MICHAEL) finished his career ranked fourth in school history with 5,024 passing [...]
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May 18, 2009
Defensive Cooridnator Johnson Takes an Indefinite Leave of Absence
Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson has been placed on an indefinite leave of absence so that he can undergo treatments for cancer according to the team. The team confirmed that for now, secondary coach Sean McDermott will take over the defense.
“Jim and I agreed that he needs to concentrate all of his efforts on [...]
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May 18, 2009
Was Brown and a Third the Offer for Boldin?
The deal that the Eagles offered for Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin was a third-round pick and cornerback Sheldon Brown. That story came out from XTRA 910 in Phoenix sports-talker Mike Jurecki. The call for Boldin from the Eagles came on draft day, and needless to say the Cardinals probably laughed it off.
Jurecki said that the [...]
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May 16, 2009
McCoy Will Need Work on Blocking to make Eagles’ Rotation
ProFootballWeekly reports that LeSean McCoy will need to work on blocking to make the rotation in 2009:
The upcoming OTAs and passing camps place a high value on working on the passing game, and believe it or not, these sessions might mean as much or more to second-round RB LeSean McCoy as they do to [...]
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May 14, 2009
Reid Says Cardinals WR Boldin Wanted $10 Mil Per Season
There seems to be some pretty good back and forth between the Eagles and the agent for Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin, who was possibly rumored to be heading to the city of Brotherly Love. Seems that Philly coach Andy Reid recently stated that there were two major reasons why Boldin won’t be wearing green [...]
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May 14, 2009
New Safety Jones to Play Strictly At Strong Safety
The Eagles official website had a report today about Eagles new safety Sean Jones playing strictly at strong safety. Here’s the report:
Well, there really isn’t a commotion yet over strong safety Sean Jones, but he certainly wants to create one by the time the season starts in September. “I definitely want to be out [...]
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May 13, 2009
SI’s Peter King Has the Eagles Ranked 6th in the NFL
Peter King of Sports Illustrated is out with his first power ranking of the season, and he likes what he sees from the Eagles, as he has him ranked 6th in the league. Here’s what he has to say about them:
6. Philadelphia
To me, this is the start of a two-year window for the Eagles. You [...]
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May 13, 2009
Left Guard Herremans Sits Out Workouts
One player who sat out the recent minicamp for the Eagles was left guard Todd Herremans. He had his knee cleaned out recently, and didn’t want to push it back to fast and get hurt again. Herremans said that said he probably could have taken part of the workouts if he was forced, [...]
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May 04, 2009
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