THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES...

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

Wow. Dork, really? Please be a girl, because this response would be a lot more poignant. Until then, dork, really? Wow. Just wow. Another reason why sports are infinitely better in the northeast.

ew. you can't really upset because someone called you a dork. I'm a girl...and I can think of WAY worse things to call someone ;-) I do like DORK though....

and, in keeping with the girlishness....i love the kelly green jerseys...someone get me an old school Randall Cunningham, please :-)[/quote]

my kelly green #12 is patiently sitting my closet awaiting opening day.

i can't wait for the sea of kelly green at the linc that day....GO BIRDS!

The Fixer wrote:

Just read that the birds may be looking to sign John Henderson. That would be a great move...dude is gigantic

where did you read that? that would be an enoromously huge pick up.......PUN INTENDED!

seriously--that would be awesome. one of my buddies was just going off on why the eagles would not have any interest in him a couple days ago...

crazypjfan wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

stop talking about stuff you no nothing about. you just found out this guy existed on god's green earth 2 weeks ago. beat it dude. go back to your own thread. you have zero credibility. this much has been established.

Like you have credibility because you read, copy and paste articles from every Philly newspaper. :roll:

It's all opinion and everyone is entitled to theirs, so quit acting like you are a football god, dude.

Now, go read up on Henderson cuz I knew the Eagles were interested in him before you did.

you flat out admitted to not following the draft and only paying attention to the first 3 picks until "they prove themselves in september". now you try to act like an expert on the guy.

i'm sorry but you are an uneducated fan. please stop embarrasing yourself.

Phantom Pain wrote:

Like you have credibility because you read, copy and paste articles from every Philly newspaper. :roll:

It's all opinion and everyone is entitled to theirs, so quit acting like you are a football god, dude.

Now, go read up on Henderson cuz I knew the Eagles were interested in him before you did.

you flat out admitted to not following the draft and only paying attention to the first 3 picks until "they prove themselves in september". now you try to act like an expert on the guy.

i'm sorry but you are an uneducated fan. please stop embarrasing yourself.[/quote]

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sorry...my bad!

The Fixer wrote:

crazypjfan wrote:

Everyone knows that ESPN Insider is only there to make money and feeds you rumors. I never believe anything I read until it becomes reality. They stir up educated rumors to force people into paying for their services. About 90% of that stuff never makes it to REAL news.

I love espn insider for the baseball stuff. The only football stuff that's worth reading is the NFL Draft coverage from mel kiper. I'd pay for espn insider just to read buster olney's daily blog every day...always full of great info and insight. Keith law is great too, as are the contributors from baseball prospectus and baseball america.

Here is the Henderson stuff...not really substantial info, but you never know.

Eagles in play for Henderson?
6:06
PM ETJohn Henderson | Jaguars | Interested: Eagles? Top Email Philadelphia Eagles beat reporter Geoff Mosher connected some dots Tuesday morning and came to the conclusion that the team is "still in the market for another defensive tackle." We've all heard the rumors of Albert Haynesworth being offered to them before the draft as part of the Donovan McNabb trade, but now it appears as though they're going to troll the waters of free agency.

Among those still available, former Jacksonville Jaguars DT John Henderson is probably the best option. (Here's a look back at the teams previously linked to Henderson.) After that, it gets pretty ugly. One mitigating factor against the Eagles signing Henderson is the DT's age (he turned 31 in January), but if the team is still looking for help, he could be their only hope.

We checked in with a few of our own reporters, but there hasn't been a definitive peep out of the Henderson camp just yet. More to come. As for Henderson's fit with the Eagles, we asked Bill Barnwell of the Football Outsiders for his take:



Football Outsiders
This one makes sense

"Jacksonville ranked seventh against the run in DVOA last year, and Henderson -- who started 15 games -- was one of the main reasons why. The fact that they chose to 'fix' their effective run defense in the draft and not a pass defense that ranked 31st in DVOA is puzzling, but it's not Henderson's fault. He's slipped some from the Pro Bowler of 2004 and 2006, but he'd get a boost from playing fewer snaps and alongside more talent up front. Philadelphia already has two excellent defensive tackles in Brodrick Bunkley and Mike Patterson, but bringing in Henderson to compete with 2008 second-rounder Trevor Laws for the third defensive tackle spot could net them an impact situational player on the cheap." - Bill Barnwell

muchos gracias!

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Eagles confident with younger, less experienced bunch
May 3, 2010
By Clark Judge
CBSSports.com Senior Writer
Tell Clark your opinion!


Almost everything about this year's Philadelphia Eagles is new. A new quarterback. A new running back. New wide receivers. New defensive linemen. New defensive backs. New assistant coaches. Even coach Andy Reid's director of security is new.

You name it, the Eagles may take it out for a spin, and that usually defines a reconstruction project. But let's get something straight: These Philadelphia Eagles are not rebuilding.

First-round pick Brandon Graham leads the 'reloading' project for Philly's D. (AP)
First-round pick Brandon Graham leads the 'reloading' project for Philly's D. (AP)
"Coach Reid doesn't believe in that, and we don't believe in that," said linebacker Omar Gaither. "The Eagles are not an organization that needs to rebuild. We reload. I like to use that term because we have a lot of playmakers on offense and defense."

He has that right. There's DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin, Brent Celek and LeSean McCoy on offense, and Trent Cole, Broderick Bunkley, Mike Patterson and Asante Samuel on defense. But it's not so much who was at this weekend's minicamp that was noteworthy as it is was who was not, and I'll start with Donovan McNabb. He was shipped off to Washington, leaving the quarterbacking to Kevin Kolb.

Kolb is young, accurate and promising. In his two starts a year ago he was 1-1 -- throwing for more than 300 yards in each game -- but those are his only two starts in three seasons, and to say the Eagles are assuming a risk is an understatement. Kolb is replacing a seven-time Pro Bowl quarterback who took the club to five conference championship games in eight years and their only Super Bowl in nearly three decades.

But the Eagles believe in Kolb. If they didn't they wouldn't have sent McNabb off -- to a division opponent, no less -- and they wouldn't have extended Kolb's contract.

"We brought him here to play," said Reid. "That's how we looked at it. When we drafted him we did it with the thought that he could be a starter in the National Football League. And he's had three great years of training, so he's right where he needs to be in terms of the maturation process.

"There will still be some growing because he's never had this load on him. So he has to learn how to do that. But we all have the confidence he will."

They must. No sooner had the club peddled away McNabb than Reid announced that Kolb was the starter and that Michael Vick -- the guy who hadn't played backup to anyone until last year -- would carry his clipboard. Vick seems OK with that, and I think you can guess where Kolb stands on the subject.

"It means a lot," Kolb said. "You never want to let anybody down, and you especially don't want to let somebody down whenever they put that much faith in you and they've made those moves to make you 'the guy.' That's a driving force for me, and it gives me more energy and more emotion to go out there and make this thing right. That's my No. 1 focus: Going to get a Super Bowl and proving everybody right."

I don't know that the Eagles are going to a Super Bowl. But I do know the time was right to get Kolb on the field. It reminds me a little of what San Diego did with quarterback Philip Rivers, sitting him for two seasons behind Drew Brees before giving him the ball.

The difference, of course, is that Brees was an unrestricted free agent coming off a serious shoulder injury and that Rivers had two seasons -- not three, as in Kolb's case -- to sit and learn.

"I think in terms of the intangibles they're very similar," Reid said. "But Philip has done it. We have to see what lies ahead. We think Kevin can do it, too. But we have to see it."

The Eagles have to see it from several new players -- including linebacker Ernie Sims, defensive end Darryl Tapp, running back Mike Bell and rookies Brandon Graham and Nate Allen -- but that's what happens when you turn over a roster, and the Eagles turned theirs upside down.

Their average age is 24.8 years. A year ago the opening day roster averaged 26.8, and that team limped to the finish, with Dallas hammering it the final two games by a combined score of 58-14.

Something had to change, and it was the roster. The Eagles shed four starters from last year's playoff loss, and that doesn't include star running back Brian Westbrook, one of the team's most effective and consistent playmakers the past decade.

OK, but remember what Gaither said: This is no teardown in the works. The Eagles had gone as far as they thought they could with McNabb & Co. and decided a turnover was necessary. So McNabb and Westbrook left. So did Chris Gocong and Sheldon Brown. And Shawn Andrews, Sean Jones, Kevin Curtis, Will Witherspoon, Reggie Brown, Chris Clemons, Darren Howard and Jeremiah Trotter.

Now the Eagles are back to try it all over again with a younger and less experienced roster, and I would be careful not to underestimate these guys or their head coach. In eight of Reid's 11 seasons the Eagles have reached the playoffs, and you heard Kolb: He's already talking about what it takes to reach the Super Bowl.

"At the end of the day we're talented," Gaither said. "We have guys who may not have played a lot, but they have proven themselves as able playmakers. I believe in what John Wooden said, which was he'd rather have talent over experience any day -- and we sure have a lot of talent. We expect nothing less than to win."