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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:05:48 PDTEagles Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) -
Somebody asked Eagles defensive coordinator Sean McDermott the other day whether his defense has looked better this summer than it did last year.
"At which point last year?" McDermott asked with a laugh. "You know, there's a number of new faces, and it's one thing to look good in preseason, and it's another to look good throughout each and every week of a 16-game schedule. So we still have a lot of work to do. And the players know that more than anybody."
Beset by injuries and the departure of seven-time Pro Bowl free safety Brian Dawkins, McDermott's unit struggled last season, giving up 27 touchdown passes and holding just two of their final 12 opponents to less than 20 points.
But head coach Andy Reid and general manager Howie Roseman made some key offseason...
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:21:28 PDT
Eagles bring back Jean-Gilles, start practice squad (The National Football Post) - The Philadelphia Eagles re-signed guard Max Jean-Gilles today to a one-year contract a day after being forced...
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:05:12 PDT
New-look Eagles set for opener against Packers (The Canadian Press) - PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles could go into their opener at home against Green Bay with 12 rookies and five more new players from the team that earned a wild-card playoff spot last year.
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:43:24 PDT
New-look Eagles set for opener (AP) - The Philadelphia Eagles could go into their opener at home against Green Bay with 12 rookies and five more new players from the team that earned a wild-card playoff spot last year. "It doesn't scare me," coach Andy Reid said Sunday, a day after the Eagles made four trades and reached the 53-man roster limit.
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:36:51 PDT
Source: Cuts have union still examining trades (The Canadian Press) - WASHINGTON - Three of the four rookies involved in curiously timed trades have now been cut, prompting the NFL players' union to continue looking into whether the deals were made to avoid paying money into a special player pool, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:08:28 PDT
AP source: Cuts have union still examining trades (AP) - Three of the four rookies involved in curiously timed trades have now been cut, prompting the NFL players' union to continue looking into whether the deals were made to avoid paying money into a special player pool, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the union has not made the probes public, said the...
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:48:52 PDT
Patriots claim Steve Maneri, cut Tyrone McKenzie (The National Football Post) - The New England Patriots claimed rookie offensive tackle Steve Maneri off waivers from the Houston Texans and...
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:31:00 PDT
Fitz's final preseason draft board (ProFootballWeekly.com) - Originally posted Sept. 1, 2010 @ 1:12 p.m. ET. Updated Sept. 5, 2010 @ 3:02 p.m. ET Pat Fitzmaurice, a winner of the...
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:02:31 PDT
NFL cutdown day: NFC East (SportingNews.com) - Teams had until 5 p.m. ET Sept. 4 to reach the NFL-mandated 53-player roster limit. Here's a team-by-team look from SN's correspondents at cuts and other decisions by teams in the division: Dallas Cowboys Wide receiver Sam Hurd, a key reserve, called the Cowboys' bluff and turned down a request for a pay cut. Hurd is scheduled to make $1.7 million this season, and the team opted to keep him because of his versatility on special teams. The Cowboys didn't have any real surprises among their cuts, but they opted to keep less-expensive players when...
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:09:00 PDT
