The NFL Scouting Combine gets underway this week.  The first group of players arrive today, but only for behind the scenes stuff.  On field workouts don’t start until Saturday.  This is the time of year when Mike Mamula is written about by a lot of people.  ”Beware Mike Mamula” is a common theme. It shouldn’t [...]

Stewart Bradley tore his ACL in the summer of 2009 and MLB has been a black hole since then.  At the time, it didn’t seem like a big deal.  Omar Gaither would just slide over.  Joe Mays was in the mix.  Omar got hurt.  Joe was in over his head.  The team dealt for Will [...]

We had some DT discussions this weekend and there was some confusion on a couple of points.  Let’s now all try to get on the same page.  The Eagles play a 1-gap system with the DTs.  This means the players are supposed to attack up the field.  They are responsible for 1 gap only.  Quickness [...]

Let’s take a break from discussing LBs and DTs and just have an interesting discussion.  Or debate.  I was checking out an Eagles blog called EaglesFan4Life when I saw an interesting post there.  The discussion…would the 2011 Eagles have made the playoffs with Donovan McNabb at QB? So what do you think? This isn’t some [...]

I can write a bunch of stuff on Fletcher Cox, but pictures are worth a thousand words.  Here are some videos of Cox so you can see him in action. There are a mixture of good and bad plays.  The key thing to notice is how athletic the guy is.  Similar to Cullen Jenkins in [...]

For my SB Nation Philly column, I wrote about the possibility of the Eagles drafting a hybrid DB.  I think the word “hybrid” scares some people.  The commenters over at BGN were ripping me for the idea and the Eagles for a variety of reasons.  I thought the article was pretty good, but I must [...]

For this week’s PE.com column I did a mock draft for the Eagles.  Go look at the picks, but also please read the comments before them.  That will explain a few things.  I’ll comment on the mock below. * * * * * Albert Haynesworth, aka Big Al, was cut today by the Tampa Bay [...]

I have wanted Luke Kuechly to be an Eagle since about October.  It is with great pain and anguish that I must admit I’ve been cheating on him.  I have a wandering eye.  I’m sorry, Luke.  Please forgive me… As I’ve written recently, I think the most likely course of action is that the Eagles [...]

Let’s start off with some SAM LB talk.  I think we all need to get on the same page here.  Jim Johnson had James Darling as his SAM in 1999 and then replaced him with some guy named Carlos Emmons.  That turned out to be a brilliant move.  Emmons was a 6’5, 250 LB.  He [...]

Jeff McLane is reporting that the Eagles will definitely place the Franchise Tag on DeSean Jackson.  This really isn’t surprising news.  Sam and I have written about the subject a few times in the past month.  Here is Sam’s great post.  The question now becomes…what is the point of the tag…to avoid losing him or [...]

Greg Lloyd is hiding in plain sight.  He spent most of the year on the Practice Squad, but was added to the roster late in the year.  He didn’t come close to sniffing the field, but his presence on the roster does have some meaning.  What? Lloyd was a run stuffing MLB at UConn.  He [...]

No Eagles news to report on.  I’m busy watching draft tape.  Mixing in some free agency study as well.  Someone a month or two back requested that I write something about movies.  That’s also a subject I’m passionate about, so why not. First, a bit about my background and tastes.  I grew up worshiping the [...]

I wrote a post at ScoutsNotebook on SAM LBs in the upcoming draft.  It is written for 4-3 teams in general, not just the Eagles.  Fire away with specific Eagles questions. * * * * * Forgot to cover this the other day.  So Plax says he wants to be an Eagle.  I’m interested, kind [...]

Go read Marcus Hayes piece on Todd Bowles.  Great stuff.  That should get you fired up about having him on the staff.  It worked on me. You can also check out some quotes from Bowles on the Eagles DBs.  The one comment here that caught my eye was in reference to Jaiquawn Jarrett – “He [...]

I just started reading Next Man Up, the John Feinstein book about the Ravens back from the Brian Billick era.  In an early meeting with the team, Billick talked to them about the fact the team had been building to make a Super Bowl run and it was time for that to happen.  He told [...]

The Eagles have worked out QB Trent Edwards a couple of times in recent weeks.  I don’t know any inside scoops on this, but that’s more than casual interest.  He’s a free agent and the team could sign him right away.  Not sure what the delay is if they really want him. Edwards started his [...]

Now that 2011 is offically behind us… The Eagles claimed OT D.J. Jones recently.  He was a rookie out of Nebraska that was on the Dolphins Practice Squad and then later the Ravens roster.  They cut him to make room for another player.  It wasn’t a case of getting rid of him.  His OL coach [...]

Alice Cooper said it best, “Welcome to my nightmare.” Congrats to the Giants for being good enough to win the Super Bowl, but are they the weakest SB champ in recent memory?  Of all time?  This just sucks. Sorry for the lack of quality insight.  I’m a pretty miserable person right now. I can’t wait [...]

Thank god the end is near.  The 2011 football season has pretty much been a nightmare for me.  As an Eagles and Penn State fan, things did not go quite as I’d hoped.  I cannot wait until this is officially over and we move on to 2012. So tonight we get to watch the Pats [...]

Paul Domowitch recently had a suggestion in a column that the Eagles should move Keenan Clayton to Safety.  That’s where he began his career at Oklahoma before shifting to LB (Clayton, not Domo).  Interesting idea. I would be open to a move like this.  We’ve got 3 guys in place in Nate Allen, Kurt Coleman, [...]