Report: Eagles To Hire Alabama Offensive Line Coach Jeff Stoutland
BREAKING NEWS, Coaching Staff, Eagles, News Thursday, February 7th, 2013
FootballScoop.com is reporting that the Eagles head coach Chip Kelly will bring Alabama offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland on his staff to coach the Birds offensive line. The hiring of Billy Davis as defensive coordinator wasn’t impressive, but the hiring of Stoutland from the best football program in the country will definitely make Eagles fans stand up and take notice.
Stoutland has done an outstanding job with the Crimson Tide and has been regarded as one of the best offensive line coaches in college football for quite a while now. His offensive lines have dominated opponents by opening huge holes for Crimson Tide running backs like Heisman Trophy Mark Ingram, first round pick Trent Richardson and current Eddie Lacy and T.J. Yeldon.
This report could improve the chances of the Eagles drafting Crimson Tide All-America offensive guard Chance Warmack with their fourth pick. It’s very unusual for teams to draft guards so high, but they do have need at the position and Warmack is supposed to be a very special player.
I personally don’t want to see them draft a guard that high. If they wind up using that pick on Warmack, it means they do think he’s a very special player and that Kelly plans on running the football a great deal.
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Andy’s first rounders in order of quality:
1) McNabb
2) S. Andrews
3) Shepperd
4) C. Simon
5) Fletcher Cox (although I think he is better than Simon)
6) Patterson
7) Maclin
8) B. Bunkley
9) B. Graham
10) Freddie Mitchell
11) Watkins
12) McDougal
QUALITY?!? Other than McPuke, & Simon, everyone else on that list are garbage, or mediocre at best! Cox is Rosebuds pick. Graham is still a ????
Shawn Andrews was an All-Pro a few times, and have yet to replace him since his injury.
Cox still has something to prove before we can say he is better than Corey Simon. Simon, was a Pro Bowl Player, and played in a Superbowl. Will Cox? That remains to be seen.
Brandon Graham played good toward the end of the year, but I didn’t see enough to say he should be a guarantee to be on this team next season.
I think the Eagles reached on Graham; He just doesn’t have enough talent to think of him as anything more than what he is. I would try to trade Brandon Graham while he still has some value in his career.
Andrews was a great pick and should still be a centerpiece of that line…then of course he went nuts…
Watkins is ahead of Brandon Graham & Freddie Mitchell—-
Watkins has more snaps played and an all rookie team honor
Maclin is ahead of Mike Patterson
and Simon is ahead of Lito Shepperd
Lito was AP twice. Simon was PB once. I know Lito took plays off and games off with malingering injuries, but he was a better more talented player than Corey Simon.
Dcar thinks Peters won’t be able to come back to superstar level, after watching the Ravens Suggs look like a shell of himself this season and the Phillies Howard struggle all year, I think I agree with him — Peters might be able to move inside and play guard at a competitive level
IF he was younger, weighed much less, & played anywhere else, but in the trenches, I’d believe he’d have a sliver of hope. But he is 31, weighed 350 lbs before the injury, & plays OT, where all you do, is push off & put extreme pressure on your lower body. So for anyone, to take for granted, that he’d be anything but a shell of his former self, are both delusional, & gullible. For what he is set to make, with a team clearly in rebuild mode, & the health risk involved, it is NOT worth bringing him back. The entire O-line, needs to be rebuilt. We need 2 OT’s & a RG. Mathis MIGHT be a stop-gap. If healthy (which isn’t a given) can be a plus. Herremans is on decline & now a man without a true position. It is dire, we sign 1 of the top FA OT’s, & another 2nd tier FA G, &/or OT, then also come out of the draft, with 2 future starting O-linemen.
***If healthy, Kelce***
@Dcar, Yo D lets give him the deer juice he will be up and running in no time. LOL
XD
Great fans in this city, the football season just ended. Yet we are still fired up like training camp is around the corner. Gotta love EAGLE FANS man.
I think Jason Peters will return and be fine, he probably won’t be dominant, but I still think a 85-90% Peters can play 2 more Years.. He’s a highly competitive player and looking back provably rushed his rehab too fast after his initial Achilles Tear.. If Eagles were to Draft OT Joeckel, they could slide Peters to RT
And he would be fine while Joecjel took the LT position
Of course it would depend if the left-handed QB Vick were still around
Where the RT is more critical since that’s his blind side