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Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie didn’t take the trip to Morgantown, West Virginia last week just because he had some free time or wanted to do some sight seeing. He was there because the Birds are taking a long, hard look at Mountaineers signal caller Geno Smith and they’re seriously considering drafting him. It wasn’t a [...]
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It’s too bad you can’t build a championship football team thru free agency because the Eagles are in better position than any other team in the league when it comes to having money under the cap. They’re $23 million dollars under the cap going into the 2013 season. Yes they were a horrible football team [...]
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Reuben Frank of CSNPhilly.com wrote an interesting article about Jeffrey Lurie accusing former Eagles President and current Cleveland Browns President Joe Banner of putting out bad information about current Eagles GM Howie Roseman.
Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com wrote an article earlier this week citing anonymous sources who accused Roseman of being “drunk with power” in [...]
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For better or worse, the Eagles have their man.
Several weeks after firing 14-year head coach Andy Reid, the Eagles brass hired Chip Kelly to be the organization’s next leader.
Of all the candidates that the Eagles interviewed, I saw Kelly as by far the biggest risk. Most of the other prospects had a strong redeeming quality [...]
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Somebody gave in somewhere for the Eagles to be able to sign Oregon’s Chip Kelly as their new head coach. When Jeffrey Lurie began the search for a new head coach, he said GM Howie Roseman would play a major role in the draft and player personnel decisions.
During the news conference to fire Andy Reid, [...]
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The Philadelphia Eagles met with their leading head coaching candidate, Gus Bradley for about six hours on Tuesday afternoon and into night at owner Jeffrey Lurie’s Wynnewood mansion. The meeting started at about 3:30 or 4pm and wrapped up at 10pm last night. There have been no reports of a deal being consummated between the [...]
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There were reports circulating all over the internet at the start of the weekend that Oregon head coach Chip Kelly was on his way to Cleveland after meeting with team President Joe Banner on Friday. Something seems to have changed because Kelly met with the Eagles for nine hours on Saturday night and anticipates talking [...]
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I remember how upset former Eagles head coach Ray Rhodes was when he found out that team President Joe Banner had more power than anybody in the Eagles organization. He couldn’t believe that Banner was trying to tell him who he should select in the upcoming draft.
Former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb talked about Banner’s power [...]
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Regardless of who the new coach is, we know that Eagles GM Howie Roseman will play a prominent role in the draft choices. Jeffrey Lurie emphasized today that Roseman had a major hand in the 2012 draft, but the drafts of 2010 and 2011 were primarily the products of Andy Reid and Joe Banner.
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It’s official. Jeffrey Lurie has fired Andy Reid and he’s have a news conference at 12 noon today. Lurie is expected be there, but it’s not clear whether Reid will be there.
Lurie probably informed Reid that he would be fired today, but agreed not to release that information to the media prior to this morning. [...]
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