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Michael Vick didn’t get the chance to prove if he still has breakaway speed. But for the first time in more than two years he got to experience what it’s like to be tackled as well as cheered, the latter coming just one minute, 11 seconds into play when he entered on second…
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Read on mcall.com →Michael Vick didn’t get the chance to prove if he still has it. But he made no mistakes in the six snaps that he played in the Eagles’ preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field. The same cannot be said for the Eagles first-team…
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Read on mcall.com →Running back LeSean McCoy has had one really good preseason game, which he followed up with just an average showing. Tonight, the rookie from Pittsburgh probably won’t start against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Lincoln Financial Field since veteran Brian Westbrook is cleared to…
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Read on mcall.com →Jeremy Maclin has a short memory. It’s better that way for the Eagles’ No. 1 draft pick, who has fumbled in both preseason games and has yet to demonstrate his breakaway speed in a game. But Maclin’s confidence has not been shaken. He was too much of a playmaker at Missouri for…
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Read on mcall.com →Michael Vick’s speed and flash are back. His arm strength also has looked good during practices at the Eagles’ NovaCare Complex. But can he still play quarterback in the NFL? Thursday night, we’ll begin to find the answer. That’s when Vick — wearing a No. 7 jersey and with what…
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Read on mcall.com →Eagles coach Andy Reid said on his WIP radio show Monday that Michael Vick will play in Thursday night’s preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Lincoln Financial Field, marking the ex-Atlanta Falcons star’s first game since Dec. 31, 2006, when he played in a 24-17…
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Read on mcall.com →Shawn Andrews recalled sitting at his desk as a third-grader, beating on it as if it were a set of drums. “Making beats, getting in trouble, getting whippings, then football came along and that’s a passion,” the Eagles’ injured Pro Bowl right tackle said before practice Monday…
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Read on mcall.com →His defense has been exploited in back-to-back games by two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, but Eagles first-year defensive coordinator Sean McDermott has not started to second-guess himself. All rookies need time to develop and that also includes rookie coaches. “I feel…
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Read on mcall.com →Kevin Kolb has not been forgotten. He’s still considered the Philadelphia Eagles second-string quarterback, even though Michael Vick is now here. Vick was signed while Kolb was sidelined with a medial collateral sprain in his left knee. The injury forced the third-year pro from…
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Read on mcall.com →A state of panic has not emerged. Instead, the Philadelphia Eagles returned to the practice fields at their NovaCare Complex on Saturday eager to make amends for their sloppy play in a 23-15 preseason road loss to the Indianapolis Colts last Thursday night. And, before going out…
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Read on mcall.com →Shawn Andrews has an itch to play football and it’s intense. The Philadelphia Eagles right tackle, sidelined all summer because of a back injury, has no idea when he might return to action and is not allowed to discuss his degree of pain and discomfort. But he is working out in…
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Read on mcall.com →The hard, attacking style of defense the Philadelphia Eagles pride themselves in playing backfired in the first half against Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning on Thursday night at Lucas Oil Field. One week after being sacked three times in six plays against the…
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Read on mcall.com →The list of breakdowns for the Philadelphia Eagles is long. In fact, it is so long it could stretch a good distance on Broad Street in South Philly. Frustrated and perhaps winded from a marathon preseason game, Philadelphia coach Andy Reid broke down the Eagles’ 23-15 loss to…
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Read on mcall.com →Linebacker Joe Mays has drawn attention to himself for all the right reasons ever since the Philadelphia Eagles’ starting middle linebacker spot became open, following Stewart Bradley’s season-ending knee injury on Aug. 2. There’s his confident, but not cocky, attitude. There’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Brian Westbrook has returned to practicing with the Philadelphia Eagles, but rookie LeSean McCoy will start with the first team offense in the Eagles’ preseason road game against the Indianapolis Colts Thursday night. A slap in the face to the Pro Bowl running back? Not even…
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Read on mcall.com →Wide receiver Brandon Gibson put on a slick open-field move. Stunned, cornerback Asante Samuel slipped and went down. His teammates laughed. Samuel fired back. It was verbal sparring in a jokingly manner, something the Pro Bowl cornerback has been doing a lot of this preseason.…
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Read on mcall.com →The offensive line woes may not end anytime soon. Shawn Andrews, the Eagles’ two-time Pro Bowl right tackle, has flown to California to have his back examined again by the doctor who performed surgery on it last Oct. 21, coach Andy Reid said on WIP radio on Monday. Andrews did…
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Read on mcall.com →For the 10 minutes that the Philadelphia Eagles allow photographers and cameramen to shoot during practices at the team’s NovaCare Complex, Michael Vick, the backup, has been zoomed in on more than Donovan McNabb, the undisputed starter. It’s been that way since Vick’s first…
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Read on mcall.com →Tom Brady engineered three first-half scoring drives and misfired on just five passes in 15 attempts against the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense in the preseason opener last Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field. But it cannot be overlooked that Brady only passed for 100 yards,…
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Read on mcall.com →Michael Vick telegraphed four straight passes. Three were intercepted and another batted down at the goal line during the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice Sunday at the team’s NovaCare Complex. To someone not aware that he was running the scout team offense against the first…
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Read on mcall.com →Michael Vick practiced for the first time in two years, throwing a barrage of crisp passes, two of them 50-yard spirals to rookie wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, during one-on-one drills at the Philadelphia Eagles’ NovaCare Complex on Saturday. Overall Vick, who was signed to a…
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Read on mcall.com →Donovan McNabb lobbied for Michael Vick, and Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, team president Joe Banner and owner Jeffrey Lurie not only listened but acted on McNabb’s wish by opening their heart and wallet. But signing Vick is not about cost. It’s about McNabb — who enters…
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Read on mcall.com →Donovan McNabb now has a backup quarterback with credentials that he believes gives the Philadelphia Eagles another big weapon in their offense. Never mind that animal rights groups might protest the shocking news, announced at halftime of the Eagles’ preseason opener against…
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Read on mcall.com →Donovan McNabb now has a backup quarterback with credentials that he believes gives the Philadelphia Eagles another big weapon in their offense. Never mind that animal rights groups might protest the shocking news, announced at halftime of the Eagles’ preseason opener against…
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