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Lehigh’s football team can now have the Goodman Campus practice fields back to itself. The Philadelphia Eagles ended training camp Wednesday and returned to South Philly, carrying back with them truckloads of equipment following a 17-day stay in Bethlehem. Unfortunately, the…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s only a preseason game, but tonight’s meeting of the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots at Lincoln Financial Field has a lot of intrigue. The showdown between Donovan McNabb, the yet-to-win-a-Super Bowl quarterback against Tom Brady, the two-time Super Bowl MVP, is…
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Read on mcall.com →Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes is the only man in the Lehigh Valley who almost made Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive lineman Jamaal Jackson melt in his place. Jackson is 6-foot-4, 330 pounds. That would have been a lot of melting. “I had never met a professional boxer,”…
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Read on mcall.com →At the University of Cincinnati, the game plan for tight end Brent Celek was to block first then block again. That’s usually the main job of a tight end. But the Philadelphia Eagles have discovered that the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Celek also has good hands and can make a nifty…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s three days and counting before Philadelphia Eagles rookie running back LeSean McCoy gets to try to juke and elude New England Patriots defenders with the same effectiveness he’s had against his teammates throughout training camp at Lehigh’s Goodman Campus. Never mind that…
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Read on mcall.com →A season of high expectations for the Philadelphia Eagles’ is not totally lost because of the rash of injuries in training camp which may have prevented total chemistry and consistency from being developed. It’s three days before the first preseason game and not three days…
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Read on mcall.com →A second Eagles player has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his left knee, another blow to the team during a training camp in which there have been season-ending injuries, a death and an arrest. Rookie tight end Cornelius Ingram, a fifth-round draft pick from the…
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Read on mcall.com →Attack at will. That was the mentality of the Eagles defense under Jim Johnson the previous 10 seasons and nothing figures to change now that his understudy, Sean McDermott, is the defensive coordinator. McDermott is not yet the mastermind Johnson was considered around the NFL,…
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Read on mcall.com →Watch out for wide receiver DeSean Jackson when he cuts to the inside or curls to the outside. Be even more alert when the game is on the line and the Eagles have to go deep and you’re a cornerback trying to cover the speedy Jackson one-on-one. Since his first practice at…
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Read on mcall.com →Linebacker Omar Gaither came to the defense of Jason Babin following the Philadelphia Eagles’ morning practice Thursday at Lehigh’s Goodman Campus. For the second straight day, Babin, a defensive end who was signed to a contract on Tuesday, tangled with an offensive lineman,…
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Read on mcall.com →The arrest of defensive end Juqua Parker hours earlier did not appear to dampen the mood of Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie as he made his annual state of the team address Wednesday morning at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus. Lurie said it was “improper” to talk about…
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Read on mcall.com →Nothing has changed in the way Jeremy Maclin dashes into the heart of the secondary to make a spectacular catch-and-run. The Philadelphia Eagles’ first-round draft pick from the University of Missouri missed the first nine days of training camp while his contract was being…
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Read on mcall.com →Asante Samuel has returned to being a menace on the field. Good thing for the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense, bad for wide receivers who have to try to break free from the Pro Bowl cornerback, who’s in his second season with the team. The tweaked hamstring that forced Samuels to…
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Read on mcall.com →Don’t start thinking the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense will be exposed in the middle with the loss of Stewart Bradley to an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his right knee. First, give Joe Mays a chance. Safety Quintin Mikell believes that Mays is ready to start in the middle…
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Read on mcall.com →Philadelphia Eagles No. 1 draft pick Jeremy Maclin was finally signed to a contract late Monday night and can now make plans to fly back from Missouri to join his new teammates in Bethlehem. Maclin, a two-year standout at the University of Missouri, has missed eight days of…
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Read on mcall.com →His teammates gave him props, fans cheered, but former Penn State defensive lineman Josh Gaines is not getting overly excited about his 15-yard interception return of a lazy A.J. Feeley pass Sunday night at Lincoln Financial Field. But it was the last big play in the Eagles’…
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Read on mcall.com →Remember Allen Iverson’s famous practice quote from 2002? “We’re talking about practice,” the former Philadelphia Sixers’ guard said in response to being criticized by then-coach Larry Brown about his practice habits after the Sixers’ were eliminated in the first-round of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Rain forced the Philadelphia Eagles to shorten their Sunday morning practice, limiting what they could work on at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus. The team, however, also practiced Sunday night at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Earlier Sunday, one note of discontent…
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Read on mcall.com →The NFL penalizes teams for excessive celebrations after great plays or touchdowns. But Chuck Bednarik is not the NFL commissioner, so there is no restriction on having fun in training camp. That’s what Philadelphia Eagles’ fullback Leonard Weaver plans to do tonight at the…
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Read on mcall.com →The Church Van was gassed up on a hot Saturday morning, but not to make a charitable run. Leonard Weaver, the Philadelphia Eagles’ starting fullback nicknamed “The Church Van,” blocked and ran with force during practice at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus that made some…
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Read on mcall.com →Kevin Curtis refuses to become the forgotten wide receiver in the Philadelphia Eagles’ offense. He wants to return to the level he reached in 2007, his first season with the team, when he excelled with career highs in catches (77) and touchdowns (8). On Thursday at Lehigh…
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Read on mcall.com →J.J. now has the best view of the Philadelphia Eagles’ training camp practices at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus. Sean McDermott, the Eagles’ first-year defensive coordinator, expressed that opinion on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Jim Johnson passed away following a…
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Read on mcall.com →The University of Florida won the national football championship last season and all tight end Cornelius Ingram could do was watch from the sidelines because of an injury. He tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during practice — on a noncontact play — before the…
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Read on mcall.com →Moise Fokou had a mean streak when he played linebacker at the University of Maryland. Nothing has changed now that he’s with the Philadelphia Eagles. Rookie running back LeSean McCoy from the University of Pittsburgh, an elusive open-field runner, found out just how feisty…
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