On one side, Trent Cole is a Pro Bowl defensive end who is relentless and powerful and so effective with his extensive tool bag. He is a star player, one of the best in the league, and most observers wonder just how much better Cole would be with another like player on the left side of the Eagles' defensive line. Is that a priority for this team in the off-season, to complement Cole and his game? ...
We all know the Eagles have a very busy, very unique several months in front of them. They have attacked the off-season vigorously to date, changing out key pieces of the coaching staff, overhauling the personnel department and putting everything in order for what is ahead. I can go down a checklist of what needs to be done -- it seems to change every day -- but for the purposes of this moment let's put an order to the moves to be made, based on the order of their importance to the team ...
It was the focal point of last year's off-season, and as the Eagles put their plan together for 2010, the offensive line could very well be a center of attention again. The best-laid blueprint from 20009 -- signing Stacy Andrews in free agency, trading for Jason Peters, moving Shawn Andrews from guard to tackle -- fell largely on the wrong side of the ledger, leaving the Eagles with more questions to answer about the group up front ...
News alert: Antonio Pierce is available and wants to continue his football career and says he is recovering well from a neck injury that KO'd his Giants season in 2009. Would the Eagles? Could the Eagles? Linebacker is a position to watch for the team, yeah, but is Pierce the kind of player the Eagles would be interested in adding? ...
Everyone is back at ground zero and zero. The agony of the last month is over, and instead of looking back, we all, and I mean everybody in the NFL, now looks ahead on even ground. And, yeah, I'm dreaming of having Eagles Live! during Super Bowl week next year right in the center of Cowboys Stadium and the idea of the Eagles winning the Super Bowl there is, indeed, the goal of a lifetime ...
BRIAN WESTBROOK'S FIVE GREATEST PLAYS1. The game: Oct. 19, 2003, vs. New York Giants at Giants StadiumThe setup: The Eagles trailed, 10-7, with 1 minute, 34 seconds to play and the Giants were in punt formation ...
The valedictory given running back Brian Westbrook after eight years of exemplary service clocked in at just over 11 minutes yesterday afternoon, not because the Eagles sought to underplay Westbrook's greatness, but because there really wasn't that much to say ...
ED STEFANSKI listens.He reads.Fans of the 76ers are angry - some are extremely angry.Not only does Stefanski, the team's third-year president/general manager, know that, but he also knows much of that anger is directed at him ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. - On a typical night this summer, Charlie Manuel will have a more difficult time figuring out what to have for lunch than what the top of his lineup should look like ...
THE LAST TIME Brian Westbrook touched the ball as an Eagle, he went 27 yards with a screen pass, on the final play of the third quarter, in the Birds' humiliating, 34-14 playoff loss at Dallas, Jan. 9. It was Westbrook's only touch of the game, the Eagles trailing, 34-7 ...