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Even casual observers of the Philadelphia Eagles know that Andy Reid loves the forward pass. Of course, Reid refuses to admit that to his detractors and himself. So, I'm here to play Dr. Phil to the embattled Eagles mentor. There's nothing wrong with loving the passi ...

Sometimes it’s really great when a plan doesn’t come to fruition. Thanks to the Philadelphia Eagles’ dismal performance last Sunday night, you’re about to read why. The yearly Eagles-Giants games are the two weeks every football season where this writer trades in his p ...

Political season may be over now, but allow me to invoke one last semi-political comparison: Senator Barack Obama and Donovan McNabb have a lot more in common than just both being from Chicago. This past Tuesday, Obama scored the most monumental victory in the history ...

A 25-year marathon finally crossed the finish line Wednesday night in South Philadelphia. For a quarter of a century, Philly's four major sports teams jockeyed for position, hoping to end the infamous Billy Penn-induced championship drought. For the past decade, the E ...

Philadelphia has a reputation for being a very negative sports town. Throwing batteries and booing Santa Claus will give you that stigma, I suppose. This past week, that was put on hold when the Phillies ended the City of Brotherly Love’s quarter-century championship ...

This weekend, I guarantee you that at least one NFL team nicknamed after a bird will come out a winner. OK, so that proposition won't exactly ever appear in Os Davis’ "Odds on the Odd" column, especially considering the Philadelphia Eagles play the Atlanta Falcons on S ...

As they head into their bye, the Philadelphia Eagles have evened their record at 3-3. That’s the good news. The fourth quarter against San Francisco last weekend was a case study of what’s wrong with the Eagles. On one hand, the defense played better in that fourth q ...

A week ago, it seemed like the Philadelphia Eagles were losing the city they have dominated for the past decade. The Birds were coming off a bad loss at home to division rival Washington, falling to 2-3 and looking up at three potential playoff teams in the always toug ...

With apologies to the fantastic novel and Academy Award-winning movie of the same name, the Philadelphia Eagles' offense closely resembles the title of this article in both personnel and resemblance to a war of attrition. Last week, in my first-quarter report card, I w ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. With 25 percent of their 2008 season behind them, the Philadelphia Eagles are 2-2 and on pace to match their 8-8 record from last year. But while they’re better at this point of the season than last year, when they l ...

There is reason for optimism in Philadelphia. Donovan McNabb is healthy and performing at a high level and the Eagles look like a much-improved bunch from the moribund team that finished the 2007 season out of the playoffs. Of course, Philadelphia also plays in the NF ...

Remember what I said two weeks ago about the Eagles needing a big 'D' in Big D? Well, it showed up in spades this past Sunday, as a national audience and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger found out during a long afternoon in Philadelphia. And the way it stands now ...

So much for having big 'D' in Big D. Last Monday in Dallas, the Eagles' defense looked like a junior high school squad at times. Oddly enough, though, without that defense, the game would have been quite a blowout, as Asante Samuel's interception and Chris Gocong’s ...

The NFL draft is bigger than the game. For months leading up to the gala event, various experts tell us exactly who is climbing up the "big board" and who is sinking faster than the Titanic. Like women at a dance club, the prospects are treated like they are in the lo ...

It’s only Week 2, but Monday's showdown against the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium could be the biggest game of the Philadelphia Eagles’ season. Offensively, the Eagles are a talented and deep team this year. Looking at their blowout over the St. Louis Rams last w ...

The NFL season is officially underway after the New York Giants’ Thursday night win over the Washington Redskins. Last weekend, the Eagles took their final preparatory step by officially setting their 53-man roster, cutting 12 players and placing two on injured reserv ...

Thursday night, the Eagles finished a 2-2 preseason with a narrow 27-20 loss to the New York Jets at Lincoln Financial Field. It’s always nice to come out a winner – preseason or not – but the main focus of August is to evaluate talent, make sure no one gets hurt ...

Before training camp started, the Philadelphia Eagles' Jerome McDougle had turned from former first-round draft choice into a player used for nothing more than limiting the reps of fellow defensive ends Victor Abiamiri and Chris Clemons. That's what happens when you pl ...

With the rise of the Internet age, fantasy sports have become the quasi-social activity of our time. Every fan has an opinion, and if you listen to enough sports radio, you’ll hear thousands of people a day who think they understand free agent deals, trade markets and ...

With each passing season, I find it tougher and tougher to parse through the coachspeak that pervades the NFL. The league's head coaches have always been paranoid, but the new breed has taken things to another level. Talking without giving the media anything substantiv ...