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When I received a short, three-line press release from the Philadelphia Eagles informing me that Brian Westbrook would be undergoing surgery on Friday morning, it struck me that the organization was "depressed." The release seemed to indicate fatigue and decreased ener ...

The Philadelphia Eagles got some bad news this week about their defense. Longtime coordinator Jim Johnson will be taking a leave of absence from the team to battle a relapse of cancer and undergo chemotherapy. While Johnson is out, secondary coach Sean McDermott will ...

Sometimes it’s what you don’t do that defines you. And no matter what they do between now and the NFL draft, what the Philadelphia Eagles haven't done in free agency may haunt them for a long time. I’m talking specifically about two key free agents in T.J. Houshmandza ...

I really can't explain the fans of Philadelphia. I can, however, explain the way fans in the city are viewed around the rest of this country. Most places simply don't believe evolution ever made its way to the City of Brotherly Love. Ex-Phillie Todd Jones once wrote: ...

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 ...