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Enough is Enough

Eagles' (WR) Jason Avant

By Mike Azzalina, Philaphans’ Columnist   It looked great!  Vince Young threw a deep ball down the right sideline and Riley Cooper made a superb catch.  A few plays later, LeSean McCoy crept into the endzone for a touchdown.  The Philadelphia defense made a short drive look easier than I could have ever anticipated against [...]

Is it Over Yet?

Arizona Cardinals v Philadelphia Eagles

By Mike Azzalina, Philaphans’ Columnist As quickly as someone could make it happen on a Madden videogame, John Skelton made it happen to the Philadelphia Eagles.  Or was it the Eagles that made it happen?  I mean it would make sense, would it not?  The fourth quarter seems to be the anti-destiny point for this [...]

The Heart of a Champion

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By Mike Azzalina, Philaphans Columnist With the Super Bowl rolling around tomorrow evening, and everyone wondering who will be the new NFL champions, I am going to side step the usual predictions. I would like to take a closer look at something else that has been all over the Facebook feeds, Twitter pages, and 10 [...]

A Touching Day

By Mike Azzalina, Philaphans Columnist On October 29, 2008, I was on the bottom of a 7 person pileup in the mess that was my college roommate’s bedroom. As Brad Lidge dropped to his knees, I dropped a tear. As Ryan Howard tackled Lidge and Carlose Ruiz, my college roommates (all basketball players) tackled me [...]

A Complete Juan-80

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Moving from offensive line coach to defensive coordinator at the NFL level may be less extreme than these situations, but it is a complete 180 nonetheless.

Tag! You’re It!

Kevin Kolb, Michael Vick

By Mike Azzalina, Philaphans Columnist “Mr. A.! Mr. A.! Play tag with us! Tag! You’re it!” How the word “tag” has become one of my least favorite combination of consonant-vowel-consonant in the English language is easy to explain: Second graders love having a teacher who wears sneakers on Jeans day and will play tag with [...]

Titan of D-Line Heading to Philly

Jim Washburn, Kevin Vickerson, Dave Ball

The franchise welcomes Washburn with a young defensive line with whom they hope he can work his magic

Some Fledglings Soar High; Others Stay Nested

Brandon Graham

When the 2010 NFL Draft ended, the Philadelphia Eagles felt a very positive feeling about the players they took away

Eagles Send McDermott Packing; Who and What Is Next?

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Yesterday, Andy Reid did something he had not done in his long tenure as head coach in Philadelphia: Fired one of his coaches

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