Eagles make moves in personnel, scouting
The Eagles announced they have named Anthony Patch as Director of College Scouting and Rick Mueller as Pro Personnel Executive.
Eagles make moves in personnel, scouting
Daily News staff
The Eagles announced they have named Anthony Patch as Director of College Scouting and Rick Mueller as Pro Personnel Executive.
“We are very pleased to promote Anthony and add Rick to our scouting staff,” GM Howie Roseman said in a statement. “Anthony has been one of our top talent evaluators during his tenure as a college scout, has great relationships throughout football and is an extremely hard worker. Rick brings a wealth of NFL experience while giving us a new and fresh set of eyes to evaluate incoming talent. They will both play a role in helping us prepare for this offseason of free agency and the draft.”
Patch, 33, spent the last 10 seasons on the Eagles scouting staff. He first joined the team in 2002 as a college scouting coordinator, was quickly promoted to college scout before being named assistant director of college scouting in 2010.
Mueller is a veteran of 15 NFL seasons with New Orleans (2000-08) and Jacksonville (1994-2000). With the Saints, he was vice president of player personnel from 2006-08 and director of player personnel from 2000-2006. He worked as the Jaguars director of college scouting (1998-2000) after 5 years as a college scout (1994-98).
Mueller, 44, most recently spent two seasons as an executive in the UFL, serving as general manager of Omaha in 2010 and as vice president and general manager for all four teams in their inaugural season of 2009.
The most significant move in the personnel department will involve finding a replacement for Ryan Grigson, who left to become the general manager of the Colts. Roseman suggested this week at the Senior Bowl that the move might not come until after the draft. The contracts of most personnel people run through the draft.
- Section- I don't hate the team or staff, but their drafting methods drive me up a wall. The one year where they kept trading picks down to the point they had, what, like 13 at one point? Take someone in the 1st round already! Yes, all teams have misses in the draft, but it's a lot harder to miss if you draft guys that most people consider to be NFL-capable.
— verve 
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I used to watch the Jetsam's when I was a kid...aw, c'mon, laugh now, cry on draft day. I'm cringing at the thought that there will be another total disaster in store for us. I don't even care if they pick a LB with the first pick so long as at the end of the draft the team no longer has that Black Hole sucking all the life out of the defense. I have almost zero confidense that will happen. A DT or safety will be OK so long as they draft one or two decent LB prospects. Years of the same BS is no longer tolerable if it ever was.— tpizza- I am thinking that they need a FA LB. Someone with experience. Unless, there is a 1st rounder who can actually come in and play immediately. They have two young safety's now. So, early rounds a LB, DT or, if DeSean doesn't sign, a WR?
- Reid must be the only coach I've ever heard of that dismisses the LB position so thoroughly. After going to school at "Linebacker U," this totally baffles me. — verve
- You people that hate Andy Reid never have a solution just think you do. The guy made Lurie's investment sky rocket to over a billion dollars. He put football back on the map here after losing season after losing season. I love it when he is ignorant with the press because they ask the dumb question after dumb question.— the word
- uhh, actually in the 10 years before Reid got here there was winning football being played, with a steady, 9-7 average per season. Andy Reid averages about a 9-7 record after 13 seasons. Meaning his win/loss is pretty much identical to what was before him. 10-9 playoff record, compared to Kotites 1-1...almost identical at an amazing .500. Ray Rhodes went 10-6 2 out of 4 years years and won Coach of the year in 1995. Buddy and Kotite both went 10-6 multiple times...so has Andy. So no, since 1990 the team has had about the same results with 4 different coaches...Andy has done no better then any of them in the bottom line, and averages about the same amount of wins as they did. a 9-7 record. oh yea one thing he is better then all of them though is BLOWING 4th QUARTER LEADS. HE BEAT RICH KOTITES RECORD ON THAT WITH 5 OF THEM, THATS A THIRD OF THE FREAKING SCHEDULE BLOWN IN THE 4TH QUARTER. THAT IS TERRIBLE. HE WILL NEVER WIN A SB. N E V E R NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER
- by all means, promote one of their top talent scouts. sure. based on the last two drafts the guy has done fantastic work. wondered who he liked more, curtis marsh or brandon graham - or maybe the 30 year-old guard who is really starting to get the hang of football. just great evaluations all over the place.— snakeplissken
- 730 and tonner are both sorta correct. can't we all just get along— brock
- It doesn't matter who makes what decisions because NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE UNDER REID!!! It will still be a pass-happy offense that NO defensive coordinators in the NFL will fear.....because it's ALWAYS THE SAME!! I'll gladly eat me words but we'll all most likely still be starving next year. FIRE ANDY!!!!!— girouxforpresident
- This is great news for all sides - the gold standard organization is able to promote from within AND there are a new eyes being added from the outside. Of course, the new eyes are slightly removed from a winning team, BUT he is a hard worker. What else do we want??— lgm4885
- At least Mueller has been around the block and has pro football pedigree, something that I think has been lacking in the front office all the way back since the short period with Modrak. This team really needs to draft a couple of impact players in a big way this year on defense. No reaches, like a 26 yr old rookie 1st round pick, or exotic trades that leaves everyone scratching their head.— watsonmr
- That was the first thing I thought of- finally, a guy with actual football experience in the personnel section. I know Andy has experience, but one guy can only do so much. — verve
- These guys will be EXTRA vigilant in identifying fastballs and opportunities to trade down and pick up some extra picks in the later rounds.
