IS GETTING ITS DRAFT BOARD READY
The Eagles sent out their game notes to the media for Friday's presason opener against Pittsburgh and it includes the first official depth chart. This is far from gospel, so do not read too much into it, but there are some interesting things to note ...
* Sheldon Brown and Lito Sheppard are listed as the co-starters at right cornerback. Guess that clears up whether Lito has lost his starting job, at least on paper.
* Shawn Andrews is still listed as the starter at right guard with Max Jean-Gilles as his backup, although it does note that Andrews did not report. Of course, we are all aware of the Andrews situation, first reported here on Eagletarian on Monday afternoon. Rookie Mike McGlynn is listed behind Todd Herremans at left guard.
* Jason Davis is listed as the starter at fullback, with Luke Lawton on the second team and Jed Collins on the third team.
* Correll Buckhalter is listed as the backup to Brian Westbrook at running back with Lorenzo Booker on the third team and Tony Hunt behind him.
* Rookie DeSean Jackson does not even make the three-deep at either wide receiver slot, although all the players ahead of him are veterans, so that might be symbolic more than anything else. He is listed as the punt returner, with Booker as the kick returner and rookie Quintin Demps the backup at both spots.
* Victor Abiamiri, who is out following wrist surgery, is listed as the backup to Juqua Parker at left defensive end, with free-agent signee Chris Clemons on the third team.
* Dan Klecko and Trevor Laws are listed as the backup defensive tackles behind starters Mike Patterson and Brodrick Bunkley. Veterans Montae Reagor and Kimo von Oelhoffen are on the third team.
* Pretty striking to see the names of the backups at linebacker behind the young starting trio of Chris Gocong, Stewart Bradley and Omar Gaither -- Akeem Jordan on the weakside, rookie Joe Mays in the middle and free-agent acquisition Rocky Boiman on the strong side.
Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
