IS GLAD SPRING TRAINING IS FINALLY HERE
Much was made in the offseason about the percieved lack of difficulty on the Eagles' schedule, especially outside the division. In case you are wondering, Eagles opponents are a combined 13-12 through two weeks. The odd number comes because the Ravens have only played one game.
The three other teams in the NFC East, by the way, are a combined 5-1. The AFC East, with New England and Buffalo, is the only other division with two 2-0 teams.
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One of the big stories we obviously will be watching this week is the status of Ben Roethlisberger's shoulder. Is it just sore? Is it a shoulder separation? Is it both those things? The folks at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are trying to figure that out, based on Mike Tomlin's news conference.
"Ben is still nursing the sore shoulder," Tomlin said. "He could be limited here in the first part of the week. Hopefully, he progresses like he did last week. I just met with him, and he said he feels better this week than he did a week ago, which is good."
Big Ben and Tomlin are both scheduled for conference calls with the Philly media later today, so we will see what they have to say. Our guess, not much clarity will come from those sessions, either.
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Mark Kram lands today with an interesting story about the rash of deaths among past members of the Steelers organization, including many of the big names from the Super Bowls teams of the 1970s.
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If you are interested in power rankings. NFL.com has the Cowboys at No. 1, the Giants at No. 2 and the Eagles at No. 11. The Daily News runs Paul Domowitch's rankings every Friday.
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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