SCORES TWICE AFTER A PUCK TO THE FACE
One thing I think I think:
1. I hate freaking Peter King.
If you scroll down a couple dozen posts, it was SI's King who got the weekend off to a sputtering start by predicting the Eagles would not be able to trade Lito Sheppard. This unwlecome bit of prescience arrived even as Eagles sources were touting all the wonderful Sheppard offers they planned to sift through as the draft began.
None of those Eagles sources was named Andy Reid, though, and late yesterday afternoon at NovaCare, as the Birds wrapped up their 10-player draft, Reid characterized the offers for the Eagles' two-time Pro Bowl corner as "not significant."
Could Lito still be traded? Sure, for a player or players, or a draft choice next year (whoopee). But the draft was the logical time for this to happen. It's hard to think of a team with a crying need at corner that didn't address that need this weekend.
Reid was coy when asked if the Birds will somehow address Sheppard's contract grievance, to try to make him a more willing participant. He said he would talk to Sheppard.
But even if Sheppard, signed through 2011, agrees to show up and at least feign enthusiasm, isn't there going to be some delicate ego-juggling, with Asante Samuel, Sheppard and Sheldon Brown all used to being starters?
"We'll see how it all works out when we get to that point," Reid said.
We'll start getting to that point this coming weekend, when mandatory minicamp unfolds at NovaCare.
Meanwhile, Peter King is dead to me. Dead.
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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