Justice Deferred, But Won't Be Denied
The Philadelphia Daily News - Eagletarian
Justice Deferred, But Won't Be Denied
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
Back-to-back false starts are not a good thing anytime, and when Winston Justice blew the snap count twice during today's live morning workout, Andy Reid subbed in King Dunlap for a rep, just to let the Birds' right tackle clear his head. And maybe to remind him that nothing in this world is guaranteed.
"I had a mental lapse. That's it," Justice said later. "I just messed up ... when you jumpoffsides twice like that, you need to come out and realize what you just did.
"I went back in, and I think in the NFL, you have to have a short memory. I let those plays go, in the past, and now I'm looking forward."
Justice said Reid didn't speak to him about the miscues.
"I think he knows it's really up to me to really correct that, keep my eyes on the quarterback's mouth when he's calling out the play, and that's something I didn't do. It won't happen again."
BTW, as he left for lunch, Justice was rocking a backpack with solar panels to charge up his ipod.
Other notable moments:
*Couple nice catches deep down the middle for rookie TE Clay Harbor. On one of them, Mike Vick laid in a lovely touch pass, between two defenders, Harbor snagging the ball with one hand.
*Trevor Laws forced a J.J. Arrington fumble recovered by Ricky Sapp. Then Arrington dropped a pass in the flat.
*Kevin Kolb and Jeremy Maclin worked a nice curl on which Maclin spun outside for good extra yardage.
*Quintin Mikell blitzed and blocked a Vick pass, which Trent Cole intercepted.
*Ernie Sims "sacked" Vick.
*Loud collision in the hole between Akeem Jordan -- once again working as the strongside starter -- and Eldra Buckley. Buckley was stopped for a short gain.
*Brandon Graham was a beast in one-on-one jousting with the o-linemen.
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The Eagles played more roster roulette, bringing back Jared Perry, the wideout they signed last week, then cut to make room for Kelly Washington. Today's musical chairs victim was DE Eric Moncur, who presumably is lurking in the woods behind the practice fields at Lehigh, waiting to be invited back, like everyone else.
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TE Martin Rucker joined the hammy strings section, already populated by Asante Samuel, Mike Bell and Jordan Norwood. They ought to be putting out an album soon. TE Brent Celek was treated for dehydration.
DeSean Jackson remains out with a lower back injury.
Bell was walking without a limp or Sunday's white pressure stocking when he left the locker room. Asked if he had a timeframe for his return, Bell said: "Nuh-uh. I'll be all right, though."
Hamstrings? Dehydration? Sounds like a lack of conditioning to me. These guys reported to camp out of shape and are paying the price. Maybe Reid should turn it down a notch, but this is a young bunch transitioning from years of veteran leadership and presence to a group whose identity is relatively unknown and therefore, the practices are ratcheted up a bit. Either way, injuries in training camp are never good.— jonnyb0916
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winston's the greenest eagle out there!— Leegles- mundiff, good for One Yard. He is in shape and in my opinion doesn't need the work. It would be nice for him and KK to get some rhythym through reps, but I don't think the offense will struggle come regular season if One Yard is watching most of TC from the sidelines.— The Reddgie
- W.Justice looks like a fat Laurence Fishburne— JimLemley
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- i can't believe this is even an issue being written about— alswi
Winston Justice played very good last year and he will be the long term right tackle. He will have a pro bowl year this year and known as a very good RT.— briandawkins20- Comment removed.
- Rumor has it that DJax isn't even hurt. This is his way of holding out of training camp without receiving fines.— mundiff
- If you look at film from last season, it looks as if he jumps 75% of the time, thank God the ref's didn't call all of the them.— M.A.D.O.D.A.A.T.
- To Flyers85 and Irish Frank - Your comments are hilarious! None of you have ever played O-Line before, have you? Lol. What I mean is if you had any idea how much thinking goes on before you'd know that it is not a big deal for this to be happening in week 1 of training camp like tacklinjoe points out. But... based on the training camp Twitter feed I've been following, I think Mr. Justice's false starts have a little more to do with him thinking too much about how he is going to block Brandon Graham since Winston appears to have his hands full with him. From everything that I've read and heard from people who are at practice, Graham has been a beast in Pass 1 on 1s and team periods. I cannot wait to see this guy in the pre-season to see how he handles playing the run. As for Justice, I am not overyl concerned. That's why you have practice folks!— WatchOut4DirtyRollerSk8rs
- They should just wait for the playoffs to disciplining players, that's when the real games start.— Bob from SW
- It's called concentration! Disappointing for a veteran.— Irish Frank
- You're serious? He's paid millions of dollars to remember a word and associate it with an action..... literally "when I say this then you go".... yeah asking wayyyy too much. My dog had come vs stay down in a week, but NFL linemen might need a few extra I guess.— flyers85
- The coaches make too much of this in the first week. Relax, wait 'til the second week. Then ask for perfection on the snap count.— tacklinjoe
