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Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie termed Andy Reid, "in every way, the epitome of what you're looking for," during a news conference to announce that Reid has agreed to a 3-year extension that will keep him with the Eagles through 2013.
Terms were not disclosed, but a league source said Reid, also the vice president of football operations, will make between $5 million and $6 million per year, making him among the three highest paid coaches in the league.
"I'm just a piece of the puzzle," Reid said. "By my waist size, I'm a big piece, but in reality, I'm just a piece of the puzzle."
Lurie said preseason discussions pointed toward Reid wanting an extension. "It was inevitable. There was no point waiting," Lurie said.
He called the extension "a great message to everyone in the organization, particularly the players."
“Our No. 1 priority by far is to win a Super Bowl,” Lurie said. “One of the reasons for the contract is the obsession and prioritization of that.”
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Now that the three-year Andy Reid contract extension has been announced -- with a press conference pending at NovaCare at 11:30 this morning -- it will be interesting to see what happens with other organizational key figures. Many have only been signed through 2010, as Reid was before this new pact was complete.
When the Eagles added money to Donovan McNabb's deal last June without adding years, that was part of the explanation from the McNabb camp -- "Hey, Andy Reid is only signed for two more years." The implication was that perhaps ownership wasn't willing to commit to the Reid-McNabb combo past 2010, and also maybe that McNabb would not want to be here without Reid.
The Eagles' offensive and defensive coordinators, Marty Mornhinweg and Sean McDermott, and general manager Tom Heckert also are signed only through 2010. The past few offseasons, there have been hints that perhaps the Eagles felt it would be acceptable for Heckert to move on to another organization, with Joe Banner protege Howie Roseman steadily gaining stature. Roseman currently is vice president of player personnel. His contract status is not known.
In 11 seasons, Reid's teams are 105-66-1, 10-7 in the playoffs. They have earned seven playoff berths and seem to be in position to win an eighth this year. The Reid-Era Eagles have appeared in five NFC Championship Games, though they have won just one, and then lost Super Bowl XXXIX. Reid is the NFL's second longest-tenured head coach, behind Tennessee's Jeff Fisher, at 16 seasons.
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The Eagles also announced that they have signed fullback Joel Gamble to the practice squad and re-signed wide receiver Jordan Norwood to the practice squad. Norwood was on the 53-man roster and made his NFL debut against Atlanta on Sunday, but was released Monday to make room for returning cornerback Joselio Hanson.
Gamble has spent time in both the Arena Football League 2 and the American Indoor Football Association, most recently playing for the AIFA’s DC Armor in June 2009. A four-year letterman, Gamble was a tight end at Shippensburg and has played fullback and linebacker professionally.
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
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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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