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If you read the transcript from Donovan McNabb's news conference earlier on this blog, you might've gotten the impression that Donovan McNabb expressed displeasure with the Eagles' offseason moves. Asked about the changes, he said, ``It wasn't to my liking.'' Nothing he said after that seemed to support that first comment, but that's often the case with McNabb, who frequently doesn't say what he means.
After the Eagles' afternoon minicamp practice, Bob Lange of the Eagles' public relations department, asked McNabb to clarify his comment. The quarterback said he was simply reacting to the way the question was phrased, which he said was, ``Are the offseason changes to your liking?'' He said he responded, ``It wasn't (about) my liking (the changes). It's about the team.''
That's not what I have on my tape. But the bottom line is, McNabb was not expressing disatisfaction with the Eagles' offseason moves. He just didn't express himself very well.
In other news:
Cornerback Sheldon Brown thinks a three-man cornerback rotation with he and Asante Samuel and Lito Sheppard can work just fine, at least for this season.
``I think it'll be great,'' he said. ``Having two Pro Bowlers.(We've) put in some new schemes. If we can make it run and make it work, it'll be a very productive year.''
Brown said he has no problem moving inside to the slot when all three of them are on the field. He did the same thing when Rod Hood was with the Eagles. Hood was the Eagles' nickel back. But when he would come into the game, Brown would slide over into the slot.
Brown pointed out that opposing offenses go with more than 2 wide receivers at least 65 percent of the time.
Since I've been here, we've kept three (corners) on the field most of the time,'' he said.
``To be honest with you, I love it. Because I get to move into the slot. I get to rush the quarterback (from the slot). I get to do all that stuff. I hate it outside. It's boring out there.''
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.
