IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
Several things on the docket today, as your Eagletarian wonders if he'd have run Broad Street faster Sunday with a cop chasing him, pointing a taser.
First, this New York Times blog takes an interesting approach to figuring out the youth of a team's roster, beyond just the average overall age or the average age of the starters. Its conclusions from 2009 are that the Eagles' offense was already the youngest in the NFL, even before replacing Donovan McNabb with Kevin Kolb and Brian Westbrook with LeSean McCoy. The Eagles were sixth-youngest overall, with the defense coming in right in the middle of the pack, at 16th. Of course, changes have been made there, too, that will make this unit younger in 2010 -- no more Jeremiah Trotter, Darren Howard or Sheldon Brown, all of whom were 30-plus.
Also, Bleeding Green Nation has a pretty good take on the Eagles' right cornerback situation, which could be the biggest question to be answered this spring and summer. As the blog notes, management is making Ellis Hobbs the leader going into the competition, but that's hardly written in stone, and Joselio Hanson definitely thinks he should be in the mix. Jose, a valuable role player until last year's banned substance suspension, after which he seemed out of sync, probably will get his shot. Can't say I see him as a 16-game starter, but as a competitor, there's no doubt HE should see himself that way. I wouldn't be shocked to see Macho Harris work into the picture there, either.
Iggles Blog has an absolutely perfect juxtaposition, that doesn't need any elaboration from me. Hope they're ready for the anguished e-mail from "who me?" Florio.
Finaly, a rite of passage in the NFL in 2010: Eagles rookie linebacker Ricky Sapp has changed his Twitter account from @Sapp7, his Clemson number, to @Sapp94, the number he'll wear for the Birds.
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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