Certainly not a slow news day as the Eagles resume training camp at the NovaCare Complex.
Andy Reid dropped this little ditty – he’s gonna try out Tony Hunt at fullback. Let’s see. Dan Klecko didn’t work out. The staff obviously isn’t pleased with Jason Davis because they had Jed Collins taking a lot of snaps with the first unit last week.
Hunt’s been a factor on special teams, seems willing to do whatever it takes to make the grade …
“He’s gonna get some reps in there this week,” Reid said. “He is a player when he came out and played very good football this past week. Not only carrying the football but he was taking special teams very serious. You saw the two tackles he had on the kickoff team.”
Hunt says he doesn’t have to relearn the playbook because there isn’t any difference between running back and fullback here except for blocking schemes.
“Any chance you have to get on the field is a great opportunity,” Hunt said.
More on this in tomorrow’s Inky.
Andy Reid dropped this little ditty – he’s gonna try out Tony Hunt at fullback. Let’s see. Dan Klecko didn’t work out. The staff obviously isn’t pleased with Jason Davis because they had Jed Collins taking a lot of snaps with the first unit last week.
Hunt’s been a factor on special teams, seems willing to do whatever it takes to make the grade …
“He’s gonna get some reps in there this week,” Reid said. “He is a player when he came out and played very good football this past week. Not only carrying the football but he was taking special teams very serious. You saw the two tackles he had on the kickoff team.”
Hunt says he doesn’t have to relearn the playbook because there isn’t any difference between running back and fullback here except for blocking schemes.
“Any chance you have to get on the field is a great opportunity,” Hunt said.
More on this in tomorrow’s Inky.
Booker would be the best chance at playing this position. Hunt's gonna get killed.— JimCollins- WHATEVER WORKS CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE SQUAT AT FULLBACK AS IT IS. TONY IS TOO TALENTED TO SIT AND DO NOTHING. HE IS A BIG MAN FOR A RUNNING BACK AND AS LONG AS HE GETS THE SCHEMES THIS WILL WORK. ID LOVE TO SEE HIM OUT THERE EVERY DOWN. GO BIRDS— moose42
- WHATEVER WORKS CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE SQUAT AT FULLBACK AS IT IS. TONY IS TOO TALENTED TO SIT AND DO NOTHING. HE IS A BIG MAN FOR A RUNNING BACK AND AS LONG AS HE GETS THE SCHEMES THIS WILL WORK. ID LOVE TO SEE HIM OUT THERE EVERY DOWN. GO BIRDS— moose42
- WHATEVER WORKS CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE SQUAT AT FULLBACK AS IT IS. TONY IS TOO TALENTED TO SIT AND DO NOTHING. HE IS A BIG MAN FOR A RUNNING BACK AND AS LONG AS HE GETS THE SCHEMES THIS WILL WORK. ID LOVE TO SEE HIM OUT THERE EVERY DOWN. GO BIRDS— moose42
- WHATEVER WORKS CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE SQUAT AT FULLBACK AS IT IS. TONY IS TOO TALENTED TO SIT AND DO NOTHING. HE IS A BIG MAN FOR A RUNNING BACK AND AS LONG AS HE GETS THE SCHEMES THIS WILL WORK. ID LOVE TO SEE HIM OUT THERE EVERY DOWN. GO BIRDS— moose42
- booker? he is smaller than bwest. he would get run over as a fb.— timm
- moose42, you only need to click "SUBMIT" once. Be patient, dude. JimCollins, Booker is too small to be a fullback... Hunt probably is slightly undersized to be a fullback also but we'll see.— Big Game
- Yo moose, say that again please- I didn't catch it the first 4 times.— Potus415
Comment removed.- Timmy - Did Andy Reid comment on the progress of Joe May?— shoeshineboy
- Why do PSU alumni have to drink the kool-aid and think he is good- look at the tapes- he has looked SLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW for the past year and 1/2 and broke one run against some back-up scrubs last week. He's not an NFL RB or FB- only getting shot because special teams have been awful and they need all the help they can get there— ilario
- Why didn't they try this in June? Were they convinced Klecko was the answer? Sometimes obvious things seem to escape Andy.— RichNC
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- This is typical Reid. Last year he started the season without a return man resulting in an opening day loss to Green Bay. Now, he doesn't have a fullback. But what the heck, the fullback gets few reps in Fat Andy's offense.— GANick
Lenny22, Fullback in the NFL is a dying position. I can't think of any off hand, but I'm sure there are some teams who don't even carry a fullback. Most just use two tight end sets or put a tight end in the back field in situations where they would normally use a fullback. That's probably why the Eagles haven't really put a lot of thought into it. Basically, whoever shows up and plays special teams gets to be our fullback.— Hamlin
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