The cost of Eagles tickets is going up.
The team will raise almost all seats by $5 per game, with the lone exception being the lower-level end zone seats. Those tickets will increase by $10 per game.
Season-ticket holders will have until June 5 to pay off the balance of their seats, but they may make 50 percent of the payment by March 16, a team spokesman said. The Eagles said they were one of six teams that did not increase ticket prices last season and that their average ticket price ranked 15th in the 32-team league. They do not know where they will rank after this increase.
URBAN NEW QUARTERBACKS COACH. The Eagles officially announced their new coaching hires yesterday and James Urban, who had been the offensive quality control coach the last two seasons, will replace the departed Pat Shurmur as the quarterbacks coach. Shurmur left to become the offensive coordinator with the St. Louis Rams.
Urban, 35, joined the Eagles in 2004 as an assistant to head coach Andy Reid after spending five years as the director of football operations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a 1995 graduate of Washington & Lee University, where he played wide receiver.
The Eagles said that wide receivers coach David Culley will be given an expanded role in dealing with the team's passing game.
Former Eagles quarterback Doug Pederson will replace Urban as the offensive quality control coach.
The team also announced that defensive line coach Pete Jenkins has retired. He will be replaced by special teams coordinator Rory Segrest and former Eagles assistant Ted Daisher will come aboard to take over as special teams coordinator. Daisher, a special teams assistant under John Harbaugh with the Eagles, had most recently been the special teams coordinator for the Cleveland Browns.