IS STOCKPILING DEFENSEMEN
The NFL Players Association is looking into whether a trade between the Eagles and Cardinals this week was a means to get around paying money into the rookie salary pool, the Associated Press is reporting.
The Eagles traded fullback Charles Scott to Arizona for cornerback/returner Jorrick Calvin. Scott was selected with the 200th pick in the April draft; Calvin was chosen at No. 201.
The Eagles said they had Calvin in for a visit before the draft and had been monitoring his progress. The Cardinals were in need of a fullback after an injury.
According to the report, "under collective bargaining rules, if a drafted rookie is cut by the team that drafted him, that team is required to pay 85 percent of that player's salary into a rookie pool. The money from that pool will be distributed to rookies early next year based on the number of downs played in the 2010 season. The way the rule is written, teams could circumvent the rookie pool payment by trading a drafted player they were going to cut to another team — and have that team cut the player."
Union spokesman Carl Francis declined to comment to the AP on the Eagles-Cardinals trade.
The union also is reportedly looking at a deal between the Redskins and Rams. The Redskins sent sixth-rounder Dennis Morris to the Rams for a conditional, undisclosed draft pick, and St. Louis sent fifth-round pick Hall Davis to Washington, also for a conditional, undisclosed pick. Davis was cut after one practice with the Redskins.
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Been a rough couple of days for DeSean Jackson, and he is feeling the effects. Jackson strained his neck/upper back on the first series against Kansas City and did not return. Coach Andy Reid said that was just a precautionary move.
Jackson then had his wisdom teeth removed Monday. Anyone who has had that done knows how painful it is in the immediate aftermath.
Unable to sleep at about 5 a.m., Jackson took to Twitter for an update, "Just 4 ur info .... I don't wish this pain on no 1 ... [Stuff] woke me up outta my sleep kicc'n my [butt]. Can't wait for this [stuff] to be gone."
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In case you were wondering, Fox has assigned its No. 1 announce team to the Eagles-Green Bay season opener. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver will be at the Linc.
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
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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
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