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POSTED: January 9, 2009

Sam Donnellon: Hixon picking up slack for Giants with Burress out

Philadelphia Daily News

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Off to the side, someone muttered disdainfully about the "incredibly ordinary receiving corps" in the room.

If you didn't see the blue all around, or the unfamiliar faces, it might have been the Eagles' locker room you were in. Because for most of the last three seasons, since Terrell Owens left and Donté Stallworth stalled, the rap on the Birds, made often by Donovan McNabb apologists (and guys like me sometimes), was that the Eagles had few or no guys who caught the ball consistently and/or created separation.

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DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff photographer
Eagles' Sheldon Brown knocks pass away from Giants' Domenik Hixon in Dec. 7 game.
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