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A few Eagles nuggets on what is being billed as an important day in the NFL labor talks, as the sides gather in New York City:
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Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson has spent much of his offseason on the West Coast, doing a lot of charity work -- including visits to several prisons and youth football camps -- and running up a pretty big bar tab at a club with his new record label (as you might have read about).
Jackson has not been among the Eagles to take part in the players only informal workouts in South Jersey or in Michael Vick's passing camp last month.
But Jackson says he is in great shape, writing on Twitter yesterday, "Just finished up a great workout!! My routes is nice!! I'm in Tip Top shape ready to Go!!"
Jackson also took part in the hilarious NFL lockout spoof posted on the website "Funny or Die," along with a host of other NFL players and actor Taylor Lautner, plus some neat cameos. It is worth checking out if you have not seen it.
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FoxSports.com is doing a poll of the best player for each franchise. The site has narrowed the choices for each team to five players.
(As an aside, be interesting to see how many votes Michael Vick receives as the best player in Atlanta Falcons history, given his exit).
So, who do you have among the group? Do you think someone is missing from the list?
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Eagles second-year tight end Clay Harbor is splitting his time this offseason between Springfield, Mo., and his hometown of Dwight, Ill., but said he is continuing to get his work in to improve.
"If I work hard, it's a chance for me to better myself from the competition."
He said he has remained in frequent contact with starting tight end Brent Celek and backup quarterback Mike Kafka.
"When we start missing days in training camp, maybe that will be a wake-up call," he said. "We get paid on a game-to-game basis. That's when players will start worrying.
"But I think (players and owners) understand how much there is to lose by not having a season. It would be shocking to me if it comes to that."
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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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