IS TALKIN' SOUL WITH DONOVAN MORGAN
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman spoke today on a panel at Widener Law School in Wilmington.
He addressed several issues, including:
** Similar to coach Andy Reid and defensive coordinator Juan Castillo, Roseman’s job security came under scrutiny during the Eagles’ 8-8 season. Roseman acknowledged it’s part of the business, although he said he doesn’t spend much time listening to or reading the criticism.
“I understand the
 nature of the city, and I love it,” Roseman said. “It's a passionate place and they want 
nothing more than what we want, is to win a world championship. The 
expectations are high and the expectations are high for all of us. I 
understand the other part of it.”
** Roseman declined to discuss whether cornerback Asante Samuel will return to the Eagles, providing the stock answer that the phone always rings when a team has a surplus at a position. But Roseman believes that the trio of Pro Bowl cornerbacks can still work in the Eagles’ secondary.
“
Last year was a unique situation in terms of practice time and preparation time,” Roseman said. “So I think that it gives us an opportunity with this offseason, with a normal offseason to kind of gel together and you saw that towards the end of the year, the team was gelling and so that’s what we look forward to in 2012.”
** Former Pro Bowlers Randy Moss and Albert Haynesworth are available and have been publicly linked to the Eagles. Roseman declined to speak about either player yesterday. When asked whether Haynesworth’s former defensive line coach Jim Washburn, now with the Eagles, will have say, Roseman said Washburn is consulted on a number of players.
"How it works in our building is we obviously give 
all our position coaches players to evaluate, and they give us their 
opinion, and Washburn's a part of that process and an evaluator with
 that,” Roseman said. “Other than that, he's one with the program and he sticks to it. I
know there have been reports of his role in that, but he's very much a
 team guy. We're happy to have him."
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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