TRUSTS CHOOCH IN A PINCH
INDIANAPOLIS -- A "combine" is a machine that both gathers and threshes grain.
Seems about right to me.
Not much has happened so far on a warm, gray morning in Indy. Eagles general manager Howie Roseman is scheduled to ascend the podium this afternoon at 2:30 for a media session. An hour later, Colts GM and former Eagles personnel VP Ryan Grigson will talk to reporters. None of the position groupings coming in for interviews today will be very exciting for Eagles fans -- offensive linemen, tight ends, kickers, punters, longsnappers. (Has anybody ever actually drafted a longsnapper? And what kind of predraft questions do you ask of one? "So, what was your most memorable snap?" "Does the blood ever rush to your head and make you dizzy?")
Haven't seen any Eagles people yet, except for video director Tom Dougherty. At the Philly airport yesterday, I apparently arrived not too long after Andy Reid. TSA guy reported that the coach "didn't look good. Kinda pale and sweaty."
San Francisco GM Trent Baalke talked today about what the combine is for -- to him, maybe getting a lead on a guy who turns out to be an overlooked gem. "That's why we're all here," Baalke said. "To find that nugget that will lead us to one of those guys."
Stay tuned for more groundbreaking developments.
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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