Training Camp News Articles Thread

[MURP]

5 preseason games worth of carries for these guys yet and they are already sore ... Look for Reno to have 600 carries. 

[PhillyPhanInDC]

why didnt you post the blog entry that followed where dhani 'steamrolled a pulling shawn andrews'

Didn't see that one there IGY.....

[mussa]

600 carries and 600 yrds

[Rome]

600 carries and 600 yrds

Negadelphian...

[MURP]

600 carries and 600 yrds

599 more than Darnell Autry would have. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Fullback Thomas Tapeh had a lovely block on linebacker Shawn Barber who was attempting to shut down a running play up the middle. Tapeh sealed off Barber and running back Correll Buckhalter scampered away from the block and slid to the outside.
--Shane Evans, 9:20 a.m.

I doubt your sincerity?  WAS IT RLY LOVERLY?!?

[General_Failure]

Lovely. Sealed. Scampered. Slid.

No, Shane. No.

[Father Demon]

yes id really like a big back

Here ya go, IGY.



You're welcome.

[Feva]

Newsflash - McNabb throws hard.

Maybe (hopefully) explains why Schobel had the dropsies early on in camp.

BETHLEHEM - Receivers who are new to the Eagles have a complex, confusing offense to deal with - that topic has been covered quite thoroughly during the Andy Reid Era.

But there's something else they have to get the hang of, as well, something that seemed to be giving tight end Matt Schobel trouble earlier in the week, though he thinks he has adjusted.

"He's got a lot of zip on the ball," Schobel said, when asked about working with Donovan McNabb. Schobel wasn't making excuses for his case of dropsy - he said his previous quarterback, Cincinnati's Carson Palmer, threw much the same way, and though catching high-velocity passes can be tough, "it's tougher when the ball doesn't get there when you're open. He throws it the way it's supposed to be thrown; it's my job to catch it."

This is not exactly something McNabb has never heard before. He said yesterday he often intends to discuss velocity with new receivers, but always finds it isn't necessary.

"I don't get a chance to talk to 'em, everybody else tells 'em about it," McNabb said. "I've been told that a lot, at Pro Bowls, and even here, with my teammates, that the ball comes out funny. I have the Randall Cunningham kind of arm. The ball looks like it's not going to come out as fast, and then they say it just shoots out, because my rotation isn't as fast as some people's - my delivery is slow, but the ball shoots out fast."

This was something Darnerien McCants noticed last year, when he came to the Eagles from the taterskins just before the season started.

"As a receiver, when I first got here, I'm used to looking at the quarterback and his arm motion," McCants said. "That's how I prepare myself to catch the ball. But with him, he throws with his body, so it's a slower motion but it's coming twice as fast. The first ball he threw, I put my hands up, but the ball was already past me before I even got my hands together. It was an adjustment, particularly on quicker routes, because the ball is coming a lot faster than he looks as he throws the ball; it's almost like a changeup look."

McCants noted that he never sees McNabb icing his throwing shoulder or elbow, because he has such a well-integrated motion.

McNabb said his throwing motion comes from being a pitcher and a shortstop when he was young.

"I've been told growing up, use your legs and use your shoulders," McNabb said. "Don't use all arm - you use all arm, your arm gets tired and you start pulling muscles and things of that nature. I kind of use my upper-body strength as well as my legs, in my throws."

Rookie wideout J.J. Outlaw, from Villanova, said he takes special note when he's running routes for McNabb.

"When Don's up there, you tend to focus in a little more," Outlaw said. "He's a great quarterback; he puts 'em right where his receivers have the best opportunity to catch it. You can't ask for much more from a quarterback."

Carl Ford, who came to the Eagles last season from the Bears, agreed.

"When he wants to put it there, he will," Ford said. "You better get your head around pretty fast... A lot of quarterbacks throw hard, but can't put touch on it; he knows how to put touch on it. That's one thing you probably can't teach."

Rookie wideout Hank Baskett said he finds McNabb's ball hardest to pick up in traffic.

"It's not when it comes to you free, it's when it comes to you in a whole group," Baskett said. "You can't see it, and then it's there. When you're running free, you can [see the ball coming and] get your hands up, you're ready for it. But when you go through that group, it comes right off an offensive lineman's helmet. That's the hardest part... That man has a cannon."

Baskett, an early-camp sensation, said he's been surprised at the way McNabb can find him in a group of defenders.

"He's put that ball through a needle like I've never seen in my life," Baskett said. "That's why he's paid the big bucks, that's why he's here... He's going to be one of the greatest to play the position."

Reggie Brown, the second-year receiver who right now seems to be the linchpin of the Eagles' group, agreed that "if there's a deep route, there's pretty much no problem, but if you're coming back to the ball and he's throwing it hard, it can get difficult at times."

Brown said when the receivers work with those ball machines after practice - pitching machines calibrated to shoot footballs - they crank up the velocity to simulate McNabb's.

McNabb, who underwent his least consistent, toughest season last year, said he continues to work on his game. Obviously, he feels not having to play with a sports hernia this year will make his throws more reliable. McNabb said he has been working on anticipation, throwing to a spot instead of to his receivers' hands.

"I take different things from different quarterbacks. You watch Kurt Warner and Marc Bulger, they don't throw the ball that hard, but their anticipation is great," McNabb said. "You watch quarterbacks like a Steve Young and a Brett Favre, whose arms are stronger, they may put some balls in positions other guys can't do... You take different things from different quarterbacks."

[PhillyPhreak54]

I remember when he broke Dorsey's finger in 2002.

[General_Failure]

First article I've ever read about McNabb being accurate.

[reese125]

and most likely the last, but he will be the best EVER to play that position.......according to Hank B

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

and most likely the last, but he will be the best EVER to play that position.......according to Hank B

I'd take his word for it.  After all, it's pretty much a lock that Hank makes the Hall of Fame when all's said and done.

Right?

[BigEd76]

Carucci is drooling over McNabb after that one series 

[Rome]

The only thing more sickening than his slobbering over McNabb was his inclusion of Owens in the story.

Why the hell do these hacks insist on mentioning that cockboil every time they talk about McNabb and the Eagles?

He hasn't even been on the team since the middle of last year. 

Let.  It.  Go.