Building an "Attack Module" into Eagles Defense...
"Voluntary" OTA's continue on Monday, June 4... not exactly voluntary if you're a guy on the bubble trying to make this Eagles team, however.
Defensive line coach Jim Washburn gave a nice interview to the AP after Friday's workouts. He summed up the mission of what he wants to accomplish with his guys in 2012:
“My personal opinion, and this is not the company line or anything else, I think we’ll all be a lot better,” Washburn said. “Now, whether that equates to sacks and stuff, I don’t know. But I can’t imagine us not being a lot better than we were. I don’t just say that stuff. We’re so much further ahead, it’s ridiculous. I didn’t even know who they were (last year), and they didn’t even know who I was this time last year.”
“They didn’t know exactly what I wanted,” Washburn said. “They had been readers. Now we’re attacking. You can talk about it all you want, but until you get out there and do it, it’s hard to see. They were just learning on the run, like everyone else out there.”
The Eagles now have four former first-round picks on the defensive line and two second-round choices. “Couple times in Tennessee, we had (great depth),” Washburn said. “But I don’t think as a whole, ends and tackles, that I’ve ever had a group as deep as this.”
You're really not going to see much "attack" in the D-line in OTA's, which are essentially passing drills. But what's going on in the position drills is a lot of "attack module" instruction and re-learning... Les Bowen of the Inquirer has tweeted that he has yet to see any of the defensive tackles put in a position to do much of anything, except hustle downfield in pursuit after the offense completes a long pass. If DT's end up having to do a lot of that this season, the Eagles are in trouble.
"When the pads go on at Lehigh in a couple of months, it will be time to pay attention to the tackles and the DE's," wrote Bowen. "Even moreso when exhibition games arrive."
Rookie 1st-round pick Fletcher Cox on the OTA's: "We've got no pads on, no contact, only like two steps [toward the passer], turn and run to the ball. It's really more of a getting in shape, conditioning thing for the D-linemen...It's real hard to get a sense of what real action will be like. . . the most important thing is, you don't want nobody to get hurt without pads on."
Cox said he is "getting off the ball a whole lot quicker" than when the workouts started, attributing this to becoming more familiar with Juan Castillo's defense. "I feel like I've progressed a whole lot from Day 1," he said. "I went out there the first day [with the vets] and I was the last one getting off the ball. Now, it's turned around the other way. I'm getting off the ball with everybody else."
[Cox has been making his way out to the field before the morning session, to work on details that he thinks veterans such as Trent Cole and Jason Babin have mastered, but that Cox is still learning - the angle at which he lines up, how to use his hands, and so on. He has worked inside and outside, and on blocking for special teams. --- Les Bowen]
In an OTA of a different sort, Eagles cheerleaders organized for their calendar shoot last week...
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Still not much football news to speak of. Seen that the league is hiring possible replacement refs, wonder if that will make a bit of difference? Hope they're trained correctly..
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Pretty good Game Of Thrones finale. I seen that they jumped into the Storm Of Swords quite a bit, probably because it's so much larger than the first two books. Hope I'm not posting an immature comment that will bother anyone. They did a rad job on the White Walkers I thought.
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Morning all;
For dose of you who haven't seen it yet Chase is on his way to Fla. He is going to be a DH in extended spring training games for time being. Last year he was der for 16 days before being activated.
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Canadians who rule..........?
RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps one of the greatest bands EVER!
Our representatives from Canada here?????
ANNND - if you need a little convincing of the eye candy variety-
them French Canadian girls w/their floss at the beach
Boring as H*ll...............................
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When football topics are present, they are thoroughly dissected and discussed by the BORED. As this is an open forum, all opinions are welcomed. When I read something I don't like or disagree with, I simply move on. Call it immaturity. That's how I've come to know this place.
Canadians are all right. They are like piece of uncolored cardboard--dull, bland and vacant.
So let it be written!
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@sunbutts Alanis Morissette is dull, bland and vacant? ...She scares the crap outta me!
@Tom Jackson Don't advertise your provincialism. Of course my statement was a general one. A nation of millions will have a few outstanding individuals. Many mentioned here were probably educated or spent much time in U.S.
My dull, uninteresting Canadian statement still stands.
@tboned208 @Tom Jackson @sunbutts
don't forget Nel and Dudley D-Right.
Lumberjacks - ya gotta love them !!
Mounties
Guy LeFleur - for God's sake !!!!!.......
Loopy,
The children you attracted from the "dump" have lowered the quality of this board from ground level to the depths of hell.
Movies!!! Zombies! Aliens! WoW!
Of course an off the walll Geezer doesn't help.
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I wish I were a Giants' fan. Look how happy I would be with a very successful team winner of 4 SBs--- instead I'm stuck hitched to an also ran!
well - he's part of "our Community"...
He adds - just sometimes I feel his calculator only does Roman Numerals.
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@Palm Feathers You must be one dull son-of-a-gun, Sir.
If you are ever invited to parties, I'm certain you aren't invited back.
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'cmon - it's OK you can say it. I say it all the time.
These folks are great - smart - nutz - entertaining - full of life...
And this during a No News time.
can't resist coming back - I can't
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Ppw.... yes wolcerine was a mutant. It was his ability to heal that allowed stryker tojoin the adamantium to his bones. He already had claws but they were bone, stryker made him into weapon x. And wolverine is old, he was a Marine in ww2.
@fieldsr69 Right, he's old in First Class when Eric and Charles approach him-which is an awesome scene!!
Ppw.... yes wolcerine was a mutant. It was his ability to heal that allowed stryker tojoin the adamantium to his bones. He already had claws but they were bone, stryker made him into weapon x. And wolverine is old, he was a Marine in ww2.
