Today was a very short, fairly uneventful practice, which makes sense since the Baltimore Ravens will be coming to town to have joint practices with the Eagles for the rest of the week. Here's what I saw:
- MORE ON THE EAGLES
- Eli Manning reportedly wants to be NFL's highest paid player; RGIII thinks he's the best in the NFL
- Breakfast with the Birds: Bennie Logan dominating inside
- After one preseason game, Tebow vs. Barkley still too close to call
- Underrated Eagles defensive line dominant in first preseason game
• The Eagles have run a ton of wheel routes this camp. In case you're unfamiliar with a wheel route, it's a play designed to get the running back matched up on a linebacker, and beat him deep. It looks like this:
Here's the Eagles running the wheel against the Redskins in 2013. Ryan Kerrigan has no chance trying to stick with LeSean McCoy:
That's a play that destroys man coverage, and the Eagles have really worked on it quite a bit in camp.
• RG update! Here's who has worked with the ones each day of camp so far at RG:
- Aug 2: Matt Tobin
- Aug 3: Andrew Gardner
- Aug 4: Matt Tobin
- Aug 6: John Moffitt
- Aug 7: Andrew Gardner
- Aug 8: Julian Vandervelde
- Aug 9: Julian Vandervelde
- Aug 11: John Moffitt
- Aug 12: Andrew Gardner
- Aug 13: Andrew Gardner
- Aug 14: Andrew Gardner
- Aug 15 (Walk-through): Andrew Gardner
- Aug 16: (Game): Andrew Gardner
- Aug 18: Andrew Gardner
My #ChipNicknameTeaLeaves say that this is a huge development for Timmy.
• As noted above, the Ravens will be in town tomorrow, which should make for awesome practice notes.
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