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    Eagles to close offices for Juneteenth

    Getty Images The Eagles are joining most of the rest of the league in closing their offices for Juneteenth. According to Dave Zangaro of NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com, the Eagles sent out a memo to employees Wednesday outlining the plan. In their memo, the Eagles said in future years, they...
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    Brandon Brooks ready to mount another comeback

    Getty Images Eagles right guard Brandon Brooks tore his left Achilles tendon while working out this week and that leaves him at the start of a familiar recovery process. Brooks tore his other Achilles in the 2018 playoffs and made it back in time to start the season opener last September. He...
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    Alshon Jeffery calls on South Carolina to take Strom Thurmond’s name off building

    Getty Images Eagles wide receiver Alshon Jeffery is calling on his alma mater to take Strom Thurmond’s name off a campus building. “To celebrate well known segregationist Strom Thurmond’s legacy by keeping his name on our Wellness Center sends a contradicting message to our black students,”...
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    Doug Pederson: Opportunity to sign veteran RB slipped through our fingers

    Getty Images The Eagles have been linked with a few veteran running backs this offseason and it sounds like they were trying to sign one of them before that back opted for another option. Eagles head coach Doug Pederson didn’t identify the player that the team was targeting during an...
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    Eagles plan to keep roster together during training camp

    Getty Images With the NFL proposing a coronavirus protocol on which the NFL Players Association has yet to sign off and with which Ravens coach John Harbaugh believes is “human impossible” to comply, the league’s plans for football season in a pandemic remain unclear, to say the least. Eagles...
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    Doug Pederson supports Eagles players in protests

    Getty Images Everyone wants to know what players are going to do for the national anthem this season and how coaches, the front office and ownership will respond. The season remains three months away, so those conversations have not taken place for most teams yet. But some coaches already are...
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    Eagles plan for Jalen Reagor to learn from DeSean Jackson

    Getty Images The Eagles drafted wide receiver Jalen Reagor in the first round with the idea that the perfect mentor to him is already in the locker room: DeSean Jackson. Eagles coach Doug Pederson said today that Jackson’s veteran leadership is going to be perfect for Reagor, who will be...
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    Brandon Brooks: The work doesn’t stop because of injury

    Getty Images Brandon Brooks has been here before. The Eagles guard unfortunately knows the drill. Brooks, who was rehabbing a shoulder injury at the team facility, tore his left Achilles’ tendon while working out Monday. He tore his right Achilles’ in the 2018 playoffs. He explained how the...
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    Eagles end offseason program Monday

    Getty Images Eagles coach Doug Pederson informed players Monday that their virtual offseason program was finished. The team could have gone through the end of next week. “I just really feel like we’re in a good place right now as a football team,” Pederson told Dave Spadaro of the team website...
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    Brandon Brooks tears Achilles tendon, will miss 2020 season

    Getty Images One of the best guards in the NFL is going to miss the entire 2020 season. Eagles guard Brandon Brooks tore his left Achilles tendon during a workout today and will miss the entire 2020 season, Derrick Gunn of NBC Sports Philadelphia reports. “So I guess now that news is out yes...
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    Eagles will first look at current roster in replacing Brandon Brooks

    Getty Images The Eagles lost guard Brandon Brooks for the season to a torn Achilles tendon on Monday, and immediately there was talk that they may be more motivated than before to bring back longtime left tackle Jason Peters. But Eagles coach Doug Pederson is hoping the current roster still has...
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    Doug Pederson: No timetable for Alshon Jeffery yet

    Getty Images There was word early in the offseason that wide receiver Alshon Jeffery was looking for a trade away from the Eagles as well as word that the team discussed trading him in the past, which led to a feeling that Jeffery might not be back in Philadelphia for the 2020 season. The...
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    Washington has never discussed Colin Kaepernick

    Getty Images During Friday’s PFT Live draft, Washington came up as one of the teams that should consider signing Colin Kaepernick. You’ll have to watch the video to hear the reasoning. Washington, though, has never discussed the former 49ers quarterback. Doug Williams, the first black...
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    Derek Barnett training with ex-Eagles defensive line coach Jim Washburn

    Getty Images Jim Washburn had a decades-long career as a defensive line coach, including in Philadelphia. But Washburn was gone from the Eagles’ staff before they drafted Derek Barnett in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. Washburn and Barnett are working together now, however, as Barnett...
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    Avalanche of sports figures sign Players Coalition letter seeking to end qualified immunity

    Getty Images Police brutality has been fueled in part by qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that routinely gives police officers and police departments a pass when excessive force has been used against a citizen. The potential change flowing from the murder of George Floyd includes an effort...
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    Malcolm Jenkins: NFL won’t get it right until Colin Kaepernick gets apology

    Getty Images NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a video statement Friday that received strong reviews, but it landed one step short in the view of some NFL players. In his video supporting players’ fight for social injustice, Goodell never mentioned Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, who was...
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    Malik Jackson won’t accept Drew Brees’ apology, looks forward to playing him

    Getty Images Although several NFL players have said they appreciated Drew Brees apologizing for equating kneeling during the national anthem with disrespect for the country Eagles defensive lineman Malik Jackson is not among them. Jackson told ABC 6 in Philadelphia that he does not think...
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    Carson Wentz working with some of his teammates in Houston

    Getty Images Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz makes his offseason home in Texas, so he invited some teammates to work with him in the heat. Rookie Jalen Reagor, who is from Texas and played at TCU, posted a video on Instagram from work he was doing with Wentz on a turf field in Houston, John...
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    Eagles reopening facilities with limited employees Monday

    Getty Images The Eagles will partially reopen the NovaCare Complex and Lincoln Financial Field on Monday, the team announced. Although coaches are eligible to return to the facility, the Eagles will continue their virtual offseason program remotely. The Eagles’ facilities closed March 13...
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    Kyle Shanahan unbothered by 49ers coaches being unable to return to facility

    Getty Images The NFL is allowing coaches to return to team facilities as long as state and local mandates allow it. That means 31 of 32 teams can have coaches return Friday. The 49ers are the only team not allowed back in the building with a Santa Clara County order preventing their return...
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