The Birds made a few interesting personnel moves today. First they signed punter Durant Brooks to a 2 year deal, presumably to compete with incumbent Sav Rocca for the starting punter position. Considering Brooks has only averaged 39.6 yards per punt in his career it seems unlikely he would replace Rocca, who is capable of much more than that, but maybe just maybe he'll give Sav that little push he needs to get rid of all his inconsistencies and be the punter the Eagles know he can be.
A little later in the day it was announced that Dick Jauron, formerly the head coach of the Bills, last season, and the Bears before that, had been hired to be the Eagles new secondary coach. Outside of the 2001 season when he took the Bears to a 13-3 record and the playoffs(remember the Eagles beat them in the divisional playoffs that year) Jauron has mostly struggled as an NFL head coach. However, it has long been common knowledge that Jauron is one of the NFL's best defensive minds and he should be a big help to the Eagles now youthful secondary. Perhaps he'll even teach Asante Samuel how to press receivers and tackle, whenever he is told to, instead of whenever he feels like it. Furthermore he and Andy Reid used to be colleagues with the Packers under Mike Holmgren so Jauron should have no trouble fitting in with the rest of the Eagle's coaching staff
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I little friendly competition never hurts and I think you hit the nail on the head about Jouron being able to mold the young minds and maybe push Asante into actually playing a little physical
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yeah well we can only hope for improvement in both areas
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