5 Things From Eagles Camp
BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania - Kinda sticky here. I like it sticky. The Eagles hold their camp at Lehigh University, a cool campus smack in the heart of Bethlehem, PA. I couldn't get that lyric from Billy Joel's "Allentown" out of my head..."out in Bethlehem they're killing tiiiime, filling out forms, standing in line..." It took me a bit to find the practice fields having come in from the wrong side.
As Eagles beat writer Bob Brookover of the Philly Inquirer told me, "T.O. got lost trying to get here too. He had no trouble finding his way out, though."
1. Spent some time gabbing with Eagles offensive lineman Jon Runyan who's coming back from a tailbone injury suffered last season. "It's tied with the lisfranc injury I had in college (for the worst pain he's had)," said Runyan. "It's still not 100 percent. It's gonna be one of them things it'll take years for it to get right."
2. Eagles lineman Todd Herremans made an interesting move, The Eagles left guard is on philly.com's "Sexy Singles" page. Really, that's just asking for it when you go to work every day with 79 guys who descend on stuff like this like rats on cheese. "Whatever," said Runyan when showed the page. Herremans ducked out on the media after practice.
3. Runyan was pretty pointed in talking about the absence of guard Shawn Andrews. Asked if he thinks Andrews will miss all of camp, Runyan said, "Coach Reid ain't gonna let that happen." He then added, "The longer he holds out the longer until he gets in there. You keep giving those reps to the guy that's backing you up, at some point, he's gonna pass you."
4. Runyan lamented the fact that, in his 13 years in the league, team unity has diminished and that players break off more on their own and don't spend time building chemistry and just goofing off together. "We used to mess with people's cars and throw the rookies clothes in the cold tub. All that messing around, having fun on the field playing games before practice. Just stupid games."
5. Tomorrow, I'm going to be working on a video piece about the strange cats on the Eagles roster. A magician. A youtube sensation. A backup quarterback who wears the same clothes over and over thanks to superstition. Hopefully it all comes together.
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