What's more important to a current defense in the National Football League, stopping the run or stopping the tight end? Last season, then Eagles middle linebacker Jamar Chaney was getting rave reviews for his play
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Casey Matthews won't be the only Eagles defender trying to improve his performance on Thursday. Nobody on the defensive side played that well, except maybe defensive ends Trent Cole and Jason Babin. I'll tell you
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Just like Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has expressed urgency about wanting to play well on Thursday night against Browns, the Birds defense is in the same boat. Defensive coordinator Juan Castillo needs his group to
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The Pittsburgh Steelers were embarrassed by the Washington Redskins in game one of the preseason, so they came out of that game with an attitude. Head coach Mike Tomlin wanted to make a statement to
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Eagles new defensive coordinator, Juan Castillo, faced the media yesterday and he knew he was going to receive quite a few questions about the struggles of rookie middle linebacker Casey Matthews and the Eagles other
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Right now, Eagles head coach Andy Reid is sticking by rookie middle linebacker Casey Matthews and keeping him in there as the starter. He hasn't committed to him for the long term, but for now
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There's one weakness I see on the Eagles defense and it involves the team's linebackers and their run defense. Teams are going to be confident in throwing the ball against a secondary which boasts three
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This Baltimore Ravens game on Thursday will be a big game for Eagles rookie middle linebacker Casey Matthews. He's shown me that he can do a good job of defending the pass at the Eagles
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The Eagles were doing a one-on-one blitz drill, when rookie middle linebacker Casey Matthews was matched up against rookie running back Dion Lewis. I knew this was a mismatch. Matthews came up the middle running
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There was a report out the other day that said that the Eagles wouldn't be retaining any of their own free agents. Then there was a report disputing that, saying Stewart Bradley was not definitely
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