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The Philadelphia Eagles won three games in and five last year in coach Andy Reid's debut season. Next stop? The Eagles think it's the playoffs. After a productive draft and an even better performance in free agency, it's not out of the question. The roster, which deteriorated during Ray Rhodes' regime, is again respectable although far from a finished product. The key to any playoff run will be how fast second-year quarterback Donovan McNabb has progressed in Reid's version of the West Coast offense.
| Donovan McNabb showed flashes of the talent that made him the No. 2 overall pick. | Location: Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Rookies report: July 15 Veterans report: July 18 Preseason schedule: July at Cleveland Aug. 5: at Baltimore Aug. Tennessee Aug. Buffalo |
| EAGLES AT A GLANCE |
Donovan McNabb |
| Last year: , fifth place in NFC East Key returnees:: RB Duce Staley (1, yards rushing, 57 receptions); OL Tra Thomas; DB Brian Dawkins (2 INTs); DL Hugh Douglas (12&#; sacks); CB Troy Vincent (2 INTs) New faces: QB Donovan McNabb (first-round pick); WR Charles Johnson (Steelers); TE Jamie Asher (Redskins); RB Eric Bieniemy (Chargers); P Sean Landeta (Packers) New places: WR Jeff Graham (Chargers); DB Tim McTyer (Browns); QB Rodney Peete (Redskins), RB Charlie Garner (49ers) Watch out: McNabb staged a brief training camp holdout before signing huge rookie contract. Will he be good enough early to overtake vet Doug Pederson and Bobby Hoying? Better than ' Defensively, the Eagles have a good secondary, and their pass rush will be better if injury-plagued Mike Mamula can return to his form of (eight sacks). Worse than ' A new coach (Andy Reid), coupled with a new quarterback (McNabb) doesn't usually add up to early success offensively. |
Not this time. This season, he took a different approach. Lurie still expects the team to win a championship but admitted that it probably won't happen in
"Every game is a game we can win," Lurie said. "I don't believe you talk about rebuilding and things like that. But there's going to be a lot of struggling this year at times. There's no question about it.
"But the mark of an increasingly solid franchise is to stay patient. With Green Bay, for example, they knew they were building toward something pretty special, but they kept expectations down early, which I think is important to do.
"I encourage people to keep low expectations."
That shouldn't be too difficult. The Eagles have undergone drastic changes since last year's effort, but they will have a hard time reaching , let alone By Nathan Mayberg .
LIBERTY &#; October 31, &#; Ed Riente, the longtime successful coach of Liberty Central School basketball and football teams, was honored Monday night with a plaque by the members of the Liberty Central School Board of Education.
Riente is retiring after this school year.
He has been a basketball coach and technology teacher at Liberty Central School for the past 33 years. He took the boys&#; varsity basketball team to the final four of the state championship tournament in and finished that season with a record. His teams also reached the state quarterfinals in and
Riente said that he considers the team to have been his most talented, and believes they could have gone further if not for the sickness and academic ineligibility of some of the players.
He also coached two of the greatest athletes to come out of Liberty. Kaseem Sinceno played basketball for Riente and went on to graduate from Syracuse University and play in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears.
Maurice Martin began playing for Coach Riente in the eighth grade. Martin then went on to stardom at St. Joseph&#;s University, playing in the NCAA Tournament. Later, &#;Mo&#; became a first-round NBA draft choice of the Denver Nuggets.
Riente also led two Liberty varsity football teams to undefeated seasons. He coached junior varsity football for 12 years, and spent six years as the Indians&#; varsity coach.
He was named basketball coach of the year in by a local daily newspaper in and
Tim Bult, who played football under Riente and now serves as Liberty Central School Athletic Director, was the first to speak about the retiring coach at Monday night&#;s meeting. Bult commended Riente for 33 years of dedication, over varsity basketball victories, over JV basketball wins, and four Section IX championships.
He also called the veteran coach &#;the best and most committed.&#;
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