Philadelphia Eagles running back DeMarco Murray returns to practice

He’s taken some reps with the first-team offense over the last couple of days, and while those reps offer a challenge, he’s eager to get in there and work out the kinks.

Kelly has been staring into the maw of society’s outrage machine all summer, and over the phone Tuesday, you could practically hear Edwards shaking his head over the absurdity of it. After all, as the Wall Street Journal revealed last year, Kelly had the Eagles’ chief of staff, James Harris, call Edwards on Kelly’s behalf after the Cooper incident, and Edwards recommended that Kelly keep Cooper on the team and tell the other Eagles players, “You can choose not to be offended”. “I’m really a Nelson fan”. It came across as an upset player who just got traded to Buffalo.

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While ultimately it’s clear that the two starters for Philly are going to be Matthews and Agholor, there’s no doubt that Huff can carve out a role as the no. 3 receiver in this unit and be a phenomenal slot player with his speed and quickness. The embarrassing video of the episode surfaced during Kelly’s first training camp with the Eagles.

“G.J. Kinne is like that utility infielder”, Shurmur said. “When you’re a high draft pick, you’re sort of on the rubber chicken circuit up until the draft”. If you’re going to be a no-nonsense hard-ass in the NFL, you have to show an equal amount of love to your players off the field. Kelly might not be able to relate to his players, and that may or may not be because they’re black, but it still matters that that’s how his former players see it, and when they say so we should listen.

Agholor said he’s simply trying to get better each day. “But the way my knee feels now, it feels great”.

But it has been virtually impossible to watch the Eagles’ first four practices of training camp and not notice Mathews. That’s what I’m anxious about. Those are things that should never be said and I hope he learned his lesson. “My focus is exclusively on football right now”. “Especially all the good black players”.

“We talked about that from Day One”, Bradford said after practice Thursday.

For Murray, it’s the third time in five practices that he sat out at least the team drills. Alonso has already missed the past couple of practices with a concussion, while Jones is moving outside to replace Travis Long, who is out for the year with a torn ACL. He will be available Saturday. Ditto linebacker Mychal Kendricks. “He actually took off and ran [Tuesday] in the Linc….” At this point, the head coach thinks its just a matter of Bradford getting his timing back after being out of action for so long. Allen Barbre is considered the favorite to win the job at left guard, created when Evan Mathis was released in June.

Among other mentions Friday, Shurmur isn’t alarmed at the vacancy at right guard, which right now is a competition primarily among Matt Tobin, Andrew Gardner and Dennis Kelly.

While getting (and staying) healthy is important, the next step is for Bradford to prove he can play at a high level. I saw Sam in with the threes; I’ve seen [Mark] Sanchez in with the threes, I’ve seen Tim with the twos and the ones. Just as it seemed like he was going to lower his shoulder into them, he flicked a shovel pass to Pratt standing in the back of the end zone.