The Eagles took the practice field a little after 12 o’clock Friday, and did so without embattled wide receiver Riley Cooper.
The team announced this afternoon that Cooper has been excused from all team activities as he seeks counseling. This has led many to believe that Cooper’s time in Philadelphia has come to an end.
However, this move is not being viewed by the Eagles as a precursor to a release. The plan, as of now, is to bring Cooper back once his counseling is completed.
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Three seconds can shape a career. That’s the reality that has slapped Riley Cooper in the face over the last 48 hours.
One sentence. Ten words. And now he will forever be known as the football player who blurted out a racial epithet at an African-American security guard while loaded at a Kenny Chesney concert. Whether fair or not, that’s how it is.
Since the video was released, Cooper has done all the right things. He apologized to his teammates, his coaches and the organization. He has faced the media twice. He hasn’t run. He hasn’t hid.
Tom Donahoe has experience finding players for a 3-4 scheme.
Now the Eagles’ senior football advisor, Donahoe was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ director of football operations from 1991 to 1999. In the summer of 1992, defensive backs coach Dick LeBeau and defensive coordinator Dom Capers were installing their zone blitz scheme under new head coach Bill Cowher.
“It was really fun because my room at [training camp site] Saint Vincent College was right across the hall from Coach Capers,” Donahoe recalled. “And he and Dick LeBeau were in there, they were like two mad scientists. They were in there all the time just talking about different looks to create to give the offense trouble and protections, what schemes would work better against those protections. Coach LeBeau had really done a lot of it at Cincinnati even before he came to Pittsburgh. So I think he educated Coach Capers and Coach Cowher about how the zone blitz really could work.”
The players were not in pads today, and practice was held indoors due to the weather, so no running diary. But here are some notes and observations.
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