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This week’s roundup of what the national media are saying about the Eagles.

The highlight from the Eagles first full-squad practice of training camp came courtesy of DeSean Jackson, who made a circus catch over Bradley Fletcher on a long bomb from Nick Foles down the right sideline. Head coach Chip Kelly spent part of his post-practice press conference talking about his wide receiver.

“One thing about DeSean that I’m real impressed with is how he came back in shape. He did a great job yesterday in the conditioning test,” said Kelly. “That proves to me that he spent a lot of time this summer investing in himself, and that’s what we talked about before we left, is I think the sky is the limit for him. He can be a real special player in this league but he’s got to make that decision that he wants to be. I think what he did, just watching where he is right now, kind of his pace and tempo in practice now, he’s what we want.

“We tell our players all the time we want guys to be like super balls, not tomatoes. A super ball bounces all the time and that’s what he is. He’s the ultimate super ball.”

When we last heard from DeSean Jackson, he was on national TV predicting that Michael Vick would win the quarterback competition. Today, he stood by […]

Even though he released a rap video earlier this week, DeSean Jackson will not join Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports.

Instead, he has signed on with agent Joel Segal, according to Liz Mullen of the Sports Business Journal. Segal also reps Jackson’s teammate, Michael Vick.

DeSean Jackson didn’t want to answer at first, but ultimately he decided to offer his prediction when asked who he thinks the Eagles’ starting quarterback will be.

“In my opinion, honestly, I don’t want to be put on the spot, I know y’all gonna do me like that, but Michael Vick’s got a lot of confidence in himself. He’s been there, going on 12 years in the NFL, I think he’ll get the job,” Jackson said during an ESPN interview. “Nick Foles is a great, great talent coming in from Arizona, actually a Pac-12 guy. He has the hype, he has the skills as well too. Going into camp, I think Michael Vick will probably be the starter, but we still don’t know. I think Chip Kelly’s gonna keep everybody honest and keep everybody open.”

Who has the best shot at the Pro Bowl under Chip Kelly? Can we expect the special teams to improve in 2013? That and more in the latest Twitter Mailbag.

While on vacation, I was able to comb back over The Essential Smart Football by Chris B. Brown.

Many of you are familiar with Brown from his Web site and his work on Grantland. If you haven’t checked out the book yet, I highly recommend doing so in the next couple months leading up to the season.

Brown has written extensively on Chip Kelly in the past, so it should come as no surprise that many of the concepts he tackles in his book apply to the 2013 Eagles. Below are some thoughts on four specific concepts that stood out to me.

When Jeffrey Lurie introduced Chip Kelly back in January, he described the new coach as a program builder.

The implication was clear. After a two-year run in which the franchise went 12-20, it was time to get back to long-term thinking and make wholesale changes at the NovaCare Complex. Coming up with a quick fix was no longer an option.

But the NFL is different than other leagues like the NBA. It’s relatively common for teams to rebound quickly after disastrous seasons.

Bill Barnwell of Grantland points out that better than one in four teams that finish 6-10 or worse come back to make the postseason the following year.

The question that’s relevant to the audience here is: Can the Eagles be one of those teams?

“Few coaches think Kelly will succeed,” according to one national writer.

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From the complexities of DeSean Jackson to the fight for the last roster spot, we’re talking receivers in the latest edition of the Twitter Mailbag.

Albert Breer recently wrote a piece for NFL.com titled, “Who’s really in charge? Power structures vary across NFC East” in which he tries to decipher who is calling the shots for each of the four teams in the division.

In Dallas, it’s quite obviously Jerry Jones. Giants’ general manager Jerry Reese has final say over the draft and the 53-man roster. In Washington, Mike Shanahan has control over all football decisions. Pretty straightforward…until you get to the Eagles.

From Snoop Dogg’s thoughts on the quarterback competition to Jeremy Maclin’s next stop, here’s a roundup of what they’re saying about the Eagles.

DeSean Jackson grabbed the microphone and asked for a show of hands: Who needs a bottle of water?

A couple minutes later, the Eagles’ wide receiver returned, carrying an old Hewlett Packard printer box filled with sodas, water, chips and refreshments.

This was a different environment for Jackson. He is used to playing in front of big crowds at the Linc. But this was a more intimate gathering in a small theater at the student center on the campus of Saint Joseph’s University. Jackson was there as one of the hosts for an advanced screening of DeSean Jackson: The Making of a Father’s Dream, a fascinating documentary produced by his older brother, Byron.

DeSean Jackson made some headlines earlier this week when he appeared on NFL Network and said “the team” wants to know who the Eagles’ starting quarterback is going to be.

Yesterday, at an advanced screening of his brother Byron’s documentary, DeSean Jackson: The Making of a Father’s Dream, he expanded on those comments.

“As far as myself, I don’t really know what the team is OK with and not OK with,” Jackson said. “At the end of the day, I don’t know where it stands, who’s going to be the starting quarterback. I wish I could know, but at the end of the day, that’s the coach’s decision, so I guess you have to play that how it goes.”