Four days to Lehigh
In Sunday's edition of the C-P I tried to answer five of the biggest questions that might be resolved by the upcoming training camp. One question that will be answered as early as this week is whether the Birds will have any holdouts, as they did a yer ago with Brodrick Bunkley.
Well, it won't be Victor Abiamiri, and it won't be Nate Ilaoa (as if Nasti would have risked his chance to make the team with contract concerns).
Nope. If it's going to happen in 2007, it will be Kevin Kolb.
From the moment he was drafted until the OTA days, Kolb was the belle of the ball. Everybody wanted him, wanted to talk with him and get his take on just about anything. By the end of the mini camps, his profile had receded to something more befitting an NFL team's emergency quarterback. But if he holds out -- and as the franchise's presumptive Quarterback of the Future, he does have some premise for getting paid -- Kolb will be right back in the spotlight again.
I have to say at this point that I don't think it's going to happen. I believe that in the next couple of days the Eagles will announce that they have reached terms with Kolb, and the Birds' top draft pick will be in Bethlehem on Friday morning, ready to continue his education. I'm not naive enough to believe just because Kolb is personalbly polite and placating, that his agent will be of that same even temperment. In fact, he probably wouldn't be a great agent if he were.
I just think that the Eagles organization is an image-conscious, intrigue-tamping operation, and with with so little between it and a non-story, Andy Reid, Joe Banner and Tom Heckert are going to close the deal. It's a question of control.
If Kolb holds out, the story and the focus moves away from the training camp practice field and to wherever Kolb is. And in that case, the young Texan could possible say something that could puncture one of the several thin skins in the locker room and the front office. It's hard to know what the Birds dislike more, overpaying or negative attention.
Well, it won't be Victor Abiamiri, and it won't be Nate Ilaoa (as if Nasti would have risked his chance to make the team with contract concerns).
Nope. If it's going to happen in 2007, it will be Kevin Kolb.
From the moment he was drafted until the OTA days, Kolb was the belle of the ball. Everybody wanted him, wanted to talk with him and get his take on just about anything. By the end of the mini camps, his profile had receded to something more befitting an NFL team's emergency quarterback. But if he holds out -- and as the franchise's presumptive Quarterback of the Future, he does have some premise for getting paid -- Kolb will be right back in the spotlight again.
I have to say at this point that I don't think it's going to happen. I believe that in the next couple of days the Eagles will announce that they have reached terms with Kolb, and the Birds' top draft pick will be in Bethlehem on Friday morning, ready to continue his education. I'm not naive enough to believe just because Kolb is personalbly polite and placating, that his agent will be of that same even temperment. In fact, he probably wouldn't be a great agent if he were.
I just think that the Eagles organization is an image-conscious, intrigue-tamping operation, and with with so little between it and a non-story, Andy Reid, Joe Banner and Tom Heckert are going to close the deal. It's a question of control.
If Kolb holds out, the story and the focus moves away from the training camp practice field and to wherever Kolb is. And in that case, the young Texan could possible say something that could puncture one of the several thin skins in the locker room and the front office. It's hard to know what the Birds dislike more, overpaying or negative attention.
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