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Coach Zorn Does Not View Sunday As A Preseason Game

One more note from Coach Zorn’s press conference today. This one’s going to disappoint a few of the regular readers of the blog, so I think it’s best if we just tear it off like a band-aid: the rookies aren’t going to be seeing extra playing time just because the team is eliminated.

Here’s Zorn’s reasoning on the subject:

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Zorn Motivates With The Fetal Position

If I had to pick one phrase I don’t particularly want to hear my coach saying with any sincerity, it’s probably “I’m the worst coach in America.” Well, we cleared that hurdle last week, and I actually thought Coach Zorn delivered the line well, and recovered from the fallout well also.

If there’s a second phrase I don’t want to hear, it’s probably “I was in the fetal position, plopped over sideways.” Not really your traditional chest-out leadership posture, although Zorn isn’t really your traditional chest-out leadership kind of guy. Which is, ultimately, what led to the fetal position story in the first place: someone asked if he had ever engaged in any sort of unusual motivational techniques a la Mike Singletary’s now-legendary pants-dropping.

Zorn’s answer – along with his comments on the defense in Sunday’s game – after the jump.

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Zorn on Suisham

Photo by Ned Dishman

Well, it’s a question that people keep asking me, and Coach Zorn addressed it in his press conference today. So here’s what he had to say about Shaun Suisham‘s struggles in the second half of the season, and his own peculiar decision to attempt a 54 yard field goal last night:

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Monday, December 22: Donovan McNabb Not Impressed With Your "Sweep"

There are some things that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is very good at. Playing football, for one. Successfully delivering the tongue-twister “microwaveable bowl” during Chunky Soup commercials, for another.

But he’s much, much less good at determining which games his team should win. After losing to the Redskins in Philly way back in the long-gone days of October, McNabb said, “Not taking anything away from them, but there is no way this team is better than us.”

Leaving aside the complete misunderstanding of the phrase “Not taking anything away from them,” this statement was, well, not correct. Even Eagles blog The 700 Level agrees, sort of:

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