Michael Vanderkoon
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Michael Vanderkoon
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Things are going really well in Philadelphia with Jalen Hurts


Our latest at ESPN Jalen Hurts stands at a crossroads. Despite his immense success, sources say he has a hand in the Eagles offense becoming calcified and frustrations have grown. With @Tim_McManus espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…


The #Lions made Frank Ragnow return part of his signing bonus after retiring early, continuing a franchise policy that dates back to Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, per President Rod Wood, via @DaveBirkett: “Our precedent goes all the way back to Barry Sanders… And I think the reality is, they’re not paying back their money, they’re returning our money, because they were paid in advance for services that they hadn’t completed.” More here: freep.com/story/sports/n…


Ben Johnson on Luther Burden: “[Luther] is exactly what we thought we were getting out of the draft last year…this guy loves football. If you took football away from him, I don’t know what he would want to do with himself.” Adds that Burden and Colston Loveland have been in the weight room all offseason👀


Joe Burrow's 18-game NFL season proposal: 🏈 18-game regular season 🏈 1 regular bye week per team 🏈 1 league-wide bye in Week 13 for the Pro Bowl 🏈 Pro Bowl (7-on-7) + Skills Comps. "Give everybody that bye week going into the last six games of the year." Yes or no?


Matt LaFleur’s staff has lot of turnover on defense and special teams, but almost none on offense. Asked if he thought about making changes to offensive staff this spring. LaFleur said priority instead is “stripping everything down, start like it’s year one all over again.”















