Derek Landri

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT Bill Belichick borrowed the idea for his up-tempo offense from Chip Kelly, and now Kelly is borrowing an idea from the New England Patriots' coach. He is giving a couple of his...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT Bucs coach Greg Schiano spent the first day of OTAs trying to dial down the rhetoric surrounding starting quarterback Josh Freeman. Over the weekend, Schiano told the National...

NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT During his final season as head coach at the University of Oregon, Chip Kelly's team ran the ball 65 percent of the time. He's not going to run it that much with the Eagles, but he is expected to run...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT The oldest player on the Eagles' roster is in a fight for his job as starting quarterback. Michael Vick, the team's most grizzled veteran at 32, and second-year pocket passer...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT Matt Barkley may not have been selected until the fourth round of the draft last month, but the quarterback from USC arrived at the Eagles' rookie camp this past weekend with the...

NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT After 16 seasons and a franchise-record 241 games played, defensive back Ronde Barber called it a career in football, said he was moving on to television but would not say what network. For what it'...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT Chip Kelly has maintained all along that he wasn't married to the idea of having a running quarterback, but not many people believed him. Then, he selected Matt Barkley in the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT It's unrealistic to think the Bucs will get 38 starts form the first three picks of their rookie class this year. But that's what happened in 2012 as safety Mark Barron,...

NFL Team Report - Arizona Cardinals - INSIDE SLANT The new Cardinals regime of coach Bruce Arians and general manager Steve Keim have different evaluations of talent than the men they replaced. Nowhere is that more apparent than offensive guards. In...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT If the Bucs make a move this season in the NFC South it will be because general manager Mark Dominik wasn't willing to stay put in the draft. What began a week ago with the mega-...

* compensatory selection Arizona Cardinals B 1 (7) Jonathan Cooper, g, North Carolina 2 (45) Kevin Minter, lb, LSU 3 (69) Tyrann Mathieu, db, LSU 4 (103) Alex Okafor, lb, Texas 4 (116) Earl Watford, g, James Madison 5 (140) Stepfan Taylor,...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Philadelphia Eagles - INSIDE SLANT The Eagles had four players they were comfortable taking with the fourth pick in the draft Thursday night - offensive tackles Eric Fisher of Central Michigan, Luke Joeckel of...