{"id":1443,"date":"2010-02-05T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:38:43","slug":"eagles-hire-draft-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Eagles hire Draft Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles hired\u00a0<a class=\"DL-topic-highlighted\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.philly.com\/topic\/Phil_Savage\">Phil Savage<\/a><span> <\/span>as a player personnel consultant for the 2010 draft, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Savage will work in draft preparation and player evaluation in the Southeast. Savage will work with new general manager\u00a0Howie Roseman and director of player personnel Ryan Grigson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve always admired the work Phil Savage has done,\u201d\u00a0Roseman said in a statement. \u201cAnd after spending time with him this past year, I realized how well we could work together. Phil is an excellent talent evaluator and having an extra set of eyes for us to utilize will definitely help our scouting staff as we prepare for the draft. He\u2019s spent time working on the 2010 draft class already, so Ryan and I thought it is was a slam dunk when the opportunity was there for us to add him to our staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savage, who was a\u00a0radio color analyst for the Crimson Tide Sports Network in 2009, said: \u201cThis is a great opportunity for me to get back in the NFL. I\u2019m really excited about the role the Eagles have afforded me and I\u2019m ready to help Howie and the rest of their scouting staff in the best way I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savage, 44, spent four seasons as senior vice president and GM of the Cleveland Browns from 2005-08. He also worked 9 years with the Baltimore Ravens, working in scouting and player personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles hired\u00a0Phil Savage as a player personnel consultant for the 2010 draft, the team announced Thursday. Savage will work in draft preparation and player evaluation in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}