This article was brought to my attention by my brother. As the local university as to where I live, that being East Stroudsburg University, that would mean a local kid going to the BIRDS? Heres the article pretty interesting topic here as I myself do not like Sav Rocca and feel he has always done a bad job. Read away my fellow fans.<\/p>\n
The Eagles released punter Durant Brooks yesterday. Brooks was signed early in the offseason and was touted as viable competition to OK-but-not-overwhelming Sav Rocca. His demise leaves Ken Parrish as Rocca’s only competition, which is interesting, because Parrish, signed and cut last year, spent his downtime productively – not only trying to refine his punting but also continuing his experiment in learning to kick off.<\/p>\n New special-teams coordinator Bobby April mentioned this recently; April seemed intrigued by the idea of having a punter who could take kickoff duties off the 35-year-old shoulders of David Akers.<\/p>\n You might recall Parrish from last year as the Monroe County police officer, son of a captain, who quit the force to take another shot at the NFL, 2 years after a preseason fling with the 49ers. Parrish, who played at East Stroudsburg, was cut during training camp at Lehigh; he later got a look with the Jets. The Eagles signed him again this spring.<\/p>\n “I guess I did good enough last year that they wanted to bring me back and see it again,” Parrish said after yesterday’s rookie-camp workout. “Last year was my first real year of going at it live [with kicking], so I’m just fine-tuning every day.<\/p>\n “Punting and kickoff is two different swings, all different muscles and everything like that. I think that’s why a lot of people get confused on it . . .<\/p>\n “I want to be good at both of them, not just be like, ‘Oh, he’s good because he’s a combo guy.’ I want to perfect what I can do at both those positions . . . Sav is a great guy and he’s got a great leg. I’m just going to go toe-to-toe with my game plan,” Parrish said. This article was brought to my attention by my brother. As the local university as to where I live, that being East Stroudsburg University, that would mean… <\/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":[1284,1282,1287,1283,1288,1285,1281,1286],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_eagles","tag-eagles-kicker","tag-eagles-new-punter","tag-eagles-punter","tag-ealges-kickoff-man","tag-east-stroudburg-university-punter","tag-philadelphia-eagles-kicking","tag-philadelphia-eagles-punter","tag-punter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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