EAGLES GAME NOTES
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COACHES CAPSULES<br />
MATTHEW HARPER<br />
Assistant Special Teams<br />
4th year in Philadelphia<br />
JUSTIN PEELLE<br />
Tight Ends<br />
4th year in Philadelphia<br />
PRESS TAYLOR<br />
Offensive Quality Control/<br />
Assistant Quarterbacks<br />
4th year in Philadelphia<br />
• Enters his fourth year in Philadelphia<br />
and returns as the team’s assistant special<br />
teams coach, a position he held from<br />
2013-14 before transitioning to assistant<br />
defensive backs coach in 2015<br />
• In 2014, the Eagles ranked first in Rick<br />
Gosselin’s annual Dallas Morning News<br />
special teams ranking<br />
• Worked as a coaching intern and graduate<br />
assistant at Oregon from 2009-12<br />
• Played two seasons as a safety at Oregon<br />
(2006-07) after transferring from the City<br />
College of San Francisco<br />
• Son of two-time Nebraska All-America DE<br />
and 11-year NFL vet Willie Harper<br />
TIM HAUCK<br />
Safeties<br />
1st year in Philadelphia<br />
• Begins his first season on the Eagles<br />
coaching staff, but previously played for<br />
Philadelphia as a safety from 1999-2002<br />
• Served as the defensive coordinator and<br />
CBs coach for UNLV from 2013-14<br />
• Enjoyed a 13-year NFL playing career and<br />
appeared in 183 regular-season games.<br />
Totaled 357 tackles, 16 PDs, six FFs and<br />
four FRs. Also excelled on special teams<br />
and logged 162 career tackles<br />
• Played in 51 games for the Eagles and<br />
logged 158 tackles on defense and 47<br />
tackles on special teams. Started alongside<br />
Brian Dawkins in 1999 and finished<br />
second on the team with 122 tackles<br />
• Was a two-time first-team All-American<br />
safety at Montana<br />
GREG LEWIS<br />
Wide Receivers<br />
1st year in Philadelphia<br />
• Hired in the 2016 offseason, the former<br />
Eagles wide receiver returns to Philadelphia<br />
to coach the position that he played<br />
for the Birds from 2003-08<br />
• Served as an offensive assistant with the<br />
New Orleans Saints in 2015 after coaching<br />
WRs in the college ranks for three years<br />
• Originally entered the NFL in 2003 with<br />
the Eagles as an undrafted player out of<br />
the University of Illinois<br />
• Recorded 136 catches for 1,879 yards and<br />
eight TDs in Philadelphia and helped the<br />
Eagles reach four NFC Championship<br />
Games. Caught a 30-yard TD from QB<br />
Donovan McNabb in Super Bowl XXXIX<br />
• Enters his second season as tight ends<br />
coach after spending 2013-14 as the Eagles<br />
assistant tight ends coach<br />
• In 2015, helped Zach Ertz set career highs<br />
in catches (75) and receiving yards (853)<br />
• Played TE for 10 seasons in NFL with San<br />
Diego, Miami, Atlanta and San Francisco.<br />
Caught 123 passes and 12 TDs<br />
• Drafted in 4th round in 2002 by Chargers<br />
from Oregon, where he finished with 70<br />
career catches and 14 scores and was a<br />
four-time All-Pac 10 Academic selection<br />
DUCE STALEY<br />
Running Backs<br />
6th year in Philadelphia<br />
• Worked with RBs DeMarco Murray and<br />
Ryan Mathews in 2015, helping the duo<br />
become the first Eagles teammates to<br />
notch six-or-more rushing TDs in a season<br />
since 2003. Also helped Mathews rank<br />
4th in the NFL in yards per carry (5.08)<br />
• In 2013, helped All-Pro RB LeSean McCoy<br />
become the first Eagle to lead the NFL in<br />
rushing and scrimmage yards since 1947<br />
• Worked first two seasons in Philadelphia<br />
as an assistant special teams coach, while<br />
helping with the running backs<br />
• Gained 5,785 yards during his 10-year<br />
NFL career with Philadelphia (1997-2003)<br />
and Pittsburgh (2004-06)<br />
• A third-round pick of Eagles in 1997, ranks<br />
5th on team’s all-time rushing list. Is one<br />
of three Eagles to top 200 yards rushing in<br />
a game (Steve Van Buren and McCoy)<br />
• Won a Super Bowl with Pittsburgh in 2005<br />
• His Eagle teammates voted him offensive<br />
MVP three times (1998, 1999, and 2002)<br />
JEFF STOUTLAND<br />
Offensive Line<br />
4th year in Philadelphia<br />
• In his three seasons with the Eagles, has<br />
coached three Pro Bowl players: Jason<br />
Peters, Jason Kelce and Evan Mathis<br />
• Coached one of the best offensive lines in<br />
the nation at Alabama from 2011-12, including<br />
2013 draft picks Chance Warmack,<br />
D.J. Fluker and Barrett Jones<br />
• Helped Crimson Tide to a National Championship<br />
victory over Notre Dame in 2012<br />
• Also coached successful offensive lines at<br />
Miami, FL (2007-10), Michigan St. (2000-<br />
06), Syracuse (1999) and Cornell (1993-96)<br />
• Enters his fourth season in Philadelphia<br />
with the added responsiblity of assistant<br />
QBs coach after serving as an offensive<br />
quality control coach from 2013-15<br />
• Brother, Zac, is the offensive coordinator/<br />
QBs coach at the University of Cincinnati<br />
• Spent two years as a reserve QB at Marshall<br />
after transferring from Butler Community<br />
College, where he led school to<br />
two JUCO championships (2007-08)<br />
CORY UNDLIN<br />
Defensive Backs<br />
2nd year in Philadelphia<br />
• A 13-year NFL coaching vet, enters his<br />
second season in Philly as DBs coach<br />
• In his first year with the Eagles, S Malcolm<br />
Jenkins earned his first career trip to the<br />
Pro Bowl. Also helped former Eagles DB<br />
Walter Thurmond make a transition from<br />
CB to S. Helped the Birds rank 10th in the<br />
NFL in takeaways (26) and INTs (15)<br />
• Spent three years with the Denver Broncos<br />
prior to arriving in Philadelphia and<br />
worked with three Pro Bowl DBs in 2014 -<br />
Aqib Talib, Chris Harris Jr., and T.J. Ward<br />
• Also had NFL coaching stints in Jacksonville,<br />
Cleveland and New England<br />
DINO VASSO<br />
Defensive Quality Control/<br />
Assistant Secondary<br />
1st year in Philadelphia<br />
• Enters first season with the Eagles after<br />
serving as a coaching assistant with the<br />
Kansas City Chiefs (2013-15). Worked primarily<br />
with the secondary in Kansas City<br />
• A four-year DB at the University of New<br />
Hampshire, he started 51 consecutive<br />
games and earned 1st-team AFCA<br />
All-American honors as a senior (2010)<br />
• A native of Crum Lynne, PA, lettered in<br />
football at Ridley H.S. in Folsom, PA<br />
CHRIS WILSON<br />
Defensive Line<br />
1st year in Philadelphia<br />
• Enters his first NFL season after coaching<br />
23 years in the college ranks. Held positions<br />
at Missouri, USC, Georgia, Mississippi<br />
State and Oklahoma among others<br />
• Coached Jets DE Leonard Williams at USC<br />
and worked closely with Eagles Pro Bowl<br />
DT Fletcher Cox at Mississippi State<br />
• Played collegiately at Oklahoma where he<br />
recorded 303 tackles. Was a 12th-round<br />
draft pick of the Chicago Bears in 1992