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    Top Ten Best Eagles Draft Picks (of the Reid Era) - #8 LeSean McCoy

    There's no doubt that the 2009 draft was a big for Andy Reid and probably rivals the 2002 draft as his best. This is the second player drafted in 09 to make the top 10.

    LeSean McCoy - 2009 - 2nd round

    When LeSean McCoy was drafted in 09, our hope was that he could ease into the role of Brian Westbrook's understudy and eventually become something close to the player #36 was. As it turned out, he was forced into a starting role almost right away and isn't just a Westbrook lite...
    McCoy rushed for 1080 yards and 7 TDs last year on 5.2 ypc. He also led the team in receptions with 78 and added another 600 yards of offense and two TDs. So in total he accounted for almost 1,700 yards of offense and 9 TDs. Brian Westbrook last put up those numbers in 2007.

    While Michael Vick & DeSean Jackson got the headlines for the Eagles offense, LeSean McCoy was really the engine that made it work. The offense had games where it was fine without Vick or Jackson, but I'm not sure it would have fared as well without McCoy.

  • #2
    McCoy is a guy that deserves my apologies. Man, did I ever underestimate what this kid could be for us. I've gove from being a major McCoy doubter, to being a true believer. Love ya, Shady. Stay healthy and keep on rockin it.
    http://shop.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifOK, let's try this again...

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    • #3
      Per RotoWorld...

      Coach Andy Reid stated Wednesday that he believes LeSean McCoy is capable of handling a full workload as the Eagles' feature back.


      McCoy only received 207 carries in 2010, but Reid hinted that he envisions that number rising this season. "I think last year LeSean showed that he could be a full-time RB and shoulder that load," said Reid, "... and we’ll continue to utilize him in that regard." In order for McCoy to be a top-six fantasy back, he's going to need at least 230 rushing attempts.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by YourPalChrisMal View Post
        Per RotoWorld...
        He"s sure as shit not going to make me any kind of "fantasy" with only 1 1/2 more carries per game.
        "Hey Giants, who's your Daddy?"

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        • #5
          McCoy's career 4Q rushing average is no 7.4 yards per carry after Week #1. BEST IN THE NFL by more than a yard! Jamaal Charles is 2nd at 6.2.

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          • #6
            McCoy now has FOUR career 4Q TD runs of 40+ yards. No one has ever had more. Barry Sanders, Antowain Smith, Robert Smith and Fred Taylor also had 4.

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            • #7
              Great stat
              Carson Wentz ERA


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              • #8
                http://www.csnphilly.com/09/12/11/Mc...250&feedID=692

                McCoy proving to be clutch when it matters most



                LeSean McCoy was asked Sunday night if he felt like the fourth quarter was “his” quarter.

                His time to shine.

                “I really don’t feel that way,” he said. “Fourth quarter, I just feel like it’s our quarter as a team.”

                The facts say otherwise.

                McCoy’s 49-yard clinching touchdown run in the fourth quarter against the Rams Sunday was his fourth career touchdown run of at least 40 yards -- and all four have been in the fourth quarter.

                McCoy is one of only five players in NFL history with four career fourth-quarter TD runs of 40 yards or more, and he’s in good company with Barry Sanders, Antowain Smith, Robert Smith and Fred Taylor.

                Here’s a look at those four runs:

                -- On Nov. 1, 2009, the Eagles led the Giants 33-17 when McCoy blasted untouched for a 66-yard TD on a 3rd-and-1 in the opening minute of the fourth quarter.

                -- On Sept. 19, 2010, the Eagles led the Lions 35-17 when McCoy ran 46 yards for a touchdown on a 1st-and-10 with 6 ½ minutes left in the game.

                -- On Nov. 21, 2010, the Eagles trailed the Giants 17-16 when McCoy raced around left end on a 4th-and-1 and not only got the first down but didn't stop until he had a 50-yard touchdown. The two-point conversion gave the Eagles a 24-17 lead on their way to a 27-17 win.

                -- And on Sunday, with the Eagles leading the Rams 24-13 halfway through the fourth quarter, McCoy ripped off a clinching 49-yard TD run.

                In three of those four games, McCoy had done virtually nothing on the ground before the fourth quarter – 8 for 18 in the first Giants game, 6 for 10 in the second and 11 for 27 against the Rams Sunday.

                But in each case, he was virtually unstoppable in the fourth quarter – 3 for 64, 5 for 56, 8 for 101 and 4 for 95 -- and secured a win with a home-run touchdown.

                McCoy has become the Eagles’ fourth-quarter specialist. He’s never had a rushing TD before the fourth quarter longer than 29 yards.

                But in the fourth quarter? Unstoppable.

                McCoy’s 5.8 career fourth-quarter rushing average is second-best among active players, behind only Jamaal Charles’s 6.5 mark. Since becoming a full-time starter last year, McCoy’s 7.3 fourth-quarter rushing average is by far the best in the NFL.

                “I think his rookie year, like a lot of rookies, he came in and he didn’t quite understand the demands … to play running back in the National Football League,” head coach Andy Reid said. “He came back the next year and he was in much better shape and he’s maintained that (and) I think that matters going into the fourth quarter of the game. … It really comes down to the condition that he’s in.”

                McCoy is a unique talent, with tremendous vision and balance, power and speed. And it doesn’t seem to matter what happens early in a game. By the fourth quarter, he’s very difficult to stop.

                “Shady is such a talented running back, and if he keeps getting the ball, he’s going to eventually make something huge happen,” said Evan Mathis, one of eight players who made their first start in an Eagles uniform Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome. “As linemen, we love those situations when we know we’re running the ball at the end of a game.”

                In Eagles history, only Bosh Pritchard -- with five -- has more touchdown runs of 40 yards or more than McCoy, who is only 23-years old and in his third season.

                McCoy already has as many career TD runs of 40 or more yards as Hall of Famers Earl Campbell, Leroy Kelly, Franco Harris, and more than Marcus Allen, Thurman Thomas and John Riggins.

                There was concern during the preseason that the offensive line changes would negatively affect McCoy, who ran for nearly 1,100 yards last year, but by the fourth quarter Sunday -- once again -- McCoy was finishing off an opponent.

                “It starts with the O-line,”McCoy said. “Eventually, we knew it was going to hit. It just takes time, and sure enough it hit the right way. Sometimes teams get impatient. Sometimes I get impatient and I get angry and next thing you know we start to hit it. You’ve got to stick with it, and we stuck with it, and eventually we started hitting some big plays.”

                McCoy was 7 for 10 in the first half in the Eagles’ 31-13 win over the Rams Sunday but finished with 122 yards on just 15 carries, the most yards by an Eagle running back on 16 or fewer carries in 32 years. He’s got four career 100-yard games, and he hasn’t had more than 16 carries in any of them.

                McCoy’s four fourth-quarter carries looked like this: 11 yards for a first round, 17 yards for a first down, 49 yards for a touchdown and 18 yards for a first down.

                He averaged 2.5 yards the first three quarters and 23.8 yards the fourth.

                “Marty (Mornhinweg) did a good job of adjusting,” McCoy said. “Marty must have found something in the defense and started going back-side on them. We started to gash them, and then we started going inside, and they didn’t see that the whole game. All they had seen was side to side, and once we started hitting it up the middle we made some big plays out of it.”

                We all know Reid historically throws the football more than any coach in NFL history. But in the fourth quarter? He likes to run it to put teams away -- now more than ever.

                In his career, McCoy has 21 more career carries in the fourth quarter (112) than any other quarter.

                And we know offensive linemen, after pass blocking for three quarters, love to finish teams off by running the ball.

                “I love being able to just knock out big chunks of yardage on the run,” Todd Herremans said. “It builds momentum, it gives the offensive line hype, and it kind of gives a little finality to the game. We’re just kind of dominating the other team, when we can just take big chunks out of the running game like that.

                “Toward the end of the game, when you get that lead and, Marty’s finally like, ‘OK, you guys can just have at ‘em.’ You start getting those chunks, you’re getting first downs, and before you know it, you’re like, shoot, we might be able to score or even kneel on it here.”

                E-mail Reuben Frank at [email protected]

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                • #9
                  http://www.csnphilly.com/football-ph...380&feedID=692

                  Eagles by the Numbers: McCoy climbs charts

                  With two terrific games to open the 2011 season, LeSean McCoy continues to climb his way up the all-time NFL yards-per-carry list.

                  McCoy has 33 carries for 217 yards this year, a 6.6 average that’s raised his career rushing average up to a lofty 4.90 yards per carry.

                  Among running backs with 300 or more carries, McCoy now ranks 12th in NFL history in yards per carry.

                  Of the 28 modern pure running backs enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, only two had a higher career rushing average than McCoy – Jim Brown (5.29) and Gale Sayers (5.00). A third, Bobby Mitchell, averaged 4.94 but spent most of his career at flanker.

                  Among those, McCoy’s average is higher than are O.J. Simpson (4.67), Jim Taylor (4.46), Eric Dickerson (4.43), Walter Payton (4.36), Tony Dorsett (4.34), Marshall Faulk (4.33), Earl Campbell (4.30), Emmitt Smith (4.16) and Franco Harris (4.11).

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