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The Eagles are playing some of their best football heading into Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup with the Patriots.
One thing Philadelphia can’t contend with is New England’s huge experience advantage in the big game.
On the 53-man active roster the Patriots brought to Minnesota Sam Koch
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Tom Brady alone has been to the Super Bowl seven times during his 18-year career, winning five.
By comparison, the Eagles have seven players on their active roster who’ve won a Super Bowl. Two of those players, LeGarrette Blount and Chris Long, won
their rings last season with the Patriots. The others are Torrey Smith, Malcolm
Jenkins, Corey Graham, Dannell Ellerbe and Will Beatty. An eighth player, Chris
Maragos, is on injured reserve with a knee injury.
It’s a huge gulf. By comparison, the 2015 Panthers that lost to the Broncos in the Super Bowl that season had three players who had won a ring: Ed Dickson
(Baltimore), Roman Harper (New Orleans) and Michael Oher (Baltimore).
But the Patriots say it’s nothing they will spend time talking about this week.
”I think it’s overrated,” said special teams captain Matt Slater, who will be appearing in his fourth Super Bowl.
Defensive end Trey Flowers said the coaching staff hasn’t mentioned last year’s Super Bowl win since it came up in film study prior to their
regular-season meeting with Atlanta back in October.
”It’s a brand new team Nick Boyle
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with the outcome of this game,” Flowers said. ”This team has a lot of different
guys from a year ago, so it’s something you’ve got to do all over again as far
as experience goes.”
Yes and no.
New England actually returns 31 players who were on last year’s Super Bowl roster against the Falcons. That doesn’t include injured linebacker Dont’a
Hightower or receiver Julian Edelman.
Two of the Patriots’ additions since then both played in the Super Bowl with other teams. Linebacker James Harrison won two rings with the Pittsburgh
Steelers and defensive lineman Ricky Jean Francois played on the San Francisco
49ers team that came up short against Baltimore in the Super Bowl at the end of
the 2012 season.
”We know what to expect, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to perform,” linebacker Kyle Van Noy said. ”So there’s really no upper hand. You’ve got to
just play the game and get ready for it and play at a high level.”
He said that is because there is respect across the board for what backup quarterback Nick Foles has accomplished since Carson Wentz tore his ACL in Week
14.
”Everyone wants to hate on Nick Foles, but he’s done a great job,” Van Noy said. ”He’s still a high-caliber quarterback, like Carson Wentz. Nick Foles is a
great quarterback who’s done a great job. They distribute the ball really well
and their run game is at a high level.”
More than experience on either side, linebacker Elandon Roberts said the biggest challenge is not getting caught up in the emotions that come with
playing in a Super Bowl.
”Obviously it’s all the marbles right here, but it’s everything you work for,” Roberts said. ”So you’ve got to think back to what got you here: doing
your job, not getting overwhelmed and what not. As long as we do that that takes
away most of it.”
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TORONTO — The Detroit Tigers will start a former Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Saturday afternoon for the second game in a row in another attempt
to end a losing streak that has reached 10 games.
Former Blue Jays left-hander Francisco Liriano could not do the job Friday night — allowing three runs in six innings — as the Blue Jays defeated the
Tigers 3-2 in the opener of a four-game series at the Rogers Centre.
This time, the former Blue Jay is Matt Boyd (4-6 Marshal
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(2-2, 3.98) in the second game of the series.
The Tigers (36-47), who are 13-26 on the road, have lost 10 games in a row for the first time since Sept. 13-22, 2003, the season in which they lost 119
games.
“We had some opportunities, but it’s the same story,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “You pitch really good and you don’t score, or you don’t pitch
good enough and it just extends on. The guys are really trying, they’re bothered
out there and they’re frustrated. They want to win, the guys are really pushing
hard in the dugout, but it’s just not happening right now.”
The Tigers have lost 11 of their past 13 games in Toronto.
The Blue Jays (38-43), who were returning from a 3-4 road trip that easily could have been
better Anthony
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at home.
Boyd took the loss Sunday at Cleveland when he allowed six runs, eight hits and two walks while striking out five in three innings.
The start Saturday will be his 16th of the season.
In four career starts against the Blue Jays, Boyd is 0-1 with a 4.24 ERA. He did not factor in the decision June 2 against Toronto at Comerica Park when he
gave up four runs, six hits and two walks in seven innings. He struck out
three.
Boyd, who was sent to the Tigers July 30, 2015, as part of the trade that sent David Price to the Blue Jays, is 0-3 with an 8.66 ERA in four career starts
at the Rogers Centre.
Gaviglio will be making his 10th appearance and eighth start of the season.
In his past three starts, he is 0-1 with a 7.50 ERA and has pitched only 12 innings.
He has faced the Tigers once in his career, allowing two runs in five innings in a no decision.
The Tigers have been outscored 64-26 during their losing streak.
Before the game Friday, the Blue Jays selected the contract of utility player Darnell Sweeney from Triple-A Buffalo. He was batting .232 with six homers and
21 RBIs in 47 games. He has played all infield positions except first base, both
corner outfield positions and also pitched a scoreless inning.
Sweeney takes the roster spot of outfielder Steve Pearce, who was traded Thursday night to the Boston Red Sox for shortstop Santiago Espinal, who will
play at Class A Dunedin.
Moving Pearce means that Kendrys Morales will again see regular use as the designated hitter and breaks up a logjam in the outfield. The Blue Jays return
to four outfielders with Teoscar
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Espinal, 23, batted .313 with seven homers and 32 RBIs in 65 games with Class A Salem in the Red Sox organization.
“Middle-of-the-diamond players, you can’t have enough of them,” Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said Friday. “The athleticism, that’s where it all
begins. If you can play in the middle, you can often play anywhere else, so
that’s first and foremost. (Espinal) is an above-average runner and performing
well at a decent level, so there’s plenty to like.”