McNabb's rep denies report

Regarding Bob Brookover's article in yesterday's Inqy, I have a hard
time believing that Trotter and Runyan are in favor of Garcia over
McNabb. maybe they said they were in favor of "keeping" garcia - as the
backup - and the press turned it into a controversy.

in other news, Harbaugh got "promoted" from special teams coordinator to
defensive backs coach. is that promotion? from special teams to a
position coach? if so, it's taken a long time for harbaugh who has been
one of the best special team coaches in the league for 9 years.

Excerpt: Reid: McNabb stories were made up

By Bob Brookover
Inquirer Staff Writer

Reports of Donovan McNabb's discontent with the Eagles aren't just
greatly exaggerated, they are entirely fabricated, according to coach
Andy Reid and the quarterback's agent, Fletcher Smith.

"I think people are making a lot of things up here that aren't true,"
Reid said yesterday in a conference call from Mobile, Ala.

"None of it is true," said Smith, also in Mobile attending Senior Bowl
workouts.

Since Reid canceled a McNabb news conference that had been scheduled for
Friday, Internet and newspaper reports have said the quarterback is
unhappy with the Eagles. One said McNabb was in "a squabble" with the
team about his rehabilitation from the knee surgery that cut short his
2006 season.

A rumor reported on a football Web site said that McNabb was, at some
point, behind in his rehab and that he blamed trainer Rick Burkholder.
The Web site said, "There's a school of thought" that Reid canceled
McNabb's press conference, in part, because of "concerns that McNabb
would blab about the brouhaha."

The report also said veterans such as Jeremiah Trotter and Jon Runyan
had expressed support for Jeff Garcia to remain the Eagles' quarterback
next season.