Eagles Coveted Graham From The Beginning Eaglesmix.com (blog)

23.04.10

"Really, we went into this off-season wanting to better ourselves on the defensive line and we think that this helps us out and the thing I know with a good defensive line is it makes everyone around them better. So when you have a defensive line that's getting after it, all of a sudden the corners look a little better and the safeties look a little better and the linebackers look a little better. That's why we made this move." Some fans questioned why the Eagles decided to leap frog up the draft board 11 slots to obtain Graham, but Reid made it perfectly clear that the Eagles had been honing in on Graham from the start of the draft. Additionally, they felt if they waited any longer their division rival the New York Giants or the Tennessee Titans might have snatched their guy before they even had the opportunity to grab him. Reid might have been right since the Giants took defensive end Jason-Pierre Paul at No. 15 and the Titans followed with selection Derrick Morgan. Another reason that

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