PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles plan to use the franchise tag on quarterback Michael Vick and listen to trade offers for backup Kevin Kolb, according to an ESPN report, confirming two moves that have long been expected.
ESPN cited a “league source” in reporting Sunday that Vick will be franchised, indicating the team has definitively decided to bring the quarterback back in 2011. A league source confirmed the report to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Report: Titans to trade Young
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Titans are looking to trade quarterback Vince Young, according to ESPN. The Titans would owe Young a $4.25 million roster bonus 10 days after a new collective bargaining agreement is signed.
In the meantime, the Titans might be a little rusty as they search for their first head coach since the end of the 1994 season, after they’ve parted with Jeff Fisher after 16 full seasons.
Since the franchise promoted Fisher, there have been 110 coaches hired by the other 31 teams through the end of 2010.
Akers’ daughter has cancer
KAPOLEI, Hawaii — On the Friday before the Eagles faced the Packers in the playoffs three weeks ago, Eagle place- kicker David Akers found out his 6-year-old daughter, Halley, had cancer.
The doctors told Akers that a cyst in his daughter’s left ovary had to be removed.
“It was just kind of a smack of reality,” Akers said.
There has been a lot of speculation about what was going on with Akers in the Eagles’ 21-16 playoff loss to the Packers, when he missed two field goals, one from 41 yards and the other from 34.
Since that night, Akers has not used it as an excuse for his poor performance. But he was stunned and scared and worried. Halley’s tumor was malignant, but early tests have shown the doctors got all of it.
Bears VP McCaskey dies
KAPOLEI, Hawaii — Tim McCaskey, the Bears’ vice president and the second-oldest of team matriarch Virginia and Ed McCaskey’s 11 children, has died of cancer at age 65.
Denver Post wire services
