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"For me, it's like playing golf," Feeley was saying after the Eagles' minicamp practice yesterday. "You're constantly challenging yourself every day. There's up days and there's down days and they affect you. But that's what makes this great. You come back the next day and forget about that last day. And try to learn and build upon it."
Ah, the rub. What is built by taking snaps in June? In August? What is built taking snaps with the second unit when the season actually begins in earnest?
How much do we really know about Feeley's capability to guide this team should the starting quarterback who has appeared here ahead of schedule this week somehow fall behind schedule when training camp rolls around?
Do you place your faith in that 4-1 record from 2002?
Or do his flops in Miami and San Diego scare you just a little?
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The Eagles chose Jeff Garcia to guide the team after Donovan McNabb tore up his right ACL last November. But in signing Feeley instead of the more expensive Garcia in February, they suggested strongly that Garcia's success was a byproduct of a system and stepped-up play, not the other way around.
One sliver of evidence: Feeley threw for three touchdowns and 321 yards in the win over Atlanta in the regular-season finale. He even contended last winter, as he again did yesterday, that he could have pushed the Eagles into the postseason as the then-36-year-old Garcia did.
"Because I have," he said. "So it's not like, 'Could I?' I have before. With less experience I've done it. I don't think when you're a quarterback you doubt your abilities. Not taking anything from what Jeff did, because Jeff played awesome. But as a quarterback in my situation, you can't not think you're going to do the same thing the other guy does."
