Juan Castillo, who leads the league in hours, is there as part of the Eagles contingent of clipboards. The defensive coordinator everyone assumed would become the former defensive coordinator soon after the end of the season still has the title, and it looks as if people better start getting used to that.
Andy Reid is not expected to be in Mobile, although he hasn't been overly communicative about his plans, hopes, and dreams lately. He could be in Alabama, Albania, or Islamorada this week for all we know.
Since the Eagles were eliminated from playoff contention on Christmas Eve, Reid has not taken the opportunity to really address either what went wrong last season or how he intends to prevent whatever it was from happening again. In the meantime, owner Jeff Lurie took the podium to declare the season an embarrassing failure and to say that the man most responsible for it is the best choice to lead the team into the future. As votes of confidence go, it was kind of a mixed message, but at least Jeff didn't get all teary this time.
The assumption during most of the past month was that Reid had a plan and was waiting for just the right moment to put it into motion. Let's see. He was going to place Juan Castillo with Minnesota as Leslie Frazier's defensive coordinator and then hire former assistant Steve Spagnuolo, relieved of head coaching duties by the Rams, as his own coordinator. Or he was going to move Castillo to the defensive backs assistant job that came open when Johnnie Lynn was fired and hire some other coordinator. Or he was going to bring in a veteran to be assistant head coach/defense and leave Castillo as coordinator but give him some help. Or . . . or . . . something.
