The Eagles got D.K.
The Eagles instead got D.K.
McDonald. This much according to Football Scoop, with a hat tip to @igglesnut.
While his exact role on Philadelphia’s coaching staff wasn’t specified, one would assume he’s replacing Jay Valai as the Eagles’ assistant defensive backs coach. Valai left Philly to join Nick Saban’s coaching staff in Alabama just one day after the Eagles officially announced his hiring.
McDonald has an obvious connection to new Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni. The two were on the same coaching staff at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 2006 through 2008. McDonald coached defensive backs while Sirianni coached wide receivers so their units obviously went up against each other.
Report: Philadelphia Eagles add defensive assistant from college ranks
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Posted Feb 16, 2021
A general view of a Philadelphia Eagles helmet on the sidelines during the second half against the Washington Redskins at FedExField on December 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)Getty Images
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FootballScoop reported Monday the Eagles are hiring Iowa State assistant coach/safeties D.K. McDonald.
The report does not list a specified role for McDonald, but he would be a logical replacement for Jay Valai. Valai left for a job at Alabama over the weekend after getting announced as the assistant defensive backs coach on Sirianni’s initial staff. Valai’s hiring by the Eagles came less than a month after he was hired as an assistant at Houston.
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Armstrong County native Nellie Bly helped give rise to investigative journalism when, in 1887, she feigned mental illness to gain entry to the Women s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell s Island in New York City s East River. The 23-year-old Bly spent 10 days in the asylum and emerged with a harrowing expose on brutality and neglect for the New York World newspaper. Reforms followed.
Two years later, in another project for The World, Bly set what was then a record by circling the globe in 72 days. She traveled alone mostly via railroads and steamships.
Her husband s death in 1903 left her in charge of a manufacturing company where she went on to patent a number of related innovations.