#matt meigs

[raven-curls]

The one where Glinda is not the only one who loves pink

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[dreamcastingbroadway]

Dreamcasting Broadway: A CHORUS LINE

"A 5, 6, 7, 8!!!”

Dreamcasting Broadway: A Chorus Line

Cheyenne Jackson as Zach

Nico Greetham as Don Kerr

Lauren Zakrin as Maggie Winslow

Giuseppe Bausilio as Mike Costa

Riza Takahashi as Connie Wong

Timothy Hughes as Gregory Gardner

Ashley Blanchet as Cassie Ferguson

Bahiyah Hibah as Sheila Bryant

Matt Meigs as Bobby Mills

Hannah Clarke-Levine as Bebe Benzenheimer

Eloise Kropp as Judy Turner

Ephraim Sykes as Richie Walters

Cooper Howell as Al DeLuca

Anissa Felix as Kristine Urich-DeLuca

Kaitlin Mesh as Val Clark (Cassie u/s)

Anthony Norman as Mark Anthony

Paul Morland as Paul San Marco

Ilda Mason as Diana Morales

Barrett Martin as Roy/Offstage Singer (Mike u/s, Greg u/s, Bobby u/s, Al u/s)

Blaine Alden Krauss as Tom/Offstage Singer (Mike u/s, Richie u/s, Al u/s, Mark u/s)

Daniel Ching as Larry (Zach u/s, Bobby u/s)

Elijah A. Carter as Butch/Offstage Singer (Don u/s, Richie u/s, Paul u/s, Larry u/s)

Ioana Alfonso as Vicki/Offstage Singer (Cassie u/s, Sheila u/s, Judy u/s, Diana u/s)

Khori Michelle Petinaud as Lois/Offstage Singer (Cassie u/s, Val u/s)

Stephen Carrasco as Frank/Offstage Singer (Zach u/s, Don u/s, Greg u/s, Larry u/s)

Sydney Parra as Tricia/Offstage Singer (Maggie u/s, Connie u/s, Bebe u/s, Diana u/s)

Gary Cooper as Swing (Mark u/s, Paul u/s)

Mary Claire King as Swing (Sheila u/s, Judy u/s, Kristine u/s, Val u/s)

Tiffany Toh as Swing (Maggie u/s, Connie u/s, Bebe u/s, Kristine u/s)

[daniellewade]

THE FAIR IS HERE!🍃🍂 happy first day of August.

[detectivereyes]

Compilation of the best of backstage shenanigans at Matilda Broadway

RIP Matilda Broadway

None of the videos are mine. All credit goes to the original actor who posted the video.

[starkiddreamcasting]

Broadway A Very Potter Musical

You gotta get back to Hogwarts with a dreamcast for A Very Potter Musical! After discovering a certain fact about this musical (if you know the fact you’ll see the joke in the cast) I found it perfect for my blog!

(This dreamcast was apart of my April Fools ‘Broadway Dreamcasts’)

1. Santino Fontana as Harry Potter 2. Christopher Fitzgerald as Ron Weasley 3. Montego Glover as Hermonie Granger 4. John Tartagila as Draco Malfoy 5. Kara Lindsay as Ginny Weasley 6. Danny Burstein as Dumbledore 7. Lucas Steele as Voldemort 8. Adam Chandler-Berat as Professor Quirrell 9. Spencer Moses as Serverus Snape 10. Zach Adkins as Ensemble/Harry Potter (u/s) 11. Kathryn Boswell as Ensemble 12. Ixchel Cuellar as Ensemble/Hermonie Granger (u/s)/Ginny Weasley (u/s) 13. Julian DeGuzman as Neville Longbottom/Ensemble/Ron Weasley (u/s) 14. Morgan Siobhan Green as Belltrix Lestrange/Ensemble 15. Curtis Holland as Ensemble/Serverus Snape (u/s) 16. Timothy Hughes as Goyle/Rumbleroar/Ensemble 17. Matt Meigs as Ensemble/Draco Malfoy (u/s) 18. Katie Ladner as Molly Weasley/Ensemble 19. Monette McKay as Ensemble 20. Nathan Peck as Ensemble 21. Aleks Pevec as Ensemble/Voldemort (u/s) 22. Jeff Pew as Cedric Diggory/Cormeilous Fudge/Ensemble/Harry Potter (u/s)/Dumbledore (u/s)/Professor Quirrell (u/s) 23. Hayley Podschun as Crabbe/Ensemble/Draco Malfoy (u/s)/Ginny Weasley (u/s) 24. Lance Roberts as Ensemble/Dumbledore (u/s)/Voldemort (u/s)/Serverus Snape (u/s) 25. Chelsea Morgan Stock as Cho Chang/Ensemble/Hermonie Granger (u/s) 26. Sam Strasfeld as Ensemble/Ron Weasley (u/s)/Professor Quirrell (u/s) 27. Erica Wong as Lavender Brown/Ensemble 28. C.K. Edwards as Swing 29. Karla Puno Garcia as Swing 30. Leah Hofmann as Swing 31. Ryan Worsing as Swing

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Australovenator wintonensis

By Scott Reid 

Etymology: Southern Hunter

First Described By: Hocknull et al., 2009

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Megaraptora, Megaraptoridae

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: About 95 million years ago, in the Cenomanian of the Late Cretaceous 

Australovenator is known from the Phimopollenites Pannosus Pollen Zone of the Winton Formation in Queensland, Australia 

Physical Description: Australovenator was a Megaraptor, a group of fairly mysterious predatory dinosaurs that consistently confuse people since they were first discovered through today. The known parts of Australovenator are rather sparse - limbs and some parts of the torso, and a bit of the tip of the mouth. These elements show an animal with long legs, fairly long arms (for a theropod) with giant hand claws, and a slender jaw. The rest of our understanding of its size and shape is really based on its relatives. It would probably have been 6 meters long and 2 meters tall, weighing only 1,000 kilograms - making it a very lightweight, potentially fast predator. It had extremely flexible hands as well - more flexible than other theropods, almost able to pronate (ie, make “bunny hands”, which is not possible in other theropods). It also had extremely strong feet, built for kicking. Given that it was slender and small, it would have probably been covered in fluffy protofeathers all over its body. 

By Ashley Patch 

Diet: Australovenator would have been a major predator, able to eat a wide variety of small and medium sized animals in its environment - potentially even larger animals if it was able to work in groups.

Behavior: The behavior of Australovenator is not greatly known, given how mysterious Megaraptorans are as a general group. However, the extremely strong foot bones found with extensive signs of breakage indicates that Australovenator did use its feet to kick at prey, similar to modern emus. This would have greatly bruised and damaged the prey, potentially even breaking bones and causing internal bleeding and organ damage. The extremely flexible arms would have allowed it to use them to manipulate objects, grab at food, and easily claw at prey. In fact, the very large hand claws are notable for the Megaraptorans, since they were originally thought to be the giant foot claws of giant Dromaeosaurs. This ability to claw at and maim prey would have helped Australovenator extensively in taking down prey. 

By José Carlos Cortés 

Were Megaraptorans social? We aren’t sure. Australovenator was a powerful predator, clearly able to take down other animals in its environment without much help. It may have worked in small groups in order to get food larger than it, such as the sauropod Diamantinasaurus, since there weren't larger predators in its environment. However, there is no direct evidence to support that. Furthermore, in plenty of locations, Megaraptorans are very rare, indicating they wouldn’t have grouped up together much. Still, they usually aren’t the largest predators in a place, so the jury is out for Australovenator. As a dinosaur, it would have probably taken care of its young, though in what way is a question. 

By PaleoEquii, CC BY-SA 4.0 

Ecosystem: The Winton Environment was a river basin, next to the former inland Eromanga Sea. This was a highly forested ecosystem with extensive swamps, creeks, lakes, and estuaries leading back to the sea. The dense vegetation made it a hotbed for herbivores, which were all sources of prey for Australoveantor. In fact, Australovenator was found directly with Diamantinasaurus, a 15 to 16 meter long sauropod (indicating that Australovenator may have been scavenging, or worked in a group and was killed by a group member). Other herbivores included the titanosaurs Wintonotitan and Savannasaurus, and the Somphospondylian Austrosaurus. There were a variety of Ornithischians there, though none were named, they may have been Rhabdodonts or Elasmarians; and there was at least one Ankylosaur (probably a basal Ankylosaurid). In addition, there was the large pterosaur Ferrodraco, and the narrow-snouted Crocodylomorph Isisfordia. 

By Ripley Cook 

Other: Megaraptors like Australovenator are a taxonomical quagmire. They are either closely related to the Carnosaurs - animals like Allosaurus and Giganotosaurus - or to early Coelurosaurs such as the Tyrannosaurs. It’s possible they are Tyrannosaurs, full stop, but an early group of them. Honestly, the question is still up in the air - but they combine a lot of the characteristics of the earlier theropods with the more bird-like ones, which leads to this confusion. Regardless, Australovenator was a very late derived Megaraptor, nested deep within the group.

~ By Meig Dickson

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[be-more-chill-evan-hansen]

I found something on Instagram

August is Tuck Everlasting Appreciation Month:

Tuck Day

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Robert Lenzi

Carolee Carmello

Michael Park

Terrance Mann

Fred Applegate

Neil Haskell

Brandon Espinoza

Kathy Voytko

Justin Patterson

Timothy J. Alex

Matt Meigs

Christopher Gurr

Ben Cook

Sharrod Williams

Deanna Doyle

Lisa Gajda

Mike Wartella

Jessica Lee Goldyn

Heather Parcells

Jessica Smith

Chloë Campbell

Callie Carter

Sarah Charles Lewis

Pippa Pearthree

Valerie Write

Elizabeth Crawford

Marco Schittone

Brooklyn Shuck

Natalie Babbitt

I'm going to be participating and I would encourage everyone to participate.

[tea-cryptid]

@orange-nerd and mine’s dream newsies revival cast uwu

jack: andy richardson with big fucking high heels

les: jess leprotto with Hello Dolly! waiter moustache

medda: bette midler (cockney)

katherine: rachel bay jones

sarah: patti lupone (gay)

hannah: denee benton

davey: ben platt

spot: christian borle (all other newsies must be taller than him by wearing high heels, except for les)

specs: lucas steele

elmer: bradnon uranowitz

roosevelt: mike faist

race: andrew rannells (not wearing heels, but heelies. king of new york is very different)

snyder: anthony rosenthal

finch: lea salonga

barney peanuts: javier munoz

crutchie: chaz wolcott

sniper: josh gad

mush/bill: chip zien

romeo: giles terera

bowery beauties: dave malloy, grace mclean, okieriete onaodowan, nikki m james, jp ferreri, john boyega, vivian oprah, amber gray, harvey fierstein, william finn, pierce cassedy, john cariani, brian d’arcy james, heidi blickenstaff, kate reinders, beth leavel, brooks ashmanskas, michael james scott, james nathan hopkins, katy geraghty, gerard canonico, stephanie j block, tracie thoms, betsy wolfe, demarius copes, zachary quinto, andrew garfield (all men in drag)

albert: raymond j. lee

seitz: travis waldschmidt

do’boy: leonardo dicaprio

brooklyn newsies: zachary noah piser, robin dejesus, christopher fitzgerald, lee slobotkin, idriss karbgo, sam seferian, mike wartella, danny quadrino, garett hawe, jye frasca, daniel hope, andy mientus, f. michael haynie, aaron j albano, larkin bogan, matt meigs  (no high heels, brooklyn’s here is performed entirely on scooters)

jojo: chase madigan

smalls: jessica vosk

buttons: chris hemsworth

henry: oscar isaac

wiesel: tom holland

hot shot: fady elsayed

myron: neil patrick harris

darcy: stephen ashfield

knobs: gavin creel

willie: george takei

tommy boy: matt doyle

nunzio: rupaul

paul: billy porter

pulitzer: will roland

jacobi: suzie mathers

stage manager: jenn colella

bart: beth malone

kenny: kenny ortega

vince: lena hall

kid blink: russell tovey

[dillten]

I suspect most of us can only say we’ve flown in and out of Meigs Field on Microsoft Flight sim back in the day 😢 https://t.co/sVQbmExEC7

— Matt Dearden (@IndoPilot) March 31, 2019

[flauntpage]

Former Eagles Long Snapper Among Additions to 2019 Coaching Staff

Coaching staff and football ops changes down at NovaCare.

Here’s the full list via Eagles press release:

Phillip Daniels promoted to defensive line coach

Carson Walch promoted to wide receivers coach

Mike Bartrum hired as assistant tight ends coach

Matthew Harper named assistant wide receivers coach

Roy Istvan hired as assistant offensive line coach

T.J. Paganetti named assistant running backs coach

Luke Thompson hired as assistant special teams coach

Matt Burke hired as defensive special assistant

G.J. Kinne hired as offensive special projects

Joe Pannunzio hired as director of team development

And these are the promotions and hires in the football operations department:

Andrew Berry hired as vice president of football operations

Greg Delimitros promoted to vice president of equipment operations

Patrick Dolan promoted to vice president of football technology

Jon Ferrari promoted to vice president of football operations and compliance

Jeremiah Washburn hired as advanced projects coordinator

Some relevant notes and pieces of information regarding each guy, after the jump:

Phillip Daniels: Replaces the departing Chris Wilson. Daniels was hired in 2016 as the team’s defensive quality control/assistant defensive line coach.

Carson Walch: Assistant wide receivers coach in 2018 under Gunter Brewer. Brewer left for Louisville after just one year on the job.

Mike Bartrum: Former Bird, played here from 2000 to 2006 as a long snapper and tight end. He returns to Philly from Ohio, where he was the head football coach at Meigs High School in Pomeroy, which is way south, on the West Virginia border.

NBC 10 once did a feature with Bartrum long snapping footballs into various tight windows:

Vintage Johnny Clark right there.

Harper: promoted from assistant special teams coach

Istvan: replaces Eugene Chung, whose contract expired

Paganetti: he started with the Eagles as an analyst and most recently worked as offensive quality control/assistant OL coach

Thompson: joining the Birds from Lafayette College, where he was defensive coordinator and linebacker coach

Burke: former Dolphins defensive coordinator who coached linebackers under Jim Schwartz in Buffalo (this was reported a while back)

Kinne: Eagles preseason and training camp legend

Pannunzio: was with the Eagles in 2015, then left for Alabama and now returns in a similar role

Berry: I wrote the story this morning, but here’s the full blurb on him:

“Andrew Berry has been hired as the vice president of football operations and joins the Eagles front office from the Cleveland Browns where he served as vice president of player personnel from 2016-18.

Prior to his time with the Browns, Berry worked for the Indianapolis Colts for seven years (2009-15). He was originally hired by Indianapolis as a scouting assistant and was promoted to pro scout in 2011. One year later, he was elevated to pro scouting coordinator and served in that role for his final four seasons with the club. During Berry’s tenure in Indianapolis, the Colts won four AFC South titles, made five postseason appearances and advanced to Super Bowl XLIV.

Berry graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in computer science. He also played football for the Crimson, starting all four years at cornerback and earning All-Ivy League honors three times.”

Delimitros: been on the equipment staff for 16 years now

Dolan: 30 years in the NFL, 7 with the Eagles, and “is responsible for overseeing the video department and maximizing the football technologies used by the coaches, players and personnel departments on a day-to-day basis.”

Ferrari: came to the Eagles from the league office three years ago

Washburn: son of former defensive line coach, Jim Washburn

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[matildaonbway]

HAPPY 3rd ANNIVERSARY MATILDA!!@MatildaBroadway #MatildaBroadway

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Utahraptor ostrommaysi

By Nix, CC BY-NC 4.0

Etymology: Thief from Utah

First Described By: Kirkland et al., 1993

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauridae, Eudromaeosauria, Dromaeosaurinae  

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: Between 129 and 120 million years go, from the Barremian to the Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous 

Utahraptor is known from the Yellow Cat and Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation 

Physical Description: Utahraptor was a very large raptor dinosaur, and had the associated bodily characteristics - a bulky trunk, shorter legs, long arms, large head, and long, stiffened tail. It was really and truly huge, about 7 meters long and 500 kilograms in weight - about the size of a modern Grizzley or Polar Bear, though they might have been heavier than previously thought. Like other raptors, it had huge sickle claws on its feet, and the claws were probably around 24 centimeters long - or even longer, if they had been covered in a keratin sheath as potentially thought. The skull of Utahraptor has not yet been described, so for now we can only say that it had a long, triangular head like other raptors, with sharp serrated teeth. As with other raptors, it would have been feathered - with very large wings for flapping, and a distinctively huge tail fan. The legs of Utahraptor would have been slightly less feathered, but still distinctive. In short, it was a big and fluffy bird-bear, and the largest predator in its environment. 

By Matt Martyniuk, CC BY-SA 3.0

Diet: Utahraptor was a large predator and, accordingly, ate large sources of food such as ornithopods and younger sauropods. 

By PaleoNeolitic, in the Public Domain

Behavior: As a raptor, Utahraptor would have been most analogous to a cat - probably stalking alone rather than in packs, and utilizing ambush behavior to trap its prey. Since it had somewhat stubby legs and wasn’t very fast at all, it couldn’t have relied on pursuit to attack its food, even if its food was just as slow as it was. Instead, these powerful legs helped Utahraptor to jump onto its food and surprise it, even from the ground where it spent its time. It then could use raptor prey restraint (RPR) to stay balanced on the prey, flapping its wings rapidly as the prey moved around and tried to escape. Those impossibly large sickle claws then were used to strategically stab at places where the prey would bleed out - important veins and arteries - rather than slash. In addition to this, Utahraptor would have been able to flap its wings rapidly and run up steep surfaces - a technique called Wing-Assisted Inclined Running (WAIR) -  even vertical ones, like cliff faces and trees. This allowed Utahraptor to reach strategic vantage points and search for prey - and even jump down onto it from high heights. These techniques allowed Utahraptor to not only hunt the similarly-sized Ornithopods of the time, but also potentially attack the even larger Sauropods with which it shared its home. When it needed a smaller snack, that large claw could be used to pin down struggling furry mammals and lizards, in order for Utahraptor to then take a bite. 

By Fred Wierum, CC By-SA 4.0

Though Utahraptor did not hunt in packs, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t social - and, indeed, there is considerable evidence not yet described that it lived in dense family groups. This would probably mean that adult Utahraptor would go out hunting on their own, while the little ones would gather their own food, before coming together in the same space for safety from other Utahraptor and just to spend the night. It is very likely that Utahraptor took care of its own young based on its relatives - and there’s hopefully more evidence on the way to corroborate this. This was a very complex social animal, using those fancy wings and tail fan to display to other Utahraptor - by holding up the wings and lifting the tail fan to display, it could communicate with others that it was a threat, that it wanted to mate, or to stay away from its nest. In general, it would have behaved very bird-like - walking around, bobbing its head, and moving its head to look for food and for each other rather than moving the eyes. And, like birds, it would have been very active, and warm-blooded. 

By Ashley Patch

Ecosystem: When the Cedar Mountain Formation supported Utahraptor, it was a very large floodplain environment, that periodically flash flooded and filled the valley with mud. This was a seasonally wet environment with a variety of rivers, forests, prairies, and open woodlands. The ecosystem had a short wet system and a very long, tedious dry season. Utahraptor shared this environment with countless creatures - the tuataran Toxolophosaurus, the turtle Glyptops, a variety of fish, the mammaliaform Cifelliodon, and - of course - other dinosaurs. There was the ankylosaur Gastonia, the large Iguanodon-like Ornithopods Cedrorestes, Hippodraco, and Iguanacolossus; the Sauropods Cedarosaurus and Mierasaurus; the Therizinosaurs Martharaptor and Falcarius; the Troodontid Geminiraptor; the Ornithomimosaur Nedcolbertia; and another raptor - Yurgovuchia! This gave Utahraptor a wide variety of things to hunt in its environment. 

By Emily Willoughby, CC By-SA 3.0

By the time of the later Poison Strip environment, things were changing rapidly in Cedar Mountain. Dry seasons were longer now, and a significant amount of sand was washing through the ecosystem. This made life higher in the floodplain, and probably eliminated many of the forests and river-woods that had been present prior to, leaving only a somewhat scrubland-esque plain. Accordingly, creature diversity actually went down - it was something of an ecosystem collapse. There was still food for Utahraptor to eat - the Ornithopod Planicoxa, and the sauropods Moabosaurus and Venenosaurus; but that was it. Utahraptor, thus, was living in a miniature extinction event - and disappears from the environment by the time the mud and rainy seasons returned in the Ruby Ranch Environment, and the large predator niche was replaced by the carnosaur Acrocanthosaurus. 

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Other: Utahraptor was the largest raptor known, and we actually have many fossils of it - but they’re trapped in a block! Well, there isn’t funding to remove them from the block, anyway. So much more could be (and will be, dammit!) written about this excellent dinosaur if it was adequately funded to be researched properly. Check out the Utahraptor Project if you want to learn more about Utahraptor - and consider donating! Literally every penny helps. Utahraptor is also one of the inspirations for the raptors of Jurassic Park, along with Deinonychus - though, obviously, those creatures do not resemble their real counterparts in the slightest.

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The Staples Orphenians singing group was invited to the National Youth Choral Festival, which will occur between March 27 and March 30, 2015 in San Francisco. To raise money to pay for travel expenses, the Orphenians held a fund raising concert. Entertainment for this concert was provided by 11 Broadway stars who donated their time and talents to the Staples Orphenians. One Broadway star and former Staples Orphenian himself was Adam Kaplan (Newsies). Also appearing that evening was former Staples Orphenian and now Broadway star Mia Gentile (Kinky Boots), Meghann Fahy (Next to Normal), David and Jacob Guzman (Newsies), Elizabeth Judd (Dallas Les Mis, Spiderman Turn Off the Dark), Jared Loftin, Ginna Claire Mason (Newsies Tour), Matt Meigs (Matilda), Leela Rothenberg, with Ben Rauhala playing piano. 

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Former Eagles Long Snapper Among Additions to 2019 Coaching Staff

Coaching staff and football ops changes down at NovaCare.

Here’s the full list via Eagles press release:

Phillip Daniels promoted to defensive line coach

Carson Walch promoted to wide receivers coach

Mike Bartrum hired as assistant tight ends coach

Matthew Harper named assistant wide receivers coach

Roy Istvan hired as assistant offensive line coach

T.J. Paganetti named assistant running backs coach

Luke Thompson hired as assistant special teams coach

Matt Burke hired as defensive special assistant

G.J. Kinne hired as offensive special projects

Joe Pannunzio hired as director of team development

And these are the promotions and hires in the football operations department:

Andrew Berry hired as vice president of football operations

Greg Delimitros promoted to vice president of equipment operations

Patrick Dolan promoted to vice president of football technology

Jon Ferrari promoted to vice president of football operations and compliance

Jeremiah Washburn hired as advanced projects coordinator

Some relevant notes and pieces of information regarding each guy, after the jump:

Phillip Daniels: Replaces the departing Chris Wilson. Daniels was hired in 2016 as the team’s defensive quality control/assistant defensive line coach.

Carson Walch: Assistant wide receivers coach in 2018 under Gunter Brewer. Brewer left for Louisville after just one year on the job.

Mike Bartrum: Former Bird, played here from 2000 to 2006 as a long snapper and tight end. He returns to Philly from Ohio, where he was the head football coach at Meigs High School in Pomeroy, which is way south, on the West Virginia border.

NBC 10 once did a feature with Bartrum long snapping footballs into various tight windows:

Vintage Johnny Clark right there.

Harper: promoted from assistant special teams coach

Istvan: replaces Eugene Chung, whose contract expired

Paganetti: he started with the Eagles as an analyst and most recently worked as offensive quality control/assistant OL coach

Thompson: joining the Birds from Lafayette College, where he was defensive coordinator and linebacker coach

Burke: former Dolphins defensive coordinator who coached linebackers under Jim Schwartz in Buffalo (this was reported a while back)

Kinne: Eagles preseason and training camp legend

Pannunzio: was with the Eagles in 2015, then left for Alabama and now returns in a similar role

Berry: I wrote the story this morning, but here’s the full blurb on him:

“Andrew Berry has been hired as the vice president of football operations and joins the Eagles front office from the Cleveland Browns where he served as vice president of player personnel from 2016-18.

Prior to his time with the Browns, Berry worked for the Indianapolis Colts for seven years (2009-15). He was originally hired by Indianapolis as a scouting assistant and was promoted to pro scout in 2011. One year later, he was elevated to pro scouting coordinator and served in that role for his final four seasons with the club. During Berry’s tenure in Indianapolis, the Colts won four AFC South titles, made five postseason appearances and advanced to Super Bowl XLIV.

Berry graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in computer science. He also played football for the Crimson, starting all four years at cornerback and earning All-Ivy League honors three times.”

Delimitros: been on the equipment staff for 16 years now

Dolan: 30 years in the NFL, 7 with the Eagles, and “is responsible for overseeing the video department and maximizing the football technologies used by the coaches, players and personnel departments on a day-to-day basis.”

Ferrari: came to the Eagles from the league office three years ago

Washburn: son of former defensive line coach, Jim Washburn

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