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The Eagles’ long snapper is too damn good on America’s Got Talent

Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is so good at magic that it’s now affecting his football career.

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Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is so good at magic that it’s now affecting his football career.

Dorenbos, 36, has made it all the way to the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent by performing various magic tricks. The show, which started on May 31, is beginning to cut into Eagles training camp. The team, perhaps acknowledging that the long snapper requires minimal fine-tuning before the season, are allowing him to keep impressing the judges.

“I’m pulling for him,” Eagles coach Doug Pederson said. “We’ll just go day by day.”

Check out Dorenbos’s performance from Tuesday night. It was pretty awesome.

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokOJVtwrck]

I’m trying to figure out how the hell he did that. Howie Mandell just stood up and looked bewildered. He had no freaking clue.

Take that, Chip Kelly. The Eagles are BACK.

– Kenny Ducey