Rick Lovato said his objective this training camp was to “keep my head down, do my job, not try to be noticeable, or anything like that.”
Keeping one’s head down is something of a must in the long-snapping business; alternate approaches are rarely successful. But Lovato was not speaking literally, he was referring to the way he felt he had to handle competing with Jon Dorenbos, the longest-tenured Eagle and one of the most popular members of the team, in and out of the locker room.
The Eagles traded Dorenbos to the New Orleans Saints Monday for a 2019 seventh-round pick, unleashing a shocked reaction from a fan base that had never before taken much interest in how the ball got back to the punter or the holder for field goals and extra points.