Daily News | Six degrees of Jon Runyan: The Eagles’ unbroken lineage at offensive line and a 23-year legacy
PHOENIX — Jon Runyan stood against a waist-high wall with a look of amusement on his face as the media night madness swirled below his 6-foot-9 frame.
When team president Joe Banner and coach Andy Reid lured Runyan away from the Tennessee Titans and paired him with left tackle Tra Thomas in 2000, nobody knew that they were on the leading edge of a revolution. But over the next nine seasons, as Runyan and Thomas would combine to set a precedent that has led directly to this year’sTherein lies one of the many ironies of this year’s Super Bowl.
Mailata may turn out to be the most precious of those diamonds, a 6-foot-8, 366-pound fixture whose soft feet and heavy hands were honed on Australia’s rugby fields. In a lot of ways, he is a direct extension of Runyan, who started 161 consecutive regular season and postseason games between 2000 and 2008. That streak was broken in 2009, but immediately picked up by Peters, who began a stretch of 127 starts in nine seasons after the Eagles acquired him in a trade with the Bills.
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