"Compared with Eagles president Joe Banner's media tour last week, general manager Howie Roseman's session with reporters yesterday at the NFL scouting combine was kind of tame.

Roseman didn't set any deadlines for coaches to win the Super Bowl, he was reluctant to even acknowledge the possibility of trading Kevin Kolb, and he drew no parallels between the Birds and any other franchises.

Roseman did strongly indicate that the Eagles, who neglected the offensive line in last year's draft, won't do so again, given what Roseman and many other observers consider a much deeper pool of o-line talent. He also talked a little about Kolb and Mike Vick, a little about the coaching staff shake-up, and a little draft philosophy. Here are some highlights:

* On the offensive line talent: Lots of mock drafts have the Eagles going o-line at No 23 overall in the first round; they would seem to need to upgrade their right side: "I think the talent level overall is probably better than it has been the past few years. It's deep," Roseman said. "You've got some guys who are versatile, who can play tackle or play guard."

Roseman acknowledged the team might be looking for slightly different skill sets with Howard Mudd coaching the o-line, instead of o-line-coach-turned-defensive-coordinator Juan Castillo.

"We spent some time with Howard as a personnel staff, just in terms of what he's looking for, maybe the differences in some of the guys that he's more comfortable with," Roseman said. "I think it was valuable time. Obviously, he's got a lot of years of learning offensive line."

The Eagles haven't taken an offensive lineman in the first round since Shawn Andrews in 2004. In fact, they haven't addressed the line higher than the fourth round since they took Winston Justice in the second round, in 2006.

"It's an area we didn't really address last year in the offense . . . That's obviously another position in terms of our priorities, we believe in building the o-line," Roseman said. "Looking back at some of the mistakes that we've made, they've been when we've reached. We've taken guys that we didn't think were the best players, but we had an area of need. We've been determined [since then] to take the best players on our board. You look at last year and the draft, maybe we went in with the intention of taking an offensive lineman or two, but the values just didn't meet. You look back at those things and you're trying to get better and you're trying to improve.""