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SITTING IN a darkened film room, Takeo Spikes waits.

He's not sure what exactly he's looking for; he'll know only when he sees it.

And he knows he'll see it because every week during the National Football League season, Spikes finds somebody or something on the opposing team to tick him off.

"I can look at a guy on film and not like his body language and that will [hiss] me off for the rest of the week,'' said Spikes, the Eagles' new linebacker. "I look for it all the time, for something to set me off, something I don't like. I don't like guys who try to walk around the pile, chests all out big. It's almost like a bull's-eye, I've got to have you. By Sunday I have to have you.''

Since arriving via a trade with Buffalo, Spikes has been rightly praised for his role with Roger Goodell's new behavior police. A model citizen in a league looking to eradicate the Tank Johnsons and Chris Henrys of the world, Spikes has been lauded for his quiet intensity, his intelligence and his willingness to stand up and say that thuggery doesn't equate to cool.

What's been lost in the translation of all this Mr. Takeo Spikes, Esq., stuff is that he is every bit as nasty on the field as he is nice off it.

And yes, that's a compliment.

"He's Dawk,'' said Troy Vincent, Spikes' former teammate on the Buffalo Bills. "I can't wait to see the two of them in the same huddle. They're the same guy, the same guy. Takeo is just as crazy.''

Source: DANA PENNETT O'NEIL

Two Dawks! :CELE18:

If Spikes is 80% of the player that he used to be and if Kearse stays healthy, this defense is going to be scary good to go along with their potent offense.