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nope he's a Colt

http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/493663

The LBs on this team are like cardboard cutouts just placed on the field for show.

True, but thanks to yesterday's
Spudsian yarn by front-office lapdog Rich Hofman, I learned that linebackers don't matter.

f-d, can you work some of your magic (like you did with Curtis) and make some of those guaranteed dollars in Reagor's contract disappear?

nope he's a Colt

I thought you were referring to Air-banjo.

I kind of had a feeling after my post that you might be talking about him... (and I think they should cut him or threaten to cut him unless he agrees to NEVER do that queer move again...)

Read that article, Talon. Yeargh.

So what I've read in the past couple of days is -
- Linebackers don't really matter.
- The team is poised to go farther this year than last. Although if McNabb goes out, it's useless. Even though he wasn't part of that run that made them successful.
- Small, rotating hybrid DT/DEs are great. Look at Howard. Oh, wait...
- Getting run over by a team in the playoffs means that in order to fix the problem, you need to get smaller.
- If I don't like the way the team is run, I can give up my season tickets.

Has there ever been an offseason, sans TO/Kearse, where you felt really confident in the FO?

Yeah, I was referring to the air banjo. That's the price I pay for making up a nickname on the spot, though.

Bass,
Why is the sky falling all the time around here. Even if I could type in HTML, I wouldn't have put that in blue. I am very happy with this off season. I wanted to keep 18, but Curtis is not a drop off. The offense will be great this year.

The defense. Regarding the DT, I look at this as replacing Sam Rayburn or Darwin Walker with Raegor. It is an upgrade anyway you look at it. The way the tackles played last year, he is an upgrade from almost everyone of them. If there is a play making 320 pound defensive tackle available out there that I don't know of, let me know. Since there isn't, this is a move upgrading a position of weakness on this team. Albeit not a huge upgrade, but an upgrade all the same.
Now linebacker, I agree this is a shitty situation. They tried to sign Fowler, who would have been nice, but at the end of the day the EAGLES would have NEVER gotten him because the Cowboys where going to trade him to Tenn. So you cant shit on them for that either. Donnie Edwards would have been nice, but KC had the inside track on him from the start, at least from what I heard. The eagles are going to address this in the draft or June 2nd. If they don't, THAN kill them. Until them, I don't see why people act as if the Sky is falling. It amazes me how much people bitch about a team that is primed to make a real run.

Look at the giants, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, and New Orleans. I think the Eagles have had a MUCH better off season than everyone of those teams. Healthy #5, #93, drafting two LB's and a DB and I think this team is very Super Bowl able.

thoughts?

THANK

YOU !!!!


Thanks for typin what i pondered typin, more or less, at least 3x and never did MLEWIS. Good LORD.

It amazes me how much people bitch about a team that is primed to make a real run.

A perfect entry for your Phillyisms thread.

Regarding Reagor, I'd be surprised if he's inserted into anything other than (down) & long distance situations, which in that case, it is indeed an upgrade. Injury caveats aside.

As of now you have to say that how Bunkley performs will be the determining factor in if/how the defense improves next year.

Next time "homer" is tossed around in the Phils thread, remember this one.

It amazes me how much people bitch about a team that is primed to make a real run.

I think they've done a good overall job so far, but my question is: What are they making a real run at?

They've "upgraded" the #3 or #4 DT tackle spot and every other position is the same or worse than last year.

Last year, don't forget, this team sucked donkey balls until they caught that lightening in a bottle.

I'm still not sure (100%) which team last year was the real one.

Primed to make a real run?

OK, let's go over the positives that this team has:
- McNabb is still fairly in his prime and should be ready for the season.
- The offensive line looks as boss as ever, with good depth all around and should do well this year.
- Westbrook is Westbrook.
- I liked bringing back Buckhalter, if only because there weren't many palpable alternatives. Dillon? Nah. Ron Dayne? Rather lick an engine grate clean.
- The receivers will experience a bit of dropoff with Stallworth gone, but Curtis (if he's as good as rumored) will make up for it.
- Jeremy Bloom (I'm hoping) will be the anti-Mahe. To finally have a threat returning kicks/punts....
- Quentin Mikall. Underrated signing from a ST POV. If he becomes Dawk's successor, then so be it, but a good signing nonetheless.

All good stuff, and all worth looking forward to, IMO. If they keep the same balance they had with Garcia, then this offense should be VERY good, even scary.

Where you can kill them now (before the draft) is this:

- Their attitude that LBs aren't that important in the grand scheme of things. It has hurt them in more than one instance. While better DTs will help the LBs look better, they still need better help back there. And have always needed better help.
- DT has been an issue for years on this team. They're small up front, and any upgrades are for small, quick guys, instead of addressing the weaknesses they've had on the run. So a team that got absolutely bulldozed on the ground in a playoff game is improving the run defense how? You don't always need a play-making DT (in fact, DTs with a ton of sacks aren't really common in the NFL), you just need someone to take up space, who won't get pushed around on 3rd and 1.
- As far as Fowler - you can rip the Birds for gunning for a player that was either a)not very good, or b) a RFA of a division rival. Were they really interested in him or were they trying to tweak the nose of the 'Boys and make them pay more for his services, knowing that the Boys' wouldn't let him go to a div. rival? Joey Porter was available, and while he's not as good as he was, he was a cap casualty and brings a mean streak to the D. Point being, there WERE guys out there they could've gone after, but decided not to. Cap/fit issues?

My issue with what I said (specifically the "make a run" part) was more striking the article for saying that losing McNabb means the season ends, ignoring the fact that their success came while 5 was hurt. And since Feeley's still a good backup, I believe he can do as well (if not better) than Garcia provided the offense protects him like Garcia (which I can only hope they do with McNabb). I think they'll win the division yet again, because Washington stinks, the Giants are mediocre (and have a dead man walking as a HC), and Wade Phillips won't be good enough in Dallas to take them farther than they've been last year.

The sky isn't "falling" (o noes, 7-9 again!). They'll make the playoffs, no doubt. But I'm not going to swallow the green Kool-aid Spuds has been serving. None of the moves they've made this offseason scream "SB OR BUST!" like in 04.

BTW - chalk this rumor under the "This can't be happening" category:

Jay Glazer, of FOXSports.com, reports the Atlanta Falcons and Houston Texans are on the verge of a trade that would send quarterback Matt Schaub to the Texans in exchange for a swapping of first-round draft picks in this year's NFL Draft, a second-round draft pick in this year's draft and a second-round pick in 2008. Schaub is trying to work out a long-term deal with the Texans. While the deal is not yet finalized, it is expected to be completed Wednesday, March 21.

Man, Reagor's eye is messed up

If this is true, then Carr is DONE in Houston. Somebody with a decent OC has got to pick him up.

This also means that someone in TX is smoking the wacky weed.

So Atlanta will move up from 10th to 8th, will have an extra 2nd rounder and a 2nd rounder for next year's draft.

That's quite a lot for Schaub. Think McNabb could demand that price?

Kb,
I am not much of a homer, just a realist. Besides 18, what moves gave the eagles blown in FA? Who should they have signed? Where did they fuck up? 18 was bad, but has since been rectified with Curtis. Everyone is saying how Curtis is a ? When the guy they are comparing him to has been the ultimate ? His entire career.
KB, it may seem homerish, but what teams do you look at in the NFC and say "the eagles are not in their class".

The answer is NOBODY. As such, i dont see what the problem everyone has with this team. I am all for blasting the team for Fing up, but people act as ifwe are in CLEVELAND.

Fd, you say you dont know which team you saw last year, and that is fair, but they did go 5-1 in NFCE w.out their best player on both sides of the ball.

Fd, you say you dont know which team you saw last year, and that is fair, but they did go 5-1 in NFCE w.out their best player on both sides of the ball.

Right...but they also started out the season about .500 in an AWFUL NFC, without any real injury issues other than Kearse (which was a position they were supposedly LOADED at).

In week 8 of last year (or somewhere around there), were you thinking: "Yeah...now, if they can only get a little smaller in the middle, downgrade at a couple spots, and bring back some of their depth players in FA the Birds are SET!"

I'm not trying to kill the Birds here, I'm just saying that they were a bad team for the first half of the year, suffered some injuries, and got better (overall). It's a weird turn of events that I'm not comfortable with in terms of predicting what kind of team they have.

Also, is there any past historical evidence in the Reid era that they'll do anything other than go back to their retarded 80% pass offense once McNabb is healthy again? I hope not, but that's a concern, as well.

Finally, they were the 4th best team in the NFC last year and about a 1/2 dozen AFC teams could have beaten the best the NFC had to offer.

So the question I'm asking aloud remains: What are they making a run at?

Have they closed the gap between themselves and the Colts and Patriots? If not, what's the point?

And speaking of the Patriots, they've pretty much shown that they're trying to make one last run for it all based on the signings they've made (improving at WR and LB), all while setting themselves up nicely with escape clauses should anything go wrong. THEY'RE a team I consider making a run based on FA.

And in case that post by KB was for me- I am speaking speciffically to Bass always bein the 1st on the scene with a gloomy/sarcastic outlook and many times, IMO, offbase point of view w. regards to things goin on with the team.

Its PREDICTABLE how the cat's gonna reply.

Its almost always negative with a dose of sarcasm lumped in.

I do NOT think its the end of the world, and would even say that this offseason is actually looking 'alright' to 'good'- but again, WHAT are the alternatives that coulda seen this be a better one?

Keepin Stallworth? We've been here b4, and Id agree with that and thats it.

Didnt wanna retain ANYOne else who was a UFA on the team, and anyone with cockamaymee trade scenarios they wanted the Birds to act out this offseason, check your level membership ID at the door.

I am happy at the retaining of Thomas, the signing of Curtis, and I guess that IF the guy I dubbed Sloth (and yes KB- THAT EYE IS EXACTLY why I did that) is alright to work out and play, he's an upgrade to the DT unit as well.

They have shown their cards (ThankfullY) that they know they need LB help- tho they failed with Fowler, its out there now that at least FINALLY they know it- somethin the fans have been sayin for years here, and they reluctantly have been forced to admidt we had right. (Like the great WR admission of 2004).

Why is the sky always falling? What has the 'competition' in the East done? Dallas signed a helluva player so long he can stay motivated, fine, what else? Why is the sky falling? Honestly?

If not, what's the point?

Cue the Talon's 2007 earnings forecast for the Eagles in 5...4...3..

No, that wasn't for you, Seth

f-d pretty much summed up my feelings. Not doom and gloom, or Chicken Little.

mlew, we have different ideas of what makes a good offseasons. You just said "they didn't screw up bad". I tend to hope for more than that.

Seth, I've already pointed out that they're going to win the division. The only potential problem is Dallas (only because Phillips knows his D), but everyone else should be handled accordingly.

Does this mean I get a robe?

sorry for the other post, didnt see every ones response. Im not shooting for mediocrity. Me and Seth are on the same page here (You can tell, im not MSlewis). When you judge this team, in this off season, it has to be in respect to the rest of the league. You look at what the Eagles have done and compare them to the activity (or lack there of) of teams they compete against. Since the eagles where better than all but 2 teams last year (in the NFC, without their best players on both sides of the ball) AND they have since made moves to add depth and stability to their team (while the other teams have DONE NOTHING), I dont see how you can sit here and say the FO is fucking this thing up.

What moves could they have made to get close to the patriots, or the Colts? Shit look what the Chargers have done this offseason, can you imagine? People go crazy about NE making a huge run. The patriots, they signed the best linebacker on the market (granted)and Donte stallworth. THATS IT. Wes Welker and Kyle Brady are not game changers. PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD WOULD GO APESHIT IF THEY SPENT THE MONEY/PICKS on Welker. They have not GONE FOR BROKE.
You can have Joey Porter for $20 million guaranteed. Sometimes I truly believe that people want the eagles to pull off madden trades. We get angry if they dont get a player thats not available or make a trade that was never offered. You play with the cards your dealt with, and that's all we can judge them on. Based on that, I think its been a good off season.

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