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Posted on 11/17/2005 12:03:00 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
he should have the surgery....the eagles season is already in the toilet..too bad
Man, things went to hell real fast for the Iggles.
Good excuse for the season. My team (Oakland) has been playing the last couple of years lake someone kicked them in the b@11s.
Just tank the year and get a quality RB in the top of the 1st or 2nd round of the draft.
Too bad for the Iggles, but they were unlikely to even qualify for a wildcard slot this season. They've only won one conference game all year.
They just resigned Westbrook to a big contract. Do you feel that he will not ever be used as their main running attack? Westbrook feels that he can shoulder the load of running hard in the NFL and that he just hasn't been given the chance.
It seems like the Eagles need a big time receiver that has a reputation for being very low key off the field. If the Eagles had been smart instead of stubborn, they would have traded Owens for such a receiver during the off season when he still had tons of trade value.
Their defense kept them in every one of those games except for the first Dallas game. What would be really funny is if the Eagles made the playoffs with McMahon at QB. I would love to see how McNabb would deal with that.
Westbrook is mistaken. I think it's hilarious that he considers himself a power back. Maybe he doesn't know what one is. He can't be serious.
Even before TO's dust-ups, they were basicly last in rushing. That's not accidental. There are more than a dozen backs that could easily move them into the 110-yd/game range. That's why they suck.
I think it's less of being stubborn, than more of being (naively?) optimistic. IMHO, it seemed to me that Coach Reid was hoping the T.O. mess would be resolved - with the assistance of the "team leader" McNabb - who didn't help matters, really.
Reid apparently wanted better for T.O. as a person, not just a player - a sports writer wrote recently that Reid was hoping he could keep T.O. from being an angry 51 year old as much as he is an angry 31 year old.
The curse of T.O. strikes again. After getting the coach fired T.O. left a miserable SF team which may not recover for another two or three years.
Looking for some sympathy for the Eagles........damn just can't find any.
It wouldn't be funny but a clear case of divine intervention. They may not win another game this year.
"...a miserable SF team which may not recover for another two or three years...."
San Fran's problems started in 1994 when they signed a dozen mercinaries for the express and stated reason to beat Dallas. The bulk of the mercs were signed to one year deals and paid tons of bucks which is still haunting them today. They mortgaged their long range future in doing that. They got to and won SB 29. Even after Dallas spotted them 21 points, the Cowboys nearly won the NFC Championship Game and THEY would have gone to SB 29. That's water under the bridge now. Having that POS TO on their team didn't help. He was a cancer there as well as one to the Eagles. As a Cowboys fan, all I can do is sit back and laugh at their misfortunes. It helps Big D either way. But I think that Donovan needs to have that operation now. If he tries to come back in a few weeks, he would be committing career suicide. If Reid allows him back to play, he would bear a lot of the blame for worsening McNabb's injury. He's too good of qb to risk on such a boneheaded decision.
Think it started with Terrell Davis of Denver and has continued with every other NFL star who has been Campbell's spokesman.
Took longer for McNabb than any other.
That and the curse of the Madden game box cover
Anyone who wants to get on the cover of THAT particular game deserves whatever curse comes their way.
NFL 2K*, we miss you already...
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