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ACCORDING to NFL.com’s projected starting line-up for the Eagles LeSean McCoy and Brent Celek may have competition for their starting spots.

As you can see, of the 11 Offensive starting positions only two are listed with a slash mark. Normally that mark on a depth chart means “either” or “splitting time”.  If it means something else then they should say so.

Not that I’m putting a lot of stock in these predictions. One: Because it was done by NFL.com’s Chris Wesseling, who’s an idiot altogether.  Two: Take a look at our projected Defensive starters. Notice how there is no DT/NT and there are 3 CB’s? (BTW: He has EVERY team in our division starting 3 CB’s.)

Wesseling’s prediction is that Billy Davis will use Nickel and Dime packages 65-70% of the time. No, seriously. That’s his prediction. It’s like he didn’t even glance at our schedule.

This season out of 16 games, 9 of them are against teams that lean on power running.  I wrote about that back February in my series “The 12”. (Back then we knew the opponents, just not the order.) Power running is the exact sort of game that teams will need to stay in games against Chip Kelly’s fast paced approach.

Does Wesseling  seriously think we drafted Bennie Logan last year and another NT this year, just so we can start a 3^rd CB? With a 2 man D-line? Leaving our ILB’s unprotected against the run?!.

Going nickel or dime 6-7 times out of every 10 downs, is a recipe to have our LB’s beat up and worn down by the Bye Week. I’m far from Billy Davis’s biggest fan, but there is NO WAY that I can believe him to be that stupid.

Seems more like Chris Wesseling is just being an idiot again, which for him I’m afraid may be chronic. Somebody get that guy a ticket to a Pop Warner game. He needs to learn the basics of the game

But it brings up and interesting question. Who do YOU think will be our starters this year?