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OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE EAGLES

Posted by The BEAST on 2015/05/09
Posted in: Crazy Talk, Front Office (F.O.), NFL, Players, Roster. Tagged: , , , , , , . 4 Comments

sam bradford

THE Dallas Cowboys have given me reason to be optimistic about the Eagles 2015 season. Not be because I expect the Cowboys to be bad, but because they make it safe to assume that the Eagles will be good. Again, let me say that I am in no way bad mouthing the Cowboys, just being optimistic about the Eagles, and getting behind guys like Sam Bradford, Ryan Mathews, Kiko Alonso, Walter Thurmond, and rookie Jordan Hicks.

Earlier this offseason when it seemed you needed a season ending injury on your resume to make the Eagles roster, I was worried. Injuries have a way of being cumulative. Overcompensation during rehab for X injury often leads to Y injury. Notice how some guys always seem hurt and some guys never do? Over time injuries mount and they sap a player’s effectiveness.

Enter the Dallas Cowboys. QB Tony Romo’s back is a ticking time bomb. RB Darren McFadden has almost as many missed starts (49) as actual starts (63), due to injury. The guy I thought would be McFadden’s back-up (Joesph Randle) seems to have gotten an unspoken demotion  in favor of former Cardinal Ryan Williams. Williams has a torn patellar tendon in his past. (Here is his career.) 

What gives me so much hope for my team is despite the ICU that is the Dallas backfield, the national media just can’t stop dick-eating the Cowboys. I guess that means that we’re playing 2015 with injuries turned off, in which case we have a pretty good team. I mean most of my worry about the Eagles centered around who we could and couldn’t keep on the field; but if the Cowboys are injury-proof then why aren’t we? Shit, we’re the ones with the smoothies, right?

Of course reality could set in, and both teams could end up with a lot of fucked up key athletes. (Which would probably be what we both deserve.) But hey, if it ain’t broke (at the moment) then I have plenty of reason to be optimistic. Right?

REAL TALK: THAT BRIGHT LIGHT

Posted by The BEAST on 2015/03/03
Posted in: Coaching, Conspiracy Corner, Fans, Front Office (F.O.), Offense, Players, Rants, Roster, trade. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

bright light

THE offseason is a marathon, not a sprint. The season is a marathon, not a sprint. REAL TALK? If you go around knee-capping your own roster, you won’t win any marathons OR sprints. Anyone waiting for that bright light at the end of the tunnel, is going to be interesting to talk to when they find out that it’s a train.

Understand, I’m not shocked about RB LeSean McCoy being traded. I was the first person anywhere saying that he might be last year, because I see what coach Charles Kelly is doing. In his mind he can win in the NFL by treating it like it’s the Oregon program he coached. So he’s going about making that transformation.

Fans who say they’re  “Gonna wait to see how this turns out” amuse the hell out of me. If the Cowboys lost Dez Bryant or DeMarco Murray we would say they were in trouble. When the Giants lost Ahmad Bradshaw and Victor Cruz, we were quick to point out that they were in trouble. When RG3 went down for the Redskins, same thing. So these folks CAN see that you need talent to win in this league.

I’m not sure where the bright spot in giving away talent is supposed to be; but in MY experience when you’re the least talented team in your division, you end up at the bottom of the division. But for everyone who was thrilled that Kelly gets the final say now, you’re seeing the birth of who the Eagles are going to be under that regime. In Kelly’s first major move we’re a team that trades a Pro Bowl RB for a some guy rehabbing his SECOND ACL injury. Yes. Second.

In any case we have to make the best of it now.

So now the discussion shifts to who we replace McCoy with. No one on our roster fits the bill. Technically yes, we could line anyone up back there, but I mean who else will give you 1,300 yards in an off year? We have 50M$ in cap space, but every RB out there now is either a bad scheme fit, a huge question mark, or a poor man’s version of what we just gave away. Meanwhile McCoy and Bryce Brown are both in Buffalo. LOL.

Anyone care to discuss the QB situation? You know what. We’ll let that rest until Kelly actually makes a move. No need to borrow trouble, right? Who knows, the next move could be pure genius! We could end up with Darron Thomas at QB next year.

DT

BTW: If Thomas is an Eagle next year, remember who had it before anyone else on Earth.