WR DeVonta Smith
SHUT the fuck up, until you have something worth saying, to say. I didn’t want to participate in the ridiculous past-time of defending QB Jalen Hurts, vs people who clearly don’t know football. I didn’t want to keep re-hashing the trade rumors surrounding WR A.J. Brown. I didn’t want to keep speculating on whether Cleveland would trade DE Myles Garrett. Would we get him? Would Dallas get him??
I had nothing to say worthy of your attention. So, instead of wasting your time, I kept my trap shut. At 51, I’m older. Wiser. More seasoned. I like it when I get to brandish my wisdom, and show the boys who always have to be “loud and first”, that surgical insight is more respectable than scatter-shot rumor mongering. After all, September is still months away. Why rush?
Now that Brown and Garrett have been traded, I get to give my two cents on this season’s schedule. Yes, the schedule. Lots of people (me included), made predictions already, but trades this big could have serious impact on those predictions. So I waited for them to be completed.
GM Howie Roseman
The latest on the rumor mill, is whether or not Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman will make a play for Raider DE Maxx Crosby, or if he’ll end up in San Francisco. With Crosby still rehabbing his knee, there just isn’t enough substance for me to wait on that. So I’m just going to plunge ahead, and give my overview of the 2026 season.
Regarding the schedule, there are things that I like about it. I’m a fan of hosting division rival Washington, for Week One. Foaming at the mouth, right out of the gate? I have to love that! The Week 10 Bye is nice. Having six straight weeks (weeks 6 through 11) which don’t require us to get on a plane, is also a dandy. I dig the three game home-stand in Weeks 14 through 16; and even the season finale has us playing in our own backyard (N.Y.)
What I don’t like, is the London game. The Birds having to play overseas, and me not getting to sleep-in on a Sunday? Frowny face. Then there’s facing four opponents who will be coming off of their Bye week. Two of which are divisional (Washington and New York). We have two games on short weeks, but those opponents will also be in that boat. So it’s a gripe, but a minor one.
On personal note, I’m also not a fan of having FIVE prime time games. That means taking the following day off work, so I can stay up late to write Four Things Reviewed. While the Christmas Eve game lets me off the hook, I still have to burn four vacation days. (They’re already on my department’s calendar.)
I still like us for 12 – 5, as I wrote in the Eagles Pre-Draft Preview, but that Week 4 Rams game, will tell us a lot.
I’m not yet getting into the players we added, or what kind of season I expect for WR DeVonta Smith. As I said earlier, there’s no rush. We’ll pick through the roster as we work our way through Training Camp. In the meantime, enjoy me. The Holy One has finally returned.
“I bring you these Fift- …TEN Commandents!”