McWhat?

So McNabb is gone and I have mixed feelings about his time in Philly...but I am really looking forward to the future....the team has rebuilt on the run....get some D help and maybe we can make some noise...

The Super Bowl....huh?

Well, this blog has changed it's theme...because honestly I want to complain about the entire NFL instead of just my cursed beloved Eagles.

So what better day to start, than the day after the Bowl....What a crappy first half....and some really lousy commercials but what bothers me the most is the force-fed Katrina talk. Come on that was 5 years ago and it has nothing to do with football...in fact if it was up to the owner they would have been in LA. So CBS jumped all over the feel good story (thank God it was not FOX).... but really what is the connection to what happens on the field?

How does this effect me? Well another crappy franchise has one the championship, while the Eagles enter another off-season full of big question marks...and of course a former Eagle makes a mistake in the Super Bowl...Hank Baskett drops the onsides kick and the Aints take over(still the Aints to me) and the momentum shifted big time....

Next up...McNabb, Vick and Kolb trade talks

Still I Rise

The wait is over, the season starts for the Birds tomorrow at Carolina and there a ton of questions still to be answered about this team. But I do know one thing, I have an uneasy feeling and I like it...Hopefully, the team has it as well...the amazing run they had last year should be forgotten. I want them to be uneasy, to be willing to prove it every week and to play with a chip on their shoulder. They need an edge and hopefully some of the young hungry players can bring that. In fact, they better bring it because we have young guns in key spots and a lot has to go right for this team to be good.

Do you notice we never here the "window closing" talk about this team anymore? That is because we have rebuilt on the run. Now youth must be served....There are plenty of exciting pieces in place but can they all click every week?

Predictions are easy to come by when you feel the power your team can bring....but as I sit here it uneasy, I cannot predict the season record but I have a very, very good feeling about this team...nuff said?

As for this week, they play a tough Carolina team with the 150 year old Jake Delhomme and we need to beat the hell out of him on every play. They want to run the ball, a lot and Gaither better have it or we will get gashed for a ton of yards...I think the offense will play well as long as the line can come together on the run....I look for them to go for a big play right away...Hopefully we see a lot of this:
























Remember how last season started:









Final Score:
Eagles 27
Panthers 17

Above, Below and Inbetween

The sort-of final 53 is set but this surely does seem like the team that will line up every week. 7 WR's...4 QB's and still questions at MLB. Looks like the Eagles will be busy looking to make some deals in the next week. But with the players presently on the team, there are still some big questions. For example, who is our starting MLB or who starts at safety alongside Mikell...my vote the rookie...Macho Man Harris. He seemed to be all over the field in the pre-season and he seems to be a quick learner and certainly a high energy guy.

Will amendola make the practice squad or will some other team grab him? I hope he makes it because I think he has a big upside. I am very happy Babin and Gibson made the team. But really will Brown or Baskett be there in Carolina?

Another thought about the Vick situation:

Why should he be suspended at all? He did his time and the league let him back in. If that is the case, then what is the suspension for? If Plax comes back he will not be suspended. So why the token suspension, considering he is not losing any pay? The NFL feels it's rules/laws are more important than the courts of the USA? What a joke...if you do not want him in, do not let him in...but don't play these foolish games...Some say they want to avoid a spectacle week one...

The real reason is they want more of a spectacle in week 3. It will be the most talked about game in week 3 and yes the stations will sell more ads during the game and the league will sell more merch. Why suspend a player for the 1st three weeks, when I could have bought his jersey the 2nd day he was back. If they wanted to make a stement, they should have not put his jersey on sale until the suspension was over.

Just a side note: I will be at that game week 3 in Philly and watching closely for the mix of drunk Eagles fans & the PETA crew...should be a very surreal day.

Threshold of Transformation?

Things are evolving once again in Eagle country and the media are waiting for it to pop. The Vick Experiment took place on Thursday night and it looked very much like a work in progress. Not much to look at to make a real decision about him but there is plenty of work to be done on how they use him. Everyone is talking about McNabb on the sidelines but I think that was his frustration with how the offense moved the ball in general.

The offense should always run through McNabb if he is healthy...always...he is the leader of the team..period end of story. Those idiots chanting for Vick are just the vocal minority again. They still have not realized that they are watching the greatest QB in Eagle history and they will be sorry when he is gone. With that being said...McNabb needs to chill out a little too. Apparently, he lobbied for Vick, so what did he think would happen? He should not let any of it get in his head...ignore it all and just win.

One final note today: How bad is Sal Paolantonio? He has stated in the past that he does not care for the city of Philadelphia, it's fans or it's teams. He is always trying to drum up some controversy and he takes the smallest sound bite and makes it an entire story. He really does have an anti-Eagle agenda and it sickens me that ESPN does not see it.