Wednesday, January 04, 2006
ESPN article...
Nice article from Sal Paolantonio about the Eagles 2005 woes.
-Paolantonio’s chief point is that the Eagles D-line was the crux of the problem: without a line getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks, the defensive secondary was left exposed trying to cover guys like Plaxico Burress, Santana Moss and Randy Moss all game long. Bottom-line: we need help on the D-line pretty bad. I’d assume that the Eagles will look for a D-lineman in the draft, or in free agency.
-Paolantionio blasts Mike McMahon for his play, but in McMahon’s defense he’s caught managing an offense with a leaking line and with two of its big guns (T.O. & Westbrook) gone. It’s a hard road to travel.
(I should note in the interest of full disclosure that one of my friends knows Mike, so I have some sympathy for the guy…)
-I don’t buy Paolantionio’s criticism of the way the Eagles handled the T.O. mess. They gave him the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think anyone could have anticipated that he’d turn out to be the Attila the Team Unity Killer. I don’t see how they could have dealt with that mess any better than they did: they refused to negotiate when he tried to hold the team hostage, tried to allow him to get in the team’s good graces and cut their losses when he turned into a cancer.
-Should Andy Reid step down as VP? Sure. Hard to argue with what happened with Mike Holmgren in Seattle when he stepped down. Rebuilding the team and honing all of the new talent the team is going to have is going to take a full-time coach in ’06.
More later on.
Everyone will notice some changes to the site in the coming days. I’m going to try to expand the blogroll and add some more information links. Stay tuned.
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-Paolantonio’s chief point is that the Eagles D-line was the crux of the problem: without a line getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks, the defensive secondary was left exposed trying to cover guys like Plaxico Burress, Santana Moss and Randy Moss all game long. Bottom-line: we need help on the D-line pretty bad. I’d assume that the Eagles will look for a D-lineman in the draft, or in free agency.
-Paolantionio blasts Mike McMahon for his play, but in McMahon’s defense he’s caught managing an offense with a leaking line and with two of its big guns (T.O. & Westbrook) gone. It’s a hard road to travel.
(I should note in the interest of full disclosure that one of my friends knows Mike, so I have some sympathy for the guy…)
-I don’t buy Paolantionio’s criticism of the way the Eagles handled the T.O. mess. They gave him the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think anyone could have anticipated that he’d turn out to be the Attila the Team Unity Killer. I don’t see how they could have dealt with that mess any better than they did: they refused to negotiate when he tried to hold the team hostage, tried to allow him to get in the team’s good graces and cut their losses when he turned into a cancer.
-Should Andy Reid step down as VP? Sure. Hard to argue with what happened with Mike Holmgren in Seattle when he stepped down. Rebuilding the team and honing all of the new talent the team is going to have is going to take a full-time coach in ’06.
More later on.
Everyone will notice some changes to the site in the coming days. I’m going to try to expand the blogroll and add some more information links. Stay tuned.
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