I took a few days off from Eagles free agency
coverage to mourn the loss of Brian Dawkins. I've always thought, even
in an era where it's uncommon for any given player to play for a single
team his entire career, that Brian Dawkins would retire an Eagle. It
was extremely depressing when I heard the news that Dawkins had signed
with another team. Although Brian Dawkins will always be an Eagles, it
was a tough pill to swallow to realize that he'll be wearing another
team's colors when it is his time to retire. What are the stages to
recovery: anger, denial, regret, anger, acceptance?
I can't believe the front office would just let him go like that:
like a bad piece of meat that's been spoiled. I have a hard time
believing that the front office couldn't come up with a two-year, $9
million contract to make Dawkins happy. The Eagles are thin at
safety. They let Sean Considine go to the Jaguars to plague another
team with his awfulness. The Eagles are c...
Found March 03, 2009 on
All Philadelphia Sports:
PLAYERS:
Brian Dawkins,
Quintin Demps,
Quintin Mikell,
Sean Considine
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos
Original Story:
6 Comments:
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get over it, we are tryin to save money so we can make a splash in FA (if the FO has nuts), and hes lost a couple of steps
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save money? we are so far under the cap there is no way we could spend it all this offseason, joe banner said that himself. a couple million more would not have been a big deal to give to the heart and soul of this team. he still has years left with this team, even if he stinks for the Broncos
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and so we can make a splash in FA? tell he whats left out there? lol
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tell me*
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what were they thinking? they were thinking that the money that denver gave dawk is crazy and that they couldn't afford to do that.
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dont ever say they couldnt afford to do it
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