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Eagles lead NFL in dropped balls. Surprised?

Found October 11, 2008 on All Philadelphia Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Donovan McNabb,  L.J. Smith,  Tony Hunt,  Greg Lewis
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles,  Washington Redskins

Fourteen. Fourteen freaking dropped balls. That is almost 3 dropped passes a game. That means 2-3 at Week 6. So, am I surprised? No, and here's why. The Eagles front office has set this team up for disaster. By bringing back Donovan McNabb for this season, the Eagles basically told the whole league, "We are going to throw the football". What the Eagles didn't do, however, is go out and get somebody for McNabb to throw the ball to (a la any #1 wide receiver and/or any other TE other than LJ Smith). So now Eagles fans are basically stuck watching a form of two plays on offense. Either, (A) our sub-par wide receivers get covered and/or drop balls, or (B) we watch 12th string RB turned FB, Tony Hunt, create phantom holes for our runningbacks to not run through. On the defensive side, Eagles fans also watch a form of two plays. On one hand, we watch the opposing runningback, who always has the luxury of a real NFL FB as well as a TE who blocks, run for 100+ ...
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14 Comments:
  • Don't have to worry about Hunt trying to open holes anymore as they have now switched Klecko BACK to FB and have him at #1 on the depth chart this week going to San Fran. We never relied to heavily in the first place, but I have to say, I kinda miss Tapeh.
    by BWest3675   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • reid said tapeh can't catch!!! a fb 's job is to block anyway!!! speaking of if you can't catch why did we keep reggie clown and LJ then!!!
    by LILEAGLE   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options   +1 Likes
  • yea wr's and te's aren't supposed to catch. what makes u think that?
    by BIRDNDAHOOD   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • Mcnabb does throw a bad pass or two, but what QB dosen't??? I am willing to bet that "Raggy" Reggie Brown is responsible for alot of those dropped passes!
    by dabirdman   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • try most!
    by BIRDNDAHOOD   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • it is pretty pathetic that while our offense passes like 65% of the time, and all the teams in the NFL know that, we still have recievers that would be #3 recievers on other teams starting
    eagles FO sucks!!!!!
    by souljaturk187   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • That's exactly it. We have a great QB with 2 or 3rd rate receivers. He supposedly made a play for Moss and possibly Boldin. He has to make HARDER plays for them. Stop "trying" to get receivers just make it happen!
    by Spotella   October 12, 2008   Reply   Options  
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    by [locked]   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options   +4 Likes
  • i'm not surprised at all. but what do u expect from reggie clown, glew, and lj? they couldn't catch the subway to city hall.
    by BIRDNDAHOOD   October 11, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • You all need to remember that Reid and the FO went after Moss and tried to make a move with Arizona in the offseason. Other than that there wasn't any other free agents worth going after. It still doesn't excuse the last 9 years in the Reid regime and all the terrible draft picks and inability to sign a great wide receiver for Mcnabb. Let's face it Mcnabb can't do the things he used to and him just being a drop back passer with the guys we have available isn't going to take us anywhere. We're now the worst team in our division and all interdivision games are going to be painful to watch.
    by BRINKSTER   October 12, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • Obviously they didn't TRY hard enough. It looks so good for them to say they tried but were turned down. With the salary cap being what it is, and the amounts of draft picks they have coming up they could have and should have made a deal no-one could say no to.
    by Spotella   October 12, 2008   Reply   Options   +1 Likes
  • i truly believe that they didn't go after him. we have been lied to so much that i don't know what to believe anymore. they said just to get some good publicity with the fans.
    by BIRDNDAHOOD   October 12, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • And that's exactly what I'm saying. We have all this money left in the salary cap, how could they "make" an offer someone can refuse!
    Guess we'll have to get LILEAGLE to write an article on this. LOL
    by Spotella   October 12, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • I'm shocked....
    by Rainman   October 14, 2008   Reply   Options  
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