Nutball Supremo
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"I told him my name isn't Reid. My name is Owens. I'm not one of his kids. Don't tell me to shut up."
<< Hate to say I told you, Eric, but I sure as hell did. >>
You did. You were right. We had a highly productive model citizen for one year. Now we have a premier athlete with 6 pack abs and a 6th grade mentality, which might be a grade ahead of his agent's.
Rather sad. He's not going to get the money he wants. It's Andy's and Donovan's team so he can't control anything. Cutting himself off from Donovan was a fatal error. That leaves him bidding for media attention and the attention of the dwindling number of fans he has left.
It'll be his last season in green and that's a given. How he performs on field, if Andy lets him on the field, will determine his future value at age 32 and beyond. Given his miraculous recovery for the Super Bowl and his performance, his endorsement value would have been huge if he'd come into camp with the same attitude as last year.
<< The good news is, the TO story will be such a distraction that you'll never notice the Iggles crash and burn. >>
This is a football town. When camps over, and preseason's over, silly season distractions will give way to focus on the game just played and the game ahead, how the rooks and sophs are shaping up, and how the numerous all-pros on both sides of the ball are holding up. The Iggles will provide the usual great entertainment and win more than they lose and while the offense is getting killed off in camp the defense is solid.
Schedule's not that tough, divisions not that tough, and fortunately we have some very good youngsters to complement great veterans and the best coaching staff in the league now that Boston's is broken up, but dreams of a Super Bowl are not too realistic at this stage. We'll have to do a mid-season sanity check on that. Given the injuries we started the year with last year, last year shouldn't have been a Super Bowl year. Probably wouldn't have been without T.O.
A bigger issue than T.O. is Brian Westbrook, our best offensive weapon. Hopefully we can sign him to a long term contract that he's happy with -- sentiment here is PAY HIM, as opposed to the T.0. sentiment, SCREW HIM -- and hopefully beyond that he stays healthy. Our single big back may be lost, isn't that good to begin with, and I'm not sure we can get Dorsey Levins out of retirement for the 4th consecutive season, but we have a rookie scat back that could come along quickly.
To top things off, the NHL is back, and Clarkie's put together what could be the best Flyers team since he played, and Hitch is the best coach in the NHL.
Go Iggles! Go Flyers! Go Sixers!
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