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To: stormrider1 who wrote (2694)8/28/2013 6:36:47 PM
From: LTK007Respond to of 2749
 
<<Staley, Buckhalter and Westbrook?>> How can i forget-then Staley got weird ankle injury. But in listing the top 10 RBs in Eagesles history i would squeeze Staley in there(took him what 18months to comeback?)--Westbrook would be in the top 5.



To: stormrider1 who wrote (2694)9/1/2013 6:18:42 PM
From: LTK007Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2749
 
Mike, Reid's draft of 2011 went a significant way to the breakdown of the Reid era." and the 2011 draft looks increasingly awful, with the players taken in the top three rounds all gone (Danny Watkins, Jaiquawn Jarrett and Marsh)".
Read more at philly.com
Add to that numerous other 3rd picks that Reid blew---he only had one great 3rd round pick, Westbrook, and that because he played at Villanova and was headlines in local newspapers--he admits that was why he drafted him.