Anyone who’s been following the NFL offseason has surely heard about how Terrell Owens is holding out because he feels he’s underpaid. He and Donovan Mcnabb have been taking verbal shots at each other lately, the most recent being Mcnabb saying that he doesn’t think they need Owens to win a Superbowl.
They weren’t able to get to a Superbowl until the year they signed him. However, Owens was hurt for almost the entire postseason, only making an appearance in the Superbowl. The Eagles won every playoff game without him.
So can the Eagles finally win the big one without him or do they need to swallow their pride and pay him more money to get him to come back?
They can’t win the Super Bowl with him either, so it’s kind of a moot point.
The Eagles are in rough shape, they are being depleted offensively and haen’t been successfully filling those holes. If the NFC wasn’t such a dog of a conference they wouldn’t have gotten a sniff og the NFC title game.
Put them in the AFC with a healthy TO and they are still the 4th or 5th best team, maybe…
Lucky for them that the Cowboys, Giants and Redskins might be the three of the five worst managed teams over the last 5 years or so.
They have no chance without TO. (I think with a healthy Donovan and a happy TO, they have an outside chance.)
TO keeps the safety in check and takes the star cornerback on almost every play. Very few teams successfully manage TO with a zone.
Keeping the safety in check keeps him from creeping up and thus masks the Eagles horrid running game.
That being said, TO won’t ever be happy. If Donovan is calling him out, you know TO’s impossible to get along with. Of course, TO did the same thing in SF as well.
Oh, and btw, I fully expect the Boys to bounce back next year and make the playoffs. Last yuear, teams were exploiting a week secondary and a bad pass rush. I think both have addressed. offense will still be tough for them, but if Julius Jones stays healthy, they can make a run. /hijack.
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Unfrickingreal. I read that post at least five times, making absolutely certain I was correct. And each and every time, I read “Pats” as “Pack”. :smack:
Yet another reason I’ll always lobby for the “five-minute edit” button.
They’ll continue the time-honored tradition of doing well enough to tempt the fans into dreaming before choking in that fashion so painfully familiar to all Philly sports fans.
Aw c’mon, it’s the middle of May. Bitch about the Phillies, not the football team. The Iggles can’t possibly lose any games until September, which is a good few months off still.
