Comments on: Evaluating the Eagles: Part III

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:25:19 +0000

Tony – You are 100% correct. They have not done an adequate job of surrounding McNabb with talent. Hopefully, they learned their lesson by watching Fitzgerald abuse them that “real” talent is needed to win championships.

pj – Baskett is raw, but he has displayed improvement each year. He deserves more opportunities, but Reid uses so many personnel packages he often gets lost in the mix.

By: pj134

pj134 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:44:23 +0000

Baskett has incredible physical talent, we just don’t use him right. He’s big, has a long, fast stride and can jump like a mofo. just need to use him on deep routes and he will outrun most. he needs to work on his hands, he’s still raw and barely played in college right? we have to give him more tries.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000

The Eagles are incredibly stubborn with their receivers. That’s why I anticipate Lewis and Brown to be back. It took a career ending injury to get rid of Pinkston and some stupid comments during the Super Bowl to get rid of “what’s his name” from UCLA.

Alot of mock drafts have the Eagles picking up Pettigrew from OK St. and Moreno from Georgia. That would make too much sense. I fully expect the Eagles to pick up nothing but Lineman in the first round. And I can hear Andy Reid now, ” We are very pleased with what we have at the wide receiver and tight end position right now.”

McNabb has played his entire career with sub-par skill players and in my opinion, looking back at all these drafts, the Eagles have done a tremendous disservice to McNabb by being stubborn or blind and not getting him the help he deserves.

You want to see what good skill players can do? Just look at Arizona. They, as a team, were not that good. But when you have two stud receivers, a good QB, and good role players than you win. Bottom line. I hope the Eagles surprise us in this draft, in a good way.