After a few days of practice, including one with pads, DeSean Jackson shared a few thoughts on his excitement for the Philadelphia Eagles offense.
Despite spending five of his prime years on a few other rosters, if you ask anyone, they’d tell you DeSean Jackson belongs with the Philadelphia Eagles. He just never looked right in those other jerseys.
Here’s a question for you. How many of you watched the Eagles win Super Bowl LII or watched Jason Kelce give what might be the most memorable speech in the history of victory parades and thought about guys like LeSean McCoy and DeSean Jackson? How many of you thought about ’10’ and ‘Shady’?
Well, ‘Shady’ McCoy is still in that football limbo better known as the Buffalo Bills, but Jackson’s returned to the place where his NFL career and legacy began.
In 2019, Jackson will have a chance to earn that elusive Super Bowl victory that he had to watch his former team win without him. If they are successful in doing so, Philly’s star signal caller, Carson Wentz, and all of those weapons will be much of the reason why.
Recently, ’10’ spoke with the Philly media to express some of his excitement.
"You have a ton of weapons, a ton of guys that can get open. It’s going to be hard to have another defense to have, literally, four or five different cover guys that can cover everybody… So, someone’s going to have a mismatch. Someone’s going to be open. Someone’s going to be able to take advantage of the opportunity every time (they) get to step out on the field and play this game. (Carson Wentz) has got his hands full because he’s going to have to figure out who’s open… But, I think that’s a great thing to have. You better have more weapons than less."
356 of Jackson’s 589 career receptions, 6,117 of his career 10,261 receiving yards, and 32 of his 53 career touchdowns came in an Eagles jersey. He’s home now, but while sharing the ball with the likes of Alshon Jeffery, Nelson Agholor, JJ Arcega-Whiteside, Zach Ertz, and Dallas Goedert in the passing game may limit some of his personal statistics slightly, if the Eagles capitalize on all of this potential we keep discussing, no one will care.
It sounds cliche, but it’s the truth. This version of DeSean Jackson is a little older than the one we remember, but he’s always been smart. Now, he’s become wise in the twilight of a brilliant career. Will he finally achieve the one victory that he so desperately seeks? Time will tell. First thing’s first though. Philly’s got to finish building a roster first.