trotter cut

[SD_Eagle5]

didn't Giather say he bulked up to 243? Thought I saw that recently, Inky maybe?

He said that during the Trot PC

[ice grillin you]

considine is a bitch
thats his problem
not that hes to small
gaddis cant get ready soon enough

unless the DT's miraculously play above whats expected of them i dont see much changing with this run defense

[PhillyPhanInDC]

PFT.com stirring the pot:

POSTED 9:33 a.m. EDT, August 23, 2007

TROTTER RELEASE SPARKING LOCKER ROOM REVOLT?

We're hearing rumblings that the release of linebacker Jeremiah Trotter has sparked a locker-room revolt against management.

Trotter was regarded as a T.O. guy -- an in-house supporter of the talented but troublemaking wideout who disrupted the team in 2005 as he tried to get more money.  And, as we hear it, some of the guys on the team who are the most upset about Trotter's release are the other T.O. sympathizers.

But it's not just the remaining pro-T.O. crowd that is unhappy about Trotter being gone.  Quarterback Donovan McNabb has expressed his own questions about the move.

"The decision that was made was from the ones upstairs," McNabb said at a press conference on Wednesday.  "But as a player, I just didn't see it at all.  And I don't think any of us saw it.

"Sometimes when you get injured people may say you lost a step.  But as you get older you get wiser and you understand more about the game.  You begin to understand more about your strengths and weaknesses and you play to your strengths and [Trotter] continued to do that.  He played well.

"It's unfortunate what happened but I think this is a test for not only the older guys but a test for the younger guys."

It would be easy to assume that McNabb is speaking out because he knows that he could be the 2008 version of Trotter.  Maybe there are multiple motivations at work here, with McNabb thinking about about his own interests down the road, and the team's interests right now.

There is some suspicion that the release of Trotter was driven by coach Andy Reid's desire to justify keeping linebacker Matt McCoy, a second-round pick in 2005 who was yet to crack the starting lineup.  If Trotter had stayed, McCoy could have been the odd man out.  McCoy currently is listed as a backup at the weakside linebacker position.

Regardless of the motivation, folks who wear the uniform apparently aren't pleased.  Whether it affects the team's performance in any way is a different issue.  We doubt that it will, but we think that Reid needs to do some in-house damage control in order to get past this one.

I will say this, I watched part of that interview on Total Access last night, and Donovan did have some pretty incendiary comments. Something along the lines of "He lost weight, they asked him to do that, and he did it. He was in great shape, and was flying all over the field. He looked like his old self. Had a great camp, played well in to preseason games....it was something I didn't expect. It something that could take days or weeks to get over." He kept saying over and over how shocked the whole team is.  When asked, "You play against him in practice, you see him all the time, did he look like slowed down at all?" His answer, "No. Not at all. The decision was made by the ones upstairs."

The McCoy thing is a reach, although I wouldn't put it past Reid and Co to think that McCoy is coming along and will eventually replace Spikes.

Ha. Listening to the whole interview on PE.com, and the media are asking McNabb about Trot, and farging Spadaro keeps trying to steer it into something else. Sounds like a complete ass.

[Feva]

considine is a bitch
thats his problem
not that hes to small
gaddis cant get ready soon enough

Agreed on all counts.  I was just pointing out how folks have said that he looks bigger and got some to buy into the hype.

[Wingspan]

PFT.com stirring the pot:

POSTED 9:33 a.m. EDT, August 23, 2007

TROTTER RELEASE SPARKING LOCKER ROOM REVOLT?

We're hearing rumblings that the release of linebacker Jeremiah Trotter has sparked a locker-room revolt against management.

Trotter was regarded as a T.O. guy -- an in-house supporter of the talented but troublemaking wideout who disrupted the team in 2005 as he tried to get more money.  And, as we hear it, some of the guys on the team who are the most upset about Trotter's release are the other T.O. sympathizers.

But it's not just the remaining pro-T.O. crowd that is unhappy about Trotter being gone.  Quarterback Donovan McNabb has expressed his own questions about the move.

"The decision that was made was from the ones upstairs," McNabb said at a press conference on Wednesday.  "But as a player, I just didn't see it at all.  And I don't think any of us saw it.

"Sometimes when you get injured people may say you lost a step.  But as you get older you get wiser and you understand more about the game.  You begin to understand more about your strengths and weaknesses and you play to your strengths and [Trotter] continued to do that.  He played well.

"It's unfortunate what happened but I think this is a test for not only the older guys but a test for the younger guys."

It would be easy to assume that McNabb is speaking out because he knows that he could be the 2008 version of Trotter.  Maybe there are multiple motivations at work here, with McNabb thinking about about his own interests down the road, and the team's interests right now.

There is some suspicion that the release of Trotter was driven by coach Andy Reid's desire to justify keeping linebacker Matt McCoy, a second-round pick in 2005 who was yet to crack the starting lineup.  If Trotter had stayed, McCoy could have been the odd man out.  McCoy currently is listed as a backup at the weakside linebacker position.

Regardless of the motivation, folks who wear the uniform apparently aren't pleased.  Whether it affects the team's performance in any way is a different issue.  We doubt that it will, but we think that Reid needs to do some in-house damage control in order to get past this one.

I will say this, I watched part of that interview on Total Access last night, and Donovan did have some pretty incendiary comments. Something along the lines of "He lost weight, they asked him to do that, and he did it. He was in great shape, and was flying all over the field. He looked like his old self." He kept saying over and over how shocked the whole team is.

The McCoy thing is a reach, although I wouldn't put it past Reid and Co to think that McCoy is coming along and will eventually replace Spikes.

Well it's been 48 hours of the media chumming the waters...this was bound to happen.

I think the media in general are surprised at the lacadasical reaction of the fans and they keep trying to get this into a frenzy.

[ThirdStreetMafia]

I'm so tired of the trotter stuff already... I understand that everybody loved the guy, but thats a bias they need to get over. Trot was a liability, i personally didnt think he looked any different at camp or in preseason than he did last year.

[rjs246]

Could McNabb whine some more about stuff please?

[ThirdStreetMafia]

Could McNabb whine some more about stuff please?

seriously, maybe he should just delegate that his mother!

[rjs246]

Every year its the same shtein. Some veteran gets cut and everyone whines and pisses and moans and McNabb always seems to have his two cents and he always sounds like someone ran over his puppy. Jesus.

[ice grillin you]

mcnabb aint whining...hes finally showing some fire....i love it...pretty staggering comments if you think about it

and it aint no locker room revolt...its the players upset over a dear teammate getting cut...why cant players get pissed off and still do their jobs...its called being a professional

[ThirdStreetMafia]

the underlying tone is always... "this is my team, I'm the leader of this team"... "if they ever do this to me, i'll tell my mom, and she'll tell dad, and we'll all be pouting about it for the next 5 years"

[Wingspan]

mcnabb aint whining...hes finally showing some fire....i love it...pretty staggering comments if you think about it

and it aint no locker room revolt...its the players upset over a dear teammate getting cut...why cant players get pissed off and still do their jobs...its called being a professional

I'll be willing to bet that all these players will still play come week 1.

[ice grillin you]

Every year its the same shtein. Some veteran gets cut and everyone whines and pisses and moans and McNabb always seems to have his two cents and he always sounds like someone ran over his puppy. Jesus.

mcnabb has never done this before....hes always like oh well thats how the nfl works...towing the company line ALWAYS

i cant speak for anyone else but ive been highly critical of him being attached to andys hip for the last 8 years years....now that hes doing this you cant have it both ways and says hes whining...thus i applaud him....i just wish this had happened a long time ago

i like how he said if we make the superbowl trot will be in our minds...hopefully he uses this to instill some fire in his belly (instead of puke and bile) and the team as a whole uses it as a rally cry...

bring it home for jerome (and trotter)

[rjs246]

I'll have it both ways and like it.

[ThirdStreetMafia]

Ive seen posts on here about him meeting with Tampa Bay today, but I havent seen that anywhere else. Where did that come from?

Oh and someone else mentioned on here that he was meeting with them for a backup position... if thats true, I really do have issues with them letting him go