With the First Pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles Select...

[ice grillin you]

Didn't you guys hug in when you met?
You obviously should have just indian-wrestled for supremecy right then and there.

never met that scumbag and never will...anyway he doesnt leave ma dooks basement

[Sgt PSN]

And also hating the fact that I'm short and white, thus hindering my ability to play college ball. I'm an inch shorter, a pound heavier, and I was only a tenth of a second slower when I graduated. That's probably up to like 3 seconds slower now but it's all good..

shut the farg up cranial lump...youre a farging acne scarred white trashed out guitar playing metalica listening parliament smoking douchebag who didnt even play high school football

He was an AssBack.  Everytime he ran out on the field, the coach said "MUNSON!  Get your ass back on the bench!"

BTW, Metallica rocks.  

[Seabiscuit36]

shut the farg up cranial lump...youre a farging acne scarred white trashed out guitar playing metalica listening parliament smoking douchebag who didnt even play high school football

Hey, Dont lump Paliaments and Metallica with Munson.  I can do good bumps of pedico with the Paliaments, and Metallica helps me kill the homeless

[Dillen]

Would you rather he was 6'1" but a mediocre player?  There are "big" receivers in this draft, too.

Word. I've seen people say they'd rather have someone bigger, but for some odd reason actual skill level isn't considered. See if he can play and what he can do. Then worry about size.

[shorebird]

If you hear any noise......it's just me and the boys.....

Please, DeSean........instant return man..........fast as anything what we don't now have.

[Don Ho]

period between super bowl and nfl draft > than waiting for a flight to Maui on Aloha Airlines.

thank god we only have less than two weeks before we can all get jacked about the birds picks just to turn around a year later and rip the FO a second icehole for not picking player x, y and z.  well we do that irregardless.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I was only a tenth of a second slower when I graduated.

[Munson]

LOL...yeah, i'm sure you didn't make it to the big time because you were white...there hasn't been a good white player in what?  50 years?

That was a joke, buddy. I didn't make it cause I wasn't good enough to play anything more then Division III ball . But being tall and black could have helped.

IGY, I love how much you assume you know about me. I'm a poor white college student who's never smoked a day in my life, and I played football 14 out of the 20 years I've existed.  Including all 4 years of high school. So stop assuming, you fat wanna-be piece of shtein. Go kill yourself, you contribute nothing to society but your insane ability to talk in circles and somehow think you're right. The world would have been a better place if your mother took that load to the face instead of the ovaries.


And Metallica owns anything you listen you.  Period.

And I know its hard to believe FF, but not every Eagles fan is an overweight unathletic freak of nature. I ran a 4.46 the summer before senior year. Of course that was over 2 years ago...So I don't think I'll be returning kicks for the Eagles anytime soon.
I really hope Jackson can put on 10 pounds or so without losing his speed...he's gonna get killed returning kicks weighing 169 pounds.

[SD_Eagle5]

LOL...yeah, i'm sure you didn't make it to the big time because you were white...there hasn't been a good white player in what?  50 years?

That was a joke, buddy. I didn't make it cause I wasn't good enough to play anything more then Division III ball . But being tall and black could have helped.

IGY, I love how much you assume you know about me. I'm a poor white college student who's never smoked a day in my life, and I played football 14 out of the 20 years I've existed.  Including all 4 years of high school. So stop assuming, you fat wanna-be piece of shtein. Go kill yourself, you contribute nothing to society but your insane ability to talk in circles and somehow think you're right. The world would have been a better place if your mother took that load to the face instead of the ovaries.

must have hit her pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?

[SD_Eagle5]

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Reid Has Excelled in Later Rounds

by Jared Sherman
ComcastSportsNet.com Contributor

As the Andy Reid-era closes in on its 10th NFL draft, let's take a look at some of the highlights, lowlights and trends of Big Red's draft career.

HIGHLIGHTS

Donovan McNabb
Despite the pressure being applied by local talk show hosts, the mayor, and every other Tom, D and Vinnie on the street to take Texas RB Ricky "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" Williams, Reid took his man from Syracuse.

What makes this pick even more impressive is the fact that there were so many top QB's in that season's draft, and Reid chose the best of the bunch. Tim Couch went first to the Cleveland Browns, but Reid still had his choice of Oregon's Akili Smith (bust), UCLA's Cade McNown (bust), and Central Florida's Daunte Culpepper (helped by Carter/Moss).

And we all know the Williams story.

2002 Draft Class
After a botching 2001's early picks, Reid came back strong in '02 with perhaps his best class ever. With the careers of Bobby Taylor and Troy Vincent winding down, Reid drafted three-quarters of his Super Bowl starting secondary in Lito Sheppard, Michael Lewis and Sheldon Brown.

Reid followed that up with arguably the best pick of the entire draft – Brian Westbook.

Running backs William Green, T.J. Duckett, DeShaun Foster, Maurice Morris and Ladell Betts were all selected before the Eagles snatched the Villanova product late in the third round.

Trivia: Who was last running back taken in the 2002 draft before the Eagles drafted Westbrook? Hint – it's a former Eagle.

Rounds four through six yielded busts in Arizona State center Scott Peters, Alabama wide receiver Freddie Milons and Notre Dame linebacker Tyreo Harrison, but Reid struck again in the seventh-round by selecting another local guy in Temple DE Raheem Brock.

Unfortunately the Eagles managed to run out of cash to sign Brock and had to let him loose. He signed with Indianapolis and became a fixture at DT.

Building Depth
For as much as Reid gets grief about blowing his early selections, credit must be given when it comes to building depth through the draft. Contrast the Eagles with the taterskins, who have given away their draft picks and subsequently have had little depth.

Reid has managed to select contributors in the middle rounds.

In the fourth round the Eagles picked up safeties Damon Moore (1999), J.R. Reed (2004) and Sean Considine (2005), running back Correll Buckhalter (2001), and linemen John Welbourn (1999) and Todd Herremans (2005).

In the fifth round Reid has found QB A.J. Feeley (2001), fullback Thomas Tapeh (2004), defensive end Trent Cole (2005), linebacker Omar Gaither (2006) and tight end Brent Celek (2007).

Even in the sixth round the Eagles have received contributions from fullback Cecil Martin (1999), defensive back Dexter Wynn (2004) and defensive tackle LaJuan Ramsey (2006).

LOWLIGHTS

The Second Round
For someone unknown reason the second round of the draft tends to be a black hole for Reid. This pick should be a long-time starter, or at least a productive contributor, but in five of Reid's nine drafts the second round has produced little to nothing:

1999 – LB Barry Gardner (next two picks were LB Mike Peterson and OT Jon Jansen)
2000 – WR Todd Pinkston (Laveranues Coles would have been nice)
2001 – Quinton Caver (The Range Rover played like a Kia)
2005 – Matt McCoy (Channing Crowder and Kirk Morrison were next 2 LBs selected)
2006 – Winston Justice (poor man's Antone Davis?) The jury is still out.

Wide Receivers
For a coach who loves to throw the ball so much Reid sure has a hard time finding guys who can catch it. The number of career catches as an Eagle is in parentheses.

1999 – Na Brown (34) Troy Smith (1)
2000 – Todd Pinkston (184) Gari Scott (2)
2001 – Freddie Mitchell (90)
2002 – Freddie Milons (0)
2003 – Billy McMullen (22)
2005 – Reggie Brown (150)
2006 – Jason Avant (30) Jeremy Bloom (0)

BIGGEST BUSTS

WR Freddie Mitchell
In 2001 the Eagles were coming off an impressive season where a young McNabb had taken control of the team and they had won a playoff game. What they lacked were playmakers surrounding McNabb. Torrance Small and Charles Johnson were the starting wide receivers, and tight end Chad Lewis was the top pass catcher. Reid went against his nature and selected a wide receiver with his first pick (25th overall) in the draft.

Ugh.

Mitchell certainly had the aura of a top receiver. Cockiness was not lacking here. Unfortunately there weren't many catches to back it up. Hollywood didn't have the speed to separate at this level, or the trust of his QB.

Eventually Mitchell, after only 90 catches, talked and underperformed his way out of Philadelphia despite being part of two of the most memorable plays in recent Eagles' history – the fouth-and- 26 catch against Green Bay in the 2003 playoffs, and the miraculous 60-yard reception that followed a 14-second McNabb scramble against Dallas in 2004.

To add insult to injury, here are the next six wide receivers selected after Mitchell (career catches in parentheses).

Reggie Wayne (494) – Indianapolis Colts
Quincy Morgan (164) – Cleveland Browns
Chad Johnson (559) – Cincinnati Bengals
Robert Ferguson (148) – Green Bay Packers
Chris Chambers (440) – Miami Dolphins
Steve Smith (431) – Carolina Panthers

DE Jerome McDougle
The Eagles traded up 15 spots (from 30 to 15) with San Diego and gave up their second of two second-round picks for the undersized DE from Miami (FL) and have received a total of three sacks in his injury-marred career.

McDougle has sustained injuries in every season since joining the Eagles and has played only 33 games in five seasons. Unfortunately the moment McDougle will be best known for on the field is his bone-headed penalties during the gut-wrenching loss to Tampa Bay in 2006.

LB Quinton Caver
The big, rangy second-round pick from Arkansas was going to be a star in Philadelphia, where the linebacking corps entering the 2001 season desperately needed athleticism on the weak side.

At 6-4, 240 Caver was nicknamed "Range Rover" for the amount of ground he could cover, but what came abundantly clear to the coaching staff was that the Range Rover lacked a GPS system. Once during training camp, defensive coordinator Jim Johnson to remarked that the Range Rover had a "flat tire."

Add to that his lack of enthusiasm for special teams in Philly and you get a bust.

Caver managed only seven solo tackles in his 16 games as an Eagle before moving on to Kansas City and Dallas where he played middling special teams until 2005.

Trivia Answer:

Lamar Gordon. The Rams selected Gordon out of North Dakota State with the 84th selection. Westbrook was taken seven picks later.

Jared Sherman has been contributing NFL draft stories to ComcastSportsNet.com since 2000.

E-mail Jared Sherman

[ice grillin you]

LOL...yeah, i'm sure you didn't make it to the big time because you were white...there hasn't been a good white player in what?  50 years?

That was a joke, buddy. I didn't make it cause I wasn't good enough to play anything more then Division III ball . But being tall and black could have helped.

IGY, I love how much you assume you know about me. I'm a poor white college student who's never smoked a day in my life, and I played football 14 out of the 20 years I've existed.  Including all 4 years of high school. So stop assuming, you fat wanna-be piece of shtein. Go kill yourself, you contribute nothing to society but your insane ability to talk in circles and somehow think you're right. The world would have been a better place if your mother took that load to the face instead of the ovaries.

must have hit her pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?

pretty much...weve all seen munsons kind and you dont have to have met him to know exactly what he is....


hes basically the rock version of eminem in eight mile...being a trashed out loser is one thing...but with these last several posts dook also clearly has serious emotional and possibly mental issues on top of everything else


munson > desean jackson

[Rome]

Can we talk some more about munson please?

[methdeez]

It's not even a question with people anymore that McNabb is a far better QB thane Culpepper, right?

[methdeez]

Reggie Wayne (494) – Indianapolis Colts
Quincy Morgan (164) – Cleveland Browns
Chad Johnson (559) – Cincinnati Bengals
Robert Ferguson (148) – Green Bay Packers
Chris Chambers (440) – Miami Dolphins
Steve Smith (431) – Carolina Panthers

This makes me ill....
We coulda had quincy morgan!

[Wingspan]

It's not even a question with people anymore that McNabb is a far better QB thane Culpepper, right?

Sure it is....let's argue about it for 5 days.