Lito Sheppard - He Once Was An Eagle

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Westbrook is clearly "bitchmade"

[Diomedes]

He caves

[QB Eagles]

Bowen:

Defensive coordinator Jim Johnson meticulously rotated Lito Sheppard and Sheldon Brown in and out of the first-team defense in the first full-squad practice of training camp Friday.

"I guess that's what you get when you have an unresolved situation, you get rotated," Sheppard said afterward, in his first remarks to reporters since skipping the team's optional minicamp last month and hiring Drew Rosenhaus as his agent last week. Sheppard made it clear he still expects to be traded, perhaps any minute, though many NFL observers think he'll have to play well and stay healthy for the Eagles this season, then try to find a trade and new contract match in the offseason.

"My job is to come here and perform and play. I'll let my agent and the Eagles take care of everything else, and hopefully, we'll come up with something pretty soon," Sheppard said.

"I just want to go out and show everybody that I'm healthy, and I am who I say I am (an elite corner), and I can still play this game at a high level. I'm going to let that speak for itself."

Sheppard called the cornerback rotation "a mind game."

Asked if he could be happy as a nonstarter, Sheppard, a two-time Pro Bowler, said: "Of course not. I feel like I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, so why wouldn't I be starting?"

Asked specifically about wanting to be traded, Sheppard said: "It's not about me getting traded or any of that. But I want to make the situation right. However that is handled, I don't know."

[ice grillin you]

hes right...hes better than samuel and we all know hes better than sheldon...samuel is so far out of his league in trying to man up against wr's...hes a zone coverage guy and a pretty good one but hes not in lito shepherds league

and this is where the eagles farged up this whole situation...you cant sign a 30 million dollar guy and still keep a player on your team who is better than he is...but if youre dumb enough to do that you definitely dont give him litos position on the day you sign him...just a colassal farg up all around by andy reid

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I hate when they sign good players but already have good players.  Damn you, Andy!  Damn you indeed!

[ice grillin you]

your reading comprehension has really taken a hit lately...or its your natural inclanantion to act like a farging corksucker


nothing wrong with having three good corners...but you have them all battle out for the two starting positions...and open competition...you dont take away litos position for a guy thats never played a down for the team and isnt as a good a cover man...

i wasnt huge a fan of the signing to begin with because i think samuel is overrated due to the ne system but i also didnt complain because really you cant hate on signing one of the best free agents on the market...what i have said from the start is that they have treated lito like crap...not because they wont pay him...but because they took away his starting spot before any of these guys even hit a mini camp...its just not the way you treat your own players who are pro bowlers...how does look to the rest of the team?

what if they go out in training camp and sheldon and lito prove to be the better corners?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i wasnt huge a fan of the signing to begin with because i think samuel is overrated due to the ne system but i also didnt complain because really you cant hate on signing one of the best free agents on the market...what i have said from the start is that they have treated lito like crap...not because they wont pay him...but because they took away his starting spot before any of these guys even hit a mini camp...its just not the way you treat your own players who are pro bowlers...how does look to the rest of the team?

This doesn't make any sense at all.  You did complain, and you're still complaining.  You are hating on the signing, and you're saying Samuel is just a system player.

Have you personally witnessed how the Eagles are rotating the corners in with the first team?  I'm guessing that if IGY were the coach, Samuel would be the nickel back?

You simply find ways to be a little bitch about everything.  Cornerback is probably going to be one of the most solid positions on the team this year, but for some reason, you actually care that one of the three good players is less than thrilled about it.  Boo farging hoo.

The Eagles went out and got someone that can make plays on defense 16+ games a year.  Instead of going with the usual solid but unspectacular mold, they broke form and overpaid to get someone.  And yet you bitch like you're getting a cut of Lito's performance incentives.  Blah blah.

[ice grillin you]

do you live on the moon?

samuel is the starting left corner...reid announced it the day he signed him and he was at that position yesterday afternoon for the first practice


and you have no idea how many plays samuel makes this year...maybe hes a lock down corner i damn well sure hope he is for 30 million bucks...but hes never showed that before since hes played in a strictly zone defense system...he was great in that system but now hes gonna be on island...and none of us have any idea if he can handle that...we know lito can...and thats the problem...not with the signing itself but with the way they demoted lito for a guy who has never proven to be able to cover better in this defense...if their corners were sheldon and joselio hanson then yes samuel steps right in...but sheldon and lito believe they are at least as good and probably better than samuel is...and they have put in years with this franchise and now play second fiddle to this guy?...thats bullshtein

sorry i question these things that may actually effect how my team performs on the field instead of kowtowing to every move they make like you

[Rome]

Samuel will have at least eight picks this year.

[ice grillin you]

Samuel will have at least eight picks this year.

i smell another homer winning bet for me

how much?

[SD_Eagle5]

I'd have set the O/U at 7 and taken the under. I think he'll have 6 picks which is still better than what the birds had last season.

[SD_Eagle5]

FYI- Samuel went down at camp, it's being described as a hamstring injury. Don't think it's too severe. Go Lito.

[Feva]

I'd have set the O/U at 7 and taken the under. I think he'll have 6 picks which is still better than what the birds had last season.

Same.  I'll give him 5-6 picks... I think he'll have less opportunities than he had in NE because he can't just read and react all the time... but he does have excellent hands for a DB so he'll make the most out of his chances at INT's.

[PhillyPhreak54]

FYI- Samuel went down at camp, it's being described as a hamstring injury. Don't think it's too severe. Go Lito.

Yay!

[SD_Eagle5]

I'd have set the O/U at 7 and taken the under. I think he'll have 6 picks which is still better than what the birds had last season.

Same.  I'll give him 5-6 picks... I think he'll have less opportunities than he had in NE because he can't just read and react all the time... but he does have excellent hands for a DB so he'll make the most out of his chances at INT's.

Except in the superbowl but that game really doesn't matter