Lito Sheppard - He Once Was An Eagle

[shorebird]

I think he and Dawk and the rest of the secondary need to remember that tackling is not a shoulder-spearing exhibition. [b[ The arms are to be used as well, specifically to be wrapped around the defender at the moment of contact[/b]

I wonder when they forgot how to do this.

[Feva]

I think he and Dawk and the rest of the secondary need to remember that tackling is not a shoulder-spearing exhibition.  The arms are to be used as well, specifically to be wrapped around the defender at the moment of contact

Hell yeah.

I can think of examples all through the game, but the one that sticks out the most to me is the final TD on the screen to Hightower.  He gets near the goal line and has Bradley going at his legs.  Demps is coming down, running parallel to the goal line and just lays his shoulder into Hightower.  He has to know that there IS NO WAY he can let him cross the goal line and wrap him up so he doesn't bounce off of him and fall into the end zone like he did.

I love this defense for the most part, but that is something that has always bothered me over the years about them is their tackling.  They seem to miss a lot.

[Diomedes]

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20090223_Eagles_-_Expect_some_free-agent_decision_from_Eagles_this_week.html

To the outside observer, Friday's signing of Hanson would seem likely to signal the pending trade of disgruntled corner Lito Sheppard. After all, the Eagles expect to gain the services of Jack Ikegwuono, the corner they were able to draft in the fourth round last year, instead of the first or second, because he was coming off serious knee surgery.

Of course, Banner disagreed with that assessment.

"We're open to trading [Sheppard] if we get the right value," Banner said. "Quality cornerbacks are a valuable asset."

Sheppard, replaced as a starter by Asante Samuel and disappointed at not getting traded last year, played far below his two-time Pro Bowl level. By the end of the season, he wasn't playing at all. One would think the price tag would have come down from a year ago, when the Birds were said to have been seeking a first- or high second-round pick for Sheppard.

"I don't really think it is [lower]," Banner said. "His value to us is the same. If we went into training camp and one of our starting corners went down and we'd given away Lito Sheppard, we'd look like idiots."

If Banner is serious, he's an Eagle next year as well because no one is going to give much for him.

So the Eagles are looking at a CB corps of Samuel, Brown, Hanson, Ikegwuono and Sheppard...pretty solid.

[ice grillin you]

banner is a farging moron

and i hope the next philly writer or sportscaster who mentions jack ikegwuono in the mix for a corner spot gets fired...its so beyond absurd that i dont understand how they keep their jobs and talk about that guy...and i always hear it...

forget the fact that the guy had a heinous knee injury and come opening day will not have played a meaningful football game in almost two years...but im pretty sure the eagles took him with the intention of him being a safety...even before his injury there were big questions as to whether he could be a corner in the nfl..


but none of that matters and all of a sudden lito is expendable because of this chump...seriously do these people even follow the team they cover

[Seabiscuit36]

I buy my sticky from Jack Ikewonego

[SD_Eagle5]

[DH]

Wow, I actually never noticed the yay on the table...idiot.

[Tomahawk]

Might be, but I think it's just some chopped up pills

[ice grillin you]

its grounded up pills...probably adderall

[reese125]

I wish I laughed like that when Im geared up

[Diomedes]

no shtein, those boys are having a good time

[General_Failure]

They're probably watching C-SPAN.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

its grounded up pills...probably adderall

it'll be a coup when they start selling ADHD drugs that can't be abused

[rjs246]

it'll be a coup when they stop inventing diseases that only serve to keep us all over medicated

[Cerevant]

its grounded up pills...probably adderall

it'll be a coup when they start selling ADHD drugs that can't be abused

Its called Strattera

it'll be a coup when they stop inventing diseases that only serve to keep us all over medicated

So, you take a hyperactive kid, give him some speed and he calms down.  Sounds perfectly normal to me.