Eagles release Simon

[SunMo]

Where the farg do you people keep getting this "Pro Bowl" shtein?

Doesn't making it to the Pro Bowl make you a Pro Bowl calibur player?

i'm sure someone will say no.

[Sgt PSN]

Where the farg do you people keep getting this "Pro Bowl" shtein?

Doesn't making it to the Pro Bowl make you a Pro Bowl calibur player?

No.  It means you had a pro bowl caliber year. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Alstott made how many Pro Bowls as a "fullback"?  Those were good times.


Simon made did make one Pro Bowl, yes.

He did not play in any manner that could be construed as "Pro Bowl caliber" in 2004.

[phattymatty]

No. How many pro bowls has Sapp been to? Undoubtedly more than he deserved.

Wow, nice logic.  I guess Simon won the lucky Pro Bowl lottery.

[rjs246]

Westbrook made the probowl last year and I can easily name 7-8 better running backs. Easily.

[TexasEagle]

Um, hello... if Simon negotiates with another team, gets a contract and signs with them and the Eagles get draft picks in return. So they'd have traded Simon for the picks because he's still, technically, Eagles property while tagged. Not to mention that he still needs the other team to sign him. He can't just go to a  team and say "sign me and give me this" and they'll say "ok". It doesn't work like that.

Since he priced himself out of every market he needed the Eagles to play ball with him. They took their ball and went home. Now Simon's free to do whatever he wants but he still needs a new team to sign him and he'll still have to play by their rules or not play. He can't tell them he'll just show up in week five. They'd laugh him out of the city.

Prior to them lifting the tag, Simon needed to do things a certain way, he didn't have carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do otherwise he'd have gotten a deal he wanted by now. In the end it's still the teams that make the rules, not Simon.

[ice grillin you]

Doesn't making it to the Pro Bowl make you a Pro Bowl calibur player?

that was before he stopped bowing down to the front office and became fat lazy selfish and a worse person than randy moss

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The fact is that Simon has Pro Bowl talent and minor league conditioning, and it was always a bit of a crapshoot as to which one would overtake the other.  More often than not, it was somewhere in the middle.

[ice grillin you]

Since he priced himself out of every market he needed the Eagles to play ball with him. They took their ball and went home. Now Simon's free to do whatever he wants but he still needs a new team to sign him and he'll still have to play by their rules or not play. He can't tell them he'll just show up in week five. They'd laugh him out of the city.

this is what kills me...yous people care more about simon getting screwed in this whole scenario than you care about how it may effect the eagles and their quest for a sb this year

[phattymatty]

He disagreed with the FO so I hope his house burns down and his family gets killed because he deserves it.

[rjs246]

He disagreed with the FO so I hope his house burns down and his family gets killed because he deserves it.

See? Now that's the spirit! Now go over to General and help me root for death and destruction in the Hurricane thread.

[Tomahawk]

Doesn't making it to the Pro Bowl make you a Pro Bowl calibur player?

that was before he stopped bowing down to the front office and became fat lazy selfish and a worse person than randy moss

I didn't say he is a worse person than Randy Moss. As I know neither man personally, I would not feel too terribly comfortable assessing eithers personal worth.

What I do know is Moss takes plays off. Simon played hard only when he felt like it. Not exactly the same, but a limited comparison is warranted.

[TexasEagle]

Since he priced himself out of every market he needed the Eagles to play ball with him. They took their ball and went home. Now Simon's free to do whatever he wants but he still needs a new team to sign him and he'll still have to play by their rules or not play. He can't tell them he'll just show up in week five. They'd laugh him out of the city.

thsi is what kills me...yous people care more about simon getting screwed in this whoe scenario than you care about how it may effect the eagles and their quest for a sb this year

I'm going to try and decipher your butchery of the english language enough to reply...

I think the Defense will be fine without Simon. The guy isn't Kris Jenkins. He's been good to marginal since his rookie year and hasn't always pulled his weight (no pun intended). Patterson may, or may not, be better than Simon, but putting the team on hold while waiting for Simon to waddle back into camp isn't good for the team in any way, shape, or form.

People last year said the Eagles couldn't make the SB without TO. They did.

Two years back they said they'd never make the NFCCG three years in a row. They did.

Three back they said they'd never make it to the playoffs with McNabb gone for the rest of the regular season. They did.

I'm well past the point of worrying about one player being let go dragging the entire team into mediocrity. If Simon was concerned about helping the Eagles win, he'd have signed the tender and come to camp. Since he didn't, life goes on. I root for the team, and the team's been out there working hard to get back to the SB. Simon hasn't been a part of that for a good long while, so I'm not about to cry about him not signing his $5.1 mil offer and being released. Sorry.

[Rome]

He disagreed with the FO so I hope his house burns down and his family gets killed because he deserves it.

That goes without saying.

[TempleOwl]

Simon sucks, and now he's gone.  what impact does his "potential $5 million contract have on the cap?  Can someone explain that a little better than the free agent description please...?