Eagles release Simon

[Rome]

Well, for one thing, it means they'd have enough to finally trade for Urlacher if they chose to.

[rjs246]

Get Clarett!

[phattymatty]

Holy crap, TO just got traded.  Now we're well under the cap.

[SD_Eagle5]

Okay, here it is, the 'Left and yet our Defense was still outstanding team':

DE Hugh Douglas
DT Corey Simon
DT Bill Johnson
DE Derrick Burgess

SAM Carlos Emmons
MIKE Jeremiah Trotter
WIL Shawn Barber

CB Bobby Taylor
CB Troy Vincent
SS Damon Moore
FS Clinton Hart

[General_Failure]

That's a pretty good defense five years ago.

[Mad-Lad]

i just heard a bit from Mike Pattersson regarding the relase of Simon.  FFatPatt, you need to get your client used to being interviewed.  He said "you know" roughly 22 times in the span of a minute and a half.

he said corey was a really good guy, etc. but when asked how he knew Corey Mikey said he'd never met him.     hilarious (you know)

[SD_Eagle5]

That's a pretty good defense five years ago.

Scary good, which is exactly my point. We've released/not re-signed plenty of players yet our D has always performed at a high level.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i just heard a bit from Mike Pattersson regarding the relase of Simon.  FFatPatt, you need to get your client used to being interviewed.  He said "you know" roughly 22 times in the span of a minute and a half.

he said corey was a really good guy, etc. but when asked how he knew Corey Mikey said he'd never met him.     hilarious (you know)

Mike knows football.  Mike knows food.  He doesn't have time or need time for an extensive vocabulary.

[General_Failure]

It's a shame we never had a great backup FS to lose.

[Rome]

I agree with FFizzle.

Diction and communicating without using tags is for suckas.

Holla!

[Cerevant]

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?

There's a difference between "was a Pro Bowler" and "is a Pro Bowler".  He's not as good a player as he was when he made the Pro Bowl.

C

[PhillyPhreak54]

Two quotes that stood out to me from the write up on the Eagles site:

"I think Corey was more shocked than anybody else was," Rayburn said. "I guess it was something they had in the works. Nobody knew what they're doing. Nobody had the inside track on it."

That says a lot to me. Obviously the guys on the team kind of knew that Corey was being phased out. Hell everybody knew that just by watching Mike Patterson play. But the fact that they weren't shocked? Sounds as if Corey was really out of touch with the situation.

"It is a business," said defensive end Hugh Douglas. "A business decision was made and you just have to keep it movin'. Right now nothing really surprises me. We're happy for Corey. This is something he obviously wanted to do. He will land on his feet. Hopefully, he will go somewhere and can really just take off

So Corey obviously wanted to leave?

So much for the song and dance on Comcast last night about really wanting to stay in Philadelphia, huh? Good try Corey. You didn't fool me with that trying to make people feel sorry for you bit.

[WEST is GOD]

I'm far from someone who eats whatever Lurie and Banner feed me, but this move doesn't worry me one bit. Throughout an entire season he is not the team's best defensive tackle. Other DTs play harder and produce more for an entire season. Simon only produces in half of a season. He is inconsistent. There is not a HUGE dropoff with him and the other DTs. Plus the Eagles can do something with the 5 million we got back. Something to improve other areas. So you look at it as a small potential downgrade in an area we are deep in and a potential upgrade in an area we are thin in. We could get a WR or RB with that money. Or lock up some players long-term.

The Pats let Milloy go and won a Superbowl. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions. The Eagles will overcome this for sure. Simon is a solid DT, but one thing he is not is an impact player. He really doesn't impact the game all that much.

[Rome]

LOL.  Did you just compare Corey Simon and Lawyer Milloy?

Seriously, good one.




BTW: I'm not buying that this was a business decision whatsoever.  This was a decision based on production on the field.  Hollis, Patterson, Walker, Rayburn & Co. sweated their balls off during the off-season & training camp, played during three preseason games and were ultimately chosen over a guy who decided to take the summer off.

They produced while Simon sat in Florida eating bon-bons & drinking fru-fru drinks.

Sayonara, motherfarger and don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

[Cerevant]

BTW: I'm not buying that this was a business decision whatsoever.  This was a decision based on production on the field.

I agree.  If it were a business decision, they would have never tagged him in the first place.

C