Comp Picks Announced (Eagles Get A 5th & 6th)

[hunt]

no, it was a horrible decision...burgess led the nfl in sacks & the eagles couldn't get near the qb all season.
at the time, the eagles were following their usual plug & pray strategy of not paying top dollar for guys and plugging in their cheaper backups & hoping they pan out.  and they didn't.

[SunMo]

i love hindsight, everyone is so smart then.

the guy hadn't stayed healthy since is rookie year, and he stayed healthy for this year.  good for him, good for the Raiders, but to rip the Eagles is so asinine.

[PhillyGirl]

hunt are you kidding me with this drivel?

Burgess played like 8 games in THREE SEASONS and wanted a big payday. He got one on a team willing to take a risk. The Eagles had already lost him for 2 full seasons and half of another. Sure, he showed some signs of being a solid player, especially in that playoff game vs. the Falcons. But that was no reason to pay the guy 30 mil on potential alone.

Had they done it and he got hurt again, you'd be whining and crying that the Eagles FO farged up.

[PhillyGirl]

i love hindsight, everyone is so smart then.

the guy hadn't stayed healthy since is rookie year, and he stayed healthy for this year.  good for him, good for the Raiders, but to rip the Eagles is so asinine.

amen.

[hunt]

i know you're all brainwashed but c'mon...admit it was a mistake.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Now we know it was a mistake, sure.  In fact, I'm going to find all the Eagles most recent mistakes for you.

[SunMo]

of course it was a bad decision, anyone can say that after the season was over.  but find me where you or anybody else was pissed that the Eagles let an injury prone DE go for the money the Raiders gave him, when it happened.  find me where you said that he would stay healthy this year and have a monster year like the Eagles had waited for 3 years for.  then, you get some credit.  but this whole crying over spilled milk thing, it's weak.

[ice grillin you]

Burgess played like 8 games in THREE SEASONS and wanted a big payday

it wasnt that big a payday for the talent they were getting

Sure, he showed some signs of being a solid player, especially in that playoff game vs. the Falcons

dont pretend it was one game as the eagles like to spin it...he was great his whole rookie year...yes the injuries were the issue but looking back and seeing he didnt get all that much money shows that it was indeed a mistake

Had they done it and he got hurt again, you'd be whining and crying that the Eagles FO farged up.

no way i would ever get mad for paying a player who has a chance to be great...jevon kearse had been hurt off and on for two years before the eagles signed him to a lot more cake than burgess...but i wouldnt for a second criticize that move even tho kearse has been less than stellar (burgess had more sacks last year than kearse does in his eagle career)

its going after guys that arent and dont have a chance to be good that i get pissed off about

[hunt]

whatever...it's a pointless argument now.
they had the guy for 4 years so you'd think they'd see his potential...even worse than letting him go was not adequately replacing him...much worse, imo.

btw, player evaluation is not my job...there are people on the eagles' staff who do that for a living...and they were wrong.

[SunMo]

you honestly think the Eagles didn't see what talent the guy had?

[PhillyGirl]

Kearse missed ONE season and then like 2 games the following season for unrelated injuries.

Burgess had a nice rookie season and then missed TWO ENTIRE SEASONS in a row, and then a good part of 2004 with the separated sternum.

Don't even compare the 2.

[ice grillin you]

kearse missed two games that year but was plagued all year with what people were saying were chronic foot injuries...and yes burgess missed more time but he also got paid tons less...so money vs time lost is actually comparable in this situation

[MadMarchHare]

Besides, I have a PhD.  That guarantees I'm an idiot.

I thought it was an MBA that guaranteed idiocy.

i got a good idea...dont trade the nfl sack leader for the worst qb in the nfl and then you dont have to worry about any of this

Yeah, because we all thought Burgess was not only going to stay healthy the whole season, but become the NFL sack leader.  Yeah, we really saw that coming.  Yeah.

An MBA guarantees medicority, a lemmings degree.  Only a true idiot would suffer through the indescribable assault 5 pompous, arrogant fargheads put one through because a) you work cheap and b) they had to suffer through it too.  At least an MBA has a defined endpoint, instead of waiting for 5 blowhards to tell you, yeah, OK, I guess you can be done.  It's amazing more grad students don't murder their entire committee, if not the entire department.

[MadMarchHare]

But I'm not bitter.

[MURP]

farg the Raiders for not giving Burgess more money.