Eagles Front Office MISTAKES!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

List 'em here.  Don't even think about listing anything good they did.  Show off your 20/20 hindsight and let your anger out.  It will be therapeutic.

I'll start with a few.

• Signing Mike McMahon instead of a more proven backup.
• Trading for Terrell Owens and actually thinking they could keep him under control.
• Allowing future NFL sack leader Derrick Burgess to walk during free agency due to injury history.
• Trading for Mark Simoneau as the answer at any starting linebacker position.
• Signing Dhani Jones to replace Carlos Emmons.

And some draft whoopsies:

• Drafted Sean Considine at #102 overall in 2005 with Kyle Orton, Marion Barber, Brandon Jacobs, and speedster Jerome Mathis all coming off the board within the next 20 picks.
• Drafted Matt Ware at #89 overall in 2004 with Matt Schaub, Demorrio Williams, Samie Parker, and Nathan Vasher all coming off the board within the next 25 picks.
• Drafted J.R. Reed at #129 overall in 2004 instead of Gibril Wilson, taken at #136 overall by the Giants.
• Traded up in the first round in 2003 to draft DE Jerome McDougle.  Could have given up much less to move up and get Larry Johnson or Dallas Clark, or could have stayed put and taken Anquan Boldin or Osi Umeniyora, both taken well into round 2.
• Following the last point, if they'd kept that other 2nd rounder that they traded with SD to move up, they could have drafted Nate Burleson or Kevin Curtis with that other pick.
• Drafted Billy McMullen at #95 overall in 2003 with Domanick Davis, Lee Suggs, Jeremi Johnson, and Asante Samuel all coming off the board within the next 25 picks.

I'm spent.  I'm sure some of you want to get in on this while it's hot.

[MURP]

It will be therapeutic.

liar

[MadMarchHare]

Promoting Rich Kotite?

[hunt]

all this because of burgess?


wowee!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

all this because of burgess?

Nope.  All of this because you and others think that the Eagles front office should be able to look back on every single decision and know it has become the right decision.  Forget how it looked at the time the decision was made.

Basically, it's for people that will criticize a seemingly-bad decision made at the time it's made, but never acknowledge after-the-fact, when the decision has proven to be correct... and yet also look back on decisions that seemed very reasonable at the time they were made and fire daggers when they prove to be wrong.

You like to look at everything in as bad a light as possible, so here's a thread for it.  Enjoy.

[ice grillin you]

all this because of burgess?

i think people are more on edge over getting that 5th round comp pick rather than the 4th

dumb nfl is so unfair

[SunMo]

all this because of burgess?

i think people are more on edge over getting that 5th round comp pick rather than the 4th

dumb nfl is so unfair

art?

[hunt]

so, yeah...it's because the eagles farged up with burgess.

ok.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Any more to add?  Or did I pretty much sum up the outright stupidity of our crappy FO?

[SunMo]

man....somebody pissed in everybody's cheerios this morning.

i suggest we all put our heads on our desks for a 15 minute nap and comeback with fresh new attitudes.

[ice grillin you]

the matt ware and considine picks were atrocious not because of who was left on the board at the time but because any idiot could see that both of them suck

[rjs246]

According to several people, the Eagles had Ware rated as a 2nd rounder and were ecstatic when he fell to the third.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Matt Ware had been going in the first round of a few mock drafts with very few having him falling out of the 2nd, so plenty of idiots did not see that he sucked and was undeserving of being picked in the late 3rd round.

[ice grillin you]

thats makes it even more scary

ware was the ultimate tweener...way to slow and inflexible to be a corner and to frail to be a safety...he was a classic college player whos game had no chance of translating to the nfl

[RezRob]

Important question. MHunt who is that broad w/tha cans