Garcia - Eagle WR's seem like clones

[The BIGSTUD]

I say we'd be 9-7 with McNabb completely healthy, considering how many close games we lost. That is still 4 wins worse than the 2004 season. So where did those 4 wins go? Bad defense, and the TO distractions. If we actually had a pass rush, which we will in 2006(knock on wood) and no distractions, combined with McNabb being healthy, we'd be back to that 12-4/13-3 level last year.

My prediction is 11-5 for 2006, because like we all agreed on the division is better, and the schedule has some tough games. You have to judge each season in it's own right.

[Sgt PSN]

Don't think that TO being gone means that he won't be a distraction.  I'm willing to bet that for at least the first month of the season the team and coaching staff will be asked a few questions here and there regarding TO.  And if you thought that the TO debacle last year was annoying and wouldn't ever go away just wait until the week leading up to both Eagles/Girls games this year.  It's going to be a circus that PT Barnum would be envious of. 

GT YO EARPLGZ RDY!!

[Beermonkey]

Don't think that TO being gone means that he won't be a distraction.  I'm willing to bet that for at least the first month of the season the team and coaching staff will be asked a few questions here and there regarding TO.  And if you thought that the TO debacle last year was annoying and wouldn't ever go away just wait until the week leading up to both Eagles/Girls games this year.  It's going to be a circus that PT Barnum would be envious of. 

GT YO EARPLGZ RDY!!

If you think the over-analysis of every McNabb syllable & Andy Reid press conference cough is bad now, just wait until this comes out around training camp: T.O. to write semi truthful memoirs

This book's release pretty much guarantees that TO's stink will linger with this team for at least part of this season.

[shorebird]

If the NFC East has improved so substantially, and the teams are soooo much better than in 2002, then why isn't the East putting more teams in the playoffs and winning games in the playoffs??

The division put two teams in the playoffs and one of them lost to the eventual superbowl team from the NFC. Moderate personel upgrades combined with SIGNIFICANT coaching upgrades means that the division is MILES better than it was pre-2005. Claiming anything to the contrary is ridiculous.

Yeah, right. The division is miles better but yet the division winner gets thier asses handed to them 23-0 by Carolina in thier first game of the playoffs. MILES BETTER?!?!? I think not.

I'm not saying that the division hasn't improved, it has. Let's face it, it couldn't get much worse than it has 2-3 years ago. But all these goofballs in the press and elsewere saying how vastly it has improved, and then turning around and saying that the Eagles are at best a .500 team with a healthy McNabb is just plain crazy. So go ahead and jump on the "Eagles suck and the rest of the division is great" bandwagon. It's all the rage, and let's face it, if the press says it's so, then it has to be true.

For the record, I'll say the Eagles can definatly make 10-6, and could very well be a 11-5 team barring injury.

Yeah, I'm a homer, and I ain't talking about Simpson.

[rjs246]

So go ahead and jump on the "Eagles suck and the rest of the division is great" bandwagon. It's all the rage, and let's face it, if the press says it's so, then it has to be true.

Um, no. The Eagles don't suck and the rest of the division isn't 'great' but to assume that this team can go 11-5 in a division of universally improved teams is stupid.

For the record, I'll say the Eagles can definatly make 10-6, and could very well be a 11-5 team barring injury.

Yeah, I'm a homer, and I ain't talking about Simpson.

Homer, 10-6 should be considered a VERY successful year. 8-8 is expected. 9-7 is possible and optimistic.

[shorebird]

to assume that this team can go 11-5 in a division of universally improved teams is stupid.

To think that the rest of this league is "universally improved" is stupid, whatever universally means here. I'm taking a guess and saying that is means a bit more than the fact they've improved enough to have a shot at the playoffs.

I can't believe some of you guys, the Eagles go to the Superbowl, have one bad year because of injury and all the TO crap, and all of a sudden they are a .500 team. And on top of that, here we are on a Eagles board and I'm  listening to people say how good the farging Deadskins and the rest of the league are. Talk about being a Negaphilian. I'll take being called a homer any day of the week over that.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

11-5 isn't impossible, but it would pretty much require that every question mark on the team turns into a positive.

[ice grillin you]

11-5 isn't impossible

neither is 5-11

and thats the point

on both sides

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

neither is 5-11

and thats the point

I think a complete implosion like last year's would lead to no worse than another 6-10 campaign, and you're not going to convince me otherwise, because I'm in love with myself and my opinions!  EAT IT!!!

[rjs246]

neither is 5-11

and thats the point

on both sides

Exactly.

Shorebird, I'm not suggesting that the whole league has improved, I'm suggesting that the entire NFC East division has improved and are now competetive whereas in past years only one of the other teams was competetive. This isn't that hard to understand.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

This isn't that hard to understand.

I still don't understand, and I'd like a further detailed explanation from you.  Thanks in advance.

[Diomedes]

Pie charts!  I can't understand without pie charts!!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Mmmm... pie.... 

[SunMo]

And on top of that, here we are on a Eagles board and I'm  listening to people say how good the farging Deadskins and the rest of the league are. Talk about being a Negaphilian. I'll take being called a homer any day of the week over that.

i'd rather be realistic and risk being called a "negadelphian" by a homer

[General_Failure]

I'd rather add all those to the filter and watch you all bitch about it.