vincent released, would you sign him as insurance?

[The BIGSTUD]

Regardless of whether we get Vincent or not, I think it is clear cut now what we are drafting in round 1 of next year's draft.

[Geowhizzer]

Regardless of whether we get Vincent or not, I think it is clear cut now what we are drafting in round 1 of next year's draft.

Of course it is.  OL.  It is still Andy Reid.

[The BIGSTUD]

Right, because we didn't draft defense in 3 of the last 4 drafts in the first roud.

[General_Failure]

And now that the D-line is shored up, it's time to replace those aging tackles. Again.

[The BIGSTUD]

They also need to look down the road for Dawk too. Combine that with Lewis stinking it up, I think safety is the way to go. You already have depth on the o-line.

[troyhstewart]

I'd sign Vincent.

I wouldn't shed a tear if Lewis was waived or traded this week. At the very least, they need to get somebody else on the field to play safety in their 4-1-6 nickel defense.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Vincent not in Eagles' plans

Saturday, October 14, 2006
BY MARK ECKEL
TIMES STAFF COLUMNIST

All Troy Vincent wanted was to get out of Buffalo, and when he finally could, he couldn't.

Vincent, who asked for his release from the Bills a week ago, got it Thursday when the team, which placed him on injured reserve-minor after Week 1 of the season, gave him his wish.

Then, the snowstorm hit.

"I'm stuck here," Vincent, the Trenton native, said from his cell phone yesterday afternoon. "The airport is closed. There's no power. It's freezing. I don't have any clothes with me except what I'm wearing. All I wanted to do was go home."

Home, as in Yardley, Pa., to his wife and children, not home to the Eagles, where he played for eight years and went to five Pro Bowls.

Since the Bills released him, Vincent has heard from and has had contact with close to a dozen teams; none of them call Lincoln Financial Field home.

"No, I'm not going back to the Eagles," he said. "You can let everyone know that. I'm getting the same calls you are. And I don't want to get anyone's hopes up."

Thursday night, I hosted a show on WIP (610 AM) and fielded several calls about whether Vincent would come back and how much sense it would make for both sides. Yesterday morning when I woke up, I was greeted with messages and e-mails along the same lines.

It's not happening.

Vincent will play again, and he could sign somewhere as soon as today. It's just not going to be with the Eagles.

"My time in Philly was great," he said. "It was fine, it was fun and it was full. But it's over. They have a good, young secondary there. My days there are finished. I'm not going to go back there and just be tolerated. I don't want to end up like Hugh Douglas. It didn't work for him when he went back and I don't think it would work for me."

It's going to work somewhere.

Vincent, while he tried to arrange a way home from Buffalo -- "I'm trying to get a private plane, a car, anything," he said -- contemplated his future.

"I'm getting a lot more attention now than when I was a free agent a few years ago," he said. "It's been crazy."

Price has a lot to do with that.

Buffalo is into Vincent for his entire $2.6 million contract this season. Any deal he signs with another team is just a bonus on top of that of $2.6 million.

"I guess I'm a bargain," the cornerback/safety said with a laugh.

He may come cheaper than normal, but he's not coming just for the rest of the season.

"I don't want to be a guy just to get you through the season," he said. "I told teams that. I want a two-year deal, minimum."

Vincent is 35. He'll be 36 next June and probably won't see a sixth Pro Bowl. He can be a huge addition to a team in need of a veteran leader, however, and still can be an excellent player in a nickel defense, whether at cornerback or free safety.

San Francisco, one of the teams that have called more than once, would put him right in its starting lineup.

But does he want to go 3,000 miles away from home to play for a team that has very little shot of making the playoffs, let alone getting him to his first Super Bowl?

"It's not about the money this time," Vincent said. "There are other things to consider."

Vincent would prefer to stay close to home, which makes the Giants, another team that has called, quite attractive. And he would like a shot for a ring, the only thing he has not gotten from this game, which makes Chicago and Seattle, two other interested teams, very intriguing.

Other teams that are on the list -- and it's probably grown as he waited in the Buffalo airport -- include Tampa Bay and Miami, the team he began his career with as a first-round pick in 1992.

Miami was the pick of many (me included) to go to the Super Bowl. The team has struggled and is off to a dismal 1-4 start.

Maybe a veteran such as Vincent is what the Dolphins need to kick-start the rest of their talent.

"Miami, where it all started," Vincent said. "Wouldn't that be interesting?"

Now this was written on Saturday - did yesterday change the Eagles' minds? I'm sure their minds are changed as far as Mike Lewis goes but only to start Sean Considine - not to sign Vincent.

[SD_Eagle5]

Vincent signs with the Skins

And yes, I purposely posted this in 3 places to piss certain members who will go un-named off.

[Butchers Bill]

Vincent signs with the Skins

And yes, I purposely posted this in 3 places to piss certain members who will go un-named off.

Haha!  The Skins signing another washed up veteran with nothing left.   

[Feva]

Vincent signs with the Skins

And yes, I purposely posted this in 3 places to piss certain members who will go un-named off.

Unreal.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I knew it. It was going to be there or Dallas, IMO.

[methdeez]

The skins are obviously signing him just to get our playbook.

[Don Ho]

The skins are obviously signing him just to get our playbook.

give um Mike Lewis' playbook.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

lock city

[hbionic]

lock city

That actually sounds like a good title for the next installment of Grant Theft Auto.