The 2007 Offseason Thread

[Wingspan]

Kevin Curtis is a free agent signing by a team that almost never misses on their free agent signings

How many signings that are actually notable have they missed? Don't count guys like Jabar Gaffney and Ed Jasper. I know they miss sometimes, every team does, but there hasn't been anything that greatly hurt the team. There hasn't been a lot of total misses, although you could say Kearse and Howard aren't living up to expectations. Kearse finally had a good line with him last year and had a great start, but he got hurt. Howard only had like 6 sacks but played pretty well against the run and was constantly dinged up.

Try and name some big misses as of late. I can't come up with any, but I really didn't think about it much either.

Darren Howard is as close to a bust as I have seen, and then there's Dhani...but other than that, most others have come in and performed to expectations.

[ice grillin you]

eagles arent much better or worse than most other teams in the nfl...but to single them out as a team that doesnt miss is curious

[mussa]

i don't think mcnabb is really so injury prone as people make him out to be. my point is the gameplan, the playcalling, the protection, his tendancy to not get rid of the ball has had an effect on why he's gotten injured. the year before he took a cheap shot to the ribs, which eventually led him to playing injuried...which led to the sports hernia. last year was just a freak thing, he slipped on the sideline and the worst happened.

Im not ready to put the man on the trading block just yet. call me spadaro, but i think mcnabb has a few good years left in him. we need balanced playcalling and a flexible gameplan or a willingness to adapt more than anything.

[Geowhizzer]

i don't think mcnabb is really so injury prone as people make him out to be. my point is the gameplan, the playcalling, the protection, his tendancy to not get rid of the ball has had an effect on why he's gotten injured. the year before he took a cheap shot to the ribs, which eventually led him to playing injuried...which led to the sports hernia. last year was just a freak thing, he slipped on the sideline and the worst happened.

Im not ready to put the man on the trading block just yet. call me spadaro, but i think mcnabb has a few good years left in him. we need balanced playcalling and a flexible gameplan or a willingness to adapt more than anything.

- Broken ankle
- Sports hernia
- Torn ACL

No, he's not prone to injuries at all...

[Diomedes]

You left out his wounded psyche.

[Dillen]

- Broken ankle
- Sports hernia
- Torn ACL

No, he's not prone to injuries at all...

Don't forget the sprained wrist or whatever in the beginning of 2003.

I don't even understand why people argue that someone is/isn't injury prone. He's been hurt a lot. Period. It's pointless to give a player the label "injury prone." And mussa, your post is basically saying if you take him out of risky situations and he won't get hurt as easily. No shtein.

[shorebird]

You left out his wounded psyche.

Yeah, right, maybe you know a good psychiatrist. But then again, maybe your still lookin'.

[rjs246]

- Broken ankle
- Sports hernia
- Torn ACL

No, he's not prone to injuries at all...

They're all flukes! Indicative of nothing! NOTHING![/munson]

[The BIGSTUD]

Injury prone is only valid when a player gets hurt easily and under circumstances where a normal person wouldn't hurt the same area. Injury prone: Buckhalter. People don't tear their knees up by bumping it on a helmet in camp. Not injury prone: Having your leg caught under you and your ankle bent sideways - anyone breaks their ankle in that circumstance. Having your leg caught on the grass and planting it so it twists at a bad angle - anyone tears their ACL that way. Having someone spear you in the ribs on a late hit - any normal person has rib cartilage damage.

Some people get nose bleeds easily, meaning they are prone to nose bleeds. If you punch someone hard in the face on 5 seperate occasions, their nose is going to bleed... period. It doesn't mean they are prone to nose bleeds. But if you flick your nose and it starts bleeding... they doesn't happen to the average person. Thus the latter is prone and the former isn't.

Man I gotta start charging money for this knowledge.

[Munson]

No no...see obviously you're prone to getting your ankle twisted under the pile the wrong way by chance, it doesn't matter that anyone would be injured in that circumstance. [/rjs]


All the Eagles need to do and have needed to do for years is stop dropping him back 50 farging times a game and run the damn ball. There's no need to be putting him in harms way that many times a game. I keep hearing they're going to run the ball more this year, finally...but I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I'm counting on him throwing 40-50 passes per game the first 6 or 7 games of the year before someone hits that knee at the right angle and his career is over.


Run. The. Ball.

[The BIGSTUD]

Yeah, the way the injuries happen don't matter. My friend used to get in a lot of bar fights and get his ass kicked. I guess he was injury prone too, not prone to being a jackass and starting shtein with people.

[rjs246]

You two were made for each other.

[Dillen]

Man I gotta start charging money for this knowledge.

Agreed. Perhaps you could start your own website where you need to pay to be a member.

[Rome]

I just noticed that King Cole is using Chris McPherson's photo as his avatar.

Coincidence or is he really McPherson?  It would explain a lot, actually.

[ice grillin you]

call me crazy but to me someone is injury prone if they get injured all the time