Observations...

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

you have no problem with Reed, but have a problem with Donovan....terrific analysis

McNabb makes $12 million a year to be the star of this team and make game-changing plays to lead the team to victory.
Reed makes $15k a week to return kickoffs.

Anyway, get ready for more RENO MAHE!

[hbionic]

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Isn't it obvious the eagles brass doesn't think anyone good out there exists? "If G-Lew or Reed can't do it, no one can!"

[Sgt PSN]

Eagles total yards yesterday:

Offense:  283

Punting:  283

Balanced.    Attack.

[Phanatic]

You can hang 10 points on special teams. Unacceptable.

The offense only scoring 13 points is also a farce.

[ice grillin you]

Dana Pennett O'Neil | Lewis is just one of several punt-return options

When he retires from football, Greg Lewis could make a living playing
Jimmy Dugan, the Tom Hanks character in "A League of their Own."

Parroting Hanks' instructions to his assembled female ballplayers, Lewis insisted yesterday that returning punts isn't all

that complicated.

"You catch the ball, you run with the ball," the wide receiver said.

So all that nonsense that

return specialists like to talk about, about staring down a bunch of guys barreling down the field to knock your head off?

"You catch the ball and go," Lewis reiterated. "Anybody who tells you they have a style, they're lying."

Whether Lewis' no-style style will be on display Sunday remains to be seen. Special-teams coordinator Rory Segrest said yesterday that the punt returner for the season opener hasn't been decided.

And just to make things interesting, Segrest tossed Brian Westbrook's name into the list

of possible candidates.

"We have some good options. It's just a matter of who we feel the best with at game time," said Segrest, who then ticked off the options as Lewis, recently reacquired J.R. Reed, Lito Sheppard and Westbrook.

Segrest said Westbrook is always available but whether his number would be called depended on game situations and just how busy Westbrook was with his other day job, namely being the offense.

"We could put him back there any time," Segrest said.

The odds are, Lewis will be the man whose name is called for the first punt. He has done the most work during the preseason, although that work

consisted of just two returns

for 20 yards.

After Lewis, the likely name next in the rotation would be Reed, who is making his third stop in Philly.

A specialist to Lewis' novice, Reed - who is expected to return kickoffs - is hardly offended that the job hasn't simply been handed to him.

"To me, it's exciting," Reed said. "If I get a chance to get back there, that means I've been given an opportunity. That's all

I'm thinking about."

Segrest didn't seem all that worried about the fact that he has a new punter, new holder and not a clear-cut punt returner just days before the season

begins. Perhaps he knows something we don't.

Or maybe like Lewis, he doesn't seem to think it's all

that complicated.

[Seabiscuit36]

AIDS to RORY and GLEW

[fansince61]

reed should not be in the nfl...only because andy is familiar with him is he not at home in florida right now....he cant play safety and isnt a good return guy...so why the hell is he taking up a roster spot on this team

Before he was hurt (after 6-8 games) he was close to or leading the NFC in kickoff returns...but that was when he had two legs

[Don Ho]

JR needs to bring the dreads back. 

[SD_Eagle5]

JR needs to bring the dreads back. 

they should have a teammate running behind him barking like a dog to get him to run faster

[Sgt PSN]

Ha!  Better yet, just send a couple of dogs out there.

[Eagles 3x]

You can hang 10 points on special teams. Unacceptable.

The offense only scoring 13 points is also a farce.

Exactly. They lost to a team whose offence didn't score a TD.  The Eagles O & ST were both unacceptable farces. Unacceptable farceousness. Unacceptable farceosity.

[Magical_Retard]

defense gets a pass this week but they werent really amazing either. in that 3rd qrt we had 2-3 sacks which we let go and let lord favre do his thang....had we stopped them on that drive we could have even won just 13-10.

[shorebird]

I have no issue with Reed.  He didn't make any mistakes on kickoffs, and he was put in a bad position in the middle of the game to also be fielding punts.

I think I have probably watched at least a couple hundred football games now...and that was the first time I have ever seen anyone dive for a punt.

One of the single dumbest things I have ever seen a player do.

I was thinking the same thing, I've never seen that. There is a real old film out there, shows a guy getting turned around and scoring for the other team. This was just as stupid.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

defense gets a pass this week but they werent really amazing either. in that 3rd qrt we had 2-3 sacks which we let go and let lord favre do his thang....had we stopped them on that drive we could have even won just 13-10.

Worst post ever?

The Packers get a tying field goal due to a couple of freak improvisation plays, and you want to sort of hang this on the defense?

Trust me - there will be plenty of games the defense will lose for the team this year.  Don't blame them now when they were actually excellent for 60 minutes on Sunday.

[ice grillin you]

i would never blame them but before i say they played excellent i wanna see them shut down a quality team...lets see what they do against portis and betts this week...its gonna be a huge test for the run d