Lito Sheppard - He Once Was An Eagle

[Eagles_Legendz]

this is probably the worst retard fight i've ever seen

[Feva]

Your insinuation that the Rams' pick is even in the same realm of value as the Bucs', just because both are in the second round, is asinine.

Deal in the real, brother.

Ha, OK... I can see how my saying "farg Tampa" could be misconstrued to mean that the Eagles should consider the Bucs pick over the Rams.

I guess I should have said "SUPER farg Tampa" so I didn't confuse you... my bad.

[BigEd76]

TBO.com reporting the Saints have jumped in on the Lito talks and could be offering #40 overall (12 spots higher than Tampa Bay's pick)

Get the Bucs and Saints bidding against each other

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

TBO.com?  Reliable?

[Rome]

How dare you question BigEd?

Infidel!

[SD_Eagle5]

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Saints have best offer for Eagles' SheppardBy Bob Brookover

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

All the speculation finally becomes something more tomorrow when the NFL draft begins at 3 p.m.
Lito Sheppard, barring some unforeseen development, will become a member of another team and we'll all get to see what he brings in return. Early tonight, it was the New Orleans Saints' second-round pick that qualified as the best offer on the table.

A league source said five teams had made offers for Sheppard. The St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers were among those five teams and the source said the Eagles were still hopeful when they went to bed last night that some team would improve its offer tomorrow.

The Saints' second-round pick is the 40th overall. Another league source said the Rams were unwilling to give up their second-round pick for Sheppard, which is the 33d overall. In a normal draft year that would be the first pick of the second round, but this year it is the second pick because the New England Patriots were stripped of the 32d overall pick in the first round.

New Orleans is in definite need of help at corner even though free-agent cornerbacks Randall Gay and Aaron Glenn signed with the team as free agents this offseason. The Saints finished 30th in pass defense last season.

Some reports Thursday said that Tampa Bay was the frontrunner to land Sheppard, but the league source said the Bucs did not have the best offer on the table as of early tonight. There was also speculation that the Bucs might include Michael Clayton in a deal for Sheppard, but the source said the Eagles were not interested in the veteran wide receiver. Tampa Bay has the 52d overall pick in the second round.

The league source said the Eagles were still considering keeping Sheppard, but that remains an unlikely scenario. It's no secret that Sheppard is unhappy with his contract. He is signed through 2011 and is scheduled to make $2 million this season. The source said that Sheppard wants his contract sweetened, but that he is not asking to be treated like an unrestricted free agent.

If, as expected, the Eagles do land another second-round pick, it would give them more leverage to move up in the first round of tomorrow's draft. The Eagles, whose pick in the second round is the 49th overall, could use one of those picks to get a player they want but might not still be on the draft board when they are scheduled to make the 19th overall selection.

Eagles general manager Tom Heckert said Monday that there are definitely some players who the team would be willing to move up the draft board to take and the player who seems to fit that bill the best is Virginia offensive lineman Branden Albert, who isn't expected to be around when the Eagles make their selection.

Albert played primarily at left guard for Virginia, but most teams believe he could also have the ability to slide out to left tackle. If the Eagles want Vanderbilt's Chris Williams or Pittsburgh's Jeff Otah, it might also require them to move up from the 19th spot.

The other potential pick that could require a move up the draft board is Michigan State's Devin Thomas, who is considered the best wide receiver in the draft. With it looking highly unlikely that the Eagles are going to acquire a top veteran wide receiver via trade, it still seems possible that they might go after Thomas, who was also an outstanding kick returner in his final season with the Spartans.

If the Eagles do settle for an additional second-round pick, it would give them a total of 12 draft picks, including four of the top 80 selections. It's possible the Eagles could remain right in the 19th spot in the first round and select someone like Miami's Kenny Phillips, who is considered the best safety in the draft.

Anything is possible, but the good thing is we've finally arrived at draft day and we'll get some answers instead of more speculation tomorrow. The other good thing is that the first

[SD_Eagle5]

• The Eagles are asking too much for Lito Sheppard, the cornerback who wants a new big-money contract. Philly talked to Tampa Bay, but the Bucs are not interested in surrendering their second-round pick because they'd also have to pay Sheppard just under what the premier corners have been making the past few seasons. That's too much. I expect Sheppard to end this weekend as an Eagle.

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[QB Eagles]

Not mentioned in that Saints/Eagles trade article is the real possibility that the Saints 2nd rounder will go to the Giants as part of a trade for Jeremy Shockey.

[Rome]

i wonder what peter king will write when lito gets traded tomorrow?

ummm... oops?

[QB Eagles]

i wonder what peter king will write when lito gets traded tomorrow?

Probably some bullshtein about coffee, his daughter's field hockey team, or how good Brett Favre's icehole rim tastes.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The league source said the Eagles were still considering keeping Sheppard, but that remains an unlikely scenario. It's no secret that Sheppard is unhappy with his contract. He is signed through 2011 and is scheduled to make $2 million this season. The source said that Sheppard wants his contract sweetened, but that he is not asking to be treated like an unrestricted free agent.

If that is true, and it very well sounds like the source was the agent or Lito himself, then the Eagles would be dumbasses to not even entertain his request for a new deal. Take a proposal at least and TRY to keep him.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Schefter said on NFL network last night that Shockey to the Saints was basically a done deal, but he didn't get into particulars.  The very next thing he said is that the Eagles very well might keep Lito Sheppard at this point, because they aren't going to trade him unless they get adequate value back in return.

Frankly, with all the #1 WR's likely staying put (something else he mentioned), keeping Lito is an absolute best-case scenario.

[Drunkmasterflex]

Agreed on keeping Lito, though they could just be saying that to see what they can squeeze out of another team.

[SD_Eagle5]

Hypothetical situation but if New Orleans did this I'd hope they'd get Katrina'd all over:

Mike Florio, April 26, 2008

The New Orleans Saints and their second-round pick (No. 40 overall) in this weekend's draft have long been linked to the Giants and their double-fisted Super Bowl suite drinker Jeremy Shocker.

But now the Saints and that same second-round pick are linked to the Eagles and their obsolete cornerback Lito Sheppard, who surely won't be kept around given the arrival of Asante Samuel.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Saints are one of the five teams chasing Sheppard. Others include the Bucs and the Rams. However, the Rams are reluctant to give up their second-round pick, which is No. 33 overall.

As to the Saints, they can't trade the same pick twice (duh), so what are they up to? Our guess is that they're trying to play two NFC East rivals against each other, hoping that one of them takes the Saints' second-rounder in order to prevent the other from getting it.

Or maybe, as a reader suggested, the Saints are merely the straw man in a three-way trade. Maybe they'll get Sheppard with that second-round pick and then trade him straight up to the Giants for Shockey.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'd trade Lito for Shockey purely for entertainment value.  Shockey and McNabb would get along about as well as David Duke and Louis Farrakhan.