Lito Sheppard - He Once Was An Eagle

[ice grillin you]

no its like he knows hes the best corner on the team and should be playing...and even if you think samuel is better like ff said lito is def better than sheldon...and he should be complaining that hes a nickel back...its a travesty

[MDS]

clearly samuel doesnt get beat and when he does he cant be blamed...EVER

41 pts against dallas and the bears scoring over 20 for the first time since 1985 clearly wasnt his fault at all...in fact most of the blame should go on the nickel cornerback i think

they had 2 of the tds on a real short field. id say the defense played real well, not lights out like it should have been, but well enough to win the game with competent play calling.

[reese125]

no its like he knows hes the best corner on the team and should be playing...and even if you think samuel is better like ff said lito is def better than sheldon...and he should be complaining that hes a nickel back...its a travesty

When you lose a close game like that, heads are down, your last in the division, everyone is pissed off the following day....does anybody really need to hear Lito farging Sheppard complain to the media about playing time? Where does that get anybody?

its not like you have 2 other scrubs out there where its so overwhelming youre not playing every down. There is equal or slightly better or worse talent covering the other receivers. This is Lito being a whiny little bitch at the wrong place and wrong time

save the shtein for the off-season-the coaches want a solid nickel....you are going nowhere

[ice grillin you]

id rather have someone complaining about putting the best players on the field than andy reid saying we will fix it...youve had ten years to fix it...when does it actually get fixed

[rjs246]

No seriously. This conversation is farging retarded.

[Zanshin]

No seriously. This conversation is farging retarded.

Sadly, this is the most insightful thing to be found in this thread.

[Diomedes]

I'm so sad.

[phillycrew]

The way I remember seeing it was that AS was pushed by Hester.  Not saying it should have been called, but he was pushed IIRC.

I thought Samuel had a good inside position and probably would have intercepted the ball if he hadn't fallen/pushed or pulled.  Who cares?  Either way it is a loss.  Don't worry, Andy is working on putting the players in a position to make plays.  The skins have no chance.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Samuel fell.  It looked from one angle that Hester pushed him, but from the other it was clear he did not.  He fell.

[General_Failure]

Force Push. Hester is a Jedi?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That would explain a lot.

[hbionic]

 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Lito's spoutin off again...

I can't copy and paste from PFT, but its the top story on there now. Talking about guys getting blackballed for not signing extensions. And then his boy Sheldon chimes in with reason.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Wow, I can to highlight, right-click, and hit copy.  That was tricky!

LITO SHEPPARD: SIGN EXTENSION OR GET BLACKBALLED
Posted by Josh Alper on October 29, 2008, 1:16 p.m. EDT

Two of the starting linebackers for the 4-3 Eagles, Omar Gaither and Chris Gocong, are signed through the 2009 season. The team may offer them long-term extensions before those contracts are up and teammate Lito Sheppard shared some thoughts about the practice with the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Sheppard, who signed an extension running through 2011 during the 2004 season, has long been unhappy with his salary. He would have become a free agent in 2006 under the inital deal and saw Nate Clements sign for $80 million when he had settled for $25 million. Despite that, he warned his young teammates to be mindful of retaliation if they chose not to sign deals.

"I always tell them this: First of all, you have to do what's best for you and your family, but second of all, let's put it like this, if you don't take that money, watch how they do you," Sheppard said. "If you take it, you just better hope you're not mad two or three years down the line. That's basically how it is right now. You can write a book about it. Talk to people around the league, they're going to tell you if you don't take the extensions, they're going to get blackballed. You hate to say that about it, but that's the way it is. It's a dirty game and it's almost like they're forcing you to take the new deal when you come to the table."

He made reference to former Eagle safety Michael Lewis as a player who didn't sign an extension and then got benched. He didn't mention that Lewis got badly burnt by Joe Horn of the Saints in his final game as a starter, or that he'd struggled against the pass all season.

Sheldon Brown, who also signed a long extension during the 2004 campaign, has another opinion on the matter.

"It's definitely a tough choice, but it's just like the lottery. You're playing with fire because if you look at somebody like [ex-Eagles safety] Damon Moore, he . . . tore his knee up. I just think in the end, if it's good enough you, go ahead and take it and don't be too greedy. If you perform more after that, you'll get more."

Brown's right. Sheppard was in no danger of being benched in 2004, he wanted security and got it. That he became unhappy when other players got more money is a seperate issue.

[Seabiscuit36]

he's got it right about Damon, money up front, or gamble