Brian Dawkins, ex-Eagle

[rjs246]

You all need hobbies.

[Diomedes]

I've recently taken up shoveling snow.  Hella rewarding.

[ice grillin you]

You all need hobbies.

pretty sure youre looking at it....my entire life is the four philly sports teams with a little rap music sprinkled in...so this could go on for the next three months straight and id be happy

and to answer your question no i dont have much going for me

[Feva]

still waiting for a good reason why dawk should have been let go...

Got a feeling you're going to be waiting a long time for that one.  Instead, be prepared to be told how much you're bitching and whining approximately 50,000 times.

[PhillyPhreak54]

This is exactly what I was getting back to post.  Everyone talks about how Dawk made no plays all year and how terrible he was... even some bullshtein about not "wrapping up" while tackling anymore

Bullshtein?!?!? What friggen' team were you watching last year!?! All he tried to do 90% of the time was spear ball carriers. It was plain as day to see.

I can't believe that their is someone with the audacity to try and defend Darth on this point. It just goes to show you the blind hero worship he has in this town.

Yes, because bullshtein is exactly what you're talking with that.  What friggin' team have you been watching for the last 13 years?!?!  Dawkins has never been a "wrap up" tackler.  He's ALWAYS been one to deliver a hard shot or aim directly at the ball when tackling.  That's been his style HIS ENTIRE CAREER... which has obviously been effective for the most part so your argument about this becoming some sort of development this year shows you either haven't been watching, ridiculously uninformed... or like I said, making a bullshtein argument.

The truth.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Shore...

Are you serious? Are you busting out YouTube hit clips to prove that he wraps guys up? This argument is crazy. Obviously throughout his career he has "form tackled" guys. That is fundamental. But the fact is that Dawk has always been a big hit guy. If there's a shot to take, he takes it.

He has so many tackles because he primarily plays in the box. More so this past year or so because of his lost step in coverage. Johnson keeps him in the box because of what he does up there. That is where he helps the most. You do not take Brian Dawkins and have him play center field.

Jesus Christ!

[Displaced]

Shore...

Are you serious? Are you busting out YouTube hit clips to prove that he wraps guys up? This argument is crazy. Obviously throughout his career he has "form tackled" guys. That is fundamental. But the fact is that Dawk has always been a big hit guy. If there's a shot to take, he takes it.

He has so many tackles because he primarily plays in the box. More so this past year or so because of his lost step in coverage. Johnson keeps him in the box because of what he does up there. That is where he helps the most. You do not take Brian Dawkins and have him play center field.

Jesus Christ!

Colud not agree more. As someone in here stated Dawk was still their best option at free safety this season. 
He was still playing at a level that is in the top 10-15 and that is a conservative nunber, at his position. 
You don't throw that away without a viable back up plan.  Now if they had kept Lito as the starter oposite 22 and moved Sheldon to safety then they have a rational argument for letting Dawk go but absent that or something like that, I have no idea what their philosophy is for the secondary going forward. 

I honestly think they got caught with their pants down.

[ice grillin you]

Colud not agree more. As someone in here stated Dawk was still their best option at free safety this season. 
He was still playing at a level that is in the top 10-15 and that is a conservative nunber, at his position.  

guy made the probowl...undeservingly...but still he made it and is isnt miles and miles from that level...he also won nfl defensive player of the month in DECEMBER...it wasnt like he declined greatly thruout the year...problem is people are comparing dawk to 2002 dawk and not to 2008 (insert any of the many zesty safeties in the nfl) ___________ or 2009 demps


i still think this is all way more about banner and the eagles than it is about dawk...however the combination of no suitable replascement plan AND the fact thast hes on the eagles mt rushmore is a deadly combo for this regime

[mpmcgraw]

Dawkins was not a FS last year.  At all.  

We changed our scheme around and told him to knock some motherfargers out.  

[PhillyPhreak54]

Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me

Want to know why seven-time Pro Bowl defender Brian Dawkins was so eager to leave Philly? It had something to do with being wanted, which, in today's football, is all about the benjamins.

Money Dawkins earned in the last three seasons in Philadelphia: $7.2 million.

Money Dawkins will earn in Denver in 2009: $7.2 million.

[mpmcgraw]

Dawkins is worth being the highest paid free safety in football.

Yea. Sure.  Ok.  Right.  Mhm.  Yep. Righto. Rly. Sr sly. Freal.

[SunMo]

money is irrelevant with the cap this year and the possibility of an uncapped year next year

[DH]

money is irrelevant with the cap this year and the possibility of an uncapped year next year

And we have a winner.

[ice grillin you]

3.5 a year for the next two seasons is nothing for what he brings and for being 43 mil under the cap..lots of players worse than dawk are making more money than that over the next two...klecko gets like five mil this year...to bring up money at all in todays nfl is to have no clue what youre talking about...to bring up the amount of money dawk will be making should put you in a rubber room with banner...again its peanuts

lj smith made 5 last year

[PhillyPhreak54]

I get angrier by the day thinking about how the Eagles botched this deal and flat out ignored signing him.