Sheldon Brown wants to be traded

ice grillin you · April 28, 2009, 11:24:56 AM

did he miss last season...where did lito "poison the locker room"...i mean would they have won the nfc championship had lito not done his poisoning

he also says to trade sheldon if possible right after he says a guy they got for two 5ths is younger and better

Eagaholic · April 28, 2009, 11:32:28 AM

I disagree and think Phil is off base. They returned to the NFCCG for the first time in 4 years with Lito in the same situation last year. You have to draw the line somewhere and can't just let any player, especially a valuable asset walk whenever they feel like they want more money. Even more so if it to get a sub market return. I'm not saying the FO has handled other situations well but Sheldon needs to just STFU and play.

And like PPin DC said, Hobbs better than Brown? Lol. That secondary could be in trouble. There was a good comment in Philly.com that decoding Reid's comments on Kegger, he might not be ready to go by this summer.

edit: a little redundant with IGY's comment

PoopyfaceMcGee · April 28, 2009, 11:32:53 AM

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As a side lesson, one hopes the Eagles have learned not to do these early, lock-'em-up-young extensions. Those deals were a good business idea when the salary cap was tighter. They were always better in theory, though, than in practice. This team has seen it time and again: The young guys grateful for financial security at age 26 become desperate for another payday as they approach 30 and the downside of their careers.

So that's that. Let players assume the risk that they'll remain productive and healthy until they get within a year of free agency. If you still want them, sign them to market deals. If not, let them walk knowing you got their most productive seasons out of them.

If players thought the other way was cold, let them try this way for a while.

Amen.

rjs246 · April 28, 2009, 11:40:22 AM

Package him up with Brown and Baskett and take whatever the farg you can get for him. Drama gets the gas face.

ice grillin you · April 28, 2009, 11:41:42 AM

apparently it also gets you in conference championship games

rjs246 · April 28, 2009, 11:45:02 AM

Andy Reid scratching his ass for 3 hours every sunday apparently gets you to conference championship games, too. But I'd be happier than a zombie pig in shtein if he were packaged up and launched into the moon...

ice grillin you · April 28, 2009, 11:56:20 AM

id rather have the best players happy and on the field in the nfc championship game

maybe a happy lito prevents one of fitzs td's or picks a pass off to stop one of the cards scoring drives and they win the game

thats much more important to me than a player supposedly poisoning a locker room or how much money a player makes

rjs246 · April 28, 2009, 11:57:45 AM

Andy Reid in a rocket ship to the moon is the most important thing to me.

Tomahawk · April 28, 2009, 12:01:14 PM

Quote from: rjs246 on April 28, 2009, 11:57:45 AM
Andy Reid in a rocket ship to the moon is the most important thing to me.

Why not send the rocket ship to the sun?

Is there really enough rocket fuel in the world to propel that kind of payload?

rjs246 · April 28, 2009, 12:04:21 PM

The sun is too far away. I want him dead quickly.

Zanshin · April 28, 2009, 12:15:31 PM

Then you might want to just tie him under one of the thrusters.

rjs246 · April 28, 2009, 12:16:23 PM

Fine.

Eagaholic · April 28, 2009, 12:26:58 PM

C'mon, you guys are too hard on AR. Pound for pound he is one of the best coaches in the league.

Kenzinger · April 28, 2009, 01:56:14 PM

Phil Sheridan is completely right that the Eagles should re-examine their practice of locking young players into these long-term deals. Either the player underperforms and you're stuck hanging onto him for too long (Reggie Brown, Grew Lewis, etc.) or he outperforms his contract and wants more cash. Someone always ends up unhappy.

That said, Sheldon is being a fleshpop in this situation. I don't mind so much wanting a new contract and I don't even mind going public with that request. But all this crap about being disrespected and abused etc. and bringing the names of other players into it is just low. Sheldon used to be one of my favorites and I think he's been one of the most underrated players on the team for years but he needs to STFU.

The way I see it, the Eagles have two options:

1. Trade him right now.
2. Either guarantee Sheldon you'll cut him at the end of the season and he can seek new employment then or work out some form of one-year deal that pays him slightly better this season.

I'm not a fan of trading him because he's better than anyone else we have. Those of you saying Hobbs is younger and better than Sheldon are nuts. The Pats let up 27 TD passes last year in part because of Hobbs. He's not a good man-to-man cover corner and the Eagles badly need that since we blitz so much. I'm not sold on Hansen.

I would try to work this out behind the scenes with Sheldon and possibly give him a little more cash for this season. Burying Lito on the depth chart and letting him dog it all year taught him and the team NOTHING.

methdeez · April 28, 2009, 02:10:07 PM

I think what is happening is this:
The Eagles have a price in thier head for a Sheldon trade. They didn't get that before or during the draft, so they kept him, but took care of getting a servicable replacement for him.
Now, they are going to wait to see it someone will offer thier price as players start to go down during training camp.
If they don't get thier price, or if his possible replacements don't look good/ get hurt in TC then they will keep him.
Seems logical and reasonable to me.
But they still should have kept Dawk.