Eagles/Bucs Talk

[PhillyPhreak54]

This game shouldn't even be up for discussion.  Bye week, Tampa Bay sucks massive shtein, return of Wood Chopper (yes I have his jersey and the mother farger's coming out, well unless my Vick jersey arrives before Sunday) birds couldn't even try to lose this one.

Phreak, will you at least get to see the bums on Saturday night?  I'll need someone to bitch with.

Yessir...my flight lands at around 7, so i will go to a sportsbar or my hotel and watch it.

[PhillyPhreak54]

McNabb and Westbrook practice; Trotter with first team

Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook returned to practice today, according to several of their Eagles teammates. The quarterback and running back had been out with injuries. The Eagles returned to practice today after the bye week off.

McNabb sat out the last two games with a fractured rib. He suffered the injury in the opener against the Panthers. It's fairly safe to say that his practicing today means he will be able to start Sunday's game against Tampa Bay. Backup Kevin Kolb performed admirably in McNabb's absence, losing to the Saints but coming back to beat Kansas City.

McNabb declined to comment. He is scheduled to meet with the media on Wednesday, as is coach Andy Reid.

Westbrook missed last week's game against the Chiefs because of an ankle sprain. He didn't practice the week leading up to the game and was listed as doubtful. LeSean McCoy filled in for Westbrook and ran for 85 yards and a TD. Even before the injury, Westbrook had gotten off to a slow start in the first two games.

He was unavailable for comment.

Kevin Curtis said he practiced today. The wide receiver didn't play against the Chiefs because of a knee sprain.

Todd Herremans was able to walk around today without the assistance of a scooter. The guard, who has been out all season with a stress facture in his foot, is scheduled to meet with doctors today. He said the doctor could give the OK to lose the boot that has been protecting his left foot. Herremans said that a return by the Washington game on Oct. 26 is still very much in the cards. He hopes to be back by the Oakland game the week prior.

Quintin Demps (hamstring) said that he's back practicing, too. The backup safety has been out since the opener.

Jeremiah Trotter, meanwhile, had his first practice with the team since returning to the Eagles last week. The linebacker said that he was splitting first team reps with Omar Gaither on run downs. Gaither was unavailable for comment.

Trotter has his old locker stall and his old number back. He got the No. 54 from Tracy White (who now wears No. 52) and the stall from J. Leman, a practice squad linebacker.

The players have off tomorrow and will resume preparations for the Bucs on Wednesday

[ice grillin you]

bowen said earlier today in his blog that trotter got his 54 from tracey white by cutting some sort of car wash deal with him

[BigEd76]

on Sunday I will be in Ralph Wilson Stadium with the big wigs.

...watching a pathetic 0-4 Browns team face an almost equally pathetic 1-3 Bills team

My co-worker is a hardcore Buffalo sports fan and even he doesn't want to watch that one...

[PhillyPhreak54]

on Sunday I will be in Ralph Wilson Stadium with the big wigs.

...watching a pathetic 0-4 Browns team face an almost equally pathetic 1-3 Bills team

My co-worker is a hardcore Buffalo sports fan and even he doesn't want to watch that one...

Yep, I wanted to see someone else but our options were limited by the travel schedule of everyone else. My co-worker up there said all the hotels are packed because of the game and because of how many Browns fans travel up there. Who the hell would pay to watch that slop?!

[Eagaholic]

I'm pissed, I just got my Tracy White number 54 jersey.

[methdeez]

on Sunday I will be in Ralph Wilson Stadium with the big wigs.

...watching a pathetic 0-4 Browns team face an almost equally pathetic 1-3 Bills team

My co-worker is a hardcore Buffalo sports fan and even he doesn't want to watch that one...

Yep, I wanted to see someone else but our options were limited by the travel schedule of everyone else. My co-worker up there said all the hotels are packed because of the game and because of how many Browns fans travel up there. Who the hell would pay to watch that slop?!

This is the Browns big shot at getting a win this season.

[Eagaholic]

actually they had one Sunday

[Don Ho]

Man I wanted the Bucs to pull a win out against the taterskins so bad. If the hadn't missed two field goals they might have done it too.

Jim Zorn and Co. would have been escorted into Ford's Theatre and assassinated.

[ice grillin you]

am i the only person that is tired of these garbage teams and this schedule...until they prove they can at least play with a good team none of this means anything and that doesnt happen until friggin november...also how is there no division games till almost halloween

2009 schedule gets the big gas face

[Eaglez]

Assuming they are able to take care of business the next 3 weeks and go into the Giants game 5-1 (and not have one of their traditional letdown games where they end up tying the Raiders or something like that), I think that really helps out their confidence.  I much rather have a soft schedule at the beginning of the year to build off of than have a tougher schedule early on and play catch-up the rest of the year.

Although a more balanced schedule would be nice too, because the first four weeks of November looks brutal. 

[Sgt PSN]

yeah, you play the schedule that you're dealt.  when it got released, i didn't care for it.  early bye week, soft start, blah blah blah.  but given everything that's happened so far this year with injuries, the eagles ended up catching a break.  no way do the eagles go 1-1 if kolb starts against 2 quality teams.  no way do the eagles blow out the nearly any other team in week 1 because most qb's around the league don't gift wrap the ball like delhomme does. 

so hopefully, by the time the schedule really starts getting tough, the eagles will be healthy and clicking.  maybe vick will be in better game shape and have a bunch of the rust knocked off.  it's kind of like the eagles get an extra month of pre-season games. 

not to mention that the 49ers of the 80's and 90's played in the weakest division in football and had 8 soft games a year and they still dominated outside of their division and won a shtein ton of superbowls. 

the one thing i would like to see changed with the schedule though, is that week 1 should be a "division week" and have every team face off against a division rival.  would be awesome to watch the eagles open every season against another nfc east team. 

[MDS]

if the eagles are halfway decent they already have 7 wins.

which means they need to go 3-5 in the other 8 games to clinch a playoff spot.

challenging.

[General_Failure]

But will they be good enough to lose in the NFCCG this year? I just don't see that happening.

[mpmcgraw]

I was going to say Dawkins won't be there to watch WR's run by him so I like their chances, but then I remembered Trotter is back.