I've held my tongue long enough.  I didn't say anything when the Eagles let potential playmakers like Houshmandzadeh and Derrick Ward go by the wayside.  I didn't say anything when they started getting rid of their depth at various positions.  I haven't said anything about their cheap tactics with the third-most cap space in the league. I even kept my mouth shut (more from anger than anything else) when they let the heart, soul, and backbone of this team go.

But enough's enough.  I read a story this morning in the Trenton Times that made me blow my stack.  Apparently it wasn't enough that the team low-balled an icon like Dawkins before they let him go so ignominiously, they actually included a clause in their offer that stipulated he would have to pay money for any games he would miss due to injury.  How do you slap an Eagles legend and fan favorite in the face like this?  WHERE THE FUCK IS THE LOYALTY?!  And before anyone hits me with the obvious, I KNOW that it's a business just as much as it is a sport, but that does not excuse the front office's shameful treatment of Dawkins.

I'm sick and tired of Banner and Lurie nickel-and-diming their way along a road to nowhere.  This isn't how you win Super Bowls.  They're letting assets go faster than Michael Jackson, and all the while they're raking it in.  Lurie bought this team for 195 million in 1994; today it is worth more than a billion.  You do the math.  One can't help but wonder whether Banner and Lurie are content simply making money off a team that is in contention every year but just doesn't have enough playmakers to win a Super Bowl.  Such playmakers don't come cheap, as we all know, and obviously it is not the intention of the organization to pursue any.  It seems that they'd rather pick up beaten veterans at low cost to patchwork a team together.  I don't know what they're planning on doing with the draft, but right now I am severely disappointed and disheartened by these money-grubbing executives.  The "do nothing and hope for the best" mantra has got to go.

Furthermore, what's to become of Donovan?  He asked for playmakers, and even threatened to ask for a trade if the team didn't deliver.  The team hasn't delivered, only picking up Stacy Andrews (which I am not mad at), so what happens next?  Is the team willing to let their franchise QB go just to prove how far above the players the front office is?  I'm sorry, I know these are ramblings and ravings, but the lack of loyalty to the players, and by way of the players, the fans, is beginning to border on open contempt.  Draft day can't get here quick enough.