Feeley Cut

by no1pipelayer on Sep 6, 2009 4:55 PM EDT

Word is that the Eagles have cut A.J. Feeley. After weeks of speculation about Feeley and the Eagles options for trading him it comes down to the Eagles letting him go for nothing to apparently create space for an undrafted free agent cast off DT from the Redskins named Antonio Dixon. It seems to me that the Eagles were playing a game of chicken with the other teams in the league who needed a quarterback and they blinked first. I don't understand why there was a big rush to cut Feeley. I liked what the Eagles did at first by putting Vick on the reserve list and keeping Feeley on the 53. Unless Dixon is a real diamond in the rough who the Eagles staff were salivating over I can't understand why, 24 hours latter, they felt that they had no other option but to cut Feeley. At Worst Feeley was insurance against an early season disaster or an other team becomes desperate after some early season woes or injuries and throws the Eagles a 4th or 5th rounder for Feeley.

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What do you think we should have done with Feeley?

Kept him until week three.

63 votes

Should have gotten rid of him a long time ago

11 votes

Got rid of him at the right time

48 votes

122 votes | Poll has closed

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Garcia

I think with Jeff Garcia out there after getting released by the Raiders, along with the McCown trade, any team that wants a #2 will not part with enough for it to matter to justify maintaining AJ on the active roster. I don’t understand the Dixon signing, however…why not keep Klecko since he doubles as a backup FB?

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by AstrosFan on Sep 6, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

Klecko was not so good as a FB and is not so good as a D-lineman. Why keep a guy who’s not so good at two positions? If Weaver goes down, Klecko And/or Eckels will be on the street anyway.

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by oldasquick on Sep 6, 2009 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions

He was actually a decent defensive tackle on passing downs. In first four games, he had two sacks. If Klecko stayed a DT and never go into FB, he may just have 5-7 sacks. Which isn’t bad for a backup DT.

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by Imp on Sep 6, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

7 sacks from a DT is incredible, even a starter.

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by IronHank on Sep 6, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions

I loved Klecko as well, I thought he was good as a pass rusher.

For them to cut him, and switch him a year earlier, they must have saw something we didn’t see. Maybe he got blown off on some plays, or sucked at run downs. I don’t get it though, he got 2 sacks in 2 games last year at DT. I don’t get it.

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by yophillybro on Sep 8, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

Kolb

should add a “should’ve traded kolb answer”

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by sports00fan00 on Sep 6, 2009 6:29 PM EDT reply actions

Exactly my thought

Should of kept Feeley!

by SFCEAGFAN on Sep 7, 2009 4:12 AM EDT up reply actions

feeley

It was either drop feeley or a wr. We’re gonna get a higher value for one of our WR’s then we would have out of feeley. It was the right move. We bluffed, and got called on it.

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by greenbean#twoOH on Sep 6, 2009 7:00 PM EDT reply actions

as much as i don’t like it, they did what they did… but now that he’s gone, why not activate vick? instead they pick up some noname dt when they already have 3 dt’s and 3 de’s who can play dt. this doesn’t make any sense.

by awd777 on Sep 6, 2009 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions

My point was that they did it for a cast off DT. If it was between Feeley and one of the wide receivers then I’m with you. Who knows what’s going to happen in the next three weeks until Vick can play? Maybe a QB or two goes down and a team needs a player like Feeley.

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by no1pipelayer on Sep 6, 2009 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions

we're not having vick go 3 weeks without practice

if we kept feeley, that would be the case.

by eagleyosh on Sep 6, 2009 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Right now we still have to drop some one off the 53 for Vick to participate so I don’t know if you can blame the timing of the Feeley cut on Vick’s situation.

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by no1pipelayer on Sep 6, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions

why would we keep Feeley though? He wasn’t going to make the roster past week 2….if we kept him, we’d need to keep 4 QBs til we released him after week two. That takes away a spot from another position. Our WRs have probably generated more interest than Feeley, especially with Garcia as a FA. Keeping feeley would have been a mistake. We’ll get more out of our WR in all likelihood than we would out of Feeley.

by eagleyosh on Sep 6, 2009 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions