Eagles Work Out Guard Donald Thomas

And no signing? That makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Have we actually gotten a legit answer on what Well’s problem is? The guy was a starter in Arizona, it honestly can not be that hard to come here and learn the scheme and plug in to the O-line rotation. It can’t. I wasn’t an O-linemen so maybe I am way off base but I don’t think I am.

Sounds like Reid is willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel. In other words, he finally understands that what he’s got isn’t enough.
A guy worked out by 7 teams in one season and not signed by anyone – you might as well bring back all the training camp and preseason cuts, starting with Fenuki.
Reid had no plan to improve the offensive line, only optimistic expectations: that Stacy would perform, that Jamaal would recover in time, that Nick Cole or McGlynn would become an adequate center, that keeping Jean-Gilles might actually make sense. In any case, with all the extra picks acquired by trading down, he should have hedged his bets a little by drafting someone.
Austin Howard may have become a competent backup and that’s great, but it doesn’t mean that Reid should keep thinking he and Castillo have some kind of magic trick that will turn anyone that warranted no blips on anybody else’s radar into an NFL o-lineman.

this make the Wells trade a bad one?

If so it is unusual for the Eagles to lose out on a trade, but then if the Cardinals were letting go of a 7 year starter to play a rookie this does suggest he was past his best.

to me was a way to move some guys around to make room for the new talent we just drafted or traded for. He came with the possibility of becoming something but I think it was getting rid of some guys that didn’t pan out(or fail) to see if the new guys could develop into something better.

But this team is just bad. There is no character at all and I have a real hard time thinking they can accomplish anything as a team. And to top things off, I really don’t see why I have to accept the fact that Andy Reid has to be the coach of this football team. Pull the plug and get rid of him.

to stand in one place? if it takes 3 years to teach an offensive guard his assignments, the system is worthless.

among other things is why AR doesn’t use the talent he has more effectively… its a form of insanity to to play a guy like mike bell when the other bell guy is much better! or why does he keep boneheads like king dunlap or max gilles… what was the point of drafting clay harbor or teo whatever his name is if they are going to rot on the sidelines? why does he keep drafting light weight d men and expect them to tackle heavy weight runners???

to start looking for guards… the draft was last march!!!

i was hoping for better… at least he’s not the loser that mcstupid was but he’s not the answer… if they can pawn him off for a high pick from cleveland do it and get a matt ryan… drew brees type in the next draft and go with vick for the present….

i understand the reluctance of lurie to unload (get it??) reid… when you look around the league you can see how many coaches are really imbeciles and how few are really that great… other than belichek, peyton and a couple of others its pretty sad… AR is a good organizer but that’s about it and he’s managed to win a zillion games… that said it means you only have to be slightly above average to succeed as an NFL coach…

bradley is a long way from being a great LB… maybe its the knee but he’s not the man this year and might not ever be… the teams needs in no particular order… a qb with an arm for the future… a monster TE… a guard… a center… a tackle… a CB who can tackle… a run stuffing LB…

simplfy the f***** playbook… it’s football not calculus for ch*** sake!!!

the mcwormburner era is happily over!!! i’d rather watch this mediocrity than see his dumb assed face in an eagles get up…

I thought Wells did well subbing for Cole in the Jacksonville game? I guess that was not enough.