Eagles Special Team Coach Bobby April Talks Coverage Struggles

It’s funny, between your childish, unfounded, ignorant and overall nonsensical remarks you have managed to make yourself look like the very person you are trying to call me out as being? Do you see the irony in that? I am not angry at the world, or anything in particular. I do however have a strong dislike for people who are seemingly unable, or incapable of having a rational discussion without resorting to name calling or otherwise pointless remarks. How does me being “stupid” change the fact that Bobby April doesn’t seem to be in love with the personnel he has to work with as the Special Teams coach? Just for the sake of argument I will attempt to make sense of your incoherent statements:

If you think a GM if going to go get players to play Special Teams ONLY, when you JUST drafted a bunch of talented kids, that MADE the team over other guys that present less value to the offense or ther defense in the future….. then you’re either A) an idiot (there are plenty of you on this earth, its ok or B) You have no idea how the real world works.

I never said that the GM should go out and get guys whose sole abilities are geared towards being special teams players at the ignorance of everything else such as offense or defense. I don’t disagree that it would be pointless to sign guys who in a sense are one trick ponies. However, given that there is a 53 man roster, and the starters and backups for those starting positions, some of which are ST players does not encompass 53 spots then it is reasonable to assume that you can go out and sign guys who have shown an ability to play special teams well. Successful teams do that every year. The Eagles don’t. For whatever reason they have over their recent history deemed Special Teams to be an area that they can overlook. It wasn’t until they hired April that they finally took a step towards correcting what has become a seasonal weakness for this team.

Just because “a bunch of talented kids” “made the team over other guys that present less value to the offense or the defense” doesn’t mean that those kids are going to be good special teams players, or even provide depth at other positions. It just means they beat out guys who provided less value than they did. While you are busy loading up your arsenal of various names you can call me you are failing to recognize the flaws in your own argument. A vast majority of team’s ST units are made up of guys who only play Special Teams or are otherwise buried on the depth charts. With the exception of course of the return guys. All I ever said, which you either glossed over or missed because you seem to lack basic reading comprehension is that if April was not happy with his ST guys when he got here then he should have said something, and if he was not happy with the guys that were drafted, with the expectation that they would play a critical part in his special teams unit then he should have said something as the Eagles both had the time and means with which to sign other players.