False Hope: The Story of Philadelphia Eagle LB's in the Andy Reid Era

Thanks for stating the obvious. I was hoping you were going to analyzed something. Even if we decide to clean house, the Eagles will still be a mediocre team.

2) Commentary on style. I’ll admit that I am an average writer and there are more skilled writers than myself ( i.e. Jason, Jimmy, Kyle and wild_eagle). I could barely read your fan post. Shorter sentences are your friend. Being concise would help with your fan post’s readability and argument. You can call me an ass or whatever for critiquing your fan post. This is my advice to you.

Well, I guess you can’t focus past 4 or 5 words in a sentence, but I can’t really take the blame for that. You also used used analyzed instead of analyze in your 2nd sentence, call it nit-picky, but in reality it makes you look like a dim-wit for making an idiot mistake when trying to make a harsh critique.

Anyway, I understand that this SHOULD be common knowledge, but any small minded person could read around the blog and see dramatic signs that this is not “the obvious.” When people go around simply blaming coaches or blaming other groups in the offense or defense more so than that of the LB’s then it is not “the obvious” that you speak of. In hind-sight you are not just calling me an under-analytical idiot, but most of BGN. And I’d ask you to state your definition of obvious, because it seems pretty wrong in the way that you used it.

I don’t think you needed to admit you’re an average writer, it showed, but, I agree it probably would help me to concise things a bit. This is a bit of a rant more so than that of an analyzed piece. It was past midnight where I was at, just throwing something out there.

There are much weaker articles for you to be “critiquing” and I also don’t know why you’d include wild_eagle in the class of great writers.

Sorry, dumb things upset me. Maybe my work was simplistic, but not worthy of that.

I think this is a great discussion thread for this subject. What LB’s are the Eagles really looking for? Are the Eagles going to continue to utilize rookie LB’s?

I’d say Te’o would be my number one choice, he has demonstrated all the physical tools already, shows the intelligence and communication needed for the MLB position, and is a very vocal leader. If I was to sum up Te’o in a few words i would list the following: Solid tackler, wide range, vision, commutation, and ability to shed blockers.

P.S.
Trotter was a 3rd round pick in 1998 Draft, pre-Reid era.

P.S.S.
No need for a internet scrap here bro’s

Couldn’t even take the time to google Trotter?

Regarding the draft and picking an LB early, I can only say that it takes time, but the Eagles do surprise you. In the Reid early years, we were sorely lacking at WR, and the only 1st round pick we used on a WR turned out to be a bust. Brown was a high 2nd round pick who I suppose can’t be called a total bust, but he certainly did not pan out. Fast forward, and we hit big on DJ in the 2nd round, and to my surprise, actually moved up in the 1st a year later to grab Maclin.

So assuming we do address LB early in the draft and choose a player who performs well, the question is what position will then take over as the one we fail to address?

Waterfield in the house!

I don’t recall how Jeremiah Trotter was brought in, but I would guess as a fairly low paid free agent.

Jeremiah Trotter was drafted a year before Reid became the head coach. Trotter was resigned after a two year stint with the Redskins only because he was a Reid homer. And other than Akeem Jordan (who was brought back for special teams reasons), Trotter is the only LB ever resigned by Reid or even signed period to be a starter.