It's Time For The Eagles Festivus Airing Of Grievances

You should have never accepted the job. You suck

Yes you have a ton of sacks, but only 38 tackles for the season?! COME ON!

And do not even get me started on the douchebag tattoos!

1) Andy Reid – You hired an OL coach to be your DC in an “All-In” year. Everyone knows that when you go “All-In” and you lose. You’re gone!

2) Juan Castillo – You should climb the ladder just like everyone else in the business.

3) Howie Roseman – You had money…you didnt spend it wisely enough…

My grievance is against the front office for bringing in all kinds of talent but skimping on a very important position for the shceme you are trying to run. LB’s are important people! Try drafting one in the first round this year and see how it works out.
Christmas list : Keuchly

but a Festivus wish… that Mikey comes out of the tunnel playing the air guitar tomorrow.

Good luck, gents. :)

the haters out there. We by no means have earned the right to be in the playoffs this year. But for you stupid, arrogant, over-hyping NFC east fans (giants,cowboys,redskins) You all started strong, pulled away from us and left us for dead like everyone else. You my friends are now choking on your own pride. None of you deserve to be there either in these playoffs coming. At least we haev a team that when we are on can beat anyone in this league. So if we do, for any reason, make the playoffs it is your teams fault. Let it go, call for your coaches head(all teams), your QB’s head(dallas & washington), your WR’s (gaints gotta be hating this), your FO to be wiped out, whatever it may be. Just remember this whole off-season & most of you will (pending the next 2 weeks) your teams let us in as they once again choked on their own we are better then everyone attitude. So please for the love of god, christmas, and the whole world, let it go. Your team as ours has sucked this year. Because you started better again does not make you better.

Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way… out of that a new holiday was born, a Festivus for the rest of us!

DeSean fucking Jackson

You want a flashy new contract. But you want to be overpaid by a mile. You’re as good as Larry Fitzgerald and should get his type of money? Fitzgerald doesn’t quit on plays he isn’t involve. Fitzgerald doesn’t lead the league in drops. Fitzgerald doesn’t half-ass on his route running. Fitzgerald doesn’t alligator arm passes. Fitzgerald doesn’t act like an all around prima donna. You are not Larry Fitzgerald.

You are a quitter. You are not a receiver, you are (at best) a play maker that has not been making plays this season. You are not as good as you think you are and do not deserve the type of money you want. You have thoroughly worn out your welcome with your attitude.

Screw you and hope you have fun on another team next season.

Linebackers.

Ive already aired all my grievances with this bum ass team

i know defenses have been playing us differently but we need to have maclin and desean run all the way down field and just throw it deep. have we had one deep pass td this year?

It’s almost as if the only thing they are told to do is to “not fuck up”. It almost surprising that a team with some much speed and talent on offense and defense can be so dull on special teams. Sure the coverage has been great, but we’re 29th in both returning punts and returning kickoffs (averages, mind you). But at least they are getting off the field fast enough so that I see Shady tear it up.

You should of known better than to take your OLINE coach and make him a D-Co without hiring him a consultant up front. Take away just two of those huge 4qtr break downs and we are driving into this week in control of our fate.

I find tinsel distracting.

I know it’s been beaten to death before, but the whole “Dream Team” thing is/was just awful.

VY- you jinxed our season in public
Djax- learn to play for a contract
media- learn to wipe your chins after every tebow segment and then talk about the living legend, Lesean McCoy.

Why has it taken 98% of the season to put together a solid defensive effort? I don’t care if Juan is the DC, this guy was always going about how he’s in the film room thinking up shit to do, gameplanning and “working around the clock”. If thats the case, this defense should be the first ranked defense in the league but this brings me to my next complaint.

Why can’t anyone tackle? It’s simple. Get low, head up, wrap up. Not dive at the feet with your head down and one arm out. Enough with the “I can arm tackle everything” mentality. No, you can’t. Go back to pee-wee football and let little kids teach you how to tackle because they are better at it than 9 out of our 11 starters on defense.

My festivus airing of grievences has already included holiday drivers, forcing people to say “happy holidays” when “merry christmas” has already lost all meaning, and douchebags who knock on peoples doors at 8am when they know my shift sends me to bed at 4am.

But, my specific Eagles grievance: the systematic ignoring of positions and the inability to resign key players.

Reid deserves praise for his offensive growth and players, but he has completely botched this defense. First, its with a heavy reliance on Jim Johnson without managing to keep any of the future coaching talent JJ had brought in. Since its been a comedy of mistakes. Even during the JJ era, the switch to a 2 gap DT system hamstrung the defense because Reid simply refused to bring in the right players.

Since, he has not brought in a stand-alone defensive coordinator. Instead of admitting that he knows nothing about that side of the ball, he has placed puppets in its place and has consistantly ignored key positions.

He grew and developed Dawkins and Mikell into pro-bowl safeties, and allowed both to walk without a reasonable backup plan. Rookie safeties make very little impact, and when given opportunities to take one to groom, he went elsewhere.

Instead, he chose Allen in round 2, knowing it would take him years to get to where he needed to be. He had the chance to get difference makers, and instead he chose someone who plays a rotational position.

Instead of improving a weak linebacker corp or choosing a top-flight RCB, he chose a RG to give to a line coach who is known for maximizing mid-rounders.

He then covered for this by bringing in 2 corners who play opposite styles from our pro-bowl corner already. Money went to them instead of to, again, fixing a stale linebacking corp which he knew would not be adequate for the wide-9 system he forced on his 1st Year DC.

Reid is good for some things, but has ridicious blinders for others.

For forty years I’ve lived and breathed Philly green. At 52 years of age, my guts are knotted so badly that my turds come out looking just like Snyder’s Pretzels. My hopes and dreams have risen and fallen on the arms of no less than 35 starting QB’s, from Mike Boryla to Mike Vick, and nearly every conceivable great hope and castoff imaginable. (Did you know Pastorini, Ken O’Brien, Joe Pisarcik, Pat Ryan, Mark Rypien and Jay-friggin-Fielder all had stints with the Birds?)

Over 600 Sundays, not to mention scattered Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, have been wasted devoted to cheering, screaming, and yes, sometimes crying over my beloved Iggles! Christ, I haven’t even lived in the area since 1977, yet I still buy, and eventually shred, hats, jerseys…even fucking Snuggies by the armful!

I’ve tried every ritual imaginable- hat on backwards, hat inside out, two hats at a time, three layers of shirts, banging my wife/girlfriend/random conquest while’s she’s wearing a Cowboy/Giants/Redskins jersey, you name it. Now I just sit isolated and muttering to myself on the coach, while my family leaves for the day, only coming home if the Eagles win, or I give them the “all clear”. They were gone for nearly three weeks after we lost the Fog Bowl.

Like an alcoholic who can’t lick the bottle, or degenerate gambler who can’t pass the OTB window, I’m a hopeless cause. I always tell myself “next year”. It was cute when I was 12, admirable when I was 22, tolerable at 32, and wearing thin ten years ago. Now it’s just plain pitiful.

So as I swear like a lunatic at this here grievance pole, no longer able to muster the will for the “feats of strength”, my only hope is that I can serve as a sad but stirring example. Jump off the bandwagon my friends, before the wheels run over your soul. BTW…think we’ll pull it out tomorrow?

Stay off the field during punt returns, please.

Actually, just stay off it at all times.

There is nothing to complain about, just enjoying the season for what it is.