A couple of thoughts here

McCoy’s rookie season I was like, “this dude might be as good as Westbrook someday”

Then, last year, I was like, “Wow, McCoy is almost as good as Westbrook.”

Then, this year, I was like, “McCoy is probably definitely better than Westbrook was.”

Totally agree on Westbrook. To this day I swear if he played we beat Carolina in the 03 NFC Champ game.

I don’t know how you can watch the Niners and not think the Eagles need MAJOR, MAJOR upgrades at line backers.

I think everybody on this site agrees that linebacker is our most important need. The problem is who do we take and when do we take them.

I think people don’t badmouth it because their pass attack is so much more consistent and explosive than ours was this season. They run a million pass plays a game but come away with a score or huge gain more often than they don’t.
We had DeSean Jackson half assing routes and dropping TD passes, Maclin was consistent enough but neither of them were making the explosive plays we expected. Celek turned it on late. There just wasn’t enough consistency in my opinion. 22 receiving TD’s for us this season.
NE had 2 1000+ yard receivers and 1 900+ yard receiver with 39 TD’s on the season receiving.
NO also had 2 1000+ yard receivers and 46 TD’s receiving on the season.

With guys like Maclin, Jackson and Celek, you would think we could have had a passing season-statistically-close to that of the Patriots. We just didn’t perform well enough. You can’t knock their play calling. What they did worked as both teams ended up in the post season. We’re 4 missed tackles, 2 fumbles and 3 TD’s away from a playoff appearance basically but you really wouldn’t be able to knock those two teams for a “sissy unbalanced attack”
Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

McCoy>Sproles=Westbrook

it’s unfair to compare Westy from the 2006/2007 team. Owens the best WR in eagles history, probably 3-5 best in NFL history was in his prime, McNabb was in his prime and Westy was in his. If teams didn’t double TO McNabb hit TO. If they doubled TO McNabb checked down to Westy. It was pick your poison.

Arian Foster is making a real case that he’s every big of McCoy and Peterson. Just look at his stats.

I can think of six/seven who all have a claim to being a top-3 back. Off the top of my head: Arian Peterson, LeSean, Arian Foster, Ray Rice, Matt Forte, and Maurice Jones-Drew. Those are the best of the best, and I think that if LeSean continues to improve next year, and if the O-line gets consistency from a full offseason regimen, he could very well be the indisputable #1. Despite what someone said earlier about his lack of home-run potential (at least compared to Westbrook, which is admittedly a completely unfair comparison), he still led the league in runs of 20+ yards this year. I can’t wait to see him become a complete player in the coming years.

I’m with you. We need to bring in some top flight LB talent, fuck who we have if we can upgrade (which isn’t hard) then do so even if we have to cut Chaney, Fokou, Matthews, Rolle etc.. We have to get some real LB’s in here.

A. I’m sick of hearing you complain about people complaining about employing a balanced attack.
B. Yes, obviously.
C. Yes, you need to be able to make big plays. You also need to be able to control the clock and protect leads.
D. It’s a little too early in McCoy’s career to start trying to decide who is the better of the two. McCoy is the better runner. Westbrook might be the better receiver. Westy had the disadvantage of having entire defenses focused on him, but McCoy has more competition for targets.

I’d just like to say that if the Giants and Pats need to be eliminated next week. I HATE BOTH OF THOSE FUCKING TEAMS SO MUCH I CAN’T EVEN EXPLAIN IT!

The Saints and Packers have NO run game and they got elimated. You can pass all you want in the regular season, but in the playoffs it’s a different story. Also, the Pats beat the freaking Broncos. You can’t make any sources to that game cause the Broncos suck.

Westbrook for the most part was the Eagles biggest threat. Other then the years TO was on the team who else did the Eagles have on offense? They didn’t really have anyone that I can really remember. So he got most of the offensive calls. AR game planned to get him the ball a lot.

The Eagles now have McCoy, Jackson, Maclin, Celek and at QB the best QB in the history of football at making something out of nothing. So their are more threats on the team now then when Westbrook was playing. So now plays are getting drawn up for everyone, not just one guy like when Westy was playing.

Again I could be completely forgetting someone here and I don’t really have the time to look up rosters from the Westbrook years. But compared to the other options on this team McCoy is putting up crazy numbers when you take in the other weapons on this team.

The difference is New Orleans and New England have record setting one-of-a-kind quarterbacks while we have a record setting one-of-a-kind running back who can break one at any point in the game. Especially when we were using Vince Young at QB and basically throwing the ball enough times for VY to actually get 400 yards passing in a game even though it came on like 50 attempts.