Archive for August, 2012

The Philadelphia Eagles closed out the regular season a perfect 4-0 with a 28-10 win over the New York Jets Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field.

Despite the winning record, there was a bit of disappointment for me this preseason — not that I expect much out of the preseason.

Nevertheless, the one thing I want to feel after four preseason games is a sense of security with my favorite team. I’d like to be comfortable with the offense. I’d like to be satisfied with the defense.

But I am not.

The defense looked a bit better in Week 3 — and the first-team didn’t play in Week 4 Thursday — but still, defensive coordinator Juan Castillo’s system hasn’t won me over.

However, that’s not the biggest thing that has me wondering if the Eagles can compete in 2012 — the fact that Michael Vick dropped back to pass only nine times does.

After a poor …

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A running back deemed too small to play after coming out of a 1AA school and missing an entire season because of a knee injury re-signed with the Eagles today and retired. It’s surreal to see #36 Brian Westbrook retire as an Eagle after providing so many memories to the city of Philadelphia.

Westbrook was drafted by Andy Reid at a time in 2002 where there were lots of questions about Westbrook. Is he big enough to be a NFL running back? Has his knee healed enough from his year he missed in college to be a full-time back? Will he be anything more than a punt returner?

He answered all those questions with a resounding yes. Right away you could tell Westbrook was a different player. He even threw a touchdown pass to Todd Pinkston in just his 3rd career game on September 22nd, 2002 in a rout of the …

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If you’re a fantasy football fan you play in from anywhere between 1-5 leagues (or more if you’re nuts.) I’ve played in the same league with my buddies since high school. We add a couple here and there and this is the 2nd year were doing a 12 team format.

I have a mix of guys in this group. A majority of us are Eagles fans. We have 2 Cowboys fans and 1 49ers fan. So we’re basically competing with 8 other guys to draft Eagles’ players. Same guy every year drafted Donovan McNabb. To the point that when he was the Redskins & Vikings quarterback the last two years he was drafted as his backup. Only 1 year did it lead to him being successful and it was the year he drafted McNabb and Terrell Owens together.

It’s always simple to overpay for players on your favorite team. Last …

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When the Philadelphia Eagles take the field Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field against the only team who hasn’t scored a touchdown in the preseason in the New York Jets (who also received the most preseason coverage from ESPN…) the final roster spots will be decided.

According to my count 47 players of the 53 allowed are set. Here’s my projected 17 players on offense that have locked up their place on the team:

QB:
Michael Vick
Nick Foles

RB:
LeSean McCoy
Dion Lewis

WR:
Jason Avant
DeSean Jackson
Jeremy Maclin
Riley Cooper (injured)
Demaris Johnson

TE:
Clay Harbor
Brent Celek

OL:
King Dunlap
Todd Herremans
Jason Kelce
Evan Mathis
Julian Vandervelde
Danny Watkins

Jason Peters is currently hurt the Eagles have placed him on the non-football injury list. Missing from the list is Demetress Bell who I think makes the team in front of the other remaining linemen (Steve Vallos, Brandon Washington, DJ Jones, Dennis Kelly & Dallas Reynolds) so that’s now 18. There will be a backup QB who I think …

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So much was made of how meaningless Friday night’s game was going to be.

With the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cleveland Browns both meeting up again in 16 days for the start of the regular season, their Week 3 preseason matchup was meant to be a vanilla, nothing-to-see-here kind of game.

And in the second half, that held true. But Philadelphia rookie quarterback Nick Foles made the first half of the Eagles’ 27-10 win over the Browns much more interesting than anyone expected.

After an early interception where Foles forced a long pass into a double-covered DeSean Jackson, Foles was flawless. He was making crisp passes; he was stepping up in the pocket with confidence; and he was leading the Eagles to points.

Basically, he was doing everything Philadelphia wants in a quarterback.

Foles played the entire first half, completing 12-of-19 passes for 146 yards and two touchdowns.

Now, even though his numbers look great, Foles …

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