Who'd have thunk it? Lito Sheppard shows up to mini-camp and he is saying all the right things and ready to play with this team if need-be.
I must admit I was shocked when I heard he showed up Friday evening for mini-camp.
We have to give him some serious props for playing the good soldier in all of this. The Eagles are in a win-win situation now. If they keep Sheppard, they'll have the best trio of cornerbacks in the league. And, by having him playing the good soldier it sends a message to the rest of the league that they're prepared to keep him, rather than give him up for 20 cents on the dollar.
How will all of this play out? I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Eagles keep Sheppard until August and just before the season they'll pull off a trade for a quality receiver-at the very least. I'm envisioning a Donte Stallworth scenario where they make a trade happen just before the season.
And, we'll be sweating it out waiting for something to happen.
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Fightins win another one
This is starting to get old now. The Phillies are emerging into one of the best teams in baseball early on this season. They won another game last night behind Jamie Moyer's efficient pitching and a lights-out offense, by knocking off the snakes 11-4.
And, don't look now, but that guy we were all killing (Eric Bruntlett) had another good game, with a couple of hits.
Also, some guy named Jimmy Rollins may be back as soon as tomorrow. More likely he'll return for the weekend series though.
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Andy Reid gets pissy
Andy Reid is getting sick of the Lito talk and wanted to pound it into the reporter's heads yesterday that there is more to this team than just that situation.
He thinks the media is being too hard on his team.
Reid said, "I thought you guys struggled to find a positive story. You did a good job finding the negative ones, but there are plenty of positive ones that you could find out there. There are some good young players that you could really focus in on and look at. Other than that, it was business as usual."
Well excuse us, but you were 8-8 last year and those last 2 games didn't mean jack shit. Your team should have been 6-10.
With that said, I expect the Eagles to be at least an 11-win team with their defense this year. The defensive line will be much better and look for Stewart Bradley to become the X-factor in that defense. They will almost be back to the same kind of team they were in the early 2000's.
Reid needs to get a grip though because this is a team that has missed the playoffs in 2 of the past 3 seasons and it's Super Bowl or bust. We've all been down that road before of NFC Championship appearances.
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