THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES...

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

i know...those guys all have better resumes on winning teams before becoming a head coach. under your scenario, you got reid being fired (meaning the team won't play well) and him being promoted after just a year or two as coordinator. i just don't think that makes sense.

either way, he chose denver over the birds.

no, my scenario would be him knowing that reid was stepping down in two years.

and we don't know that the birds offer was on the table...that's speculation.

you ok today jeags?? you're off your game

apparently you meant reid gave himself an ultimatum to win here then:

The Fixer wrote:

These types of moves kinda scream desparation. I hope reid hasn't been given any type of ultimatum to win

again, all over the place, you are.

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

dude, you're wrong again. originally, yes I laid that out. Then as our discussion went on I said that there were rumors of him stepping down in a year or two. remember, you asked me where I heard those rumors? I said baldinger in case you forgot.

think about it...how would a new coordinator know that the coach would be leaving? the organization isn't going to tell him the coach is going to be fired in a year or two. the coach would have to relay that info...especialy if he's the one doing the hiring.

let your fiancee handle the wedding planning. it's obviously putting too much on your plate

rumors dude. you think i think the eagles would tell him they will fire reid? rumors...people talking...people seeing what the organization is doing. people seeing roseman and banner gaining more control over the past few years. you, a reid backer to the highest degree, even "laid it out" before making something up about him stepping down to cover yourself. it's all speculation.

unlike how i question that you actively follow the sixers, i do believe you when you say you don't follow the birds much during the offseason until draft time. we'll wake you up then, like you requested a couple weeks ago.

jeez.

The Juggler wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

can you imagine that? i don't see anyway it happens though. they're paying him 8 million not to coach next year...

reid seemingly finally being pushed to win now can only be a good thing though. :thumbup:

That's 8 mil to not coach, or 8 mil no matter what?

i would assume he'd have to forfeit it if he went to another team, right?......if you are fischer, though, after 17 years as a head coach, would you really want to be a coordinator again? i bet he'll get a cushy job at nfl network or something for a year or two...and then start coaching again.

The Juggler wrote:

http://www.csnphilly.com/01/27/11/Source-Fisher-will-not-be-Eagles-next-D-/landing_eagles.html?blockID=399283&feedID=704

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

quality article. sheridan is solid

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists ... _plan.html

really? i've always thought sheridan was awful with every sport he comments on. always points out the obvious. the birds have a plan. duh.

i enjoyed this rich hoffman article. speaks about the birds thinking outside the box and feeling a sense of urgency, which is good:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eag ... staff.html

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

really? i've always thought sheridan was awful with every sport he comments on. always points out the obvious. the birds have a plan. duh.

i enjoyed this rich hoffman article. speaks about the birds thinking outside the box and feeling a sense of urgency, which is good:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eag ... staff.html

yeah, I like sheridan, hoffman, domo, and especially murphy. hagen and donnellon are absolutely terrible

mcclain is solid too as birds beat writer. i like les bowen too a little bit. though he doesn't know nearly as much as domo and some of the other guys. his articles are usually pretty interesting. and it's funny how reid always gives him shit in his press conferences.

to me, sheridan is slop like hagan and donnellon though. i'm surprised you like him actually. he was real supportive of the howard contract extension last year. he's not a sabermetrics guy either....

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

I went down to New Orleans for an eagles game a few years ago. I flew back by myself because none of my cheap ass buddies were willing to pay for a direct flight (I refuse to fly connecting flights after a longg weekend of boozing). Anyway, I was on the flight with all of the philly writers...hoffman, hayes, d-gunn, bowen, domo, sheridan...all of them (there were only 1 or 2 direct flights from NO to philly that monday). Les Bowen sat next to me in the terminal and we talked for a while before our flight boarded. He couldn't have been a nicer dude.

Funny part was that I had been in NO for 3 nights. My mom was the one that picked me up at the airport. First words out of her mouth were...'you STINK like alcohol. Not beer, alcohol.'

haha, Bourbon Street got the best of me. I probably had booze oozing out of my pores for a week after that trip. I can only imagine what les bowen was thinking while he was talking to me.

that's cool. bowen seems like he'd be cool. was that back in '06-ish? i know a bunch of people who went to that game. that was the year we lost to them in the playoffs right?

when i was in high school i had a journalism class. one of the assignments was to invite some local journalist in to talk to the class. i wrote to ray didinger and never heard back from him. ended up getting some schlub editor at the Suburban or something....anyway about 3 years later i got a phone call out of the blue from didinger. it was when he was leaving the daily news for nfl films. he found my letter buried under a bunch of shit on his desk as he was cleaning it out and felt bad that he never got back to me. so he basically called to apologize. stand up guy, that ray diddy.

some other guy in my class got bill lyon to come in though. lyon is my all time favorite philly writer. that was awesome sitting there listening to him talk about the profession and the general philly sports scene (which was terrible in the mid 90's) for an hour or so.