March 12th, 2015
Had a funny conversation with Galley Friend T.V. the other day. She asked me if I was worried about the crazy moves the Eagles had made. I told her that the Shady McCoy thing might look bad, but could turn out to be a Belichickian masterstroke, because slot-backs seem to be easy to find these days and not worth committing big financial resources for. Then she said: “Haven’t you heard? They traded Foles.”
And my head basically exploded.
I asked T.V. whether or not there was unrest on the Philadelphia street. Her reply:
After the press conference Kelly ran yesterday the majority of the WIP team, and the callers, think Kelly is an arrogant boob. He is either a pure genius with a brass set of cajones, or a total moron. He picked up good players IF they come on the team healthy. Bradford has missed the majority of the last two seasons with torn ACLs. All you needed this year to have a competitive team was a lineman, a safety and two corners. Still waiting on those to magically appear!
My hubby, ever the conspiracy theorist, thinks the Cowboys are paying Chip to tank our team. I am not quite ready to walk down that road. Yesterday, because of all the Oregon players that have been picked up, Steve was joking and saying that Huey, Dewey, and Louie are going to be our receivers and that Donald Duck is our running back. He referred to Lurie as Scrooge McDuck and said that Chip’s new nickname ought to be Daffy.
It’s always a good sign when the gallows humor sets in during the free-agent period after a 10-win season.
In other news, Galley Brother B.J. informs me “For who? For what?” doesn’t exist in the ether of the internet. There’s no video or audio surviving. I suspect it must be buried in the Channel 7 Action News tape archive somewhere. They ought to put an intern on that, for posterity’s sake.
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Lately to me Kelly recalls the history of literary depictions, from Mary Shelley to Thomas Harris & Michael Crichton, hinging on the border tension between the categories of Genius Scientist and Mad Scientist (the Mad Genius Dilemma, if you will); or as David St. Hubbins sagely observed, there’s such a fine line between stupid and clever
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Obviously SkinsfanPG and the media in general is unaware that Tebow’s experience running Urban Meyer’s offense (essentially a run/pass double option on every play) makes him a perfect candidate for Chip Kelly’s offense.
SkinsfanPG, might I remind you, is one of those neanderthal, troglodyte diehards who does not think Georgetown’s Jeff Green traveled against Vanderbilt in the ’07 NCAA tourney.
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JVL,
“[S]lot-backs seem to be easy to find these days and not worth committing big financial resources for.”
Replace “slot-backs” with “running backs,” and you have your reason for why the Demarco Murray signing was so dumb. Dismiss this as Cowboy-fan bitterness all you want — and hey, I would’ve liked us to keep the guy, he was phenomenal this past year, soul of the offense, etc. It sucks to lose a good player to a division rival, and he’ll fit Kelly’s scheme well.
But the track record for RBs who log that many touches in a season is pretty clear — see Eddie George, Larry Johnson, et al. — they drop off a cliff. Dallas will find another good back in the 2nd-4th round range in a great draft for RBs (as they did w/Murray), plug him in behind an O-line w/three Pro Bowlers, and save their cash for other priorities like Dez and defense. Jerry Jones (or more likely, Stephen Jones, who’s really running the show now) learned from that stupid contract he gave Marion Barber in 2008.
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