stag hunter said:
You are completely missing the point. of course its legal. Everyone knows that. But to gloat after taking out a punter (when there are other unblocked players a little more capable of making a play than jeff feagles) is completely without class. And if you can't see that philadelphia's celebration is excessive then you are refusing to recognize the obvious because of your allegiance to your team. on 2nd down if you stop a runningback after a yard, no spectacular hit or amazing open field tackle, and you leap up and dance and strut down the field for 10 seconds after the play, you are making yourself look like an idiot. Each of them showboat non-stop. There is a difference between that and "showing fire." As a football player myself I know that a guy who puts you on your back and gets up and walks back to the huddle without saying a word is a lot more intimidating than someone who is jawing and dancing after each routine play. Whatever happened to "showing fire" in your play and letting that do the talking for you? im in no way suggesting that this is a problem endemic to the eagles, it's very much a league-wide thing, but i think philly exemplifies it more than any other team i've seen. plus, the celebrations aren't even any good. mcnabb dancing last year vs the skins and freddie mitchell's lame attempt at the "c-walk" were complete embarassments.
Feagles is a punter, he was our punter back in the day, and a very good one. Trotter hit him with a legal hit, and knocked him out, BUT HE WAS FINE! He could have blocked someone else, just like that Tennessee lineman could have blocked someone else instead of Winslow in that preseason game. Punters/kickers/quarterbacks get hit like that all the time, but because he is an Eagle, you feel the need to start your own little thread on the hit on the punter for you and all your little Cowboy friends to mock a team that is better than yours.
NOTE: If he had gotten hurt, I would have felt differently.
Usually (last couple of years) Eagle players are calm and don't get up after plays yelling and screaming, but we picked up a few of them in the offseason. Dawkins and Runyan were really our only two vocal players last season. We added Reed, Owens, Trotter and Douglas in the offseason, all of them are vocal on the football field.
Last season durring the Panthers game, the team looked like it had no heart aside from Dawkins, and you could tell he was struggling with an injury so it wasn't affective. We needed that fire.
Look at the kickoff return by Reed in the first quarter. We were down 7-0 against the Giants, and it didn't look good. Reed got the ball and broke a ton of tackles to get out to the 30. He didn't get great field position, but he brought that "fire". Who knows? What would the game have been like if he just fliped the ball to the ref? That entire drive they showed him on the sideline yelling and screaming at the offense.
