jman said:
I think the truth be told, that TO thought he would have a Super Bowl ring by now with the Eagles and would have been on his merry way with another team by now. When it didn't work out that way, he decided to pull out his stunts to get released or traded and that hasn't worked yet either.
I truly think he thought he would only be there a year and gone. That's why he signed the contract.
He thought after they won a SB with him, he'd be able to make the claim it was because of him and then demand a redo of his contract.
I suspect he had a hefty bonus in his contract if the Iggles had won with him last year which is now moot or maybe something in his contract would have triggered lopping off some years on his deal so he could get out sooner and resign with another team.
Something that was in his deal or in his vision as to how it was going to work out has backfired.
I don't think you can fault TO's play. The guy comes to play every Sunday. He plays hurt. He can still get it done. Even against Denver, when he scored when they were about hopelessly behind, he brought them back with a hige individual play.
I'm not as down on him as some. After watching Deion here in Dallas and all the BS we had to go thru to play and pay him and brought him in pretty much to win our last SB after signing him away from the 9ers..
..I understand why Philly is putting themselves thru this.
I really think the Iggles problem is pretty much on defense. They have had a constant loss of talent on that side of the ball with players signing elsewhere and several of their defensive coaches have been moved also as Reid has made changes in his staff each off-season for the last couple of years.
Success does this to teams. Losing coaches as a big an impact on the W-L column as losing players. Combine the two, and it's a slow downward spiral.
Blame TO if you want, but he's a player and a very talented one. And he's not the answer for the Iggles nor the reason for their troubles.
I think you have to look to Mcnabb as not being able to win the Big One. And as much as TO maybe vilified for hinting at McNabbs shortcomings, I think he's more correct than some want to admit about McNabb.
I'm not sold on him as a championship QB yet..either.
I know the media has embraced him, but purely as a QB of elite status..until he wins a SB, he won't really get there. And the sad thing is, he really needs a guy like TO to get him there and that's the problem.
They aren't getting along and McNabb hasn't been able to just make it work if only for his own selfish reasons that he needs TO to get where he's been unable to get alone.
This league has always had loads of great QB's that never won the SB, which is what puts them over the top. Peyton Manning is in the same boat with McNabb here.
Actually, our own Drew Bledsoe is also there, having played well over a career and been to a SB but never won one and on a SB team in the Pats, but Brady supplanted him as a starter to go there.
He's an example of the possibilities, the ups and downs and the twists and turns at the position that can happen even to very good QBs.
So I'm not so much flipped out over TO. To me, he's a mirror of what's the real problem in Philly with McNabb possibly feeling the pressure at QB and so much depending on him.
Just go back to last year's SB and the stories of McNabb cracking under the pressure and throwing up and being out of it at one point. there is something there in McNabb that isn't quite able to perfrom under pressure.
Which is a requirement to be a SB QB.
We'll see.
parcellswaterboy
