Eagles win not in the Cards

And so the bitching begins. Going into today's game, talk radio in Philly had two opinions:

The Eagles win the NFC Championship and go on to win the Super Bowl...Donovan McNabb goes to the HOF...Andy Reid becomes a coaching legend.

OR

If the Eagles lose to the Cards, Reid should be fired and McNabb should be released.

No middle ground. No gray. That's it.

So now that the Iggles lost (thanks to a helping of bad D, bad throws, bad drops, bad fumbles, bad calls, and bad kicking), let the chants begin anew.

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Eagles in Transition

Now that the Eagles are making plans for 2008, it's time to revisit comments from Mark Eckel of the Trenton Times made back in November 2007. Eckel wrote a devastating column regarding the Eagles' front office woes, including lots on Tom Heckert, who was considered by Atlanta and Miami for its front offices:

Heckert wouldn't know talent if it walked into his office, and it would have to walk into his office since he never leaves the building...

Here's an exercise for you to do in your spare time. Go over the Eagles' current 53-man roster and circle the good players -- not solid players, not players the Eagles tell you are good -- the truly good players.

If you get to 10, you circled too many.

Then go over players who probably shouldn't be on the roster, or any other roster. When your hand gets tired, you're done.

Just like the Eagles.

The Eagles continue to insist they are "a few players away." However, QB Donovan McNabb, who sees his own time in Philly coming to a close, stated on his blog that the Eagles need lots of better players - after all, 8-8 isn't good enough to get you in the playoffs anymore, not with the NFC East as good as it is now.