Everyone is missing the point on the Eagles' signings. Just click here to be enlightened.

Who said that they were the dream team? Vince Young, a player currently on a rebound course in a backup role. Also an Eagle. This did not come from any media source, a newspaper, a player on another team, but a member of the Eagles. Isn’t it common sense that one of the lamest things anyone can do is give themselves a nickname? If not then I might as well start calling myself D-licious…

Oh, and just in case of any retorts regarding the nickname “America’s Team”, you may want to check this out:

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-top-ten/09000d5d8074cf30/Top-Ten-Nicknames-America-s-Team

You heard it from the NFL itself. The Dallas Cowboys are America’s Team and is a legitimate name because it wasn’t self proclaimed.

Tantrums are rational?

They should be here or they’re reading this now and will post something BGN.

We’re ready:

No excuses for ourselves. We gotta be better in everything as garret would say

The Eagles might be the best-run franchise in the conference over the last dozen years.

Can’t say we haven’t had any full draft busts unfortunately

whats with the shower cap?

The draft is only supposed to go back to 2000. McNabb was drafted in 1999. Only included because people would be wondering “Well, what about McNabb”.

Why do you think it took so long for Nnamdi to sign with someone? Because they know the repurcussions of paying one player that much money. As great of a signing as the Deion Sanders acquisition was, it did hurt our cap in years to come. That and players being forced to retire early (Aikman and Irvin) threw a wrench in things as well. The Jets were lucky to be able to get Revis back for less money than what Nnamdi was making. That could have hurt them bad for a while.

Resignings not quite as much throughout the league, but that was Dallas’s trouble recently. I was always kind of suspicious why players never held out in Dallas. Jerry was always willing to pay them their money, so hopefully that changes now and he is a little smarter about that.

On a side note, this is the first year with a rookie cap meaning more money for vets. The contracts you see now won’t be anything compared to the future contracts I think. This may cause problems for Philly in a couple of years with all of these signings seeing how much others are making at their position and all of them wanting more money or be traded…

That is just what happens when you don’t select anyone until round 3. Just look up the ratio of how many players become impact players that are drafted between rounds 3 and 6, not a very large percentage. Your 7th rounders and UDFAs get that chip on their shoulder and play up and exceed expectations, working extra hard to prove everyone wrong.

Because they have maximized their cap and draft and done a good job of managing both.

The Eagles have escape clauses on those contracts. If they cut the players they have NO dead cap space liability. They are making really good decisions.

Come up with some performance stats on former-Oline-coach-turned-DC’s who haven’t coached D in 22 years (even though it was HS ball), especially one’s bright enough to head-butt their players and cut their own head open and she’s they’re all yours.

There’ll be no draught drought in Cowboys country.

First off it’s not skewed just cause you traded up. He was right, you guys drafted at that point , doesn’t matter what got you to that point. The Cowboys and Eagles have drafted only one apart in avg. so win loss seems to be irrelevant here. The Cowboys haven’t drafted better than the Eagles as a whole, just in the First round.

The hating part is kinda uncalled for though. His post is no different than posts put on the BGN regarding the Cowboys. I guess BGN should worry about themselves too huh? I bet you don’t call them haters when they post material regarding the Cowboys do you? NO! So why throw that piece in there? Your team is doing well in the offseason and wish you all the best of luck.

Teams like the Lions, Browns, Bengals, Raiders, have all drafted ahead of the Cowboys and have failed big time in drafting good players….while teams like the Patriots have drafted after the Cowboys each year and drafted much better. Draft position doesn’t really matter at all, because there is an abundance of talent all over the board it’s just a matter of being able to find it, to be able to do that, and do it very well, then you need

an intelligence or talent evalution thing

One more thing:

THE COWBOYS HAVE DRAFTED BETTER THAN THE EAGLES BECAUSE THEY HAVE HAD A WORSE RECORD THAN THE EAGLES OVER THE SAME 10 YEARS THERFORE ALLOWING THEM TO DRAFT HIGHER THAN THE EAGLES

If this is truly the case, and the argument that you want to put forth, then why aren’t the Bengals, Browns, Bills, Raiders, at the top of the league right now? If it has less to do with talent evaluation, and more to do with draft position, then you should have a very good, eye opening argument for me.

If it was immediately followed by a wish to commit terrorism in Arlington. You won’t find many people who talk about the Eagles here in their signatures… and yet… we’re the ones obsessed with you.

…your sig notwithstanding (really, you shouldn’t live in the past), I’m curious, given Nnamdi’s relative performance vs the Bolts’ tall, athletic receivers, are you at all concerned Austin/Bryant may make the signing questionable with respect to the Cowboys/Eagles rivalry? While I figure he was a decent pickup, for you guys or anyone, if I was the QB, I’d test him just like anyone to see if the rep’s valid and make any guy earn his game-pay. Figure we both (all?) know any given play, any guy, it could go either way.

btw, I think the luck we wish each other’s of the “no injuries, good game” sort. In that spirit, good luck this season too.

your mama drop you on your head?

Isn’t that what this whole post was about? I mean, aside from the fact that the Cowboys have far more of their #1’s still on the roster over the last 10 years everything in this article was a bunch of abstract numbers that happened to be WRONG.

Felix may have the ability and the time to accrue more value than Mcnabb but will he? See there to is another of those ABSTRACT #’s.

Look I read a post that looked interesting and in reading I found more than one wrong statment and corrected (even though I did add a bit my own perseption in).

To Dubious:
I personally have not written or read a post BASHING the Cowboys for improving the the team. As a matter of fact up until the Roy Williams and followed by the signing of T.O. I admired Jones for his willingness to go out and get the talent needed to win. Now the Eagles, who have mainly sat on the sideline when it came ot acquiring talent outside of the draft, have done the same thing it seems as if the entre league and it’s fans has decided the Eagles are Satan and must be destroyed. So of course any fan of a team that has invested the time I have in one team as a fan (35 years) will take offense to an article that is PURPOSELY written with bad information to rile up Eagle fans.

Talk about ancillary, bordering on extraneous, detail on a player a guy figured the Cowboys shoulda picked.

Hands down, you take the cake.

I want a link of you guys being top 5 youngest teams in the NFL….you just signed a bunch of 30+ FA. Please, enlighten me

You guys also have a story on your front page about the Cowboys D-coordinator, it’s called a rivalry, of course we’re going to talk about other teams, I have to assume BGN has talked about something the Cowboys have done once or twice

Okay! What is Andy Reid’s record against Dallas since Parcells left, including playoff games?

Here you are, fresh off signing the Dream Team and being so gosh-darn amazing that the other 31 teams should just forfeit, on a Cowboys blog. You know how many times I’ve been to BGN ever? Zero. Should tell you who obsesses about whom.

You made the playoffs, but . . . didn’t you lose to the same team two weeks in a row?

Never, never. Well, I was over there the other day and saw not just a story by JimmyK on the Cowboys, who spends an awful lot of time posting here, but the language was atrocious, the posters were ranting, and the general tone of the conversation, (if you can call it that) was that you have already won the Super Bowl before a game has even been played. You realize you now have to give Vick, Jackson, & eventually Maclin the same type of money or they will become disgruntled players. Your team is not done spending.

This part, though, is just plain self-delusion…

You can mock us for our lack of rings but I could care less about that.

If credibility is at all important to you, admit it in bold type and move on.

If not, you’re probably not a fan Lurie wants rrooting for his team.

But seriously why say that and then come with the past arguements? You just made yourself look foolish here. There is only one arguement that can be said and that’s how many SB’S we have and your team has 0. Now see where this lead to? Guys at the BGN hate when Cowboy fans bring this up cause it hurts. So please don’t do the past arguements cause there is no way you will ever win. Good luck this year on your 1st one.

Those things don’t end up in a trophy case so we don’t count them.

If you had a bling, you’d know that. But you don’t, so you get a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card on this one.

If you want to start talking history that is fine, but I believe that works in our favor bud. Besides, no one cares about the past 10 years what you have done or what we have done in that same time span. Its in the past and no longer matters. And most of the players over the past 10 years probably don’t even play for our teams anymore…

you have an ownership so cheap they were $55 million below the cap and ALWAYS unwilling to spend on talent, always a player away because Daddy Warbucks kept it to himself. And now obligated by NFL Law to Spend, you come over here and gloat? The problem is your team is too cheap and conservative, and that’s why Eagles fans will never taste the sweet nectar of Superbowl Victory.

Then why all the talk of releasing them after 1 year? I don’t get it. I wouldn’t consider it a good FA signing if they last one year and then cut.

they tend to get outspoken players. like the jets, and you guys. that make other players want to come to that team (see vick). the players sign for less. and pull lebrons by calling themselve the dream team.
i can say the eagles office has done a great job in the offseason, and salary cap wise. but i cant praise a front office that has Never won a super bowl. and i mean not once. and yes that does have something to do with how good your front office is. im tired of eagles fans saying, well we will have it this year so that doesnt matter. it does matter until they have it. they cant keep saying the same thing each year. not to mention the eagles suck at drafting, especially compaired to the giants. they are basically reaching on every pick, while the giants get SOTD (steals of the draft).
and if you cant draft well. then your not gonna win a superbowl.
look at the packers. their entire team was basically homegrown. so again, the eagles front office is good at the offseason (except the draft) but should not be praised until they have a ring.

you basically get names. players that the casual fan have heard a lot about.
this year was the first year you adressed a serious need. and you picked a player about 5 places to high.
i dont really have too much faith in dallas’ first round of the draft.
you get good players. but usually by sacrificing a position of need.
the draft is not your strng suite.
few teams have mastered it.
the pats have the stockpile technique
the giants have the BPA Technique
bot have turned out pretty well. they both apparentley have the greatest scouting agencies on earth.
giants have starters that were 7th round picks (see AB)
the key is picking well with your 4, 5, 6, 7 picks. because your first 3, well atleast first round pick will usually turn out well enough. because the player you picked was talented enough to deserve that selection. teams arent make or break on first rounders. but late rounders.

We’ve needed a real GM since 2000.

Since March 29, 1994.
RIP JJ².