Eagle Notes

The violent nature of modern day professional football was never more evident than the second quarter of yesterday's Eagles/Packers game when the Birds suffered four brutal injuries.

C Jamaal Jackson tears his bicep and is probably gone for the season. This is an especially tough break since he worked so hard to come back from major knee surgery this off season.

FB Leonard Weaver suffers a ghastly torn ACL and is also out for the year. He's a class act and a team leader who will be hard to replace.

QB Kevin Kolb and LB Stewart Bradley suffer concussions and do not play in the 2nd half.

If there was ever more evidence that football players put their lives and careers on the line every time they put on the pads, I haven't seen it. And since the league has benn forced to take a precautionary stance on concussion type injuries, look for an expanded practice player option with the next collective bargaining agreement that will allow teams to draw from those players in emergency situations. Why not just expand the roster you say? No way...the owners don't want to pay emergency players full salary!

Finally....albeit I'm not a Michael Vick fan because of his dog history, but I did admire his athleticism during his comeback effort in yesterday's game. What I didn't admire was his comment in the post game news conference when he said he thought the Eagles would have won the game if he had played all four quarters. That is a shameless self-promotion that threw Kevin Kolb and the rest of his team and the coaching staff under the bus. It doesn't surprise me.

Finally, at another press conference Randy Moss gets on the podium after a great Patriots win against the Bengals and announces this will probably be his last season in Ne because he doesn't feel appreciated. When are these guys going to learn that tens of millions of dollars is PLENTY of appreciation!

And yes...Andy Reid used his time outs too early.

See you down the road.....