Eagles Trying To Bring In Players Who Have The Right Attitude
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, General News, News Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
“The Eagles care more about bringing in the right type of player attitude-wise, more than trying to build their team on the free agent market”, an NFL source told me. “They want guys who have their hearts in football, not guys who are just trying to get a check”.
“Chip Kelly knows this area. He and the Eagles get it. They know the fans want a team that gives a full effort and cares about winning as much as they do. The Eagles people love the fact that the fans are passionate about the football team and want to be champions. ”
I can see what the source said by the players the Eagles signed. It seems that every player has been vouched for by somebody on the staff.
Nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga is a player, whom new Player Personnel Director Tom Gamble knows very well because he spent eight years with him in San Francisco. He’s a strong, physical player, who can play anywhere along the line of scrimmage.
Another San Francisco defensive linemen Ricky Jean-Francois is in town right now, which is another look at how they want players, whom they know will play tough hard and committed football. Like Sopoaga, Jean-Francois can play anywhere along the line of scrimmage. He is getting attention from the Colts, Titans and Saints in addition to the Eagles.
Kelly knows former New England safety Patrick Chung from their days together in Oregon. Chung isn’t the most talented safety in the league, but he seems to be very football savvy, which means he’s into football. He had two good seasons in 2010 and 2011, but he a bad year in 2012 and that’s why he’s out on the free agent market.
I was told that the Birds care a great deal about not bringing in the wrong kind of guy. You’ve heard it many times before, but the Birds want to change the culture on the football team. They want guys who genuinely care about the game of football, so much so that they affect the attitudes of their teammates.
That clearly wasn’t the case with a guy like Nmandi Asomugha. It seems to me that he wants to be a U.S. Senator because he was spending more time on scheduling a speech or he was doing something through his foundation than helping himself and his teammates get ready to play some great football.
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Goldson to the Bucs.
Glover Quin SS to the Lions
Would’ve liked to see Quin in Philly. I’m guessing Chip is good with Chung and Allen.
Rams are really making some updgrades and have 2 Picks in the First Round.. They will compete in a very difficult NFC West which now looks to be the Toughest Division in the NFC as well the NFC South with the Falcons,Saints,TB Bucs making moves and the dangerous Panthers..
Shit Goldson to the Bucs. FUCK!
Glenn Dorsey to 49ers to replace Sopoaga
Exactly what I was thinking DMAN, couldn’t of said it better.
Na its ok, we have Chip Kelly to rescue. He got his guy Mr. Wang Chung. Such bullshit
All impact FA safeties, gone, Keenan Lewis, & Cox about to sign. The only upgrade left is CB Sean Smith & Safeties Phillips & Delmas, who both are injury concerns! Again, another failed off-season, where we’re signing players, & neglecting putting impact players in the secondary! All you, “lets be patient” boobs better be happy, this is it, unless they load up in the draft! Be happy with your patience, with more stiffs! All sore spots, in the secondary, O-line & QB, not improved, AT ALL! It’s not early, when all the impact players, in your areas of need, are gone. Very SICKENING, DISAPPOINTING, & UNDERWHELMING! Mostly, ALL of the hope, excitement & enthusiasm, that I had for the off-season, is gone! Now, to cap off this failed off-season thus far, will be, them drafting Geno Smith at #4. WOO HOO!!!! SB BAAAABY!!! GTFO!
Plenty of Good Safeties still out there…l
Adrian WIlson, Kenny Phillips, Michael Huff, Ed Reed, Louis Delmas,
Sharrod Martin..
Eagles will have to Draft and groom their “Impact Players’ for this Free-Agnecy has a lot of Solid PLayers, but there wasn’t many impact Players this Year, but lots of Good ones..
Meant to the rescue. Well now i hope they sign Laundry
Is that dirty, or clean Laundry? It’s Landry & neither of them are any good! Both hitters, that can’t tackle, & blow in coverage!!!
HEY, never fear though, they’re “Bringing In Players Who Have The Right Attitude!”
GTFO!!!!!!!!!
You forgot Pollard
All these Players I listed allong with the Landry’s & Pollard are upgrades
over Allen,Chung & Coleman.. Hell I would take W Mikell back on a 2 Year Deal over A,C & C
I truly hope they have a plan. Cause of right now i don’t see it
DMAN, lay off the meth. You don’t build a championship team in FA. Name me one team who has done that.
Meant DCar; not DMAN. DCar thinks free agents is how you win a title. GTFO you CLOWN!!!! Go root for the Dolphins who are adding tons of free agents.
LOL, hook line and sinker
a Howie hoodwinked Lurie Lemming
No, just give the new regime a chance. We were a 4-12 team last year thanks to going crazy in FA in 2011 and a head coach who expired years ago. We have a new coach, made the best offseason move of any team thus far by cutting Nnamdi, and Tom Gamble who was one of the key architects of the 49ers transformation. Just give it a chance before you guys start crying about anything and everything.
F^#@ YOU & THE NEW REGIME!!!!
you are one negative man! you are the only person in the world that can blast a team at who has not lost a single game! WTF? why are you even a fan?
Question: after a 4-12 team with zero defensive players are you looking at this as a rebuild or a chance to win next year? I say its a rebuild and they are getting decent stop gap players who may or may not be around if the rebuild works… I dont like kelly and think its gimmicky but they never asked me nor you. lets see how it goes and at least wait a year or so into the rebuild before totally ripping them.
hac, WTF, is there to be positive about? The only positives are the stiffs, & coaching staff, we let go! But replacing them, with band-aids, mediocre replacements, ????’s & stiffs, is a slap in the face, to it’s fan base! They went 4-12, didn’t spend $23M last year, then had the f^#@ing balls to raise ticket prices, have $45M+ to spend, only to sign hot garbage, at blue light specials, with all the holes we have, while all better options, have gone elsewhere! So excuse me, for not being a pom-pom waving, everything is rosy, excuse making, lemming, stepford, like you & others are. You pulled this same $#!T, with your Phils arguments with me! How did that work out for you?!? I just got back from Clearwater on Sunday, & they are worse than last year! We better hope Howard hits 50 hrs, because our lineup is a joke, & Dom Brown, is a fraud! I’m a real fan, grounded in reality, that sees through BS, mirages, & frauds like this inept FO, trying to pull the wool over dumb@$$E$ eyes, & don’t live in La-La land. No $#!T, they’re rebuilding, but that doesn’t mean, you continue the ineptness, by signing mediocre replacements, & stiffs, & let the deepest FA secondary crop in years, go by, & sign junk, when your entire secondary is empty! They can’t draft an entire quality, startling secondary! I was very optimistic, & excited when the Hindenburg was fired, & seen what FA looked like, with all the $$$$ we have to spend, & us having the #4 pick, only to be pissed on, by Lurie keeping Weaselman, hiring an inexperienced, gimmicky, college coach, who hired a bunch of failures as coaches, kept the failure QB, that was 1 of the main problems, with the last 3 horrific years, signed 90 crap QB’s & garbage FA’s, not to mention all the love Geno Smith & Dion Jordan have been getting! So, excuse me, for not being patient, positive, & WAVING POM-POMS, like mindless cheerleaders!!!!
Nobody said that you f^#@ING moron! Learn how to read! Don’t put words in my mouth! You GTFO @$$clown! Go be a pom-pom waving patient apologist somewhere else, you fool! I’m an Eagles fan, you go root for the Dolphins! If you are content with what they’ve done so far, you’re an idiot, & are content with sucking!!! So F^#@ YOU!!!
Not to go off Topic,
Heard from a friend out in Cleveland that Joe Banner hired former Poster
“Schiller” as a Consultant to run Psychology Tests on all Browns
Players and Employee’s for the Organization
Congrats to Schiller..
don’t worry guys…..our Safety position is Solid…Chung is the next Ronnie Lott and is better than all the other high priced Safeties that went to other teams….and don’t look now but shut down corners we have will be equal to the two teams that were in the Superbowl last year……..
“WE’RE GOING TO SHOCK THE WORLD”
With the First Pick of the NFL 2014 Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles annouce a Trade To the Dallas Cowboys.. The Cowboys are now on the Clock..
reminds me of the Steve Spurrier era in Washington…..brought in a bunch of his former college players, his philosophy and system…..we all know how that worked on…. Chip will be back in college in 2 seasons
The point is the Eagles should have cut Nate Allen and had an invite scheduled for all the top Safeties in free agency…period.
Howie is still trying to save face with the Nate Allen choice because it was one of his first personal choices.
When will he realize a mistake remains a mistake if it’s never corrected?
Nate Allen is what he is, and that’s just not good enough in this league..He don’t have the edge or intimidation factor to excel at the Safety position especially in the NFC East.
It’s as if this team would rather fail than get an intimidating safety that will make the QB think twice about throwing to the middle of the field.
Landry and Goldson were right there and the Eagles made a statement right out.
It’s either Chung is better than those two, or cheaper than those two…..
If you chose a guy because he’s cheaper and he’s not better, how can you convince the fan base you’re doing everything possible to field the best talent and win?
Is it because they can’t afford the better option?
It don’t make sense and just feels like business as usual.
Songs -Safety problem still there!!! it is like last year’s Linebacker problem, they replace the crap of 2011 with Ryans and Kendricks but started Brian Rolle, then Akeem Jordan, then Jamar Chaney. We all knew that all the 6 LB from 2011 stunk but Howie allowed 4 of them to remain on the roster and each bum proved Howie’s incomplete linebacker makeover throughout the year kept creeping back to haunt the team. Matthews & Chaney are still on the team right now !!!
And because he shies away from contact he isn’t even good enough to play special teams. Truly pathetic.
I was not a fan of the Kelly hire from the jump, didn’t want another gimmick O, or philosophy that we’ll outsmart you rather than out physical you. However, he’s the coach and I’m an Eagles fan and there is nothing I can do about it. So, I’m willing to sit back and reserve judgement until the finished product. I agree theres been questionable decisions to this point of the off-season IMO and the free agents signed are under the radar. That said, this free agent class blows. The big names out there are 1 or 2 year starters, in there late twenties with a pretty limited track record of success. It reminds me of last year when guys believed the sky was falling cause D. Bell (small track record in Buff) left Philly w/o signing a contract, only to sign later and we know the rest, he was horrendous. Ultimately, I don’t have a lot of confidence the Eagles will get this right, but at least give the new regime a chance to screw it up first.
smartest thing Chip Kelly did so far was to tell everyone in ear shot – Howie is 100% in charge of the money and where it goes
Chip Kelly doesn’t have the authority to hire the towel boy.
Ever..you can reserve judgement but we will not.
What have been done to address one of the worse defenses in the league?
How do the Eagles expect a losing defensive coordinator to turn a losing defense into winners?
Do the Brass expect the Eagles fans to believe Chip Kelly is the answer to this pathetic defense?
Why competent defensive coordinators wanted nothing to do with the Eagles?
Why did the Eagles picked up the Browns trash as coordinators?
Does this translate to a winning organization?
What have they done outside of firing Reid that gives them the benefit of the doubt?
Hell, it’s becoming more evident that Reid was only one third of the problem and the other 2/3rds are holding the purse strings.
get entrenched …this team is the new Oakland Raiders in Al Davis’s senile years.
Vikings Meeting with WR Greg Jennings as predicted..
Chiefs release QB Matt Casell…
Word is that Chip Kelly may bring him in for a look..
Colts sign Safety LaRon Landry to a 4 Year Deal
Chargers sign CB Derrick Cox
Reports the Eagles are talking to LB Takeo Spikes and Safety Sean Considine to see if their is a mutual interest … Stay posted
i didn’t say there was a lot to be positive about — i think there are a million unanswered questions and they aren’t going to give them to us.
what i said there is nothing to bitch about yet– as we know FA’s and draft choices no matter what their paygrade or profile are a crap shoot… nothing more and nothing less- lets see if spurrier, oops i mean kelly actually know what he’s doing– until then reserve judgement, keep the blood pressure in the normal range and look on with skepticism but hell whether we blow or are great this thing is going to be high profile and interesting
dcar comparing this eagles team to a phillies team that had come off 102 wins (i know that means nothing) is assanine. this eagles team is a couple years from competing at a high level so stop gaps are what you want while building your foundation.
i was not a fan of the kelly hire so its not pom pom waving- its me saying be patient- i think everyone on here was a fan of hiring gamble to help us build to a winner- now all of a sudden its doom and gloom… typical.
No I’m comparing your stupid arguments, that you also lost, with your asinine excuse making for Amaro, calling me a non-fan, & saying I don’t know what I’m talking about! I use my brain & my eyes, not my foolish heart, like you do! I’m mostly, always correct, with my assessments, & always try to backup what a say, with fact & research! ALSO, like I stated, a 100 times, 102 wins means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, when you’re WS favorite & get knocked out in the 1st round! So try again sunshine!
you are using your brain huh? well let me tell you winning 102 means a helluva lot more than winning march! you are a wieny little girl and they are 0-0– they are freaking undefeated and you are crying about they suck– unfreaking defeated.
even your boy fraud agrees that they are trying to make systematic progress.
102 means noting! You lose an argument, & revert to calling me, a whiny little girl? Who’s the little girl, PRINCESS?!? Undefeated??? Are you that goofy & dense? Have you lost your f^#@ing mind? Get lost! BTW, nobody on here is my boy! He’s sarcastic, & entertaining, but you idiotic, imbeciles, choose to take him seriously, & revert to call him names, when he’s f^#@ing around! So f^#@ off, & watch who your calling a little girl, excuse making, apologist!
winning march means less– you lose!
aaaah unstable dcar shows himself again. next comes “i’m 6’5″ 245 of solid muscle, ex copt can and will kick your ass, meet me at the corner of ‘your a fag and suck my d#@$”– yeah right. maybe they should sign namdi there is a big name for ya.
i’m not making apologies for kelly– i don’t like him but i’m just a fan- i want to see if his pla works– yes undefeated… hasn’t lost a single game– not one.
Did I make any threats? NO! If you can’t lose an argument with grace & class, without acting like a child, you’re the 1 with issues. You don’t know me, nor am I unstable, I choose to defend myself, & have the balls to do it, & don’t hide behind a keyboard to do it! OH, BTW, I’m 6’3″, not 6’5″. Yeah undefeated & no wins too, if I want to think like your bass ackwards thinking. Boy, the more you talk, the more foolish & delusional, you look dude!
This Team is not going after HIgh-Profiile, Expensive Long-Term Deals and I am not sure why some of the Fans expected them to do so..
The way Chip Kelly Coaches is that he will use lots of Players on both sides of the Ball, especially in the Backfield and at Reciever Postion on OFfense
and all across his Defenses.
This Eagles Defense will have 12-14 Players playing 30 Snaps a game in the their Front 7 .. Having Quality Depth with Versatility will be very imprortant as he rebuilds this Roster.. .
that is the plan and it MAY not work… but at this point they are undeafeted. they have not won the march bowl that is for sure– we’ve won the off season bowl before and it sucked!
I like what the Eagles are doing so far..
Now land a OT, LB, WR and another CB & SAfety and I will like it more..
no articles on the Phillies so far bummer. someone needs to write an article about them and someone also needs to get some juice for utley he stinks without it. my apologies if this post is racist or has racist undertones
Looks like Doc is really struggling with Velocity.. Topping out in the mid 80′s which is not going to work at the MLB Level.. He probably needs to be shut down or hang back in FLorida for another 4-6 Weeks to build up his Strength for he will not last 2nd time thru a Line-Up against Bilg-Leauge Hitters.. He is struggling with his control,
his ball is breaking flat and with low velocity means bombs away right now..
I’ve stated this before and will again, Doc Halliday has not been the same Pitcher since that over-exhausion episode in late August of 2011.. Almost every outing for him since has been a struggle.. Old man time has caught up to him and he’s probably a #4 Pitcher at this time
yea doc looks like he is toast. I thought his phantom injury last year was bs and it sure looks like that may have been the case he looks legit done. good thing is he is off the books after this year as is utley. hopefully brown can play well so we have something to build with. hopefully asche is legit and is ready next year too. next years infield could be:
1b Howard
2b Caesar Hernandez
ss jimmy
3rd asche
c chooch
people always cry about our farm but Caesar & asche have tremendous upside.
Tommy Joseph behind the plate, chooch is gone
Paulman?
So how will the Eagles sub in 12=14 players when teams are in a hurry up offense?
***BTW, Sean Smith- KC Chiefs!*** Another quality upgrade, off the market! Numbers are dwindling quick! We must have 5 picks in the 1st 2 rounds, to fill these holes, that I didn’t know we had, huh? That’s the only reason I can think of, why we haven’t gotten anyone of significance, for the secondary! But hey, what do I know, thyey have a master plan, Howie & Kelly can do no wrong, because they’re bringing in “Players with the right attitude!” RIGHT??
I’m just happy the days of Andy Reid are over. this team needs a year or 2 to reinvent itself. no need to go “all in” with this squad this year and overspend…
we could have a coach that can’t adjust and learn from past failures… look at kc spending all kinds of $ and they can’t contend. idiotic IMO you gotta build your squad up from the ground if ur kc and be ready to overtake Denver in 2 years when manning hangs Em up.
Chiefs agreed to terms with CB Sean Smith, formerly of the Dolphins, on a three-year contract.
The news — which was first “reported” by Smith’s former teammate Vontae Davis two weeks ago — comes via Smith’s agent. He joins Brandon Flowers and Dunta Robinson to form one of the league’s better cornerback trios, though Robinson could still end up at safety. It’s the same failed strategy Andy Reid adopted in Philadelphia, but he’s willing to give it a second chance as division-rival Denver transforms itself into an offensive colossus. Regardless of where Robinson plays, Smith will bookend Flowers on the outside. The Chiefs might not be ready to compete for a playoff spot, but are going to be a far tougher out in 2013.
once eagles signed mike vick I knew we would be in complete rebuild mode but Im along for the ride even though its gonna be bumpy and ugly.
Complete rebuild mode? Eagles need to release or part ways with a a lot more players to be considered in rebuild mode…This new head coach may feel he can win with these players…you have no idea what he is thinking.
Dcar..what holes?
The Eagles secondary is one of the tops in the league….
remember the “addition by subtraction” bullshit the Eagles spin machine uses when every offseason after they suck ass?
It applies right now buddy.
Remember they shafted the fan base telling us the secondary would be better without Asante Samuel?
It applies now.
NNamdi is gone and he was the sole reason the defense sucked, so now the safeties will be destroying everything that come over the middle and put fear in the opposing teams heart.
Just don’t look behind the curtain or you may see a midget named Howie pulling the strings.
Jason LaCanfora reported on Wednesday afternoon that the Eagles are looking to bolster their pass rush and have been in contact with former Texans outside linebacker Connor Barwin and former Cowboys outside linebacker Victor Butler among others.
hahaha…just foreseeing the posts now…
DCAR: GTFO with %U$$. %$##(%#$#*# $*$*$U
Songs: these cats are ass
Barwin could be productive, but for the contract he may get, 6-8mil a year range….no thank you… not big on signing a player like Butler who only started two more games more than I did last season…
I’d like to see bigger moves than these…maybe the Eagles believe they are solid and only need to add depth…maybe they understand they will be a bottom team in the league next year no matter who they sign, so grab the right fits for the future? To much to speculate, but if the free agent period continues like this, I hope they have a very strong plan for the draft…
Here’s some more for you- ^#@^#@!^#@!**^$@@!@#$%^*&^$!!!
RealTalk, you forgot to add
Paulman: Just as I predicted,LOL
**Jake Long close to signing with Rams!*** Sean Smith got a modest 3 year $18M. Nothing that would have broke the bank. Options at S & CB, all but gone! But hey, we have Fletcher, & Chung, & still have Allen, Coleman, Marsh & Boykin! I guess we draft 4 secondary picks in the draft. But if they don’t we should be fine! BWAHAHAHA!!!! What a cruel hoax & joke, this organization is!
Lose an argument? Hilarious as declared by you. The eagles have a plan, it MAY not work. But until they’ve played some games maybe several including some losses you can’t rip them, well illogical angry people can but reasonable people who have some patience.and intelligence
Howie and I guess Chip withheld releasing their coach hires;
then released all their first day FA signings at once;
are they holding back a few new Eagles now?
reasonable, intelligent people don’t have to wait to see how it “plays out”, its already played out with poor front office decisions, not firing Roseman, not qualified to be a gm, hiring of an NFL nobody over Gus Bradley, keeping Vick on the roster, signing a band of wash outs, at qb, now an unimpressive early free agency signing period , soon to be followed by a poor draft
There is nothing new here other than Howie hired a stooge in Kelly
Ok so jake dog has declared them 0-16 for the next couple of years. Good I don’t even have to watch.
As per your post the other day I don’t consider you reasonable nor intelligent.
This is ridiculous. I’m usually positive pete and like to keep things in perspective but I’m feeling like Songs and Jakedog right now.
We just witnessed the worst secondary in the HISTORY of the Philadelphia Eagles and quite possible the NFL……and all we get for it is Patrick Chung and Bradley Fletcher? In a year where Safeties and Corners were available by the bundle, thats what we come away with?
Ridiculous.
Namdi and DRC are still out there getting a lot of interest as big name FA. I will not panick especially in a rebuild year
What has Kelly done since he’s been here to make anyone think he has this program is on the right track, cutting Nnamdi?, that’s about it, and if you listen to his press conference about the free agency signings, he’s talking about how this is a collaborative effort, blah, blah, collaborative right down the drain
Who wants to wager who will have a better team next year, the Chiefs or the Eagles, at least Andy has a plan, went after a qb, a legitimate nfl starter, Kelly resigned Vick, signed a practice squad qb in Dixon, an arena player in Kinne, and at one of the the team’s greatest needs, safety, he got New England’s garbage
Andy will draft Joeckel and Kelly will draft who Howie and Lurie want, probably Geno Smith, a qb with blazing speed but doesn’t want to run
I said the day AR got to KC that he would have a better record than eagles and will be in the PO hunt.
You are not understanding what I’m saying this is a complete unknown and you all are panicking… It’s too early to panick. Let’s see his plan, he is not showing you his plan.
As for what he says at the press conferences when will you learn not to listen to a word any coach or GM says.
Ealges announce signings of Safety Kenny Phillips (gaints 6-2 217lbs) and CB Cary Williams (Ravens 6-1 190lbs)
Easgles Secondary just got a 100% better today …
somebody remember this comment…in a few months, Paulman may say, the Eagles secondary got 100% worse with these signings…
Good one RT..
but to be honest, I am not sure how much worse any NFL Secondary can be that what the Eagles have had since 2010.. It’s been just brutal to watch.. One thing we could always count on as Eagles Fans was a good, physical,agressive Secondary even in the bad years.. but the last couple of Seasons were hard to stomach with the group they had in there and the Coaching Carousel every Season with teh Secondary
Unreal you are beginning to grow on me,! That would be classic paulman.
Seems like the negative nillies have gone a
Ittle quieter tonight
Cigar, Cary Williams scares me they paid a bunch of money to a guy who was burned week after week Nnamdi without the hype?
Hey my only point is they do have some sort of plan. It may work?i don’t know and neither does anyone but there is a plan. Did they add 5 defensive starters? I’m not sure but I ask does this set the stage for a smith draft? They need a qb in a big way, Vick runs the show until his he gets decapitated smith takes over? I never would have thought that…