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May 30, 2007

Stupid Internet Explorer 7

Posted by Derek

I was putting the finishing touches on a lengthy post regarding the current state of the Eagles special teams when I opened a new tab in IE7 to check Dirk Johnson's punting stats from last season, which proceeded to crash the browser and kill my post. 

That completely sucked.

I'm not interested in re-writing the whole thing, particularly seeing how it wasn't that good in the first place, so I'll just recreate the gist.  Look at the special teams depth chart and then consider the following:

  • Our #1 long-snapper suffered a serious neck injury last season, has a wife and four kids, and probably shouldn't be in a position where insane 300-pounders are ready to snap his head back 0.1 seconds after he snaps the ball.
  • Our #2 long-snapper is roster deadweight who can't play any other position -- a bad thing on a team with so much young, marginal talent.
  • Our #3 long-snapper chucks snaps that look like too many of my golf drives -- worm-burners.
  • Our #1 punter had a net average of 34.9 yards last season and had a number of flat-out shanks (again, compare to my golf game).
  • Our #2 punter has never played professional football (American style).
  • Our kicker has fully recovered his leg strength but seems to hate it when anyone other than Koy Detmer holds his ba-- holds for him.
  • Speaking of which, our #1 holder sucked at the job last year and may not even win a spot on the roster this year.
  • Our #2 holder has, again, never played professional football, although he has spent most of his life trying to corral that crazy-bouncing Australian pigskin, which should come in handy should our #3 long-snapper be called into service (see above).
  • Our #3 holder is Matt Schobel, which is ... sort of funny.  Isn't catching an integral part of the whole holding experience?
  • On the plus side, we may have the best back-up punter returner in the league.

Looks like the new guy has his work cut out for him.

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