About Damn Time
The Eagles cut former second-round draft pick Matt McCoy this afternoon because they felt like Akeem Jordan could be a great contributor on special teams and was a better fit for them right now.
Yeah, even PhiladelphiaEagles.com ain't buying that story.
McCoy got his butt cut for being the latest Eagles player to commit a stupid, nonsensical, potentially game-changing penalty. The cynics will argue that it's a hell of a lot easier to cut a backup linebacker for something like that than it is your star defensive end. And the cynics would be right.
But that doesn't change the fact that this was an important, necessary move for the Eagles. We talked about a culture of no consequences last week. With this move, Andy Reid just said: I got your consequences right ... here.
HT: to Jason for beating me to the news.
[Bonus nugget: This is going to make Tom very happy. You'll have to ask him why.]
[Bonus bonus nugget: 10 bucks says DPO'N uses this episode to take a shot at Reid's handling of his kids at her very next opportunity.]
Akeem Jordan is a winner, he played on the 2004 Division I-AA National Champions, the James Madison University Dukes!
Posted by: Tom G, ballssticksstuff.com | October 30, 2007 at 08:42 AM