Intelligent Philadelphia Eagles Fans Do Exist

Last Monday night, Charles Barkley and Ron Jaworski both commented about being a franchise player in Philadlephia.  Both of them spoke about how tough it can be and how fast the crowd can turn.  The moment a Philly fans smells defeat in the air, they are ready to sound the alarm bells, in the form of the notorious booing known across all sports.

As I sat in the bar last Monday night, there was this rather obnoxious guy commenting rather loudly about both Reid and McNabb.  The comments he was making were so far out of line, it really made me wonder if the guy even finished 6th grade.  You know the type, these are the type of fans that, as Enrico over at the 700 Level put it, "make us intelligent fans look bad."  Unfortunately after a few beers and cheese steaks, they are the loudest most obnoxious bunch of people, that manage to drown out the voices of reason.

Reid, has never crumbled, Reid has never deterred from his plan (he's made adjustments, but not deterred), Reid doesn't panic at a few losses.  Reid believes in his players, Reid's plans tend to work themselves out and above all Reid's got a winning record that most coaches in the NFL envy.  Yet you hear comments like "Fat A$$hole" come out of people's mouths, just because the Eagles lost.  Sure we question, sure we might not agree (as I disagreed with them cutting Bloom), but at the end of the day, our job isn't the Coach of the Eagles.

Donovan had a serious knee injury.  An injury that most of the time sidelines players for at least 1 year.  Not Donovan McNabb, in less than 10 months he came back.  Perhaps he did come back a little early, perhaps not - not really our decision to make.  But he did come back, because he loves playing in Philadelphia and wanted to lead his team.  Sure, he did look bad the first two games, last week it looked like he just couldn't get accuracy.  A lot of pressure is put on McNabb, when it should also go to the receiving ranks and the coaches.  Up until yesterday no one receiver really, truly stepped up and stood out.

Yesterday's performance, unfortunately, won't shut up the haters.  They'll just attribute the performance to  D-Mac afraid of loosing his job, or those gawd awful looking uniforms (which  Keith Olberman said last night , the person who dressed the Eagles in those uniforms is the most hated person in the NFL this week).  They won't ever look at things from an objective point of view, I'm guessing the beer and cheese steaks clouds the rationality and intelligence (really now, the Eagles don't have judge with his own chambers in their stadium for no reason).

The Eagles still have a bit of a way to go, and lord knows, next week's game is going to be  a tough one.  You know T.O. is just itchin' for a win against his old team (he's yet to get one), and the Plowboys, as much as I hate to admit this, look better than the Eagles, even after yesterday's performance.  I'm just going to hope that our Birds have finally figured it what it was they were lacking and that the first two games were just anomalies.

I'm not a hater, perhaps a doubter/questioner from time to time, but I'm definitely one that doesn't cry for a new coach or quarterback at every loss.  Unfortunately there's more haters out there right now, and for the rest of us, it's kind of sad.  To the national press - honestly, I swear, there are intelligent, un-inebriated  Eagles fans out here, you just gotta dig below all that noise to find us. :)