Well its official.
For the fourth year in a row the Eagles have another catastrophic injury that is set to possibly derail our playoff hopes.
2001 - Buckhalter injured in the St. Louis NFC Championship game, when he was playing great for the first half.
2002 - McNabb injured in Week 9. Comes back for the playoffs, but is too rusty to get the win.
2003 - Westbrook injured against Redskins. Duce can't produce.
2004 - Owens broke his fibula & has an 'outside chance' to make Super Bowl (assuming we even made it).
I'm sure a lot of people will want to think positive about this & I would like to see us to well. But I have to say that things aren't going to be easy. Can we win?
Yes.
Will we? Well it was certainly looking a lot easier last Saturday. We have basically 4 weeks to prepare Greg Lewis and Freddie Mitchell to become the new #2 guy. So its a new kind of training camp. The name of the game, for someone like Mitchell, is that he is really playing for a new free agent contract after he is done this season.
You want to prove you are a #1 pick - time to step up, kid.
Greg Lewis has got to prove why we just signed him until 2010. Reid sees some talent - I haven't really seen anything from him, but lets see what he can do.
I guess what is even more special about this whole situation is that the COWBOYS, who are without a doubt the #1 bane to all of Eagles existence are the ones to blame for this. So to twist that knife a bit deeper, the Cowboy fans can grin to themselves and be content that their team may suck - but at least the Eagles are pulled down a notch.
Right now i'm somewhat hopeful that a miracle will happen and Freddie Mitchell suddenly becomes THE MAN. Message board guys have been clamoring for Freddie to get his shot over Pinkston - well now he has that chance. If someone becomes the unsung hero of the playoffs and we happen to have a miraculous recovery from Owens, who knows.
What I do know is that we certainly can win the NFC playoffs without Owens. What I suspect is that against any of the AFC teams come the Superbowl - we really need a great WR like Owens to win.
I'd like to put a great spin on this, but it just is going to be extremely hard to win without T.O. - but not impossible.
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