Gyuri,
I'm already thinking about next year's draft.. With our first rounder plus the one we picked up from Carolina- if we play our cards right, we could end up with four 2nd round picks..

booya..

. . .and we can turn those into 10 4th round picks. It is pretty exciting.

Actually, I'm reasonably happy with this draft, given the fact that there weren't many home runs available after we failed to move up in the first round. My general view of Eagles' drafts are that the ones that piss off the Philly fans (McNabb, Shawn Andrews) tend to be better than the ones (Mamula, Freddie Mitchell) we get excited about.

Given that the Philly fan world is apoplectic about this one, I think it may turn out to be as good as the Giants' draft last year.

Yes, but I'm sure that had he not been one of the best basketball players in the country at the time, he would have had to find a job in the Navy, even if it wasn't exactly what he'd focused on at Annapolis.

That's true. In fact, my recollection is that Robinson had already been lined up for some sort of "super recruiter" role. Of course, the country wasn't at war when either Robinson or McCallum were drafted.

We're not really "at war" now. We're at "trying to create a military solution to a problem that even the top general admits has no military solution."

Dynamo Kev,

If you want a dose of Eagles-related optimism, read through the last couple days of posts at Iggles Blog. He is one of the better Eagles bloggers I've seen (ok, he's the only good one).

Well, a few months after winning The Greatest Super Bowl Of All Time, I have to say that whenever I'm feeling down, or run ragged, or feeling bad, all I have to do is picture Manning's pass floating in the air for an eternity to Plax, and a smile comes to my face 10 out of 10, and 1000 out of 1000 times.

I would wish even an Eagles fan to experience that type of ecstasy, I would even wish a Cowboys fan to experience a high like that continues to be.

I would wish every sportsfan on earth experience that kind of euphoria, because to deny it would be cruelty of the highest order.

In case anyone on this thread is interested, and didn't notice it stuck away in world:

create your own player.

Not anything to do with the draft, but could someone please shoot Arlen Specter before he strips the US Senate of its very last shred of its already beyond tattered respectability?

"Sen. Arlen Specter on Wednesday called for an independent investigation of the New England Patriots' taping of opposing coaches' signals, possibly similar to the high-profile Mitchell report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball."

I think he's hoping that somehow its going to prove that the Patriots win over the Eagles in the Super Bowl is tainted. Either that, or he's just plain senile now.

I though he was trying to prove that the Pats win over the Steelers in the '04 AFC Championship game was tainted. Or maybe it's both. . .twice the idiotic high dudgeon.

Maybe that too, but he's traditionally more Philly-oriented.

Yep, though he had mentioned two Steelers games on the Senate floor yesterday, which I had seen quoted and was what made me think it was Steelers-related. Though he is a big Eagles fan, so it's probably both.

Just to play devil's advocate, isn't it possible that there's a slight justification for a senator to hold hearings on the NFL? It's a massively wealthy league, it's on the public airwaves, it's a big part of American culture and society. Congress got involved in the quiz show scandals in the 1950s, and the analogy doesn't seem completely off-base to me.

"he had mentioned two Steelers games on the Senate floor yesterday, which I had seen quoted and was made me think it was Steelers-related."

Typical Senate pandering.

Inca, I don't have a problem with the Senate looking into the way the NFL deals with steroids, or gambling, or collusive behavior in contract negotiations, or concussions, but I just don't see the legislative basis for this bit of grandstanding.

And everyone on this thread has almost certainly seen this already, but here is a picture that encapsulates the University of Spoiled Children better than anything I have ever seen: