Game time is a few days away and Eagles speedy wide receiver, DeSean Jackson is ready to do his thing. Jackson talked to the media after today’s practice which was a change because he’s refused to talk for most of the training camp.
I’ve got to give him a lot of credit so far in this preseason. He has refused to become a distraction to this football team, but you can tell that he’s not happy..
“It’s still a huge responsibility for myself to go out there”, Jackson said to the media members gathering at his locker. “Even days when I’m not feeling good or even days if I’m not feeling like playing, whatever is, I still have to go out there put everything beside. And say I can’t worry about personal issues I have to go out here and do everything for the team. Kind of rally the guys up that’s what Coach Reid loves me to do. Rally the guys up getting us going. Just be myself.”
Jackson is the best football player on the Eagles and the guys listen to him when he says something. He’s got to have a big year for this team to win. In every game he played in showed glimpses of why he’s so valuable. His speed and big play ability forces a defense to focus on him which opens up opportunities for everybody else on the offense.
This little guy can get up to full speed in three or four steps. Once he gets to full speed in the open field, it’s over. I would like to see them limit the inside and short throws they make to him. They’re giving opposing defenses chances to get hits on him. I want them to get the ball to him in open field. I’m tired of him carrying the ball like a running back.
He’s been banged up twice, once at training camp and another time in the first play of the Kansas City Chiefs game, but he seemed to be more bothered by having his wisdom teeth pulled than getting hit in the upper back by Chiefs rookie safety Eric Berry.
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I took a little hit had a little sharp pain going through my back, Jackson said with a smile. “It wasn’t too serious so he just held me out because it’s too close to the season. Don’t want to risk nothing during the season.”
Still Reid doesn’t have any plans to cut back on Jackson’s punt return duties. The coach feels that his diminutive receiver will be able to avoid taking the big hits and be able to stay healthy.
This team isn’t the same if Jackson isn’t in the lineup.
You and I both know the feeling he must have had in his gut, when he went down. He weighs 170 pounds soaking wet, so he knows he won’t be around long if he keeps taking those types of shots. I’m sure Jackson has to realize that a serious injury might prevent him from ever getting the big money contract.
Still, Jackson has been able to hold his tongue and not get this team distracted with any talk of a new contract. A distraction from a player like Jackson who is so integral to the success of his team could cause some severe problems.
The big question looking ahead concerns his ability to keep a good attitude, if he’s not being thrown the football a great deal. Kevin Kolb’s strength is throwing the short and intermediate pass rather than the deep throw. Jackson
If he gets hurt again Jackson might not ever get the big payday he’s due for because NFL Personnel execs could start labeling him injury-prone. Who wants a 170 wide receiver, who is injury-prone.
Who knows maybe they’ll get the Collective Bargaining Agreement settled and Jackson will be able to get his money before the season ends.
Buddy, if you get injured you can kiss that big contract “Good Bye”
Cowboy, Miles Austin, just gt a 6 yr $54 mill
Miles got his money after just one year playing well. But then again, he did not get shut down in the two biggest games of his team’s season. Still, I think Desean will get a contract he can be happy with, these things tend to work themselves out.
The eagles will pay this guy. They always pay young talent. It is the older veterans that get shown the door. We all need to relax. Besides if Jackson has a good agent they probably have a HUGE insurance policy in place in case of career ending injury.
Regal, Let’s make it clear….
The Eagles don’t always pay young talent top dollar but sign them to multiyear deals that will make them underpaid at their position in the mid to latter parts of the contract frustrating them more when the player realize that there’s players at their position with less talent making more.
The Eagles are in a serious predictament now faced with a talent that deserves to be paid in the top 5 salaries of Receivers. They would rather be dealing with an average player with upside like Avant was, to lock him in early but is faced with actually paying a young star his worth…if he was with the Cowboys and went to the pro bowl in 2 seperate positions Jerry Jones would have found a way by now to pay him. Everyone know this is true!!!! Pay him
Let me see Songs
Did I read any of your posts about any the following players not giving any of their money back from overpaid contracts back since they underperformed while on the Eagles
Jevon Kearse, D Howard, T Pinktson, G Lewis,K Curtis, R Brown, LJ Smith,L Shepard,B Bishop,Shawn Andrews, Stacey Andrews, B Westbrook,M Patterson, V Abriami, T Laws, F Mitchell..
No I didn’t think so, “Times Your’s”
Woop’s
Forgot to mention Jason Peters, Chris Clemons, Q Mickell, M Vick….
He is good, he is not a top 5 receiver.
Not to pass on some bad news/good news (to Joe Banner & D-Jax anyways)
Cowboy WR M Austin just signed a 6 year extension for $54 Million with $18 Million in Guaranteed $$$
(this is on top of the 1 year $3.5 Million deal he signed back in the spring to bring his total to $57.5 over 6 years ..) not bad for a free-agent WR from Monmouth College in North Jersey
You would have to think the D-Jax and his agent are thinking that Austin has only had 1 good year so far and is already 26 years old which D-jax has had 2 very good years starting his career and is only 23 years of age… Stay tuned for this …
Yeah but that’s Dallas. Overpaying for players isn’t a strange thing when it comes to them. Remember when they traded for Roy Williams? They have up a 1st, 3rd and a 5th or 6th. When they did that, they raised the bar for Arizona trading Boldin that year because AZ said we got a receiver better than Williams and we aren’t accepting anything less. Those kinds of deals mess up the market. Same thing with the Raiders giving all that money to Asomugha so then Revis wanted the same or more and the Jets were like “no, the raiders overpaid”. So it may be good or bad for Jackson because these deals can make it more frustrating if a team feels that another team overpaid. We will see.
Not to mention that Austin wasn’t confined by the same limits of the CBA as Jackson.
Anderson…you are a typical Eagles fan…You’ll brag about how important DJax is to this team but when it comes to pay..you say he is not a top 5 receiver. The Eagles can pay him in the top 5 due to his youth and upside….Paying him in the top 5 now is a discount compared to when salaries increase in the future. I feel the Eagles should make a statement by giving him top 5..which is “franchise” money.
Thats why you have to respect a guy like Jerry Jones (his business decisions/business man, not the Dallas Cowboys). He takes a big risk, hoping to receive the big reward. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose – you gotta give the man credit for not being a CHEAP BASTARD and at least sticking his nose out there by taking care of his players in hopes of bringing more superbowls home (though thats not what I would want to really happen). CBA or not, he finds a way to more than compensate and satisfy his players.
Make the man happy, don’t overpay, but show some respect and gratitude in the money you offer. You have other big players to sign, but D-Jax is important so show him some love. I wish Dallas and skins could both lose sunday, now that is some twilight zone stuff right there, a man can dream right. Go Eagles show the man the money.
Paul, you’re reasoning makes no sense. If the Eagles overpay players who are under-qualified, it’s not another player’s fault. The Eagles are the ones who like to sign players to long-term deals based on their “assumptions.” Jackson, who has outperformed his contract, shouldn’t have to make up for the Eagles’ mistakes.
As for CBA constrictions, many other teams have brought marquee players, who are in their rookie contracts, up to par with their level of play. The CBA is being used as a convenient excuse.
Let’s see, he is important to the team, and he is not a top 5 reciever. That is just reality. Overpaying players does not get a team anywhere. It simply does not generate the goodwill that you think it does. Go ask the Skins owner how that works out, he throws money at everybody and the players still take shots at him for being a crummy owner and play badly. There is not statement to be made by throwing more money at him than he deserves, it gets you nothing in the grand scheme but one paid player. He is a good player, very exciting to watch, I am not suggesting he isn’t. I also do not particularly care how much he gets paid one way or the other, but I do not have an agenda to promote like some .
Overpaying? Larry Fitzgerald will earn $18 million while Jackson will earn 800,000? If Jackson earned $5 million, he’d still be underpaid.
Besides, Jackson is pro bowler at two positions.
Can anyone name another pro bowler at two positions?
we can all agree the man deserves his money. lets put that to bed. but he did sign a contract and he did outperform it. lets put that to bed. desean has shown good faith to birds by showing and being a professional and we can only hope when he does sign that contract that that behavior/leadership is taken into consideration.
Desean was the first to make the pro bowl at 2 positions. I understand why he isnt getting his money now but he certainly will in the future.
Better yet, were any of the “top 5” receivers also voted to the pro bowler at another position?
Sorry Dawk, but there are NO CERTAINITIES in the future.
The same thing happened to Westbrook. He didn’t get paid until his career was over. Had his skills declined just one year earlier, he wouldn’t have gotten that contact (which he had already earned). I would rather the Eagles have paid him when he earned it, then released him when his play declined, but because they waited, they had to hold on to him 3 years too long.
Scorp, Jerry Jones has reached for the brass ring, but it hasn’t hurt them. They still kicked out butts last year.
And what messes up the market is all the money the owners take home, not the relatively small portion that the players earn.
drummer, it hasn’t hurt them yet. If they don’t win, then over the next few years they won’t have any cash and then go back to being a bad team like they were for the better part of this decade. I do agree Jackson deserves more money. I think we can all agree on that. But I’m not willing to overpay especially with the uncertainty of the CBA. But that’s just me. Drummer, I’m not going to go back and forth about Jackson’s deserving to get paid. We all know that. There are several factors that are involved that’s causing him to not get paid the money he and his agent wants and at the same time giving a small risk to the Eagles.
I do think the Eagles should show some good faith by giving him something at least until they know about a new CBA. But Jones kicking our butts last year had nothing to do with him “reaching for the brass ring”. Were they reaching for the brass ring when we routed them the year before the last game of the year? Jerry Jones isn’t afraid to go for it. And I wish our FO was just a tad more like him sometimes but they just aren’t as risky. With him, it’s high risk, high reward, but if you don’t get that reward it’s usually high consequences too.
And we aren’t talking about how much the owners make, we are talking about player salaries. We you work you compare you salaries to the guys you work with and not the CEO. Deals like that do mess up or set the market because other players and agents look at that and go off them as setting the standard. Just like teams giving out 100 million dollar contracts. Once one team did it, the new bar was set for players coming afterwards. This is why the rookie salaries are so jacked because one team decided to pay a top pick so much money that it became the bar for subsequent rookie classes.
Last time. Does Jackson deserve more money? Hell yes. Done.
I don’t think Miles Austin is still covered under his rookie contract which allowed JJ to give him the deal.
Either way, DJax will get his. And I hate the way the media and to a leasser extent us fans, stick our noses into the business of player contracts. And I’m sure the players can deal without a microphone being stuck in their face “Hey DJax, Player X just signed a big new contract, how does that make you feel about your situation?” That should be kept between the Team, the player and his agent. And that’s it.
Drummer, OK..so DJax was selected to the prowbowl for 2 positions, first one ever to do that however that’s up to those who select the probowl players. I don’t think he’s the first player to play 2 positions in the probowl though.
Did Paulman really say Brian Westbrook underperformed?
To Ghost,
Yes I did on Westbrook,
His final Contract was for big $$$ and over his last 2 + seasons he underperformed due to injuries
(At least in my opinion he did..)
It’s a fair assessment. In all of 36’s greatness over the years he just wasn’t the same in the end but he got his money regardless. Pay per play contracts would solve all this mess. Then, Agents would only be needed for trades.
I do think Westbrook underperformed after he got that money. But I think the Eagles gave him that money for past performance because he was very underpaid for what he was doing. I think they saw themselves as having one of the best players in the league at a discount for so many years they decided to pay him for what he did.
Scorp, you hit the nail on the head. The Eagles had to pay Westbrook based on his past performances, although he would never have performed that well going forward.
WellWell, I agree 100%, although some would consider that socialistic.
Scorp, which teams have EVER been cash-strapped? Who spends more than Washington? I’ve never read of them having any cap problems. In fact, I believe they have one of most profitable franchises in the league.
Dallas fans could never argue that Jerry Jones will do whatever it takes to win a bowl. Again, he’s made some foolish moves (especially in his choice of coaches), but everyone KNOWS that he wants a championship. Not everyone agrees that the Birds had been trying to win a bowl over the past 10 years or so.
Just a reminder, we are starting to see why Jackson and Maclin stock slipped in the first round… Jackson may have Avants heart, but not his toughness, no fault of his own, however at 170 pounds, which I think he’s more like 160, FO was a little leery on wondering if he can take the pounding of a NFL schedule for all 16 games and stay healthy. As for Maclin his heart is very questionable right now… This may be a part of the reason he fell to the Eagles at number 19, when most had him going between 7 and 12