I just love athletes today.
When it comes to hearing boos from the home crowd, very few of the modern athletes seem to be able to handle it.
None of them want to take responsibility for their own poor play. And any boos that might come down for the home crowd are taken as a lack of support or lack of loyalty.
In the midst of a solid two-game winning streak, leave it to a complete fool like Eagles’ wide receiver DeSean Jackson to put a damper on the Eagles’ latest victory by taking a shot at the fan base while discussing the team’s current 10-game losing streak at home
“We gotta get it going. We gotta get back in the swing of things at home,” Jackson said Sunday. “Our fans deserve it, things like that. So, hopefully, we can collect something together, figure out what it is and just win in front of our home fans.”
“But there’s gotta be support. We can’t be coming into the game, first quarter, getting boos and all that type of stuff. [The fans] just gotta work with us throughout the game.”
For Jackson to claim that there’s a lack of support for this team is completely ridiculous and insulting.
This isn’t Jacksonville. When the Eagles are bad, people in this city don’t crawl into a corner and go away while the team is terrible. Whether the team is 13-3 or 4-12, that stadium is selling is out.
What Jackson and similar morons will never understand is that the boos aren’t a lack of support. In fact, its quite the opposite. The boo shows that people care that their team is terrible. The average fan has no other way to voice their frustration with their team’s poor efforts/production, so they send down the boos and use them as their way to try and wake the team up out of their funk by letting them know that the garbage that they see on the field IS NOT ok.
Hearing complete absurdity like that from DeSean Jackson is one of the reasons that its hard for me to truly believe in this team and this group of players. This is by and large a group of guys that I’ve seen quit over the last couple of years anytime that adversity has come to call.
I long for the days where my team had a bunch of guys who understood the fans and the city, the days when we had Brian Dawkins, Jeremiah Trotter, Brian Westbrook, Troy Vincent, Tra Thomas, and Jon Runyan on the roster. These were guys that were truly leaders and winners.
Could you ever imagine a Brian Dawkins coming out and telling the fans not to boo? Never in a million years. Not in this lifetime, or any other.
And today we have guys like DeSean Jackson, who run around and throw nonsense like this out there. Is this what passes for leadership nowadays? This is why I can’t relate to or connect with the personalities of the guys that wear the midnight green today.
My father has been a season ticket holder since the 1999 season, and I’ve been fortunate enough to go to almost every Eagles home game since that year. When the Eagles don’t show up on Sunday, he’s more than a little disappointed. He puts his hard-earned money into paying for tickets, parking, food, jerseys, gas, and other expenses to come to the games every week. When he sees players like Jackson mail it in and sulk during hard times, you better believe that he’s going to be absolutely livid and boo his heart out. The same can be said for every other season ticket holder.
But its not even so much about the money that gets spent along the way. We boo because we care about our team, we want the best from them, and at the very least, we expect them to play with a little heart. We want to be proud of the product that’s been put on the field, and when the fans sense that there’s blatant underachieving or lack of effort being put forth, they have every right to let the team hear it.
You haven’t won a home game since September 30th, 2012, DeSean. That’s 10 straight losses in Philadelphia. The last thing you should ever do is to take little shots at the people that show up and fill that stadium every week and help pay for your absurd contract.
Don’t you dare question whether or not there’s been support for you every week. Support isn’t just blindly cheering and clapping at everything, no matter how the team plays. Support is caring. Support is following the team’s every move. Support is being bothered by losing.
Shut up, play football, and help win a home game, DeSean.
What Jackson said couldn’t have been more out of touch or disrespectful to Eagles fans if he tried.
Denny Basens is the editor of GCobb.com. Email him at dbasens@ycp.edu
I understand where your coming from Denny, and I do agree with what your saying, but I think what Desean is trying to say is that maybe with a little bit of encouragement from the fans, maybe, just maybe the team will play better. Sounds to me that some of these players are getting butt hurt by the negativity and boos from the fans. But your correct Denny, if the team isn’t playing well naturally fans show there frustration by booing. It’s just part of the game. These players really shouldn’t take it so personal
Encouragement????? How’s about the multimillionaire contracts, that these bozos make, to play their lifelong dreams? That should be all the encouragement they need, to go play hard. How’s about losing 10 games in a row, while the fans sell out every game, with their hard worked $$$, while watching your overpaid @$$e$ lose? That should be all the “encouragement” they need! I never seen such coddled, thin skinned, bunch of whining, quitting pu$$ies in my life! This is why, most bigtime, real Birds fans, don’t warm up to phonies like him! I’m sick of bitches like him, blaming the fans, when they fail!
Reading some of these posts, some of us fans shouldn’t take it so personal either.
The 1 trick pony, better be glad he still has fans in this city, after the BS he pulled in 2011. He forgets holding out of camp, whining for a new contract, while still under one, then subsequently quitting on the entire season. He must forget that along with being benched twice by the Hindenburg? I don’t care what he does, I don’t like him, & he isn’t a #1 WR. I said it before, & I’ll say it again, we should have signed Vincent Jackson. Same type of #’s, similar contract, but he’s much bigger, much more physical, & actually is a #1 WR.
He has 54 catches 904 yards and 7 tds and you still cry about him. Give it up., He is 3rd in league in yards and tds. He has plenty of fans. Nobody cares if you like him or not.
If he’s producing the same #’s, actually better #’s than Vincent Jackson, how do you reason he is not a #1 receiver…based on his physical dimensions, attitude? You praised Tayvon Austins performance yesterday (which was great) but he has underperformed until then. Appreciate the play on the field, never mind his attitude, as long as it doesn’t hurt the team. All reports actually indicate he is not only having his best year as an Eagle he has also taken a leadership role on the team. He’s also been catching short, intermediate and long passes and blocking. Hardly no longer a 1 trick pony performance. Only AC Green has more yards than he in the entire NFL as of last week. Appreciate his play, don’t sweat his opinion.
I don’t give a f^#@ what you think! I was responding to his idiocy! STFU fool!
BTW, nobody gives a f^#@ what YOU think!
Unbelievable! We are on a positive run here, & this tool, has to put a kibosh on it! Good QB play, finally! DF improving! Cooper actually looks like an NFL WR! Team actually tied for 1st place! Exceeding my expectations, by far, then this dickhead has to ruin it! SMMFH!!!!
What Desean has to realize is that the fans didn’t boo the defense last home game. The fans didn’t boo Shady or Riley Cooper last home game. The fans didn’t boo Desean last home game , he wasn’t throwing the ball at everyones feet. The fans booed Nick Foles last home game because he was incompetent. Who else did they boo. What DJax is saying is if Foles is god awful against the Redskins don’t boo him.
hahahahahah, Nick Foles didnt even play in the Eagles last home game. I remember hearing boo’s when the Vick led offense gained something like 20 total yards in close to two quarters.
What was the point of your incorrect post anyway?
I thought Vick/Barkley played the last home game (giants). I was there and you know why we booed in the first quarter? We had 3 offensive drives in the 1st.
On the first, Vick threw an INT on the the 3rd play of the game..terrible throw. Killed the energy of the crowd right out the gates.
Second drive, Vick did his usual and took a sack for -12 yards (fumbled but got it back luckily). That was a awful 3 and out.
Third drive, was the intentional grounding.
It was disgusting offensive football by a vet who shouldn’t be making those rookie mistakes. And to top it off, beginning of the 2nd quarter, surprise…Vick gets hurt running.
Then the Boos came when Barkley turns the ball over after an impressive drive right before the half that was going to give us points.
Not winning at home in over a year, when you have a full stadium of fans no matter what is just embarrassing. And obviously some of the players like Djax are just not mentally tough to handle their own shortcomings. Way to say something stupid DJax, way to give something to the media to run with after back to back wins on the road. You just gave the fans another reason/more incentive to boo. Idiot.
We as fans gotta toughen up. As much as we criticize and complain about people being soft. As soon as a player says something about us we complain, bitch and moan in our how dare he say that blustery voices. I know we financially support the team and have the right to complain when they don’t perform, however, reading the posts in live game time people gripe at every play that doesn’t work. We gotta toughen up….like we expect the players to be tough. Another G COBB article designed to tug at the heart strings. G coined the name Negadelphia and the posts continues to prove him right. Classic psychology 101.
Denny, as Uncle Hulka said in the movie Stripes “lighten up Francis”.
Eagles fans are the best and most passionate. But… you don’t see Pittsburgh, Green Bay, New England fans booing their team when the game isn’t even decided yet. I’ve seen plenty of Eagles games where they boo in the first quarter of a game when the Eagles end up winning a close game.
And almost every player is effected when their home crowd fans boo them. Whether its NFL or pop warner.
DeSean is actually playing tough this year. Probably the first time since he got concussed several years ago by going through the middle on a hospital ball that McNabb threw. So give him a break.
You sound vastly more prissy with your comments then DeSean does with his.
Ray Didinger said it best:
“Maybe we’ve just hit on a reason why we aren’t buying into this team.
If a member of this team is willing to throw something that weak out there as a reason why they haven’t won home game in a year, then how much confidence can you really have in that team moving forward?
If they’re going to trot out now the idea that ‘Oh well we’re playing at home, and we’re going to get booed, and that’s the reason we haven’t won in a year;…that is malarkey of the highest order”
Part of being a true professional and a winner is overcoming all types of adversity. I go back again to my point about Dawkins and the other leaders of the previous generation.
That group understood what passion, support, and loyalty really were. You never would have gotten this nonsense from them. Their philosophy was to leave everything on the field, and to give the fans something to cheer about. Dawkins knew that the fans were always there 110%. To Dawkins, it was like we were out there going to war with him.
And nowadays, you have DeSean Jackson and the modern athletes that are just so out of touch, that they’ll go as far as to point the finger at the fans for their own failures at home.
I don’t know how any Eagles fan can hear that and not wish that we were back in the Dawkins era more than ever.
If DJax is playing so tough, then how come he is affected by the crowd so much Buddy? The vast majority of the crowd is into the game from the first snap and you know it. Stop blaming the home losses on the crowds. The players gotta get it done.
They have lost what, 10 games in a row at home. The fans want to cheer, but they do have to give them something to cheer about. Hasn’t been much of that in the home games this year.
All the Eagles have to do this week is play they way they’ve had the past two weeks and the last thing the’ll hear is boos, besides those wins they showed a lot of passion n heart, that’s all we ask for, give 100% and everything is good.
Bugsy you answered your own question. When a team is 500 but winless at home then it can’t be coincidence. 10 losses in a row at home with different players and coaches. Maybe DeSean is onto something. Our method of booing every bad play is not helpful at the least and fu%&s up players confidence at the worst. No other fan base is as schitzo as ours.
And DeSean is playing tougher now then he has throughout his career. Son,t be such a pu$$y with your lame comments.
buddy you’re a fucking idiot
no fan base is as schizo as ours?
oh right, i forgot that we literally murder opposing fans like they do in san fran…
oh right, i forgot we cheered when desean got his concussions, just like the houston fans cheered schaubs injury
how can you call anyone elses commmensts pussy-like when you sit there and practically scream
“no! dsean’s right! we’re hurting his FEELINGS when we boo and those gorwn men making millions of dollars taking our monbey just cant take it! BOOOOO HOOOOOO”
fuck you and grow a pair of balls or get the fuck out you little pussy shit, go join desean and mcnabb and cry in the fucking corner
why dont you give MeSean a big old hug, and you two faggots can make out with each other after words. you’ll both feel amazing and you can forget all about those mean old fans and their insensitive booing
I go to every home game and I can tell you when, and why fans boo…
Fans don’t like turnovers…. they boo at turnovers every time.
The Eagles have 15 turnovers this year – 11 of them have been at home….
If you don’t want to hear boos – DON’T TURN THE BALL OVER!
Desean just doesn’t understand the fans have had very little to cheer with his bro Vick at qb. But I sense something different with desean with this comment, I sense he senses the eagles are on to something with foles and he wants the fans to rally and get fired up for this reinvented team.
Is it a coincidence this team is actually playing like a team now that Vick isn’t playing?
Either way it think the fans for the first time in a while will be fired up because although they will have tempered expectations of foles he is starting to win over the city.
Per tsjohnson the stadium won’t be filled for their next home game because Vick puts butts in seats and nobody buys tickets to see nick foles. And the eagles can’t throw deep without Vick and can’t run without him either.
Let’s go eagles!!!!!
Love what I’m seeing nowadays. Desean playing like a wr1 , cooper looking like jordy nelson, shady dominating, eagles bending and not breAking. Love this shit. Counting the days until the next game.
Light em up up up light em up up up eagles on fiiiiiiiya
And Foles gave them a reason to cheer during the Dallas game? What does Vick have to do with anything Desean said?
It is not booing every bad play and you know it. You are blowing it way out of proportion dude.
And bravo for resorting to name calling when someone disagrees with you. Sign of true intelligence and you certainly look tough in writing.
Hey schiller, ah, buddy ball, welcome back
lol…funny thing was I was thinking that too…well schiller, is that you??
Me too! BWAHAHAHA!!!! He always was a pussy, blaming the big bad fans, for hurting the poor old players feelings. GTFOH!
‘Much ado about nothing’ or ‘Making a mountain out of a mole hill’.
I agree… You have to really take with a grain of sand what Today’s Athletes say.. It’s all over all the major Sports and many times, Athletes just speak out without really thinking first.. No Big Deal either way, now Fans will Salivate all Week as D-Jax Statesment really makes a Difference on whether the Eagles Play well Sunday versus the Redskins, it’s about Preparation, Game Planning & Execution and getting some lucky/fortunate bounces to go your way.. Eagles Fans are Passionate as any in the Country, What they don’t want to see or put up with are mental mistakes and a lack of effort..
Wow denny- you really blew that one up for no reason….
1,000 words of dribble off this little line…..
“But there’s gotta be support. We can’t be coming into the game, first quarter, getting boos and all that type of stuff. [The fans] just gotta work with us throughout the game.”
I agree with you that we will boo if we want but what Djax is saying here is…. Dont hold the 10 games over our head… go with us. You are prolly one of the same kinds of people who cry that hes not a leader and then he says this and you blow it out of proportion.
Can’t disagree with you more, Stevo.
These are words from a guy who has quit on his team in the past, who can’t be professional and understand that booing and fan reactions comes with the territory.
Even if he did “mean well” with what he said, its just never a good idea to take jabs at your fanbase. That’s a battle you’ll never win.
Again, its like Ray Didinger said…if a member of this team wants to throw something so weak out there like the idea that booing is one of the reasons that this team has lost 10 games at home…how can you really buy into said player as a true winner with a winner’s mentality?
Its Monday- we won a game… Djax made a great catch to help us. Try and enjoy it.
He’s calling for support…. he’s calling for the fans to be patient. What he is also showing….. and perhaps this is a topic for you to write about…. is that the locker room feels the pressure to play at home. They are pressing. They are stressed with the pressure.
Again…. you can boo…. you have the right…. but I want to win and if giving them some slack actually makes us a 12th man…. im all for it.
So Ray Didinger is the voice of reason? This article is much ado about nothing. Fact of the matter is fans will be idiots at the drop of a hat, Foles has been sensational the last two weeks if he stinks it up early he’ll get booed so damn what. All this cat is saying is when things go bad they want the fans behind them, he didn’t say we lost 10 in a row because the fans are booing.
yup.
Biglion, I respect Ray Didingers opinion more than anyone else in the business. I don’t think you can find a more rational, objective voice on the eagles out there. So yes, I absolutely consider him a voice of reason.
Denny, I respect that but he cannot speak on whether this team is likeable or not when these fans show up week after week and we travel everywhere. I live in Jacksonville it was more Eagles fans there Jag fans and same at the Tampa game. This is a very likeable team so who is he the voice of reason for?
I will say this – they are becoming a little more likeable with the emergence of Boykin and Kendricks and Cox and a few other likeable defensive players.
I don’t think many fans relate with Chip Kelly either. There’s a reason fans wanted Gus Bradley.
Many fans see this team as soft and a grown man named Chip, with a (perceived) gimmick offense doesn’t do much to change that feeling.
Big, I think that Ray has been around this city, this game, and this team for such a long time, and he’s pretty much always got a good grasp on every possible scenario, when I listen to him speak about the Eagles all I hear is wisdom from a Hall-Of-Fame writer that has been around forever. He’s someone that I’ve always looked up to, and what he’s done has been a big inspiration to myself for my own career aspirations.
Not every Eagles fan may like him or agree with him, and that’s fine, to each his own, but for me and for many others, there’s no one whose voice you can trust more when it comes to analyzing everything that goes down with this team.
I don’t think that the players being likeable or not has any impact on whether fans show up and support the team. Eagles fans are a passionate bunch that have a much more deep-rooted interest in their team than the average fan. Even during down years, Eagles fans have always traveled well and had a presence in opposing stadiums.
Its not like they’re Miami Heat fans, who gained a great deal of followers just a few years ago…in other words, I don’t think Eagles fans across the country go out to see Nick Foles, DeSean Jackson, and LeSean McCoy as much as they want to just go out and take advantage of an opportunity to see the team they’ve supported for their entire lives.
I believe that the vast majority of Eagles fans care more about just the pride that they have in being fans of the franchise and care most about the success of the organization, regardless of whether or not the players are likeable.
I also like ray. Just think you.. or him.. or both are wrong here. Btw.. who wrote this? Him or you? you wrote a piece of his opinions?
I wrote this, thanks.
And maybe I am wrong. Its certainly possible and if I am then…whatever. I’m only human, and if I’m wrong I’m not ashamed of that. But these are my views, and I stand by them, plain and simple.
Now its your turn. Just think. Maybe you’re wrong.
Im wrong about what? Im wrong that we just gove them a chance to do something before booing? Foles has said the same thing… now what? Listen… i boo. I understand what it means to boo.. but lets behonest.. many young fans get hammered and boo and the drop of a hat.. they dont know what it means to watch a crappy norman b team that has no shot to win…. this is different… they are building… and have a new qb. Djax wants a chance. You can boo at the first 3 and out.. im gunna give them a chance.
Bottom line here is that Todays Athletes are Professional’s who are highly compensated for their Skills/Athletic ability and approach their Playing and Games as a “Job” for that’s what is really is anymore.. There is little Loyalty, or a Special Emotional Attachment to the City & Fans that they Play for.. It’s a Job to today’s Athletes, It’s what they do and have prepared for their entire Life.. and if they don’t make it here, they attempt to make it for another Team in another City, their Careers are short-lived and for every “Brian Dawkins” there are 9 Other Athletes who Play for Pay.. This is not unique to the Eagles, or to the NFL, it’s prevelant in all Athletics ..(Didn’t 76ers Evan Turner recently state something to the effect “Heck, I’ll get my $$ whether its here in Philly or elsewhere”..)
Fans who get too emotionally attached to Players will usually get let down for Today’s Players are not like the days of 10-20-30 Years ago.. It’s different as the times are different.. Enjoy the Teams, the Games and your Favorite Players, but don’t put these Athletes on a Pedestal, for they are extremely talented indviduals, who have worked extremely hard competing for playing time and a roster spot in a very competitive Sport and have a very short Career for most Players..
amen!!!
Just heard Ike Reese say something on WIP about DJax that is right on regarding these statements from DJax.
DeSean is a player that will be jumping around, dancing and doing a good job of relative “cheerleading” when things are going well. We all remember him doing a belly bump with Reid and he was bouncing off of Kelly yesterday after Boykin’s interception. All good, except as Ike relates, he does not show the same spirit of leadership when things are not going well for the team or himself personally. As Ike put it, “character is revealed during the tough times, the times when things are not going well”. I would agree with Ike.
I would believe that DJax has pretty much always had a high level of success on most of the teams he has ever played on. He was always the star on those teams, so it was very unlikely that he face any real criticism. Hearing negative responses from the fans when they are playing bad…”mailing it in” like they did last year…is something that he is not used to.
To blame the losses at the Linc is pretty lame. To say that it was due to booing is even worse. These guys are supposed to be professional players, but I understand that no one likes to be booed, but this is Philly, not St Louis….if you are suck and are not giving effort you will be booed…pretty simple.
Greenfan- I agree with everything you said except… where did he blame the fans? Show me a quote.
Guys…. asking a WR to be the “leader” of your team is silly. Im sorry but WR’s are the flash… they are the Lamborgines… not the station-wagons. You look around the league.. look all time…. where do you see great leaders at the WR positions? Dont get me wrong… i dont like the me me me attitude but…. they are showmen… most of them selfish…. but the want the ball. THATS WHAT THEY ARE!!! So… except them… ignore them…. and keep rolling.
I stand corrected Stevo, I do not believe that he actually blamed the losing on the fans. You are correct.
I also completely agree that the WR position is full of Diva’s partially because that is what makes them great. There are plenty of other dependable WR’s like Avant, or Amendola or Welker…more like grunts, slot guys who balance the Diva’s I guess. The Diva’s are super talented and have been all of their careers, and expect everyone else to take notice and conform to their needs. But the good ones also perform at a high level, and are usually worth it….can anyone say TO??
all good. This article is a classic case of creating a bunch of stuff from a tiny quote. Its blown up.
if you want 4.3 speed with agility than we have to accept DJax’s less than sensational qualities also.
no doubt E0S, that is too often the case. There are exclusions to this rule however, like Larry Fitzgerald but too often it is a Diva position like Dez Bryant.
paulman
November 11, 2013 – 10:39 am
“I agree… You have to really take with a grain of sand what Today’s Athletes say.. It’s all over all the major Sports and many times, Athletes just speak out without really thinking first.”
Sure: these guys think they’re rap stars, rock stars, etc…All caught up in hype…The media are worse.
You know, last year I read a biography of Sandy Koufax (forget the name of the woman who wrote it) but it was really good, tracing his life from a working class home in Brooklyn to about the 1990s.
This guy was a craftsman, with a little bit of scientist thrown in as far as his approach to pitching…He was quite suspicious of the media from jump street, and he always measured his words, because he KNEW that baseball was what was important and he mainly competed with himself as far as excellence.
Except for maybe Manning and a few others, they don’t make them like Koufax any more…No hype, no ‘stardom’, just excellence.
YES!!!
Oh, and BTW, Koufax had a great respect for the fans, because even the top athletes didn’t make a fortune in those days, and they felt if a working class stiff was going to shell out $3 for a ticket, they owed them a good performance.
Today, it’s about ‘career moves’, public relations and ‘cashing in’.
Denny your a complete fool. And your articles again blow. Do u even read the shit u write. Maybe we as fans need to lay off our squad a bit. NEWSFLASH we haven’t won a fucking Super Bowl!! Truth be told, our team hates to play in front of there fans. That’s fkn sad. Yea we are passionate and die hards. The majority of eagle fans are pathetic. Every game I’ve gone too, I can’t believe I can say that they are my fellow eagle fans. They expect everything to be perfect, if not the boos rain down. Eagle fan are annoying with it. Grow the fuk up. Watch ur team play and boo when necessary, not because we had a gain of 2 yds on a play. Lame ass bastards! GCobb, ur better off letting one of ur kids write articles instead of Denny. Most of what he writes is all negative.
I’d love to meet you and shake your hand my friend. Seriously, I’m sure you’re a great guy, and I’d love to talk sports with you face-to-face. I’m really not a bad guy at all haha, and I’m sure we’d get along great.
I’m sorry if you don’t like what you think is negativity…but understand that its not my job to be a cheerleader, its my job to be analytical, not pull any punches, and give my honest opinion on these topics…If you want someone who will always paint you a rosy picture of the franchise whether they’re 12-4 or 4-12, Dave Spadaro of PhiladelphiaEagles.com is your man.
Now, I can’t disagree with you more here. If the team really hates to play in front of Philadelphia fans, then I’d want no part of any of them and I don’t understand why anyone would either. They can go out to Jacksonville, or Arizona, or San Diego, or some other second-rate sports city.
The reality is that Eagles fans, whether they’re patient or not, care about their team. They can’t (and shouldn’t) tolerate it when guys don’t give it their all.
And anytime an athlete takes a shot at the fans that care enough to boo…I see it is a sign of weakness on the athlete, and that’s a very disturbing thing to me.
Biglion yes Ray Didinger is not only a voice of reason but one of the most respected writers, commentators in all of sports
Your smug ass pussy shot at didinger is what I would expect from a low blow Vick apologist
Hey Jake see I could give a damn what Ray Didinger or you whoever the hell you are think, I’ll let you in on a little secret having played multiple sports at a high level. Guys at Desean’s level don’t respect writers because of crap like this they haven’t the slightest idea what it takes to play at that level so to question his statement as weak is laughable. Just like you to worship a writer who is in the HOF because he didn’t have the ability to play the game laugh at that you asshole.
Any real man, real athlete would love to play in front of us, silencer, you are a fool…
I ride by cemetarys in Philly and I see eagles flags over newly buried , fans who never saw a championship yet invested every Sunday and there last testament is still an eagles flag
Maybe desean should see this, maybe he would appreciate the passion
I hear green fan talk about how Mondays are better after an eagles win, Jackson doesn’t get this, green fan does
I here these repugnant Vick lovers who don’t give a damn about this team, some have already jumped like songs, they think it is us , that we don’t, can’t support a black quarterback, yet to many, most of us we not only embraced Randall but thought thsr he was the greatest qb in eagles history
These players need to just leave it out on the field and there will be no boos
Screw you Vick fans, every last one of you
Jake what would you know about a real man you little bitch ass wannabe keyboard tough guy?
Glad Desean said what he said bc it needed to be said point blank. There needs to be a culture change surrounding our fandom and with the players. Desean never blamed the fans for losses but once again philly fans hear what they want and love overreacting. Foles said similar comments about the fans getting behind them but no fire storm. To say 10 straight losses is a reason to boo would be acting as if fans were not quick to Boo even when we were winning games or had a good home record in vet stadium. Fans here boo after 2 three and outs in the first quarter. like come on. No its not the reason for a win or loss but it certainly diminishes the home field advantage.
Seattle Seahawks have one of the better home field advantages in the NFL and have had it for a long time. Last I checked they haven’t won a superbowl or even had close to amount of playoff appearances as the Eagles yet their fans come out and try to blow the roof off and the game could be 13-10 in the 4th quarter. Missing the point on this is exactly why we get a bad rep. So tired of philly fans acting like they want to win so much more than a Desean Jackson or any other high performing Eagle who dedicates his life to playing football.
Hey NuGreembol, .. what you just said is not true. Eagles fans start booing when there’s turnovers. If there are no turnovers, there are seldom any boos.
The Eagles have 26 turnovers in those 10 home game losses…. that’s nearly 3 turnovers per game.
If they don’t want to hear boos – DON’T TURN THE BALL OVER! Pretty simple…, don’t play sloppy.
oh so they don’t boo on 3 and out’s? Random incompletions? only turnovers yeah ok you are delusional if you think that sorry.
“We gotta get it going. We gotta get back in the swing of things at home,” Jackson said Sunday. “Our fans deserve it, things like that. So, hopefully, we can collect something together, figure out what it is and just win in front of our home fans.”
“But there’s gotta be support. We can’t be coming into the game, first quarter, getting boos and all that type of stuff. [The fans] just gotta work with us throughout the game.”
where does he say the fans can’t boo? he is clearly speaking on coming out not scoring in the first series or going 3 and out in the first quarter and hearing collective boo’s. Only place in sports where that happens and its ok bc your daddy buys a season ticket? We want players to look in the mirror all the time yet we won’t do so. If the team if flat out stinking and its been going on all game I get it but we treat each game as a carry over from never having a super bowl and boo at the first sight of disappointment. How do you think that makes the opposing team feel? People up here are idiots flat out lol typical thinking clowns. “oh boy he said don’t boo how dare he” use your discretion Boo within reason. You think boo’ing is showing how much you care but at the same time it does nothing to help you get the result you want.
Well said!
if jeff lurie’s loafers touch that field I’m booing &
If I see Number 7 take a snap I’m booing
he is clearly speaking on coming out not scoring in the first series or going 3 and out in the first quarter and hearing collective boo’s. Only place in sports where that happens and its ok bc your daddy buys a season ticket?
It’s pretty clear that you never been to an Eagles home game, because that never happened.
Why do you waste your keystrokes typing such bullshit? The Eagles fans have never booed after the first series of downs….what the hell are you talking about?
first series, second series, first quarter close game w/e avoiding the point bc you don’t want to accept the truth typical. like I said Seattle has the best home field in football and they don’t do it by boo’ing at the first sign of disappointment and that’s what Desean is talking about. Foles said the same thing I guess they just making it up. Again Fan’s with their guard up defensive and can’t look in the mirror like we ask athletes to do all the time. I guess you want to win more than the players too.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Let me ask you a question dipshit, when were you at an Eagles game last? Tell me the story about the last game you were at and heard the fans booing…. Cause I been to all those 10 losses and I know when the fans boo… You’re talking out your ass.
Lets get correct first off clown one of my points is the Eagles fan’s have a short temper on Booing long before the 10 game loosing streak so to use that is void. Secondly idiot although I have been to many Eagles games in my life it is not necessary for me to list games I have been to so bc you clearly feel you are more of a fan bc you go to a lot of games. Good for you but listen to this TV’s have sound and I doubt they insert boo’s for the television audience idiot.
Oh, you hear the boos on TV, I see. Why didn’t you say so. Okay, so you got the whole thing figured out.
F^#@ing moron!
You don’t get it either nu whatever
Elaborate fakedog what don’t I get? Even tho I know you can’t elaborate bc you would have already if you could truth is truth.
I laid it out for you, we are four generation eagles fans at the Linc, what dont you get about that , yet you give credits to that miscreant Jackson
Who is Pete Liske, Rick Arrington, Roman Gabrel, mike McCormack,John reeves, these are the types we and are fathers, for fathers suffered though, paid a lot of money to watch, but this little man djax wants us all to forget about this long history that unites most of us
It will not happen
That’s why nick foles is a welcomed fresh attitude, he is grateful to be here, wants to win for the franchise, the fans
Get with it or get the fuck off
Nick Foles said the same thing about the fans coming out and getting on board lol. My point is being made by you dragging the whole losing history into a random home game and boo lol yeah united hanging on to losses. Desean is asking you to forget about all the the losses for 4 hours and focus on the game yes can you do that for 3 hours? He never said you can’t boo but people up here first saying we only boo turnovers or this or that. Instead of being salty look in the mirror. Blame this team bc you suffered through Roman Gabriel. I suffered through Jack Kemp too. The same emotions run through me as a fan that does not make it right and it doesn’t help especially a new team who is in its infancy we continue to drag all of our disappointments into random home games.
DeSean Jackson is one of the most individualistic athletes the city has ever seen.
A guy who underperformed during a contract dispute.
A guy who missed a mandatory team meeting and, as a result, was benched the following day in a must-win game against the Cardinals. A game the Eagles lost.
A guy who was accused of quitting on the team by teammates last season.
And this guy wants to tell fans how to act….. lol
54 catches 903 yards, third in receptions in the NFL..only behind AJ Green and Calvin Johnson. I’ll take that, nobodies perfect. He’s a WR with a wideout attitude. I’ll take DJAX everyday, I remember watching James Trash, Todd Pinkston and a bunch of other crappy performers that was rolled through here and the fans complained about how they sucked…which they did. Now we have a productive receiver and people still complain. I’ll take DJAX with his opinion,, atleast he’s not pulling an Incognito or engaging in criminal activity! Sensitivity is an issue around here!
I’ll take him too as a WR… when he want to play that is… His advice on fan behavior (or any other behavior) is he can stick up his ass.
Love of selfish losers is another issue around here – We started losing games about the same time the selfish stars came around.
The Eagles did a lot more winning with James Trash and Todd Pinkston then they ever did with DeSean Jackson. Of course that’s when the Eagles were a team, not a collection of individuals.
And because it was written you believe it huh? If he quit on his team and did all these things why is he still here? See here we go again with the same bullshit. Root for the damn team and stop nitpicking like a bunch of females. You dudes are making his point for him on this site I guess nobody knows the definition of ironic.
I have no idea why he’s still here Big…
Did you not here Vick say to Derrick Gunn after the last game of the season that some players quit. And Vick didn’t say no when Gunn asked if he meant Jackson.
Were you not an Eagles fan when Jackson was benched by Reid for the Cardinals game?
DeSean Jackson is the last person who should be telling fans not to boo.
Irish Desean was on IR last year so I have no idea what Vick or D Gunn were talking about quitting or why he was even brought up. I was a fan and what does that have to do with him asking the fans to be behind the team and wasn’t that game two years ago when Kolb was calling out the plays to the defense? Yeah okay.
It is ironic…Totally agree with your post!
Vick’s words —> “It’s all about focus, dedication and commitment. Until you get guys who are willing to better themselves week in and week out and want to win, you’re not going to win. And I haven’t played with guys like that.”
“I give 110 percent effort. My body is scarred up all year. I’m hurt, I’m bruised, get up after every hit and still try and fight and push. I do that for my coaches. I do that for my teammates. And I would expect the same thing in return.”
To tell the truth – I’m shocked both Vick and Jackson still play here after that…
Howie Roseman was praising Jackson’s performance today and last week on the radio. Players have spoken out on his leadership this year too. I think they are alittle closer to the situation than any of us.
And now Vick is your voice of reason Irish, C’mon Man!
Seriously though, a couple of times it has appeared Vick was being rather antisocial on the sideline this year when he could not play, i.e., he wasn’t helping Barkley. My point is let’s not use Vick as a measuring stick when it is self serving. Overall I do believe he has been a good team mate and hard worker.
Irish wasn’t Desean placed on IR after the Panthers game? How did he quit on the team last year? He admitted a couple of years ago he let his contract situation get in the way of his play. Most receivers in football get discouraged if they don’t see the ball it’s the nature of the position.
Well… looks like vick is gone so… have to find a new player to hate on. I fully expect vinnie, pman, pom poms and the rest of the bunch to crap all over him.
Let me say it here that i support desean jackson as wr of the eagles. I dont like the me me me crap but hes a wr… ill take it. I know i know pman.. 2012 is his last season here.
I mean 2013
I mean 2014.
“We gotta get it going. We gotta get back in the swing of things at home,” Jackson said Sunday. “Our fans deserve it, things like that. So, hopefully, we can collect something together, figure out what it is and just win in front of our home fans.”“But there’s gotta be support. We can’t be coming into the game, first quarter, getting boos and all that type of stuff. [The fans] just gotta work with us throughout the game.”
How dare he try and pump up the fans for a huge game. How dare he call on us to be a 12th man. Doesnt he know who i am? My dad takes me to games. Djax works for me.
Honestly guys. Get a life.
Reread this quote. How u guys come up with this stuff is beyond me.
No Stevo he’s weak and blaming the fans, this was a totally unnecessary article, I know Didinger is a Philly fixture but he’s human like the rest of us and he can make mistakes.
its bc they refuse to look in the mirror. Holding on to all your hardship years as an eagle fan like its some sort of badge of honor. Instead of reading what he said and taking it for what it is, we must look at everything Desean Jackson has done that we may or may not have liked as if it changes the fact the fans do on occasion boo at there own home games prematurely at times. Now its anybody but Desean can say that? What he has done or hasn’t done as a player is not the issue. Eagles fans have been quick to boo long before Desean Jackson. Seahawks fans do not come into a random week 8 game thinking about week 5 until the game is out of reach or over. the team gets there blind support for most of the game. We on the other hand see a few misreads and incompletions and by the third series boo birds are singing. It got a pass bc we were dealing with some of the same old stuff Andy Ried ect but now its a new regime new era and we still are quick to boo.
im sure we all look at pro football talk.. but they posted A LOT of what Djax said….. and I actually REALLY like what he had to say…. To Denny, i guess Djax “doesn’t get it”.. to me… Djax nailed it right on the head. He showed leadership, an understanding that we have the right to boo, he doesn’t blame the fans, he is simply calling the fans to raally with the team and give support. here is what he said….
“[We need] everybody in the stands really encouraging instead of the opposite,” Jackson said, “Trying to get that energy to be on our side. I feel like it’s against us sometimes.”
“Going into the game sometimes, when you’re three minutes into a game when you hear boos and things like that, that’s kind of crazy to hear,” Jackson said. “[I would] never blame that for the reason you’re losing, because you’re a professional athlete and you’ve got a job to do go out there and win a game. Within our locker room, there’s no game where we feel we don’t have a shot to win a game.
“We already have to beat our opponent. Now we’re trying to fight our fans. That energy to help us go out there and help us [get an] interception, delay of game penalty, whatever it is, we need them on our side, not against us.
“Can’t blame anybody but ourselves for losing a game. As long as we have that energy to help us go out there and win, that’s all we need.”
As one who has called Djax out for his crap…. i must say…. I love what he wrote. Any chance you take another wack at this post Denny? Any chance you write one that shows the leadership he is showing?
Yeah, I liked what he said today and I liked it.
And yeah, I guess I did badly misjudge what he had to say afterall.
Anybody with two ears should have understood that the first time. The tittle of the article is Desean Jackson tells Eagles fans not to boo next sunday. lol how incorrect is that? panties in a bunch Eagles fans Ray Diddy included got their backs all up bc it was Desean saying it. As much as I respect Ray Diddy and any other beat writer that follows this stuff on a daily as fans we are too emotional. all these nuts on here bringing up everthing negative Desean has ever done bc of it. None of these clowns will focus on the type of year he is having playing with two qb’s. everything in this city has a negative undertone even when things are going in a positive direction the past only in a negative must be brought up sad.
Djax absolutely balling this year now he is talking like a fucking leader!!!!! Keep balling Djax. Foles in control!! Future is bright!
Denny- no worries bro…. djax has said some stupid stuff before. Have a great weekend bro. Gods peace to u.
I ABSOLUTELY HATED DESEANS GAME PRIOR TO THIS SEASON AND HIS ATTITUDE AND SHENANIGANS BUT HE IS AN ABSOLUTE BEAST OUT THERE THIS YEAR. I RESPONDED TO DENNYS ARTICLE THAT HE WAS MISSING DESEANS POINT AND DESEAN WAS JUST SENSING THE TEAM IS ON TO SOMETHING AND TRYING TO RALLY THE 12TH MAN… AND THEN THIS COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!
DeSean Jackson attributes his 2013 success to finally “buying into the system” as a sixth-year pro.
“I just really bought in all across the board. Never really had done that in the past, maybe sometimes fighting the system,” Jackson said. “Staying focused and doing all the extra little things, being a teammate, being a leader. Staying after practice later, working hard, little things that being young, never took the importance of doing that.” Sitting at 54 catches for 903 yards and seven touchdowns after ten games, Jackson is on pace for career-bests in every category. He’s fantasy’s No. 4 overall receiver.
KEEP IT UP DESEAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Desean is a beast. If he needs to say something to the media ten let him. What do you care? He knows its out right to boo em. But he also thinks early in the game we need rukus from the crowd on 3rd down and a positive vibe if they go 3 n out twice. Its a 4 quarter game.
BIGGEST GAME OF THE SEASON AND NO GCOBB JUICE?!!STEP YOUR GAME UP AND POST SOMETHING WILL YA.