Still Hope?

Just when I think the season is over, Sam Donnellon lays out an encouraging scenario for the Eagles (excerpt below). If Garcia is serviceable could we be looking at a Lindros-type situation here if the Eagles were to make the playoffs and, heaven forbid, make a run without their injured star and leader (and would McNabb be banging Matt McCoy's wife on the side)?

 

 

“The bottom line is that the best teams in the division have six wins, and the Eagles have five. The bottom line is that three of the four contenders have replaced their quarterbacks for one reason or another and the fourth, the Giants, are not exactly enthralled by the performance of their guy right now.

 

Who was it who said the division winner would need 11 wins?

 

Oh yeah, me.

 

Scratch that.

 

I'm figuring nine might take it, and if there's two nines, both might go to the playoffs from a division that, with apologies to that premier quarterback Tony Romo and his new main squeeze Jessica Simpson, may be the worst in the NFL.

 

Yes, the Eagles have three straight divisional road games to end the season, but look at those games now: Washington is woeful, New York's injury list is oppressive, and the Cowboys... well, if that game on Christmas even has meaning, isn't that a conquest? Indeed it may come down to a last-game, New Year's Eve showdown at home with

hothouse Atlanta, whose quarterback Michael Vick - once perceived as the next model - was described as a "coach killer" in print this week.”