Beginning of the End to the Reid Era?

Maybe, maybe not. But that’s what my angry friend writes me today after yesterday's debacle of a loss. At the very least, the veneer Reid enjoyed of being a very competent coach and detail-oriented guy has been stripped away after the special teams fiasco. . Indeed, Rich Hoffman makes that very point today, writing " But this has become one of the season's themes, this suddenly comfortable embrace of the high wire. You see it in big ways and small. They went with Sav Rocca, the inexperienced punter with all of the potential, over safe incumbent Dirk Johnson. They brought in another inexperienced backup linebacker, Pago Togafau, rather than a just-in-case veteran when they were doing their final roster-making. And they went with Greg Lewis and J.R. Reed to catch punts in the season opener at Green Bay."

 

Anyway, my angry fried PK writes: My prediction is simple: after all the offseason talk about No 5 and how long he'd be an Eagle, I'm flatly predicting that Donovan will last far longer in the Jeffrey Lurie organization than Andy Reid.

 

Today was the beginning of the end for Andy. It's gonna be a long 7-9 season, and all the weaknesses that Andy simply declined to address in the offseason will be key in their losses, their big losses. (Today: the kick return game, next week: probably a holder on FGs.)

 

The storyline is going to build that Reid was too distracted in the offseason (and preseason) by his children's drug habits to even handle player personnel situations, and he'll eventually resign in a Vermiel-style burnout press conference talking about his kids and the need to be a family man again.

 

This will politely overlook the fact that Andy has almost every offseason ignored some glaring holes in the organization (how many Super Bowls would we have gone to earlier this decade with just average wide receivers rather than the piss-poor shit we had on the field, how would the team have fared differently in '04-'06 if Reid had forced Johnson into getting bigger and tougher against the run on D?).

 

Sadly, the Reid Era began its final descent today, I believe.