Million dollar injuries
The Eagles revealed today that DE Jerome McDougle suffered a triceps tear and will have to undergo season-ending surgery. Add that to Monday' night's Ryan Moats news, in which the Eagles' third-year halfback broke his ankle and will also miss the season.
In the coming days, both McDougle and Moats will almost certainly land on Philadelphia's Injured Reserve list, which -- for them, at least -- is preferable to where they would probably have ended up up they had played through the preseason in perfect health, which is the cold, hard NfL free agency market. Moats was less than a 50-50 shot to make the team, especially after contracting fumble-itis up in Bethlehem. McDougle was more or less useless in 2006, and the Eagles' drafting of Victor Abiamiri was a strong signal that they were ready to cut bait on their 2003 first-round draft pick.
You could say they these were million dollar injuries, though neither Moats nor McDougle are slated to make a million this season. Together, yes, but not individually. Moats's season-long paycheck is 435,000, which he has preseumably already recevied in part. Same goes for McDougle and his 790,000.
Chances are Moats would have gotten himself another opportunity somewhere if he'd been cut. He's shown flashes of considerable talent, and he's still pretty young.
McDougle's probably another story. If I were being bad, I would simply say that, as a football player, he's "shot." But since he was -- unfortunately -- shot in the leg a couple of years ago, I'll just say that last season he seemed very much spent, and nothing the Eagles coaches said or did during training camp really indicated otherwise.
So Jerome has himself one more year of a full NFL salary, and God bless him after that. By all accounts he's a quality, star-crossed dude.
In the coming days, both McDougle and Moats will almost certainly land on Philadelphia's Injured Reserve list, which -- for them, at least -- is preferable to where they would probably have ended up up they had played through the preseason in perfect health, which is the cold, hard NfL free agency market. Moats was less than a 50-50 shot to make the team, especially after contracting fumble-itis up in Bethlehem. McDougle was more or less useless in 2006, and the Eagles' drafting of Victor Abiamiri was a strong signal that they were ready to cut bait on their 2003 first-round draft pick.
You could say they these were million dollar injuries, though neither Moats nor McDougle are slated to make a million this season. Together, yes, but not individually. Moats's season-long paycheck is 435,000, which he has preseumably already recevied in part. Same goes for McDougle and his 790,000.
Chances are Moats would have gotten himself another opportunity somewhere if he'd been cut. He's shown flashes of considerable talent, and he's still pretty young.
McDougle's probably another story. If I were being bad, I would simply say that, as a football player, he's "shot." But since he was -- unfortunately -- shot in the leg a couple of years ago, I'll just say that last season he seemed very much spent, and nothing the Eagles coaches said or did during training camp really indicated otherwise.
So Jerome has himself one more year of a full NFL salary, and God bless him after that. By all accounts he's a quality, star-crossed dude.
posted by SMc. at 7:30 PM
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