... signifying nothing.

The sound and the fury has faded. Moorestown High School graduate Dereck Faulkner is among six cuts made by the Eagles today, one day ahead of the Tuesday deadline for getting down to 75 players.

The cuts were Faulkner, place kicker E.J. Cochrane, tight end Kyle Hunt, wide receiver Jermaine Jamison, safety Chris Smith and offensive lineman Chris White. The Birds also placed running back Ryan Moats, defensive end Jerome McDougle and offensive lineman Stefan Rodgers on injured reserve, and they traded quarterback Kelly Holcomb to the Vikings for an undisclosed 2009 draft choice.

Holcomb is almost certainly the biggest news here. It would be interesting to find out what level draft pick the Eagles ended up with for him, since there are a number of teams that could use him. The writing was on the wall with Holcomb last week, when the Eagles gave him the game off, and last night when he didn't take a snap.

I'm sad to see Dereck go, though it was nearly inevitable. The wideouts they want are pretty clear right now, so he and Jamison were bound to be among the easier cuts they had to make.