I have to admit that I need to get a life. I also have to admit that when dealing with my favorite teams, i.e., the Phillies and the Eagles, my blood pressure gets boiling pretty quickly.
It would probably be worse if I lived in Philly.
So, let’s talk about the draft. Although I didn’t do a lot of reading on the top picks this year, I knew that the Eagles with a dozen picks Saturday and Sunday had the potential to get some pretty good players.
They could have addressed their needs at wide receiver, on the line and maybe at defensive back.
I also thought Lito Shepherd was a goner. He’s an All-Pro without a position. I was thinking he could have gotten us that game breaker at wide receiver. After two days, he’s not an ex-Eagle, which if you listen to Big Red, that’s not such a bad thing.
When it came time for the Eagles to pick, there were a number of good, not top flight receivers on the board. So what does Big Red do, he trades out of the first round with Carolina. About the only good thing that happened all weekend was getting an extra first round pick next year.
Then with his top two picks, Big Red takes a defensive lineman from Notre Dame and a smallish wide receiver from California. If you trade out of the first round, I think you should get something of value. The jury is out.
What I would have done was package a few of those 12 draft choices and Shepherd and went out an got a Chad Johnson, Mike Williams, or someone like that.
Adding insult to injury was the fact that in a later round, the Eagles picked a DB from Wisconsin, who can’t even play next year and perhaps not at all.
Perhaps its time for Big Red to give up control and just coach, because despite what I think is a relatively easy schedule, with the draft, the Eagles could struggle.

Odds and ends...

• Talk about draft overall -- Monday night, there was a long program on ESPN recapping the draft. There was also a two hour show on Tuesday.
• Best moment of the draft came Sunday when Army had a player drafted.
• Can’t wait till Saturday. Michael Jack Schmidt is at a card show at the West Manchester Mall in York.
The goal is to get my picture taken with him. That means I have my picture taken three of the Phillies’ big four -- Carlton, Schmidt and Kalas. The other one of the big four is Ashburn. What, you thought I was gonna say Charlie Manuel!
• Been watching the Flyers. Whoever the announcer was on Monday night was poor.
Guess we can’t have Doc Emerick and the late Gene Hart all the time.
By the way, I think the Flyers are getting screwed against Montreal.
They’ve had dumb penalties called against them and goals scored that weren’t.
Seems like in baseball where everyone, well almost everyone, wants the Yankees to win, seems the NHL wants “Canada’s team” to win. It was a discussion I heard on Monday after the game.