Newsflash: Eagles are 5-3 at halfway, not 3-5.


They say ignorance is bliss, but in the circle of Eagles fans it's become more of an epidemic.

This city used to be populated with the most knowledgeable of fans who could back up their beliefs with real football knowledge and nothing but a love for the Eagles. Whether they agreed or disagreed with the coaches or management, someone could always look forward to a well-informed discussion with an Eagles fan.

Unfortunately, those days are long gone. The city has become populated with people who wear midnight green with more of a mob mentality than an actual love for the game and for their team.

Don't get me wrong, the passion is there, and it's there in abundance. Unfortunately the knowledge of the game has been completely thrown out the window.

When the Eagles are winning, the city is ready to put Andy Reid in the Hall of Fame and already have their Super Bowl parties planned.

The Eagles are the best team in the league, and there's no one who will tell them otherwise.

However, lose a game that drops them to a respectable 5-3 and only one game out of the NFC East lead with eight games left to play and it's time to fire the coach, change quarterbacks, and break out the petition to have Jeff Lurie sell the team.

It's disgusting to listen to, and embarrassing to have to address.

But with this new age of instant opinion, anyone with a keyboard is able to hop on any site and give their uninformed and off-base opinion.

Then to make matters worse, these are the same people who are employed to fuel the fire that's been started by the village buffoon.

The writers that populate the newspapers and websites covering the Eagles, for the most part, are ignorant to the way football is played because they've never played. They don't understand the intricacies of the game and only see the shell of what is happening.

They see wins and losses, and they see the stat lines. That's it. Outside of that, they're completely oblivious to what goes into even the most fundamental of plays.

These people write the stories with the intention of stirring up an uninformed fanbase; a fanbase uninformed because of the writers who are uninformed in their own right.

See the circle? It's vicious, and has trapped an entire city.

The worst part is that there are people out there in the media who are informed, and do understand what they're talking about, but get brushed to the side in the firestorm of ignorance and downright stupidity that floods the profession.

The cast on NFL Network (Marshall Faulk, Jamie Dukes, Mooch, Rod Woodson, etc.), for example, all speak of Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb as a Hall of Fame duo who are among the top five in the league at their respective positions.

These are all people who have played, or coached, the game and understand what they're talking about. Rather than listen to the people who have experience and an understading of the game, the masses would rather listen to journalism majors who just happened to get stuck covering the Eagles.

There are still a handful of good Eagles fans who have not been influenced by the hacks hyping themselves as "experts," but at this point it's the minority.

Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb are one of the winningest head coach-quarterback combinations in the league and currently are manning a 5-3 football team. With eight weeks to go, and a 2-1 record in the division, the Eagles are very much alive in the NFC East race and are still in great position for, at the very minimum, a playoff berth.

But by all means ignorant and uninformed masses, hit the panic button. Fire Reid and release McNabb for a quarterback with two career starts.

I'm sure that will work out for the best.