Trotter takes the Eagles back to a more dominate time.


In an interesting development, Adam Schefter of ESPN is reporting that the Eagles have worked out former Eagle Jeremiah Trotter again for the second time this week. Andy Reid has since confirmed the workout on his radio show, and said that Trotter did a "nice job."

With Jeff Garcia almost a lock to get cut in the coming days, Trotter could take over that roster spot and perhaps provide some leadership and a spark to a defense that seems to be lacking a leader at this point.

He's only 32 years old, which isn't all that old as far as the NFL goes, but for the Eagles it's become ancient. The concern about Trotter, even more than his age, are the fact that his knees seemingly gave out on him, causing the Eagles to release him and landing him only a backup role in Tampa Bay.

The potential signing of Trotter could signal a dissatisfaction with backup middle linebacker Joe Mays, or even a dissatisfaction in the current starter, Omar Gaither.

Gaither did play a good game on Sunday, but perhaps the Eagles feel like bringing in Trotter over the bye week could light a fire in the defense and get them to play harder, and faster. Trotter could also be a coach on the field and if he actually is healthy would be a great addition to the lineup in running situations.

Of course, that's if he's healthy.

He may have looked good in the workouts, but it's a lot different when you're actually hitting people and getting hit.

For those of you screaming about Jon Runyan taking Garcia's roster spot, it's more than likely not going to happen. Winston Justice has performed very well and the line is starting to get healthy with the anticipated return of Todd Herremans and Stacy Andrews.

Runyan is most likely going to wind up in Buffalo. He visited western New York a few weeks ago and there was word they may sign him then, and now they've lost their starting right tackle Brad Butler for the year. This makes far too much sense not to happen.

It would seem as though the next matter of business would be for the Eagles to work out a contract, have Trotter sign it, and see what it's going to take for Tracy White to change out of that signature number 54.