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[Sack that QB]

Eskin said on the radio this morning that Sean Payton is who the Eagles really want and if he becomes available, he is going to be our next head coach. Eskin said(like everyone else believes) that it is highly unlikely he becomes available. He said after Payton, there isn't a clear-cut second favorite, and the Chip Kelly stuff is premature.

Just something to keep an eye on. I know Payton seems like a logical choice, but some here think Lurie wouldn't put up the money to get him and Eskin is saying he is the organization's top choice right now.

[ChimpKelly]

I'm not even gonna get my hopes up.

[BDAWK_4EVER]

Eskin

[odin8888]

Payton has always been the first choice for me...


I would also like to know more about the Seahawks o coordinator and d coordinator. hire both and make them VP's,.... LOL

[blindside]

Eskin = sal pal = always wrong

But its not like he's really going out on a limb there. What team looking for a HC wouldn't want Sean Payton?

[Sack that QB]

Eskin has more credibility in one pubic hair follicle than Sal Pal has in his entire body. Eskin's Eagles info is very legit. Anyone who doesn't think it is, is uninformed. He works for the team and is very very close to many people in the organization.

[k9fiend]

Boy everybody is just throwing names out there hoping one may stick. Only gonna get worse.

So why not join in. I believe if Bill Walsh is available he'll be the next coach.

[knapp_nick]

i just saw jimmy johnson and john madden at the airport getting in a limo headed to the linc

[Sack that QB]

Who's everybody? There have been like two names thrown around so far. Chip Kelly and Dirk Koetter.

[ams533]

I can't even remember the last time Eskin had a scoop on the Eagles.

[DonCornelious]

If Bill Bellicheck or Mike McCarthy become available it is very likely the Eagles will go hard after them.

[Innocence096]

Eskin is pretty connected to the Eagles front office. this isn't going out on a limb at all but I wouldn't dismiss it just because it is Eskin. He knows his Eagles stuff

DonCornelious, on 26 December 2012 - 04:41 PM, said:

If Bill Bellicheck or Mike McCarthy become available it is very likely the Eagles will go hard after them.

except they aren't going to be available. Payton's contract runs up at the end of the season.

[Dirty 30 Sucks]

if Bill Belichick becomes available he would be our first choie

[blindside]

Sack that QB, on 26 December 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

Eskin has more credibility in one pubic hair follicle than Sal Pal has in his entire body. Eskin's Eagles info is very legit. Anyone who doesn't think it is, is uninformed. He works for the team and is very very close to many people in the organization.

like about that center a few years ago, or about mike Vick getting benched before the bye...

Even pft was clowning him for his two bogus reports earlier this year that made headlines.. he's a joke..

[AceofSpades]

I believe the Eagles would target Payton if he did become available but there's still plenty of time between now and then and I doubt the Eagles would truly wait until after the Super Bowl when his suspension ends. Here's another key, if his current contract has a specific end date. More often than not teams want their coaching staff in place by the Senior Bowl.

This is Eskin we're talking about. Remember he said Gruden could be the coach. Now he's talking about Payton being their target.

[greenpassion]

no way the saints let payton go.

[Innocence096]

blindside, on 26 December 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

like about that center a few years ago, or about mike Vick getting benched before the bye...

Even pft was clowning him for his two bogus reports earlier this year that made headlines.. he's a joke..

LeCharles Bentley? that wasnt eskin

[blindside]

Innocence096, on 26 December 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

LeCharles Bentley? that wasnt eskin

yes, it was. He said "by the time you read this, Bentley will be an eagle"

[AceofSpades]

blindside, on 26 December 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

yes, it was. He said "by the time you read this, Bentley will be an eagle"

That was Mark Eckel.

Quote

Eagles add star-caliber center Bentley
Saturday, March 11, 2006
By MARK ECKEL
Staff Writer

PHILADELPHIA -- By the time you read this, Pro Bowl center LeCharles Bentley already will be an Eagle.

Bentley, who went to the Pro Bowl last season as a member of the New Orleans Saints, agreed to a mega-deal with the Eagles before free agency began at 12:01 a.m., according to a source close to the situation.

A key member of another team, which also was interested in Bentley, said the Eagles had a deal in place with the center for close to a week, and waited through the several delays to the start of free agency.

The league and the players union agreed to put off the start of free agency for a total of eight days as a new collective bargaining agreement was finalized.

All the terms of Bentley's deal are not known, but according to the source he will earn a guaranteed $17.5 million over the first three years of the contract. More than half of that money will come in either a signing bonus, a roster bonus or a combination of both.

Bentley, a 2002 second-round pick (No. 44 overall) of New Orleans, just completed a four-year deal with the Saints that paid him a total of just around $3 million and included a $1.55 million signing bonus.

The 6-foot-2, 313-pound Cleveland native out of Ohio State played in -- and started -- 14 games as a rookie, missed three games his second year with a knee injury, and two games last year with a leg injury.

He was named to the Pro Bowl as a guard after the 2003 season, but did not go because of the knee injury and was replaced on the NFC roster by Steve Hutchinson of Seattle. Last year he was named to the Pro Bowl as a center.

The Eagles are expected to play Bentley at center, letting veteran Hank Fraley and Jamaal Jackson compete for the backup job. Jackson, who played well late last season, could be moved to guard or tackle, where he played at Delaware State.

[Innocence096]

blindside, on 26 December 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

yes, it was. He said "by the time you read this, Bentley will be an eagle"

womp womp. see the post above.

[GoodGooglyMoogly]

AceofSpades, on 26 December 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

That was Mark Eckel.

Eckel, Eskin whatever. Everyone in the media is a clown.

[kmass88]

I can't remember the last time Eskin had a legit scoop on the Eagles either. I do remember however in the days leading up to TO coming to the Eagles Eskin was very very very very adamant at calling people dopes and saying, "THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE EAGLES ARE GOING TO GET TO. HE IS NOT COMING HERE!"


We all know how that worked out.

[JustAnotherEaglesFan]

The chances of Sean Payton not staying with the Saints are the same chances Andy Reid staying with the Eagles.

[PickFoles]

Howard Eskin has been wrong 10 out of 10 times this season.

And it's physically impossible for Sean Payton to not be the Saints coach next season.

[vox populi]

This isn't very insightful news from Eskin. If Sean Payton became available, he'd be the top choice of every team looking for a new coach. Problem is he isn't going to become available.

[wussbasket]

its a very logical choice and could entirely happen. it's not set in stone that payton will return to the saints and the Eagles are known to make surprising moves very secretly (nnamdi and meco more recently). no source is going to be accurate at this point but its something that should be discussed as a real possibility.

[bumpy93]

my choice for a new Head Coach for our Eagles in the 2013 season will be one of these choices......

Sean Peyton
Bill Cowher
tony Dungy
John Gruden

They are proven SB winning coaches. I think that what the Eagles need IMO. They need a coach that the players will respect the minute he walks through to door for the 1st time. Im not sure Chip Kelly would command respect from the players. He runs a gimmick offense that MIGHT work for about 8-10 games before other defensive coords figure how to stop iy. I think we need that proven HC IMo

[forevereagles]

blindside, on 26 December 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

yes, it was. He said "by the time you read this, Bentley will be an eagle"

No, it wasn't. That was Eckel.

[VaBeach_Eagle]

Eskin can say this because he knows that Payton will not be available, so there's no danger of being "wrong".

[AceofSpades]

VaBeach_Eagle, on 26 December 2012 - 05:22 PM, said:

Eskin can say this because he knows that Payton will not be available, so there's no danger of being "wrong".

Exactly. He left himself enough room as to where the media can't mock him when he's proven wrong.