Comments on: Eagles know return game must improve: “We were bad there”

By: granadafan

granadafan — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:35:37 +0000

Special teams coaches have been ordering their punters not to kick to DJax, thus the declined return yardage. Same thing happened in college at CAL when coaches wised up and kicked away from him.

By: cooklynn17

cooklynn17 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:05:32 +0000

Yeah, pitiful. Your team was also bad at tackling, qb, coaching, short yardage defense, covering the tight end and covering Victor Cruz, among other things.

By: foul83

foul83 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:36:27 +0000

Why did they give DeSean money then? If his PR game is declining, he’s not worth much. 35 grabs a year is WR3 territory.

By: dgreenfi

dgreenfi — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:28:27 +0000

This just in. There is no real news today.

By: leonbryte

leonbryte — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:26:08 +0000

I wouldn’t put much into Jackson even being the return man he once was, contract or not. The history of explosive, dynamic, TD threat return men in the NFL doesn’t point to many men doing it for more than 4-5 years(see Dante Hall). Thus the Boykin draft pick. We’ll see.

By: sophillyimjersey

sophillyimjersey — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:05:49 +0000

I thunk if healthy Boykin can def help turn the return game around.

By: bobbyhoying

bobbyhoying — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:04:42 +0000

I think it had to do with Jackson’s unwillingness to risk injury and Lewis’ lack of talent. The good news is that we have only a 1 in 32 chance of being worse in 2012.

By: bigkeev124

bigkeev124 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:32:27 +0000

I like the options out there for the competition. Boykin seems to be a keeper, The Washington RB that the Eagles picked up maybe another option. Gilyard and the speedster I keep hearing about in Ronald Johnson. I dont know atleast there is a camp competetion, which is something they havent had in a awhile

By: jets13

jets13 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:22:55 +0000

Is Jackson’s numbers a case of him declining or a case of kicking the ball away from him and giving him little chance at a return. Return yards for a punt (similar to yards the punt goes) to me are pointless……the true number is Net Yards……if D-Jax forced alot of short punts than he did his job. If the punts were going 45-50 yards and he was only getting 5-7 on a return, than yes there is a problem.

By: ud1hens

ud1hens — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:20:46 +0000

DeSean Jackson had zero will to return punts last year. I’m sure the blocking wasn’t great but he had no willingness to take a chance and risk injury with a potential contract looming. This year he’ll either return to form since he has a new deal or the Eagles need to find someone who won’t play scared.

By: kevsright

kevsright — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:19:52 +0000

No matter what changes are made, it will not change our fortunes until Bad Newz is Old Newz!

By: kdish87

kdish87 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:12:29 +0000

There were also times (week 3 against NYG) they had only 9 on the field for a punt return.

By: sjoyner59

sjoyner59 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:05:27 +0000

Boykin is going to be a good player,if not for his injury and no being able to go to the combine he would have went higher than a 4th round pick..he was a steal there