Sheldon Brown’s Baffling Contrarianism Continues
As pointed out today on The 700 Level, Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown once again threw a potentially volatile quote out into the mainstream, this time while discussing a week-old blog post in which Donovan McNabb he requested “more playmakers” on both sides of the ball in 2008.
Brown, appearing Sunday night on NBC 10’s Sports Final with woolly-bearded Howard Eskin and John Clark, responded to McNabb’s opinion with the usual amount of blunt honesty/utter contempt. In addition to Brown’s assessment that McNabb “threw teammates under the bus” with his comment, he also not-so-subtly poked a stick at McNabb and the overall offense throughout the interview.
As we pointed out a couple weeks ago, Sheldon Brown’s been the king of the questionable sound bite this year. This latest would seem to add more evidence that Brown’s not going to be accused of being a company man any time soon. Speaking to the Daily Examiner, Clark downplayed the incident, saying that he sees Brown’s recent outspokenness as a sort of an evolution of his leadership role. He even went as far as to put the fifth-year cornerback second on the locker-room totem pole, behind Brian Dawkins.
One full-time Eagles writer sees all of Brown’s comments as part of a pattern, originating from the player’s overall dissatisfaction with team management: “Sheldon, like most Eagles veterans, hates Joe Banner for the way the Eagles do business,” the scribe says. “He also felt really, deeply dissed when Jim Johnson touted Will James as a competitor for Sheldon’s job last off-season. Those feelings have affected his overall outlook on the team.”
So, what to make of Brown at this point? Is he in jeopardy of poisoning anything with the Eagles? Or is he just giving people an unfiltered version of a fractured team dynamic?
Sheldon Brown Does Not Agree With Donovan McNabb [The 700 Level]
Does Sheldon Brown Hate Andy Reid? [Daily Examiner]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
GOOD RIDANCE BROWN!! HE HAS TO GO ,WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS AN ASSENTE SAMUEL OR A LITO ,,NO WAY BROWN UR A SECOND RATE KNICLE BACK ON ANY OF THE TOP 5DEFENCES,.
OF COURSEJIM WANTED WILL JAMES TO BEAT OUT BUT INJ . FKD JAMES FOOT HE WAS 70% AT BEST,BROWN KNOWS HES ON HIS WAY OUT WITH THE EMERGENCE OF HANSON,BOY DID HE PLAY OUTSTANDING CB,DMAC SAID NOTHING A COMPETITOR WHO WANTS THE BEST POSSIBLE TEAM WOULD SAY.LOOK AT N.E. IF THE WERE THINKING OHWE MIGHT HURT OUR WR FEELINGS THEY WPOULD HAVE BEEN BUMS IF THEY DIDNT FILL THE GLARING WEAKNESS AT WR.
DONT EXPECT REID TO BE AS SMART AND AGGRSSIVE LIKE THE PATS CAUSE BANNER AND THE JEW LURIE TRY TO DO IT WITH FA 3RD RATE ROLE PLAYERS,I TRULY FEEL FOR DMAC,LOOK AT HIS STATS WHEN HE HAD ALEGIT#1 WR,THEY WERE OUTSTANDING AND LAST YEAR WITH STALLY ATTRACTING ALWAYS A DOUBLE TEAM AND THATS WHY BROWN LOOKED GOOD BUT WITHOUT A STRETCHER LIKE STALLY OR JAVON WALKER WERE FKD,.
WHAT GETS MOST OF US EAGLES FANS CRAZY IS ANYBODY WORTH HIS SALT ABOUT NFL SEES THAT GIVING THE OFFENCE A TRUE #1 WILL MAKE REGGIE AVG17.9/CATCH INSTEAD OF THIS YEARS PALTRY 12/CATCH AND DONTE HAD 20.1/CATCH THATS WHAT GET ME CRAZY IS THAT A WR OF THAT CALIBER MAKES EVERYBODY BETTER EVEN THE LINEMAN