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Philadelphia Eagles: Brian Westbrook Calls’em “Cheap”

I knew it. I knew it all along. I told all of you that the Philadelphia Eagles organization was nothing but a bunch of cheap bastards and now I have my proof.

Recently released runningback, Brian Westbrook, went on Dan Patrick’s radio show and called the Eagles cheap. “The thing for them, the Eagles, it’s always money. It’s always dollar signs,” Westbrook said. “If they can find someone to do it a little bit cheaper, they’ll go with that guy.”

Patrick then followed up with a question about whether it’s more important to the Eagles to make money or to win a Championship. “I’ve seen them go the money route with so many players,” Westbrook answered. “I wouldn’t know. You’d have to ask someone with the Eagles. With the players winning is the priority. With the management, I would hope winning is the priority, but I don’t know that.”

I do Brian. The answer is that they would much rather make more money than win a Championship. We have a decade-and-a-half of proof from this ownership that they don’t value winning over profit. Sure they would like to win, but only under their strict guidelines.

They will only spend as much as team president and “capologist,” Joe Banner, determines is the correct amount. They will only sign certain players. And they insist that their way of doing things is superior to all others. The only problem is that their way of doing business in the NFL hasn’t produced a Lombardi Trophy yet, and that’s all that matters.

OK, that’s not all that matters……to them. They only want to win if they can make truckloads of money as well. Owner Jeffrey Lurie was recently declared a Billionaire, with a “B”. That’s amazing when you consider the man never earned a dollar in his life and has no job other than owning an Eagles team that he bought with his family’s money. The NFL is a money-making machine, but not all owners simply treat their franchise (fans?) like an ATM machine. Lurie does.

You also need to keep in mind that Westbrook said these things about the Eagles a week after he was released. This wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction from a player whose pride was hurt and was looking for revenge. Westbrook was always a loyal company man during his time with the Eagles. He seemed to simply be stating a fact when he spoke to Patrick.

Still don’t think the Eagles are cheap? Well then you are either an idiot, a member of the Eagles organization, or you’re high on some drugs you bought from Andy Reid’s sons. The Eagles rank around 15th among NFL teams in player salary per year over the last decade. In 2009 Forbes ranked the Eagles as the 7th most valuable NFL franchise. Sure seems to me that they’re pocketing a large portion of the money. And it apparently seems that way to Brian Westbrook as well.

Now maybe some of you Eagles apologists will finally admit what a bunch of mindless sheep you all are. The Eagles are using their fans’ loyalty against them. I won’t give up my season tickets, because I plan to outlive that fat bastard Reid and the little rich boy who bought the team with mommy’s money, Jeffrey Lurie. Outliving them is our only hope for a Championship. You know, because they’re cheap, just like Brian Westbrook said.

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