Saratoga Slim
01-03-2007, 01:36 PM
Looking back at last year's #8 pick in light of our continuing need for help at the DT position, I'm pretty confident that Marv & Co. made a good call in passing on Brodrick Bunkley:
(http://30608290063.football.nfl.com/players/playerpage/407492):
"Eagles DL Brodrick Bunkley missed the team's flight to Indianapolis on Saturday afternoon and then was listed as inactive for Sunday night's game with the Colts. Bunkley, the Eagles' top pick out of Florida State in April's NFL draft, missed the team's 1 p.m. flight. The rookie flew on a commercial flight and arrived Saturday at about 6:15 p.m. He attended a scheduled defensive line meeting at 7:30. "We've been here a few years and that was the first time someone missed a flight," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "I'm not going to listen to too many excuses." An Eagles spokesman would not comment before the game on whether Bunkley had been fined. This marked the first game Bunkley has missed this season. The tackle started on the wrong foot with the team this summer after missing 29 practices in a contract holdout. In 10 games, all as a reserve, he has just nine tackles, no sacks and one hurry."
That said, has anybody paid attention to Haloti Ngata in Baltimore? I know he was supposedly the "wrong" type of DT for our system, but how has he panned out thus far?
(http://30608290063.football.nfl.com/players/playerpage/407492):
"Eagles DL Brodrick Bunkley missed the team's flight to Indianapolis on Saturday afternoon and then was listed as inactive for Sunday night's game with the Colts. Bunkley, the Eagles' top pick out of Florida State in April's NFL draft, missed the team's 1 p.m. flight. The rookie flew on a commercial flight and arrived Saturday at about 6:15 p.m. He attended a scheduled defensive line meeting at 7:30. "We've been here a few years and that was the first time someone missed a flight," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "I'm not going to listen to too many excuses." An Eagles spokesman would not comment before the game on whether Bunkley had been fined. This marked the first game Bunkley has missed this season. The tackle started on the wrong foot with the team this summer after missing 29 practices in a contract holdout. In 10 games, all as a reserve, he has just nine tackles, no sacks and one hurry."
That said, has anybody paid attention to Haloti Ngata in Baltimore? I know he was supposedly the "wrong" type of DT for our system, but how has he panned out thus far?