Heard in the Cheap Seats

It has been awhile since I have written anything about the Eagles, but leave it to a member of the New York Giants to get my juices flowing.  In case you missed it, Osi Umenyiora got a 5 month head start on a little Giants/Eagles trash talk.  Here’s what he said:

“They should. I do — and I wasn””t on the football field,” he said. “I was on the field, but I wasn””t playing and I saw the way it ended. It was a team we should have beat and it was a team that, if the opportunity arises again, we will beat.”

We all remember that the Birds went into the Meadowlands and ended the Giants season with a thorough butt kicking.  Is it too early for me to be excited about their first meeting of the season on November 1^st?  Probably.  Talk is extremely cheap in June, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t fun to discuss.  I do think Umenyiora’s comments come across a bit like spilt milk, but he is certainly entitled to his opinion. 

Of course, the Eagles have a few players of their own that won’t shy away from a little trash talk, so here was Desean Jackson’s response at the Eagles OTA’s today:

 “I had a chance to see him this off-season, hanging out with him a little bit,” Jackson said. “He was, ””You know, I wasn””t playing,”” this and that. He”’’s a very competitive guy. He”’’s a great player. I don””t take anything away from him. It”’’s just unfortunate that he got hurt last year and wasn””t able to play.

“But with him or without him, we are confident in ourselves. One player can””t determine if they win or lose. As everybody knows, it”’’s a team. You””ll never know what would happen if he was there or if he wasn””t there. All I know is that we got the victory and that”’’s what I””m going to go off of. We””ve just got to get another two this year, or however many we play them…We went in their house and beat them twice. We understand what it takes.”

It’s just much more fun when both Philly and New York teams are competitive at the same time, not only for fans but for the games themselves.  Well, we have a great Mets/Phillies rivalry, and now the Giants/Eagles are doing a little jabbing.  I am sure there will be a lot more talk in the coming months that will culminate with a slugfest when the two teams meet in Philly November 1^st.  I, for one, can’t wait!