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100. Reggie Brown

A #1 receiver is always worth having, even the 49er's.

Donovan McNabb  is all the scoring on this team. Philadelphia will revert to the pre-T.O. game-plan; you know, the one that worked in the playoffs two years ago.

Westbrook will emerge and grab a lot of what's left of the scoring, and the rest will be mostly distributed to minor players.

Brown will be a solid contributer. He is a very good pick-up later in the draft, but, because of my feelings about McNabb  being the only real fantasy value on the team; he's a cannon fodder player for me.

6' 1" 197 is a good sized target. Yet, he is only on his second season and still has much to learn.

If you are desperate for receivers in the seventh or eighth or later, and he is available, then he's not a bad chance at an every other week scorer.

54. Donovan McNabb

I would love to put McNabb higher, he was my keeper last year, but...

When it comes to Philadelphia, McNabb is the only fantasy scorer.

I think the nature of his physical injuries will easily heal in the off-season. He showed a toughness that exemplifies his champions spirit. From the beginning when the Philly crowd booed his selection at the draft he has had to deal with adversity.

McNabb is an imposing figure. Four division championships, a conference championship (without T.O.), and a Superbowl appearance.

T.O.

How do you write about McNabb without T.O.

I wish the league was stronger and had squelched his ego early. He should not have been able to disrespect Baltimore. He could have sat out or something, but, what he did was wrong. Everything he does is wrong. Somehow God gave him the most physically gifted body for a receiver, but, left out a brain.

He says he was shut in and left out. Too bad he harbored such a hidden resentment for so long instead of taking advantage of the situation and develop his mind.

His grandmother sounds like a very nice person, It just goes to show, that you can try your best, but, you never know what's going on in a kid's head.

I hope that a great franchise and a great team can bounce back from this disastrous experiment.

Andy Reid is a genuine person and a great football mind. McNabb has proven himself a great player and it's unfortunate that he has become the eye of this storm. There really is nothing he could have done that would have been the right thing.

Everything he said or did was twisted the wrong way by the bug in T.O.'s ear. There wasn't any honorable way out accept stand tall, take it and try to move on.

(I don't understand why agents are allowed to have so much unregulated power. They may have been needed originally, but, like rookie contracts, they have grown out of control and are damaging the game.)

I don't know if the franchise can recover. There are so many issues to talk about that in the end I want to do what the eagles and McNabb should do and that's talk about the future and move on.

McNabb can be explosive in fantasy production. The Philadelphia receivers are journeymen at best, and the running game has never been able to develop that go to rusher.

Gordon is a nice back-up, but, couldn't beat out Sammy Morris, let alone take over when fate gave him the chance in Miami. Buckhalter must have something on someone in the organization the way they hold on to him injury to injury. He could be special if he could only stay in the game.

This forces McNabb to make it happen. He throws it in, he runs it in, he's awesome!

Now that he's got a Westbrook clone in Mahe, these guys will only augment McNabb's scoring ability and maintain some continuity if Westbrook goes down.

The division has been growing up around them, and in the wake of the storm, Philadelphia finds themselves entering '06 seeded last.

The schedule maker did them huge favors, and the beginning of their schedule gives them an opportunity to build some momentum. Even the tough division match-ups are at home. A  5-0 start would surprise everyone, including the Eagles!

I will draft McNabb as a second quarterback if he's passed up, or, as my primary if I'm five or six picks in and don't have a quarterback.

It's hard to believe that he could be the sleeper of the draft. It would be easy to forget that this team was in the Superbowl, two years ago.

They are good! The defense is still one of the best and their O-line is very solid. The coaching is intelligent and innovative and there is a memory of victory in the players' minds.

Can McNabb clear his, and show the strength of character and fortitude that has already made him a champion? More importantly, can he regain the broken trust with the players that questioned his leadership and betrayed him by going to T.O.s after party?

You be the judge.

Things haven't been the same since they left the Vet. Everyone that ever played there hated the concrete surface. It was loved only by the Philadelphia players as they knew it was a friend that intimidated every other team all by itself. In moving to a new stadium Philadelphia lost one of it's most fearsome weapons.

McNabb has a big upside, but, there are many decent Q.B. options this year.

33. Brian Westbrook

Westbrook can be very potent.

Many people and teams will underestimate the Eagles. Just today the talking head on N.F.L. Access said that the Jets had more promise.

As far as pundits are concerned, the physical and psychological devastation left in wake of the Hun T.O.'s invasion was total. Even John Lynch, just had to ask Andy Reid today, about Donovan's attitude.

They couldn't be more wrong.

Philadelphia is two years removed from the Superbowl and a slew of division championships.Their division foes are as strong as ever, and certainly stronger then them, but, McNabb will have the element of surprise in their underestimation of him.

The Eagles defense is still stout, their O-line good and McNabb a future Hall-of-Fame candidate.

You can't depend on Buckhalter, (too bad) but, they may have another answer by September. Lamar Gordon might become the power runner that they need. Mahe is dangerous and Westbrook is one of the best pass catching runningbacks in the league. McNabb is always a threat to run it in, and the receivers are journeymen at best.

They are going to score and often. They could be 3-1 out the gate, and, when things get quite difficult, McNabb will rise to the occasion.

The best fantasy pointer in Philadelphia, even in their heyday, has always been McNabb.

If he stays healthy, and Reid will spell him often with Mahe, Buckhalter and Gordon, then Westbrook could easily have a great season. In some drafts he will go in the first two rounds. If you find him in the fifth or sixth he should be the most valuable pick-up.

The Pope took advantage of Attila's timely death to tout his treaty, that had stopped the last advance, and cement his legacy and that of the church in Rome; which went on to influence politics and governments mightily for the next 1200 years.

McNabb can now take advantage of T.O.'s wake to cement his legacy and reassert Philadelphia's influence in the years to come.

Westbrook is the lynch-pin of that recovery and the focal point of the red-zone attack this year.