But, man, does it stink for you right now.
No Dawk, no Buck, no new deal for Tra or Donovan. The general perception is that by signing Stacy Andrews, Jon
Runyan has been given his gold watch, too.
Meanwhile, the additional-weapons watch enters its third month.
No players have made you more proud to be an Eagles fan than Brian Dawkins and Jon
Runyan. They played hurt, real hurt, played with injuries that made it hard for them to even walk between games, injuries that most of their co-workers would have been deactivated with.
Maybe the treads on Dawkins' wheels would not have been quite so worn had he not. And while Runyan is not yet either retired or an ex-Eagle, maybe he would be in a much better bargaining position today if he had stopped playing in November and gone under the knife then.
But that's not who he is. It's not who Dawkins is. Both played with unending intensity, with a nice nastiness, and they rarely, if ever, offered excuses for their mistakes and bad games, or pointed to someone else. Aside from sometimes almost begging Andy Reid to run the ball more, Runyan never threw the coach or the quarterback under the bus, even amid playcalling and time management that often bordered on the absurd.
Amid those seasons when the Eagles had not much of a pass-rushing or run-stopping defensive line, Dawkins did not do that either.
They played hard, every down. They led - by deeds and sometimes through words.
