Well, whoop-dee-damn-do!
When Jackson gets back to work, the Eagles will just be playing out the string of this lost season of incredible underachievement. Like Jackson's promise that this "will not happen again" matters now.
At 3-6, the Birds don't have a snowball's chance in a lava pit of rallying to make the playoffs. The only sliver of hope the Eagles had left was beating Arizona.
We can only speculate that Jackson cared enough to at least watch from his South Philadelphia home as his teammates fell on their swords in front of a packed house of seriously hissed-off Eagles fans.
If he heard the booing from the crowd, maybe he understood he deserved most of it.
"I thought it was the right thing to do," coach Andy Reid said of the decision to deactivate Jackson. "I think it's out there now that he missed a meeting. He needs to step back and make sure that it doesn't happen again."
If you want to say that considering the magnitude of the situation Reid should have relaxed team protocol to try to salvage the season rather than make a point about discipline, that's fine.
But don't twist the story line.
The blame goes to Jackson. He was remarkably selfish.
"Teams consist of 53 guys," defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins said. "We didn't have 53 guys today. I'll leave that situation to coach Reid. I'm not aware of the details. I just know we were a guy short today."
It's really hard to comprehend how Jackson could have so hung his teammates out to dry.
"I haven't been here too many times where a guy is eligible to play that didn't," receiver Jason Avant said. "I won't blame any game on that. I think that the team had a chance to go out and prove a point and we didn't. We were still in the game and we still had an opportunity to win, but we just found a way to lose again."
