If you chose D, you must be one of those fans Andy Reid was talking about Tuesday, when he said every time he leaves his NovaCare offices to mingle with us, he is overtaken with well-wishers.
Really? Perhaps there is a confusion in the term well-wisher.
"We wish you would go jump in a well and take Lurie and Banner with you" may not be the show of support he thinks it is. It's kind of like, oh, well, telling everyone that Juan Castillo is "a leader of men" during the same press conference in which you admitted losing out on acquiring Steve Spagnuolo to usurp - I mean share - in that leadership.
As bad as it was to be Juan Castillo last season - and only the calloused among us didn't feel for the guy - this season is an absolute no-win for him. If the Eagles' defense turns around, he will get little credit for it, even if he should. If it bombs again, he will likely be out of a job along with his boss.
There was even this spin about Jim Johnson's old staff, which included three future head coaches, and how you can never have too many future head coaches. That's true, of course, but it's hard to imagine any of them telling Johnson when to blitz or who to start, just as it's hard to imagine Reid running up to Mike Holmgren and saying, "I want us to pass more" when he was the quarterbacks coach in Green Bay so many moons ago.
This is spin, people. Like when they all admit the end of the season was fool's gold, then laud the progress made. Or like when Reid analyzes the ugly start of the season and it somehow comes back to Michael Vick's health and Michael Vick's mistakes with the ball.
