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Mike Vaccaro's article in Saturday's New York Post, which made its rounds in Philly this weekend:

Now Philadelphia is Michael Corleone, underestimated for so long, who in December came out of the bathroom blasting away and hustled Cliff Lee away from the Yankees, who yesterday announced it had “settled all family business” by getting Nnamdi Asomugha to sign his mellifluous collection of vowels and consonants to the bottom of a contract, stealing him clear away from the Jets.

 

Today’s Daily News:

Watching the Eagles' triumvirate of Andy Reid, Joe Banner and Howie Roseman was like watching Michael Corleone settle with the five families while his godson was being baptized.

Look, I hate to use back-to-back "Godfather" comps, but there should have been a swell of organ music after each addition and subtraction, the scene climaxing with Jeffrey Lurie swearing to renounce playoff elimination. Our Eagles coverage team, which has switched to the 3-4 this year, is all over the acquisitions, any one of which would have been headline news during past preseasons. 

 

Look, you can’t really accuse a guy of anything here, but using the exact same 40-year-old reference to describe the same scenario is suspicious… or at least an indication of an aging print medium. One or the other.

Or, perhaps there’s no other way to describe what the Eagles and Phillies have done lately… though I would have gone with the much more modern Emmanuelle Mimieux in Inglorious Bastards movie reference. Tomato, to-kneidlach.

To his credit, Conlin did pass along some interesting scouting observations of Domonic Brown, Jarred Cosart, and Jonathan Singleton (hint: not that good!) with which we agree. Worth a read.

We’ll assume Dom Brown doesn’t read these and try to exact revenge on Conlin… because we’re running out of those sorts of analogies.