All I can do is laugh at this exchange, which started with Howard Eskin ripping Emmanuel Acho after the ex-Bird criticized the Eagles’ medical staff on Thursday:
You are still a clown. You are so bitter regardless of saying you are not. Still on #eagles medical staff rant. Just heard you @SportsRadioWIP sounded like idiot. You needed a visitors pass to get into trainers room. U were cut waived or resigned 15 times. https://t.co/3LIJq9KuZY
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) December 13, 2018
😂
— Malcolm Jenkins (@MalcolmJenkins) December 14, 2018
Fletcher Cox sliding in now, after the jump:
Say it with yo chest to many flavors for this man to pick salty 😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/2N1HHL7Lru
— fletcher cox (@fcoxx_91) December 14, 2018
On a more serious note, I feel like people got hung up on Acho’s rant because of the changes in the Eagles medical staff. That’s not ultimately relevant.
His takeaway point was that doctors are on the TEAM payroll, so even though players are allowed second and third opinions via the CBA, they don’t always FEEL like they are getting a fair shake on the first go. The teams control smaller injuries in a way that players might not always agree with. Sore quad? Get your ass in there!
Coaches and general managers want the doctors to clear their players so that they’re back on the ice or back on the field, when those players might not feel like they’re 100% healthy. Stunningly, team docs are more inclined to do what the team wants them to do. The player is often left on the outside, looking in.
Earl Wolff does a good job of summing this up:
2013 Tore PCL. Forced back In to mess it up again. Missed rest of year. 2014, 4 MRIs on my knee in 5 months. Couldn’t squat 135 pounds In that 5 month span but “nothing was wrong with my knee”. Got a microfracture. 2015 Out 9 months. Cleared for 5 days. Another major procedure https://t.co/tlpVN9d57T
— Earl Wolff (@Ewolff28) December 14, 2018
And Wolff also retweeted this from 12 year veteran Will Blackmon:
TEAM Doctors work for the TEAM.
Players Go get a 2nd, 3rd, & 4th opinion because very few TEAM doctors keep it 💯
#TheStruggleIsReal https://t.co/Sbt7wN2AuX— Will Blackmon 🍷 (@WillBlackmon) December 14, 2018
Yep.
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If these players are so scared of team doctors, they should get dogs.
I’ll see myself out.
J
I once seen Lou Curto cry into his bowl of ravioli because he got caught.
Beat it!
Bunch is stiff blaming the medical staff on their lack of talent . Cry me a river! #teamking
The fans are worse. They will lambast a player calling him soft or weak when sitting out with an injury. Yet are the same ones chastising the doctors and teams. I swear sports fans are the dumbest species on earth.
or maybe I was never that cool to begin with. But I don’t have the slightest idea what Fletcher Cox just said
Ha! I was about to say the exact same thing…. wtf did he just say????
“Say it with your chest” – from a Kevin Hart routine about talking tough… basically means acting tougher than you are by puffing your chest out.
“All these flavors and you had to pick salty” Pretty straightfoward, he’s calling out Eskin for being a salty mf and throwing shade when it’s unnecessary.
I got the salty part , but not the Kevin hart line. Thx for clearing that one up
Has anyone ever read a criticism of the Eagles by Eskin?
He’s is the biggest butt-boy of any Phila team that anything he states about the Eaglesis suspect.
Although I’m a huge Eagles fan and Cowboys hater, his comments about the Cowboys are so stupid.
What the fuck is fletcher saying ?
does kyle scott still write at all for this site?
He welcomed her to town when she joined the station and he took it from there. Let me mentor you. She came here from Eugene all bright eyed and bushy tailed.
and it’s a shame. Eskin made his bones back in the day by telling it like it is and seemed to have really good sources. Now he’s more about making sure he’s standing next to Doug on the sidelines so he can always be picked up by the TV cameras. He’s all about self-promotion. By the way, he’s not the least bit funny, although he seems to think he is. #howardandhisconryassjokes
How insulting is it to listeners when you hear a guy a chewing food and smacking his lips while taking calls.
you love for less
And he takes home twice as much as he eats after every show.
* #howardandhiscornyassjokes
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