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Seth Joyner Says it’s “Really Difficult Being a Fan” of the Eagles, Who Have Won Two Super Bowls and 104 Games Since 2017
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Seth Joyner has abandoned the light and once again embraced Negadelphia with this ludicrous passage on the WIP morning show:
“It’s so hard being a fan of this team. It’s one thing to journalistically cover the team. It’s really difficult being a fan of the team and sitting back and watching what you just watched last week. It just makes you wonder. It’s hard to critique a coach, Joe, who’s got 59 wins I think it is, in five years. That’s just got phenomenal numbers. Then you sit back and watch the decisions that are made and it just really leaves you mystified, if you will…. I sat here last week and told you they were going to (rest the starters). I just knew it. This whole narrative that, ‘Oh, you know, you gotta protect the players,’ well in this era of doing less and getting more, and how, an entitlement, like drives me crazy. You only got 17 weeks to play the game you love. I wanted to play every second of those 17 weeks. And I knew the ramifications, I knew there was a possibility I could have gotten hurt. I played hurt… (Sirianni) did not (do the right thing) because this team should be the #2 seed. You got two games at home, minimum. The only reason you’d have to go on the road is play the NFC Championship Game against Seattle, in Seattle. If you get lucky, like you did last year, and somebody knocks Seattle off, you’ve got the NFC Championship Game at home. Is that really worth the rest?“
First things first, the assertion that it’s hard to be “a fan of this team” is one of the dumbest things you will ever hear. Since 2017, the Eagles have gone to three Super Bowls, won two of them, and posted 104 wins in the regular season and playoffs. This is the greatest era of Eagles football, EVER, and the only people who find it hard to be a fan are ingrate miserabs who will never be satisfied because they’re conditioned on years of listening to sports talk radio and idiots like Seth Joyner.
Second, this is the most cut and dry topic of all time, the resting of the starters. They decided to sit down most of these players because they were able to GUARANTEE the respite, whereas they could not GUARANTEE that the eliminated Lions, playing for nothing, would beat the Bears in Chicago.
It is not hard to understand. Nick Sirianni gave 17 quotes about it before and after the game. You can disagree with his decision, but this is the most simple of concepts. Unless you are Nostradamus, you cannot predict the future, which is why we place no value in the concept of hindsight. In means absolutely nothing in standard discourse.
Third, Seth is just being a cranky ex-player. Jon Ritchie is agreeing with him in that clip. They are entitled to their opinions. Players of 20-30 years ago certainly approached the game differently than they do now. But Seth was on a recent streak in which he seemed to eschew the ridiculous negativity of years prior, when he would complain about anything and everything, simping for the Buddy Ryan portion of the fanbase. This was the same Seth who complained about the lack of Eagles interceptions when they led the league in interceptions. It’s just blind blathering with nothing to back it up. He gave us a glimpse of positive Seth when he defended Jalen Hurts and preached gratitude for the Birds’ recent success, but now he’s flipped flopped back to the other side.
Who does he think he is, John Kerry? (we’ll do a Republican joke tomorrow to balance things out)
Finally, enough with the seeding talk. Please don’t tell me you’re scared of the 49ers at home, or playing the Chicago Bears on the road. When did we all become humongous pussies? The biggest threat to the Eagles is the Eagles. It’s the offensive line whiffing on blocks or Kevin Patullo calling a crap game and/or the Birds continually getting stuck in 3rd and long. They are their own worst enemy. If you’re afraid of these other teams, get a dog. The Eagles have been excellent on the road in recent years. Stop being a pansy.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com