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Eagles can’t use injuries as an excuse

November 19th, 2009

His team went to the Super Bowl just once and has been a mediocre disappointment ever since. No wonder Lovie Smith jumped at a question about the Eagles’ injury problems in order to make a point about his own team. “You mean the Eagles or every other team in the NFL?” Smith said in a conference call with reporters yesterday. “You mean the Eagles or teams like the Chicago Bears?” There is nothing funny about injuries, but injuries are a funny thing when it comes to evaluating how a coach or a team is performing. Are there enough injuries to key players to grade on a curve? Or is it still possible to judge a coach’s plan and a team’s execution of that plan in spite of whatever injuries have …

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Eagles can’t use injuries as an excuse

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