Will the Real Andy Reid Please Stand Up? Seriously, Please Stand Up!

Your first reaction when you saw this article was probably, "Oh great, another Eagles fan whining about Andy Reid." If you ignored that thought and clicked on the article, I thank you.

Andy Reid, Andy Reid, where art thou, Andy Reid?

Where's the Andy Reid I had come to know and love? Where did he go? Where did that lovable big guy go?! Where did that good play-caller and that terrific game-planner go? Where did that winner go?

Over the past few seasons, I've seen the worst of Andy Reid again and again.

I've seen a bad play-caller, a bad game-planner, a bad motivator, and a bad winner.

I like the coach who fires his team up, who yells at them for being pansies, but who still has the teams back. I like the coach who knows how to call plays, and knows how to set their teams up. And before these past few seasons, Reid was all of those things except for the motivator.

But with the leadership this team had, I didn't think that motivation was a needed skill for Reid on this team.

But times have changed.

Brian Dawkins is no longer enough to fire up this defense. Donovan McNabb has taken a backseat to Brian Westbrook as the offensive leader. The team has just become a lot softer.

So in a time like this with a softer team, a good motivational coach is always needed. Andy Reid is not one of those coaches.

That leaves the Eagles with a bit of a problem. There is no proven leader on the team now apart from Dawkins, who won't be around forever. This team just doesn't have that fire and enthusiasm that every team needs.

Now the players are left without anyone to set them straight, and this team needs that person right now. Everything is just wrong with this team. Someone needs to be able to smack them in the back of the head. But nobody is there to do that.

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