Former WR Freddie Mitchell Warns Kolb of Coach Reid

Remember "If you need a fix, call Fourth and Twenty-Six?"

If you're an advent Eagles fan, you surely remember the heroics of former wide out Freddie Mitchell.

Six years retired, Freddie Mitchell decided to speak out and warn Kevin Kolb of the "helping" from Andy Reid. Reid stated that he would do whatever was necessary put Kolb in the best situation possible. After hearing that, Mitchell had this to say.  

"“Believe that if you want Kevin. Believe that if you want. Andy Reid … I love him to death. He’s like my father and whatever else, but I’m going to keep it real. Andy is going to do what is best for the Philadelphia Eagles. I tried when I was going on after we lost the Super Bowl [XXXIX] …I went in there and I did not want to go to the media, and I said, ‘Hey Coach Reid, I had problems with Donovan McNabb. You know I can’t eat off of 12 catches a year. I need more catches. I’m doing all the things with the blocking and whatever else to make it happen. I need more catches. Donovan will not throw me the ball.’ Andy Reid was like, ‘Okay Fred, well just don’t tell nobody. You don’t have to come to this next mini-camp. We’re going to try to…I know a couple of teams and we’re going to try to trade you.’

“At the end of the day what he tried to do was he tried to put a price tag on me that nobody was even going to touch. When they found out that they wasn’t going to touch me, he released me, and then the blackball began with all kinds of dirt saying I was a cancer to the team. I talk too much and everything else. It’s funny because you never heard a teammate complain about me. You never heard that or whatever else, but he put the cancer [comment] on. Kevin Kolb, do not think them guys or anybody in the NFL is your friend. The only friend that you have is your agent and, if you’re a left or right-handed quarterback, is your arm. That’s it. Them guys at the end of the day they are going to go and save their job, save their butt, and go out and do what’s best for the Philadelphia Eagles. You need to do what you need to do.”"

So, reading this makes you wonder if Andy Reid really has any feelings for his players' well-being. I have met Andy Reid, and he is a good guy. But like Mitchell said, he will do what is best for the Philadelphia Eagles.

As head coach, that is his job.