DeSean Jackson Missing Meeting Highlights Everything Wrong with Entitled Eagles

DeSean Jackson missing a special teams meeting yesterday is exactly the sort of pompous behavior that has the Philadelphia Eagles sitting on the outside of the playoff picture looking in.

The team overhauled its roster with big names and marquee free agents, which sent their sense of entitlement through the roof. The media already had the Eagles in the Super Bowl; they were the self-proclaimed dream team and they bought into the notion that they were going to coast through this season.

Jackson has been ruled inactive today, which is the first right move the Eagles have made all season long. You don't want to sell out for the team? You don't get to play.

Jackson is a staple on the Eagles and unquestionably one of their best players. Making an example out of him proves that the Eagles no longer care who you are. Missing meetings and putting "I" before "we" isn't going to fly any more.

The Eagles can't win playing as a group of talented individuals—they've proven that.

Jackson is their most important special teams player, and whether his alarm didn't go off, he's irked about a deal not getting done or he didn't feel the need to go to the meeting, the fact of the matter is he wasn't there when his team needed him.

Can you imagine Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Willis, Wes Welker or Adrian Peterson not making a meeting?

Talent is easy to assemble. A team is not. This sort of behavior is what's burying the Eagles this season. Until they figure out how to put their egos aside, they're never going to excel.