DeSean Jackson Continuing to Prove He's All Talk and No Action

For once, DeSean Jackson kept his mouth shut on Thursday night. Unfortunately, that didn’t help him improve on a thoroughly disappointing season on the field.

Jackson caught just four passes in the blowout loss to Seattle, amassing all of 34 yards on the night. With both Michael Vick and Jeremy Maclin out, the Eagles needed their fleet-footed wideout to come up big, and once again, he couldn’t do it.

Jackson has just two touchdowns for the entire season, none since Week 5 against Buffalo. Even in his best performances (like his six-catch, 88-yard night in a win over the Giants), Jackson has done more this year to remind fans of his arrogance and immaturity—wiping out his own 50-yard reception with a taunting penalty—than his prodigious talents.

The dip in Jackson’s numbers earlier in the year might have been chalked up to Maclin’s breakout season, but now that Maclin is on the shelf with assorted injuries, Jackson has no excuse. Over the last couple of seasons, he’s talked as good a game as any wide receiver in football, but his numbers (a career high of just 62 catches and 1,156 yards in 2009) have rarely lived up to his self-generated hype.

Jackson’s game-breaking speed will always give him a chance to make some highlight-reel plays, like the game-winning punt return TD he scored against the Giants last season. Over the course of 16 games, though, he doesn’t have the consistency (or, it appears, the dedication) to place himself among the NFL’s receiving elite.

In a season in which he’s (finally) stayed healthy, Jackson has been suspended for one game and benched for the end of another. If he would start acting like a professional and just give the team his best effort every week, his big-play potential would make up for his iffy raw numbers over the course of a season.

If he keeps acting like he’s “Action” Jackson the self-proclaimed superstar, though, he’s going to find himself out of a job in short order.