Seriously, What Do I Know Anyhow?

In reviewing the Eagles draft last week, I wrote the following:

"I was kind of annoyed with the fact that it seemed that Birds mailed in a good part of the second day of the draft."

Well, according to Peter King of SI.com, I could not be more wrong. He absolutely gushed over the Eagles' draft and intimated that the Birds somehow are rewriting the rules of football. In case you missed it, here are some of the highlights:

This may come out the wrong way, so bear with me. But if I were a football fan looking for a team to root for, I'd pick the Eagles, and what they did on draft weekend is a big reason. The Eagles think. They don't do things the way they've always been done because that's the way they've always been done. For all the frustrations they've given their fans because they haven't won a championship in the 10-year Andy Reid Era, they've done what, as a fan, I'd like my team to do: They give their fans a chance every July at camp time to think they're going to make the playoffs and have a chance to contend for the Super Bowl. Isn't that what you want, as a fan? A chance, every year? What team every year in this decade has given you that chance? Philadelphia. New England. Indianapolis. Pittsburgh. The Giants, maybe.

But what the Eagles did on the second day of the draft -- still unnoticed eight days later; no one's said a word about it -- is one of the greatest feats of trading down and getting value for the future that I've ever seen. And I mean ever. They took the 85th pick and eventually turned it into four draft choices between the third and seventh rounds, plus half of the compensation paid to New England to acquire Ellis Hobbs, a Super Bowl XLII starting corner.

Look, I think the Birds do a decent job with the draft, but I'm kind of flabbergasted by this report. "Greatest feats of trading down and getting value for the future that I've ever seen"??? Peter, if you want to go ahead and crown them, go ahead and crown them, but can we turn down the hyperbole just a notch, please? The Birds did a nice job, but can we see these guys play first before we anoint Tom Heckert, Andy Reid and Joe Banner as the greatest franchise architects of all time.

An article of this nature really makes you think if there is some sort of hidden agenda. It seems like King is trying to get Tom Heckert and Joe Banner named as Executives of the Year before the season even starts.