Playoff Mediocrity is a Football Decision

The city of Philadelphia is still going bonkers over the Desean Jackson release, especially since Chip was chippy in his answering of reporters’ questions at an Eagles charity event yesterday.

All of that aside, the most telling moment of the day, for me, was the following tweet by Inquirer reporter Jeff McLane:

Apparently, when Jeff Lurie was questioned at the same event he made reference to playoff production.  So, I dug up Desean’s postseason stats via pro-football-reference.com:

In six playoff games, he put up 19 catches, 321 yards and two touchdowns?  That’s one touchdown more than Na Brown put up in two games instead of six.  Freddie Mitchell also had two playoff touchdowns, though that was in eight games.  Is that worth $10M/year?  I guess Chip didn’t think so.  Of course, Chip is assuming that he can get to the playoffs without Desean.  That remains to be seen.

Jeff Lurie may have given the clue to the actual “football decision” of releasing Desean with his mention of playoff production.   It seems safe to assume that the Eagles front office believes that money can be spent elsewhere to reap larger postseason rewards.

If that’s the case, Chip is telling the truth about the release being a football decision.  Is he supposed to say that Desean blows in the playoffs?  That”ll never happen.