I mean, being the kicker is cool and all, but um, well, I don’t know that hanging out with said kicker is exactly the most exciting promotion I can imagine.

I would definitely be more interested in hanging out with any of the veteran players (in that the rookies probably don’t have too much to say), the broadcast team (imagine ordering drinks with Merrill Reese; I would just keep insisting that he say, “Tautalatasi the lone setback” over and over), even Spuds (if only to tell him that I don’t think it’s fair that the blathermonkeys give him such a hard time). I just don’t know what I would talk to Akers about.

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Congrats to David Akers, your NFC Special Teams Player of the Month for October!

While not quite as dubious as leading the minor leagues in home runs, we can safely say that this award is a mixed blessing (at best) for Akers and the Birds. I’m cool with the kicker getting his props if he’s hitting a bunch of clutch kicks to win games (like the Bironas guy in Tennessee), but, um, Akers actually missed a couple kicks this month and the only reason he had to kick so often was that the Birds couldn’t get into the endzone.

The stats are even more damning: the longest kick Akers made in October was 37 yards, and the average length of his made field goals was 27.1 yards.

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So we’ve all heard this story before.

Many moons ago, back in the days before TO and the trip to the Thuper Bowl, the Eagles used to grind out wins with their QB, a feisty defense, some talent at TE and RB — despite a completely overmatched WR corps. If last night’s game is any indication of a larger trend, it sure looks like this team needs to start thinking about winning in the 2003 style and not the 2004 style, because their WRs are getting pushed around like Trash and Stinkston.

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For those of you poor unfortunate b*stards who (1) actually look at this site and (2) don’t have NFL Network, I thought I’d pass along a link to the David Akers “Fantasy File” commercial currently in rotation on said NFL Network.

It’s essentially a house ad pushing the fantasy games, with Reebok paying the tab.  They have three of these things in total, with Akers, Marques Colston and Marc Bulger as the stars in each. The Colston one is okay, and I have a soft spot for Bulger, (if only because he’s remarkably undermarketed for a guy who’s a marquee QB and I hadn’t seen him in an ad before), but obviously the Akers one is my favorite.

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