Should The Birds Sell Their Souls And Sign Antonio Brown?

Desean Jackson’s latest injury that may end his season has taken the Eagles receiving corps to rock bottom. In a season plagued with humiliating drops and unreliability there was always that hope of saying “Well at least Desean will come back soon and we’ll get back on track.”

Instead what looked like minor inconveniences to D-Jax has turned his second tenure with the Birds as nothing but a tease. Hopefully he will come back healthy next year and finish his playing career as an Eagle.

In another case of 2017 really being an anomaly season, the Eagles wide receivers have been brutally awful as was the case before and after winning it all.

I remember how fun it was to joke about the receivers after Desean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin departed. Their hands turned into feet once they put on the midnight green jerseys.

But what makes the Eagles receiver struggles of 2019 so painful is that some of these receivers helped us win the Super Bowl two seasons ago.

Alshon Jeffery will still go down as one of the best free agent signings in Eagles history and his 2017 playoff performance should be remembered as one for the ages. But he really hasn’t been the same receiver since he brain-shattering mental mistake against the Saints last season.

Nelson Agholor was the Markelle Fultz of the Eagles in 2015-16 but miraculously reinvented himself as a legit slot receiver in 2017. He was an unsung hero of Super Bowl LII catching 9 balls for 84 yards. Now he’s got the dropsies again and fans are making fun of him now more than they did three years ago.

Mack Hollins has more offensive penalty yards given up than receiving yards this season.

So now with the trade deadline passing and the Eagles front office not bothering to trade for a receiver like Golden Tate last year or pick up on the ever questionable Josh Gordon, do the Eagles have no choice but to open up Pandora’s Box?

Of course I am talking about the player who everyone couldn’t stop watching last August and September and has now faded like a taboo ghost: Antonio Brown!

No player has ever seem to fall from grace as fast as Antonio Brown, even Michael Vick wasn’t this fast to have his reputation destroyed. Brown’s public image went from being the best wide receiver in football and one of the faces of the league into a diva turned outright-maniac within 6 months.

It looked like he’d have a chance to surpass Hines Ward, Lynn Swann and John Stallworth as the greatest receiver in Pittsburgh Steelers history before being practically erased from history. He’s been associated with 3 NFL franchises since moving on from Pittsburgh and has played approximately 1 game for all of them combined.

The bizarre antics and weird actions taken throughout the summer of 2019 were mildly amusing to borderline hilarious. His fallout from the Raiders was some of the greatest theater you’ll ever see. But once his rape allegations and lawsuit came to light, the AB show wasn’t so fun anymore and his new team the Patriots quickly got rid of him.

The AB phenomenon has since disappeared considering no team would touch him and he can’t provide content. Any team would take his talent but his toxic personality and me-first attitude could surely destroy a team’s season.

But should the Eagles still sign him anyway?

While it’s a terrible sign if the Patriots don’t want to handle AB, the Eagles locker room and culture is certainly strong enough to handle an ego like his and maybe get something out of it.

Though it’s highly doubtful considering Jeffrey Lurie lived through the T.O. circus which sabotaged a Super Bowl team into a 6-10 dumpster fire the following season. And Antonio Brown makes T.O. and Chad Ocho-Cinco look like Jerry Rice and Larry Fitzgerald.

Even if things go well and Brown behaves, there is still that lawsuit hanging over him and that cause a huge distraction if it leads to anything. There is also the fact that the signing itself will get headlines and be talked about nationally 24/7. Not to mention that the debates on Philly Sports talk radio will get exhausting. Poor Mikey Miss.

But man, the way AB ran those routs in Pittsburgh . . .

Okay, okay so the Eagles don’t have to sign him. There’s still guys out there like….Jordan Matthews?